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Themes Broken with 3.7: Syntax change?
gevaerts:
--- Quote from: Bockrox on January 06, 2011, 11:29:38 AM ---I am willfully ignorant of the Firefox documentation, but this has never caused me grief in all my years of using it.
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How many firefox extensions or themes have you developed?
Bockrox:
--- Quote from: gevaerts on January 06, 2011, 12:24:54 PM ---How many firefox extensions or themes have you developed?
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None, but I have shared ideas that were well-received by Mozilla employees. Why is this relevant?
Llorean:
I think one thing you may have missed is that not all themes broke. If you read http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SkinBreakingChange you'll see that only some themes became unusuable - those that made use of the changed tags.
A version string wouldn't do any good because that would end up rejecting perfectly compatible themes as well. As I said earlier, about the only improvement really reasonable is it popping up something to explain when the theme fails to load. Rather than comment on this, it seems like you've decided you're just here to argue.
Rockbox exists in an environment very different than Firefox. Comparing how themes are loaded to how Firefox extensions are handled is hardly useful as they don't exist within the same limitations, nor follow similar rules.
--- Quote ---I would, however, recommend that the Rockbox team pull in more developers interested in usability, as I think this conversation could benefit from more of those perspectives.
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also seems to suggest you aren't to familiar with open source in general. There is no "Rockbox foundation" like there is for Mozilla. There is no guiding force. Knowledge of how the Mozilla project seems to do things isn't as useful here as you may think it is. What developers we get is strictly limited by who shows up with interest in helping to contribute.
Rather than saying we should pull in more developers interested in usability, the ideal response is that you start becoming involved with the programming side and *become* one of those developers. Submit some patches that show how you think it should work. If your response is "I don't know how to program", well now's always a good time to start learning.
gevaerts:
--- Quote from: Bockrox on January 06, 2011, 12:59:33 PM ---
--- Quote from: gevaerts on January 06, 2011, 12:24:54 PM ---How many firefox extensions or themes have you developed?
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None, but I have shared ideas that were well-received by Mozilla employees. Why is this relevant?
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Sorry, I misread your first post. I thought you meant these were themes that you had created, in which case it is relevant. On re-reading I see I was wrong there.
Bockrox:
--- Quote from: gevaerts on January 06, 2011, 02:27:05 PM ---Sorry, I misread your first post. I thought you meant these were themes that you had created, in which case it is relevant. On re-reading I see I was wrong there.
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Ah, no problem.
As it happens, I have created Rockbox themes, but I've been approaching this issue from a user's perspective. I agree that theme developers were given ample warning about the changes.
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