Re: freshened metacity theme

agreed. perhaps this discussion should include more people (i.e. lead developers) as there are more issues involved here than one.

for example, i highly doubt a project like Tango, which while aiming at standards and usability, will also go for the aesthetic limitations of the web palette. also i'm not sure it's a good idea to make sure the default theme works well for 8-bit depths at the cost of giving other users a considerably less attractive and less "modern" looking interface. perhaps there is some way to set the default theme at installation based on the color depth that is autodetected? in other words, i think a fork (a set of themes for 16bit+ and another set for 8bit) that gets set automatically depending on your hardware might work here.

this is all based on the assumption that it's not easy to create antialiased, modern, "eye candy" etc. looking graphics that also downgrade to an 8-bit palette well. please let me know if i'm wrong.

best,


yh