Introduction

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

(sorry html -> plain text formatting is screwed up)

On 19 March 2010 14:35, Anton Kolchunov <garfeild.ubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Dmitrijs.
>
> On 19.03.2010, at 16:44, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
>
> This is a cool idea. I like it. But note that Ubuntu is not upstream
> of Nautilus. Gnome is. Have you considered doing this project with
> Gnome?
>
> http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2010
>
> I've sent the similar e-mail for Gnome mail list. Also I have asked on
> Nautilus irc channel about that option for Nautilus, but one of them told me
> that it's enough possibilities for Nautilus today.
>

Are you running Lucid? Cause nautilus did have many improvements in
this cycle. Not sure if it has everything you wanted to achieve but it
does have improved views.


> 2) GTK Theme Creator with Live View. Current theme creation methods
>
> seem Ice-Age-Like. What will need is a fully functional modern
>
> graphical theme editor, that will backup system config files and will
>
> have a Live View option.  It should also have a very easy-to-use
>
> interface, so that any designer could start using it in a blink of an
>
> eye.
>
>
> Not sure about this one. There are a lot of themes already do we
> really need more? It would be more useful imho to get full css themes
> for metacity / gnome shell.
>
> I would also try to pitch this to gnome.
>
> This way your project can end up in all major distributions including
> Ubuntu.
>
>
> Full? What didi you mean?
>

I saw somewhere on ubuntu or gnome planet that they are working on
making themes to be plain css. But it's not complete yet meaning that
you can't yet do absolutly anything with a theme using css.

Maybe I'm wrong :-?