[opensuse-kde] Re: Re: Re: How do root applications get their theme data?

On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:29, dh wrote:

On Tuesday, November 22, 2011, Roger Luedecke wrote:

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On Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:12:50 PM dh wrote:

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On Tuesday, November 22, 2011, Roger Luedecke wrote:

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On Tuesday, November 22, 2011 10:45:44 AM Peter Vollebregt wrote:

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Op 21-11-11 22:26, Roger Luedecke schreef:

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On Monday, November 21, 2011 01:17:57 PM Peter Vollebregt wrote: > On 11/21/2011 12:33 AM, Steven Sroka wrote: >>> 2011/11/20 dh : >>> On Sunday, November 20, 2011, Steven Sroka wrote: >>>>> 2011/11/20 Krzysztof Żelechowski : >>> ----------snip------------ "why the insistence that it shouldn't take the users changes?" Because it is not the regular user, it is root. Beyond this point I believe we are in agreement.

I see your point about the conflict between consistancy and awareness. In the pre kdesu (sux) days, it was more difficult to run gui programs as su, when you logged in as root, you were greeted w/ a nice red bomb background. A background that was completely different from the default user themes.

I don't want a "fuggly" root theme that I need to fix. I think your second option "it must look different from the users normal apps", "make it very very deliberate". I totally agree that the look should be different enough that it does not appear to be a mistake. I think this could be achieved with just a change in the default color schemes. I want consistant widgets, but that's just me.

I kind of like the look of the Windows Server 2008 (administrator) gui, but I don't want my linux (admin) box to look like that. (at least by default)

See ya dh

A proposal: for the root user (/root/.*): In addemum to the predefined 'root'/bomb background, deploy also a color scheme that's different from the standard. For both, Gnome/GTK and KDE/QT. On a clean install, this would give the root login on X11 (/Wayland) a uniqe clearly different look. The same 'look' would be given to the apps a other user calls via kdesu / xdg-su / sudo. The trick to this is to prepopulate roots Home-Dir with the needed data during the install. Best would be a script that can be used/called later to 'reset' roots GUI look, also, e.g. after an Update / Dist-Upgrade. Nice would it be to announce the availibitiy of such a tool via a mail to 'root@localhost' for example. Just my 2ct on this, cheers, Yamaban.