[Gpephone-devel] gpe-applauncher QA check

[Florian Boor]

Hi,

WANG Gang RD-ILAB-PEK schrieb:
> I post our discussion here in a hope to attract some comments from other
> people.

ok good...

> I made a simple organization of the settings related files, so far only
> gpe-applauncher and gpe-phonepanel are concerned.
> 
> Under /usr/share/themes/<theme name>/, 4 directories contain different
> purposed settings files, they are: 'homescreen', 'phonepanel', 'softkeyarea'
> and 'mainmenu'.

Looks like a valid solution, that makes it quite clear which setting influences
which visible bit.

> 'homescreen' harbors the Homescreen's background image and popup message
> icons; 'phonepanel' contains the background image of status area and status
> indicators' icons; 'mainmenu' includes all the applications' iconview icons
> and Mainmenu's background image; 'softkeyarea' has the background image of
> softkey area.
> 
> In our implementation, 'homescreen' and 'mainmenu' have some overlaps: the
> quicklaunch applications icons on Homescreen are stored in the 'mainmenu'
> directory.

Maybe it would be useful just to merge these directories into a single one such
as "launcher".

> My personal thought: although we have only 2 applications right now, but
> split the settings files by functional sectors looks more intuitive than
> merely put them into directories named after applications.

That's true... even if it is quite common to have a subdirectory with the
application name in this context it might be good to keep the theming files for
these different visual components separately.

Greetings

Florian

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