On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Barros Pena, Belen <belen.barros.p...@intel.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > As part of the Hob work for the 1.3 release it looks like we need to make > a visual design and implementation decision: do we want a 'vanilla' or a > 'branded' look for Hob? Sorry if the choice of words is not the best. > Neither 'vanilla' nor 'branded' are meant in any negative way. > > We did have this conversation when we started work on the 1.2 release of > Hob, but somehow we settled for a middle way that is not working well and > is causing issues like bug 1701. From my conversations with UI engineers > and people with lots of experience in building applications using the GTK > toolkit, the middle way just doesn't work. > > What I mean by 'vanilla' is an implementation that takes the visual > appearance from the theme installed in the Hob host. The main advantage of > vanilla implementations is they guarantee that Hob will play nicely with > its host computer. > > What I mean by branded is a visually customised appearance which, apart > from basic UI elements like window chrome and window controls, takes no > input from the host theme. The advantage of this approach is full control > over the Hob appearance (Hob should look like Hob no matter what Linux > distribution you are using). > > Personally, I have no preferences: I think both have strengths and > weaknesses and I am happy to go with any of the two. What I wouldn't like > is sticking to a half-way-in-between approach which is giving us a lot of > grief. > > I would like to know what the Yocto Project community thinks about these 2 > approaches. > > Thanks!
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