Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Just because something is the default isnt going to change your
> personal opinion on it. So instead of convincing people to adopt your
> choices as the default it would be better to just switch the theme
> over after the installation or during kickstart. If you do have
> rational arguments about other set of preferences in various
> applications, developers are more likely to hear you because it
> generally is much more applicable to a wider set of people. I am
> pretty sure that are dozens of other themes which some of the users
> like which isnt being shipped in Fedora Core at all. You should use
> the theme sites like
http://art.gnome.org or
http://kde-look.org.
> Applications that grab such themes from various sites and make the end
> user experience in changing the themes from a wider variety more
> transparent and easier would be a good thing to do. Thats where I
> would like to see the effort go towards in extras or even in core
You're missing the point. I said BlueCurve was chosen as a default for
RH8 through FC3 for other reasons, because BlueCurve has never been the
default theme in official GNOME releases.
ClearLooks is being considered for the same reasons Bluecurve has been
around, plus others. See