[516] in Athena User Interface
Re: minutes of 14dec2000 micromeeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri Dec 15 12:36:44 2000
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:36:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@mit.edu>
cc: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>, <aui@mit.edu>
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On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Susan B. Jones wrote:
> I'm not trying to be stupid, I am. I have no idea what a theme is or what
> my choices are and I'm sitting in my cube at a Mac and not in 203 at the
> Dell. Just tell me a value for x and I'll put it in the test, please?
Ooops! I'm sorry. Didn't mean to make you crazy.
OK. First the simple part: The test should say
"Change the appearance so that all the window frames use the 'microGUI'
theme."
I'm picking 'microGUI,' one of several available themes, at random; any
other could be used there.
A "theme" is just a change of appearance, that's all. Actually there are
two different ways the system uses the word "theme"; GNOME has one, which
affects the way it draws buttons and other controls, and sawfish has one
of its own which affects the way the window frame, title bar, and window
controls are drawn. That's the one I want the user to try to change.
I agree this is easier when it's seen in action.
