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On 09/11/2018 01:32 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 09/09/18 19:31, Andreas Stieger wrote:
Hello,
On 9/9/18 9:06 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
Just a word of caution re the latest version (version 60) of Thunderbird which will be installed when you update Leap 15.0: you will lose most, if not all, of your existing Extensions and Theme -- by this I mean that they will become 'Incompatible with...'.
The "Theme" part of that is what poses the most difficult challenge. While 52.9 continue Gtk+2, 60 will only use Gtk+3. While there were 1000's of really good Gtk+2 themes, there are literally less than a dozen or so Gtk+3 themes too choose from and virtually all fail to control the input-box, icon width and treeview height resulting in default Gtk+3 widget sizes/spacing that are roughly 2X as tall and wide as the Gtk+2 variants. Granted, during development of Gtk+3, theme development was discouraged by the theme model being a black box and a complete moving target between 2.99 and roughly 3.24. As the theme API stabilized, independent theme development continued to be discouraged simply due to the complexity and size of an equivalent Gtk+3 theme verses it's Gtk+2 counterpart and the shift from the well-documented .gtkrc interface and then new Gtk+3 .css model. [Gtk+ Themeing](https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/theming.html) Hopefully as things progress we will have clear documentation for all features of the .css model that will allow easy fixes for dialogs, inputs and toolbars that no longer fit or toolbars that ellipsize off the right of the window hiding what used to be visible. Where a decade ago we had active sites and enthusiasts willing to roll up their sleeves and actively contribute themes (almost daily) to sites like gnome-look.org and deviantart.com, the original enthusiasts are now middle-age and there does not seem to be anyone following in their footsteps. Time will tell, but get ready for a shocker when you try and get Tbird 60 to display the same amount of information in the same screen space as 52.9 did by default. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org