[imp] theme support

Dan Ellis danellis@rushmore.com
Sat, 03 Mar 2001 17:10:27 -0700 (MST)


I know what you mean about ugly ui's.  But it might be a nice feature and 
should be fairly simple to implement.

I thoroughly enjoy IMP and would like to contribute to IMP's development, if 
possible.  I thought this might be a possibility.

Dan

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:

> Quoting Dan Ellis <danellis@rushmore.com>:
> 
> > When I first read the message, I was thinking of a more user-defined
> "skin". 
> > I'm not sure if I like the idea or not, as I'm more function over
> form, but I
> > thing it should be fairly easy to implement.  If this is something
> thatpeople 
> > feel might be a worth while cause, I'm more than willing to join the 
> > development team and help out..
> 
> My main objection to skins is that they tend to be _ugly_. They put UI
> design 
> into the hands of people who really don't know what they're doing. If
> people 
> wanted users to be able to select between a few pre-defined sets of
> colors, 
> that's a possibility, though, but I'm not sure how much it really
> adds...
> 
> -chuck
> 
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Quoting Dan Ellis <danellis@rushmore.com>:

> I thoroughly enjoy IMP and would like to contribute to IMP's development, if
> possible.  I thought this might be a possibility.

If you want to propose a way to do this in 2.3, go for it!

-chuck

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