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Re: themes
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Frank Schmitt |
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Re: themes |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:20:31 +0200 |
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Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Ah, yes. This is due to a design decision in the Custom Themes code: it
>> deliberately ensures that the user's own customizations override
>> anything set by a theme, which in term overrides changes set outside
>> Customize. (All settings should be reversible.)
>>
>> The idea is that you should be able to load a theme, and then change
>> individual settings to you disagree with. This seems like a reasonable
>> thing to want, though it's true that it could lead to confusion.
>
> That might be a good policy if everybody started out using themes, chose
> a theme they liked, and then made a few tweaks on top of it -- but I
> think that may not reflect reality very well... a fair number of people
> may be like me, and have a large number of tweaked faces already in
> place when they hear about themes. They'll try out themes, notice they
> all seem a bit off, and might even abandon the concept...
Definitely. I might have custom faces matching a blue background but
those will look totally odd on e.g. a white one.
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- themes, Miles Bader, 2010/10/12