GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 118001
Need a more informative preview
Last modified: 2011-10-22 02:51:32 UTC
I find the preview in the Theme Manager does not give me enough information about the theme and I end up trying them all. Changing themes is quite slow and i think that if the preview showed more/various widgets it might be less necessary to apply the whole theme. > I have a general problem with the Theme Manager previews. I feel the > preview does not give enough information for me to know what the theme > will look like, on the top left most of them have an open button that > looks the same so guessing what the theme will be like is largely based on > the folder icon on the bottom right. It strikes me that the current previews are quite small and awkward, and that the adjacent text is very large and surrounded by lots of whitespace. it might be better to have a list of themes and a larger preview area elsewhere in the dialog. (Note that the equivalent Theme/Appearance Dialog in Windows has quite a large preview area). http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104365 This bug wants to be able to configure more theme settings, it might provide a suitable place to give a more detailed theme preview. I really should sit down and make a more detailed and thought out report, consider this only a first opinion.
Any mockups are more than welcome!
Created attachment 85659 [details] First mockup I tried to get fonts, (in)active window borders, backgrounds, icons in it. Unfortunately this creates a wide window.
Created attachment 85661 [details] second try A second mockup with rearranged buttons to make the window narrower.
Good mockups! I basically like the idea. Would it make sense to change the "Anpassen"/"Customize" pages to show a preview, too? Like previewing icon-sets etc.?
The second one is really nice. But I think it's supposed to also display theme name and description somewhere though. Not that I personally need them, but still... Maybe a text line below the preview of each theme would do?
Created attachment 92221 [details] screenshot of Appearance capplet The mockups look nice, but they are not quite what we are looking for. In 2.19, the theme capplet has been merged with background, ui, and fonts. We don't want completely rebuild the capplet, what we need is just better previews, preferably at the same size they are right now. Attached is a shot of the capplet as it looks in svn at the moment.
gnome-theme-manager has been superseded by gnome-appearance-properties.
Mass move to gnome-tweak-tool, for theme handling bugs.
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