Appearance Settings

Ideas for the ControlCenter capplets that deal with apperance settings. This includes themes, backgrounds, fonts, and other options.

Ideas for an all-in-one solution

It might be worth grouping all the appearance related settings into one single capplet. Ideas for this approach should be put in this section.

ThomasWood put together a glade file organising our existing options into the following categories:

• Theme - Anything to do with saving, installing and removing themes
• Appearance - Colours and styles (The "Look" part of Look and Feel)
• Fonts - Fonts to use, and rendering options
• Desktop - What to display on the "Desktop" (i.e. root window)
• Options - Other misc. options that don't fit into the above (The "Feel" part of Look and Feel)

A few of the screens could probably do with cleaning up and simplifying (Fonts for example).

Notes

• Themes are saved collections of appearance settings. That is, a theme includes the appearance, fonts, and desktop settings.

Screenshots

Here are some screenshots of things we tried

Mockups

Here are some mockups.

Comments

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  • It really would be much easier to post them here.