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  From: Alan Kennington <ak1.linuxsa@topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:25:34 +0930

Re: comparative worth of Qt toolkit and GTK+ ?

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:24:00AM +0930, Mark Newton wrote:
> 
> Gnome and KDE both come with preferences dialogs which end-users can use
> to select the theme they want.  It's pretty straightforward:  When you 
> select a theme, all GTK apps suddenly adopt the look-and-feel that the
> theme expresse.
> 


Ah, I dig. Themes are those things in the Control Center/Centre which I don't 
use because they make half the icons and applications completely unreadable.
Yet another "user-friendly feature" for my list of gripes about modern software!
What's the point in designing a GUI if the user gets to muck it all up?
I knew I should have stuck to Xlib....  or curses...  or stdout....

Thanks for the explanation.
CHeers,
Alan.

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