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<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Anne Nicolas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ennael@mageia.org" target="_blank">ennael@mageia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Le 03/06/2012 13:37, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :<div><div class="h5"><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
2012/6/3 Max Quarterpleen<<a href="mailto:bogusman222@gmail.com" target="_blank">bogusman222@<u></u>gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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What kind of theme (wallpaper, icons, plymouth, splash screen, window<br>
decorator, colors)?<br>
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<br>
Yes.<br>
But specifically a desktop theme. Window decorater, colors.<br>
Icons we're going to work on separately. Probably using application-original<br>
icons, but new icons for the drakxtools applications.<br>
Wallpaper will probably be a contest again, but we'll have to think about<br>
the details a little better this time...<br>
Splash screen and Plymouth will just be an extension of the wallpaper, like<br>
we did with Mga2.<br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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If it is the window decorator, personally i prefer the every DE original<br>
choices.<br>
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<br>
I can understand that, but we are aiming for a unified look. Nothing will<br>
stop you from changing it, this will just be the default.<br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I think the distro is good to have its plymouth and splash screen , not<br>
other modifications from upstream.<br>
<br>
Please let users enjoy each Desktop flavors.<br>
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Yes, this again is something related with individual taste.<br>
<br>
Many other distributions try to change looks, even functions of the<br>
original DE to have a unique desktop. But integrating the big 2 (KDE&<br>
Gnome) into the distribution's own look and keep it as original as<br>
possible and then make it look good together - this is also a<br>
separator from those other distributions. A nice example:<br>
<br>
At Berlin Linuxtag exhibition a visitor looked at Mageia 2 KDE (I did<br>
a standard installation with nothing customized to my own preferences<br>
yet). He played with it for a while, especially with the KDE<br>
functions. Then he told us that in his opinion this is the best<br>
integration of KDE into a new distribution he has seen lately,<br>
especially the combination of the KDE looks with out corporate colors.<br>
The guy turned out to be the treasurer of the KDE project.<br>
<br>
This is what I meant - establishing a reputation of leaving the<br>
original as original as possible.<br>
This should at least taken into account: Do we really want our own theme?<br>
<br>
Of course there's nothing against our own theme as additionsl option.<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>This is why I put it up for discussion. :)<br><br>Yes, we did integrate KDE very nicely with our distro and gave it a nice personal touch. But I'm not really sure how much the treasurer would know about look and feel. He could be a software or graphics designer by day and treasurer by night, but he could also be a lawyer by day.<br>
In any event, such a compliment from one of the KDE team does say a lot.<br>We'll think about this some more.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Also I'd like to add that creating a brand new theme is *really* a long and hard task. One of the strong point of Mageia is also having a common theme for environnement which allows to have both Qt and gtk apps well integrated. Such choice should be done also together with environments maintainers<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br>Yes, this is also why I put it up for discussion. HSo we can hear exactly what it is that we're up against.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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