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

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

Paul Flo Williams <paul at frixxon.co.uk> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Paul Flo Williams <paul at frixxon.co.uk> 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?

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