Re: [e-users] 2 Dumb questions about E17 themes...

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jt...@tt...>]

It would appear that on Mar 30, Ron did say:

> > 1) Are E17 themes E17 version specific??
> 
>    Any theme should work (providing they are done correctly!)
> 
> > 2) Can I at least count on undoing anything the theme did by switching
> >    back to the default theme via Settings Panel->Look->Theme???
> 
>    Yep, changing themes will restart E with the new theme.  Personally I have yet to have a problem with themes

Good! Then I might as well play with some of the themes I downloaded Maybe
I can find one that's easy on my eyes AND provides visual feedback of which
button the enter key is pointed at...

It would appear that on Mar 30, Alan McKinnon did say:

> On Tuesday 30 March 2010 20:16:38 Ron wrote:
> > 
> >    Any theme should work (providing they are done correctly!)
> 
> That would be ideal but is not always the case. The interface into e that 
> themes use can change, and non-updated themes can fail to some degree. In my 
> experience, usually some feature of the themes stops working, i.e. it doesn't 
> crash the whole session. As with all things, YMMV.
 
 So then, it sounds like E17 itself is fairly resilient to a partially broken
theme... Better still.

It would appear that on Mar 30, Robin did say:

> I've been using E17 for a long time and I only remember a couple of
> occasions in the early days where there were minor issues that were
> theme related.  It's easy to switch back via Settings - Theme - System
> - default and hit the Apply button. Assuming your distribution has not
> disabled it there is an Online button to get themes over the wire.

It's good to hear that theme problems are not very common.

It would appear that on Mar 30, Paulo Diovani did say:

> Also, if some theme is completelly crashed, not allowing you to manage the
> settings, you Just need to remove the buggy theme (by command line, or any file
> manager) ans restart E (Ctrl + Shift + End).  It'll fall back to default theme again.

Now that 'is' good news. It tells me that I have the option of performing cli
surgery. If worse came to worse I could just login to a console and do a:
$ rm ~/.e/e/themes/*

I thank all of you for the kind advice.

Looks like only a few themes give a visual indication of which button has the focus.
But of the themes that I found that do, the assorted "Vulcan" themes do it so boldly
that I don't even have to squint. Of them, the "Vulcan_Retro_Blue_0_6_4_by_Ndjee.edj"
has a color scheme that is easier on my eyes than the others. 

It kind of figures that for a keyboard centric user who only use the mouse when he
has to, the "Vulcan" themes turn out to be among the "logical" choices. 

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