GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 95306
Tab labels don't use standard terms.
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
s/Widget Theme/Controls There was a discussion over control v widget on the usability list in July. Calum lists the terms that other UIs use: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2002-July/msg00273.html - all use control, none use widget. * s/Window Border Theme/Window Frames The GDSG defines a window frame as the titlebar and the border of a window. So frame is the more accurate term. http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/apas02.html
Probably one to thrash out at the 2.2 ui-review...
I'd like to change my first comment above from s/Widget Theme/Controls to s/Widget Theme/Desktop Theme as these themes change more than just the controls, but also the height of text in panels, appearance of icons, and so on. Cc'ing Pat, Irene, and John Fleck.
To further muddle this debate, gtk/Widget/Desktop themes can only change the appearance of gtk stock icons in GNOME 2.1.x, whereas in GNOME 2.0 they also changed the icon theme to match. (The expectation being that there would be a separate GUI for changing icon themes in 2.1.x, but that hasn't materialised yet). Also I gather the gtk team don't like the idea of gtk/Widget/Desktop themes changing the font (the Font capplet won't reflect font changes made this way, for example). So although it's possible and the accessibility themes currently do it, this will probably stop happening at some point in the not too distant future-- perhaps when the metathemer arrives.
SPAM as discussed last night. Search for 'SPAM as discussed last night' to catch these all and delete them. :)
Well, it currently has 'Controls', 'Window Border' and 'Icons' in the tabs. It's not quite what was suggested, but better than the phrase Widget, I suppose. We need to take a good hard look at the UI once 2.2.0 is out. I'd like to close it as a Dupe of the 'redo the UI' bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100622 ***