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New Color Scheme Feature

Submitted by stro on Tue, 2006-11-21 16:57. Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

Thomas Wood of art.gnome.org fame has been working hard on adding color scheme support to gnome-theme-manager. Some of the fruits of this labor can be seen here and also here.

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You deserve a medal.

Submitted by angrykeyboarder on Thu, 2006-11-30 19:28.

I can't believe something so simple has been neglected all these years. GNOME seems to aim toward "new users" more than other desktop environments and yet "new users" invariably come from Microsoft Windows. Windows has had this functionality since at least 1993.

KDE has had it since day one.

Thanks for your work!

But Windows had no themes,

Submitted by Daniel Borgmann on Fri, 2006-12-01 04:30.

But Windows had no themes, which make implementing this feature nicely far more complicated. And also less important.

:D

Submitted by Drom on Sun, 2006-11-26 22:39.

Thos rocks! You can see day after day his hard work. Thanks :)

Awesome!

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Wed, 2006-11-22 13:50.

Fantastic work. I've been waiting for something like this since the early days of Gnome 2. This is a sorely needed capability, and it's great to see someone stepping up and addressing it. Good job!

Gnome 1?

Submitted by lobais on Thu, 2006-11-23 10:36.

Why didn't you wait for something like this for Gnome 1?
Only ask because I never ran gnome 1 myself.

GNOME 1.x had a (very

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Fri, 2006-11-24 11:28.

GNOME 1.x had a (very limited) colour scheme support. You could only change the selection colour IIRC.

Looking good!

Submitted by Twigman on Tue, 2006-11-21 18:44.

Looking good!