Fedora Core 5 Idea

[Christopher Aillon]

On 07/01/2005 06:36 AM, Ovidiu Lixandru wrote:
> 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 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-February/msg00453.html