[Mageia-artwork] Meeting tonight

[Max Quarterpleen]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Luc Menut <lmenut at free.fr> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Le 29/06/2011 08:42, Thorsten van Lil a écrit :
> >>
> >> Dear team-mates,
> >> we will hold a short meeting today:
> >> Topics are:
> >> * Window decoration
> >
> > Mainly as a Mageia's user, and also as a packager, I would make some
> remarks
> > about window decoration for next Mageia release.
> > We had several bugs in the past (at start of ia_ora in Mdv) with our own
> > window decoration.
> > Maintaining a good window decoration is lot of work, and I'm not sure we
> > have enough manpower to do so (or that it's the best use of our limited
> > manpower!!).
> > I would prefer if we use the upstream window decoration (and widget
> style)
> > of desktop environments (even if we have some differences between DE),
> and
> > we take time to polish the integration of most of graphics applications
> > (qt4, gtk2, and now gtk3 apps) in each DE.
> >
> > my 2 cents :-)
>
> we need coherency between the desktops so we need the same default
> theme for gtk and kde apps.
>
> This is why i propose this :
>
> KDE => Oxygen
> GTK 3  => Oxygen-gtk3
> GTK 2  => Oxygen-gtk
>
> We can't use ia ora anymore for mageia  2 because we would need to
> recode all the theme for gtk3 so better leave it in peace and use a
> new one.
>
> As a gnome packager i started to package oxygen-gtk3 and i will work
> to have it usuable in our gnome 3.
>

My 2 cents: I've never like ia-ora, and if I recall a discussion on the
forum, neither do many other people.
For that reason alone I think it would be expedient to switch the default
scheme to Oxygen.
But of course there are other, better reasons :P


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