Re: Dropping the smooth engine from gtk-engines

"Andrea Cimitan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.themes
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2008/7/13 Benjamin Berg <[email protected]>:
> On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 14:00 +0200, Andrea Cimitan wrote:
>> I would remove glider for example, thinice, crux (sorry thos). But not smooth
>
> About thinice. This engine is at least used for the Simple the theme,
> which was the default up until GNOME 2.6 I think. I am a bit more
> reluctant to remove it because of this.
>
> Crux, seriously I think more people use it than smooth derived themes.
> (I keep seeing Crux getting used, but I cannot remember seeing a smooth
> theme or even Glider.)
>
> About Glider. The code base is much better than smooth. So from a
> maintainability standpoint it is better to keep Glider instead of
> Smooth.
>
> Andrea, I am not planning to change my mind because you have a gut
> feeling that Smooth is used more than engine X. Plus, removing smooth
> does *not* result in dropping any theme from the distribution.
>
> Benjamin
>
Hey, be quiet.
It's not a feeling, it's just the high number of smooth-based themes
inside gnomelook. 30-40 minimum
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