Opposition to removing old KWin themes?

Sune Vuorela nospam at vuorela.dk
Thu Jul 22 20:03:40 BST 2010


On 2010-07-22, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> A Dijous, 22 de juliol de 2010, Hugo Pereira Da Costa va escriure:
>> On Thursday 22 July 2010 08:52:57 Markus Slopianka wrote:
>> > Hi.
>> > I'd like to remove some old KWin themes from the default SC 4.6 install,
>> > eg. B II, Redmond, etc.
>> > 
>> > Their source files have in most cases not been touched since years
>> > (Scripty goind through .desktop files doesn't count).
>> > Is there any opposition to it?
>> 
>> On the similar note, I'd also remove some of the old Widget themes (CDE,
>> Motif, Window 9x)
>
> If there is no reason other than "the code works so noone touched it", I 
> oppose, I don't think they add too much clutter and i'm sure someone is using 
> them.

Especially for network forwarding of things. It is cheaper network wise
to tranport the big ugly gray buttons of the old themes than transport
the beautiful gradients of oxygen.

/Sune





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