<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:38 PM, George Nassas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gnassas@mac.com">gnassas@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">It's a tangent when it's irrelevant to the point. Attractive UI themes exist. Attractive OSD themes exist. However they don't exist *together* and never have for whatever reason. I said it and others have said it.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I disagree. "Attractive" is an aesthetic quality. As in, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I am 98-99% happy with the main theme and OSD in Arclight, personally. That doesn't mean that others will like it. That's up to personal taste.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"> That's the point. It's no problem when we can choose the best of each as we've been able for years. It's a nuisance when we're obliged to pick one or the other. It's annoying when there's no technical or aesthetic reason to force the choice. Railing against a straw man doesn't change that.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>There is a technical reason, which is that it drastically reduces code complexity. That has already been touched on. Aesthetically, there is a reason as well. Each theme now contains the entirety of the UI experience, and with that, it is possible and likely that each theme will end up looking better and more cohesive.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And as always, if you want to mix and match, you can go mess around with the XML files and essentially create your own theme from the parts of the various themes and OSD portions of themes that you like. Such is the fun of open source.</div>
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Turns out it's trivial to merge themes in a script. I'm away from my machine but after I verify that the output works I'll put something up for folks. Even though it's stupid to do this outside of the application.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>If it's trivial (which it is if done purely mechanically), then any user should be able to do it without much thought. If you'd like to make a script to help people use even less thought, that's your prerogative. The application, however, is not the place to be expecting to be able to customize your themes. This is not how it's done, and that's not likely to change.</div>
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