On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:25, Christopher Roy Bratusek
<nano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am 14.06.2011 07:59, schrieb Eric P. Mangold:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 00:22, Christopher Roy Bratusek
<nano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am 14.06.2011 06:06, schrieb Eric P. Mangold:
Sounds mostly good...
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 14:44, Christopher Roy Bratusek
<nano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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At the end... the list of themes shipped with Sawfish:
absolute-e
candido
Crux
Elberg-tabbed
microGUI
mxflat
StyleTab [default]
Zami-like
(gradient-tabbed)
When did Crux lose the default position? To my mind, a sawfish without
a Crux default ain't no sawfish at all...
StyleTab became default in 1.8.0RC. No one complained (neither at the
proposal in Oct 10).
Guess I missed that.
I just tried StyleTab, and I'll just be honest - it's hideous. I can't
imagine black going well with any default desktop themes out there. I
don't see anywhere to configure the colors, but guess that is normal.
Plus there are just a mess of buttons taking the the majority of the
horizontal titlebar space of a full-screen window on my netbook.
And I have no clue what most of these buttons do, and since there are
not tooltips (a sawfish limitation? or?), I may never know what some
of them are supposed to do.
I guess having a tab-capable theme is a good default.
Not sure how useful this rant is... or what, if any, actionable items
I would suggest...
Leaving tab support aside, who prefers the aesthetic appeal of
StyleTab over Crux?
Suggestions?
Black goes well with any bright default-theme and most distributions use a
bright theme. Ubuntu is basically the only of the major distributions which
doesn't use one.
I think black is a bad default color. You will never see Windows use
black. You will never see Mac OS X use black. And for that matter you
will never see a mainstream Linux distro ship a default desktop with
all-black window decorations. There is just no way.
Also Crux with it's Blue/DarkGrey won't match all default
themes, too.
Yes, a colorful theme with some blue and gray may not match the user's
Gnome/desktop theme, but at least it isn't going to be an eye sore
straight off the bat.
StyleTab is pretty configurable. You can change all the buttons to your
need, you can even change the position of the titlebar. Additionally
StyleTab bundles several themes, you can switch from StyleTabs settings.
Tooltips is a Sawfish setting (Appearance> Tooltips), regardless of theme.
Yep, just found that. Never needed to use that setting before.
However, the tooltips seem to basically be an introspective Lisp dump,
and hardly suitable for a novice/new user to make sense of.
One thing you're right is the enormous amount of buttons to begin with. But:
that's on my list of TODO for theming-1.9 branch.
Cool.
Personally I and the author atleast do prefer StyleTab aesthetic appeal over
Crux. Though taste isn't a good thing to discuss about, isn't it?
We don't have to discuss taste - but the default theme IS important.
It doesn't have to be perfect, but it shouldn't be awful - and a
pure-black theme, in this context, is awful imho. I don't think you
could find a graphic designer that disagrees with me.
StyleTab became default as it showcases both Tabs and Title-Position (in the
latter regard the only theme outwhere), it's flexible and offers dark and
bright styles.
StyleTab does seem to be quite nice, in terms of configurability and
technical merit - and I don't want to take anything away from the hard
work that has gone in to it, but that said, I really don't think, in
its current form, that it is suitable for a new user.