[Bug 714319] New: Include the ClearLooks theme in the Fedora packaged version of FontForge

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Summary: Include the ClearLooks theme in the Fedora packaged version of FontForge

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714319

Summary: Include the ClearLooks theme in the Fedora packaged
                    version of FontForge
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: unspecified
         Component: fontforge
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
         QAContact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail],
                    [e-mail]
    Classification: Fedora
      Story Points: ---

Description of problem:

FontForge's default UI theme is not similar to the default GTK/QT theme,
because it uses its own X Window Toolkit.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
All

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run FontForge
2. Look at it
3. Look at any other GTK/QT application

Actual results:
They look very different

Expected results:
They look similar

Additional info:

I have described installing a theme to the user's home directory at
http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/How_to_setup_FontForge and this theme could be
used as a basis for a theme that matches the current Fedora theme, as it is
based on ClearLooks.

[Bug 714319] Include the ClearLooks theme in the Fedora packaged version of FontForge

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Paul Flo Williams  changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED
         AssignedTo|[e-mail]             |[e-mail]

--- Comment #1 from Paul Flo Williams  2011-08-18 03:38:11 EDT ---
I've tried the supplied theme on F15, and I don't know whether it needs
tweaking, but it gave me enormous fonts on FontForge's main window, so I
switched back.

I would suggest that changing the default look of FontForge is simply a matter
of taste, and it of course doesn't affect the fact that FontForge doesn't act
like a GTK or QT application, and you might argue that "looks the same but
doesn't act the same" is another type of user interface failure.

How to proceed? It might be possible to package this theme and others so that
they are more readily available to users, but those would be separate packages
along the lines of fontforge-theme-*, not part of FontForge.

I'm also mindful of the caveat about theming on the FontForge wiki: "playing
with x resources may result in abrupt crashes at the very start of application.
It appears then, that 'fontforge doesn't start'." Bug 720354 may well be one
such.

So, I think
1. This isn't and shouldn't be part of the fontforge package.
2. You might want to package this separately so that users have a choice, and
I'd be prepared to submit any useful changes to our fontforge package or
upstream to support theming.

Any other thoughts, before I say this is notabug?

[Bug 714319] Include the ClearLooks theme in the Fedora packaged version of FontForge

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           Priority|unspecified                 |low
           Severity|medium                      |low

[Bug 714319] Include the ClearLooks theme in the Fedora packaged version of FontForge

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Paul Flo Williams  changed:

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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |CLOSED
         Resolution|                            |NOTABUG
        Last Closed|                            |2011-10-03 09:49:36

--- Comment #2 from Paul Flo Williams  2011-10-03 09:49:36 EDT ---
Closing, with reasoning given in comment 1.