Comments on: Epidermis Theme Manager: Promising for the Future, Problematic for Now

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:41:38 +0000

nice and simple, but limited choice of themes/.pigments and given that gnome 2.28 wont allow you to play fully with gdm (no login screen manager) it almost silly, if it cant theme fuly whats the point,
we need our full theming back asap
then this could really get into the top apps lists

By: Goldwing Guy

Goldwing Guy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:52:20 +0000

where is the screenshot? anyway this is definitely a cool idea, and not suprising that its hard to get themes working. I mean hey even the xbox 360 has issues letting me get rid of those dang green menus

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:49:29 +0000

Nice to hear about this kind of tool, as it is stands now, it is a mess. Regarding the article, this is one of those that you should really provide us with a screenshot and definitly a link..

By: Exsecrabilus

Exsecrabilus — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:50:40 +0000

Wow. I knew about Epidermis but when I saw this article on Digg, I thought it had actually improved. No screenshots, the theme applying is still slow and messed up, and it’s basically an alpha software. I see no reason why this should have been posted or been on the page of Digg.

By: steby

steby — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:23:29 +0000

Tried it and it made a glorious mess of my GRUB and kernel splash.
Themes aren’t resolution independent, e.g. the wallpapers doesn’t have different sizes.

Like where it is going, will give it a skip for a few releases..

By: Yfrwlf

Yfrwlf — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:19:39 +0000

They really need to make one interface for themes that can also support Compiz featured themes, and simply discriminate between them in an elegant way. For instance, if you’re using Metacity, you could gray out the themes that use Compiz, and/or even make it so when you click on a Compiz theme, it asks if you want to “turn on desktop effects”. Something like that will be needed until Compiz can be a default window manager without causing problems with drivers and such like it does (ahem*ATI*ahem), or without slowing things down (or at least a very very minimal slowdown).

By: Orlsend

Orlsend — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:02:27 +0000

Hello

Just here to answer a few questions.

First of all the following statement is true.

“it’s not hardy heron, but the gnome version. Each new version becomes more easily themable and bugs get sorted..”

I am the main trubleshooter for epidermis running Hardy with gnome Version: 2.22.1, All the uploaded pigments in the repo are all being tested for both Hardy and Intrepid. If you get an error please tell us

for all of those the main site is here : http://epidermis.tuxfamily.org/

and to report a bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/epidermis

We are sorry about the screen resolutions, Ill be running a small survey to see what the most common for gnome users. or else if we come up with better idea.

By: Heni

Heni — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:02:32 +0000

Nice to hear about this kind of tool, as it is stands now, it is a mess. Regarding the article, this is one of those that you should really provide us with a screenshot and definitly a link.

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:28:59 +0000

it’s not hardy heron, but the gnome version. Each new version becomes more easily themable and bugs get sorted..

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:32:24 +0000

Tried it and it made a glorious mess of my GRUB and kernel splash.
Themes aren’t resolution independent, e.g. the wallpapers doesn’t have different sizes.

Like where it is going, will give it a skip for a few releases.