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WebKit For Metacity/Mutter CSS Theming?
An anonymous reader writes "As Metacity (the GNOME window manager) evolves into Mutter, the question of CSS themes and how to implement them has come up. One of the proposals was WebKit, which the author asked more specifically about on his blog. It seems that WebKit, being a very fast rendering engine, would allow Mutter to have unprecedented power, not to mention being nearly future-proofed. As a major bonus, going this way could allow GNOME to share themes with KDE, which is apparently already headed towards a dependency on WebKit. Many people will reflexively recoil at the idea of a browser being mixed with a window manager. But it's important to remember that WebKit is not a browser — it's just a rendering engine, and it's not where all the security issues come from. So, what are the real technical issues at stake here? What are the pros and cons of using WebKit underneath GNOME rendering?"
It's too bad, what with Metacity being one of the few window managers available.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
As long as it keeps my desktop active, like some sort of active desktop, then it's all good.
Indeed, nothing says UNIX like a binary format.
unless you are an expensive coffee drinking,
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iPhone toting
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meeja student
Sensitive.
with messy hair
Clod!
who lives in a big city
Oh, nevermind.
Paul Grosfield - the quicker picker upper.
Simple solution:
Users must be too fucking stupid to choose a theme, therefore remove themes from metacity. Whichever developer is landed with the metacity code this year can choose the theme. Everyone will love this fantastic enhancement of the user interfacing experience!
Unless you were frozen in th 50s, that comment can only be explained as a joke... if there is something of which there is plenty, that's window managers...
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