customization of themes and colors in gnome 3 desktop in Fedora 15

[Paul W. Frields]

[removing some subjective critique I'm not qualified to rebut, even
though it seems adequately addressed by design docs I've read]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 02:17:09PM +0200, bookwar wrote:
> - icon size in Applications menu
>  The bug is here https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636655.
> And discussion is still open.

Probably needs a different bug open upstream explaining the problem,
then, since the massive ellipsization problem the bug references seems
to be fixed, AFAICT.

[...snip...]
> - fonts
>  Default fonts are bad for non-english speaking users, who work with
> non-Latin characters.
>  Bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695405 still open.

Fair enough, the Cantarell font is missing some glyph coverage.  Why
not organize a team to help extend that, since it would be more useful
globally?  Perhaps there's already a move afoot for this, because
certainly the same can be said of Asian languages.

[...snip...]
> I want to emphasize that changing default settings is not an
> exceptional use-case for F15 Gnome users. It is a normal thing which
> will be used very often.

What measurements do you have to support this assertion?

[...snip...]
> I suggest
> 
> a) state that theming _is_ a feature of Gnome 3 Desktop in F15

Not only is it too late to be adding features in at this point, but
it's not even established this one is needed.

> b) add gnome-tweaks-tool to the default @gnome-desktop group of
> packages, put it on Live images and so on
> Probably add gnome-shell user-theme extension package by default also.

This tool should only be useful for a small subset of the people
expected to use GNOME 3 and Fedora 15.  Including it by default would
be confusing to the rest because they wouldn't know in what cases
they'd use it.  A cursory glance at the settings in that tool shows
they're clearly not understandable to a large swath of people who
don't spend a lot of time with operating system internals.

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