2012/1/15 Thiago Macieira <[email protected]>: > On Sunday, 15 de January de 2012 12.43.15, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> applications should be detecting capabilities, not doing string >> comparisons on desktop environment names. >> >> a desktop environment UX can change without its name changing; or new >> desktop environments, with similar UX can appear. >> >> checking the name of the desktop environment is going to be hopelessly >> out of date, or actively wrong. > > While I agree that this is ideal solution, I'm not sure we can achieve it > without getting ourselves in a quagmire. Here's a list of settings I can think > of at the top of my head: > > - widget style & colour palette > - icon theme > - order of Ok / Cancel buttons
Well, those three has been "available" through xsettings for a very long time, I even wrote a xsettings-kde program to export kde settings to xsettings. Maybe xsettings should be revived a little ? -- Frederic Crozat _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
