<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'>I think it's a good idea.    I opened a similar bug a while back and it was also rejected.  <A href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497116">http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497116</A> <HR id=stopSpelling> > Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 23:30:48 +0100 > From: mikkel.kamstrup@gmail.com > To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Parametrisable colors for window borders, system icons and controls > > On 04/02/2008, Kenneth Wimer <kwwii@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > On Friday 01 February 2008 16:04:53 François Degrave wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I think a new theme which would provide Ubuntu a fresher look would be > > > really useful. However, orange - and brown - are not always the colors > > > people prefer, and even if it was the case, most people like to change > > > the look of the system after a while. > > > > > > I would suggest the whole theme should be parametrisable. The user > > > should be able to choose (within 3 clicks...) not only the color of the > > > window borders, but also the color of the system icons and controls. > > > > I think that this is a very interesting idea but it would be quite a feat to > > pull off, not to mention it being so late in the cycle. I would suggest > > adding this as a blueprint for hardy+1. We'd need more than artwork to > > accomplish this so having things well planned and defined will make it much > > more likely to happen. > > > > > For the moment, the problem is that in order to change the look of the > > > system, the user has to choose another theme than Human (which is the > > > most clean one, but not parametrisable), and then search the internet > > > for icon themes that would match his desires, when parametrisable colors > > > for windows, system icons and controls would make that task easy as can be. > > > > > Regarding changing the colors of the window borders, I actually did a > patch to gnome-appearance-applet to allow color parametrization of the > window frames, see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498854. > It is simple an non-intrusive. > > It adds an extra "Window frame" button to the Colors tab in the theme > customization dialog, and allows themes to control > @window_{fg,bg}_color in their gtkrc files. > > The problem is that the colors need also be respected in the metacity > themes, so it is not guaranteed to work on all themes. Most will work > though. > > The patch was rejected because it was "bloat". I fail to see how it is > more bloated than allowing to change the colors of the tooltips. Go > figure. > > Maybe if people from ubuntu-art start commenting on that bug... Some > good old lobbying :-) > > Cheers, > Mikkel > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art <hr />Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail®-get your "fix". <a href='http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx' target='_new'>Check it out.</a></body> </html>