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[Vish <drkvi-a@xxxxxxxxx>]

> About the idea of merging the 3 tabs of theme manager, I think it will
> be too big :-/ . But a mock-up can help ;)

I'v done a mockup for the simple mode.
Changes done here are:
- Keep the themes as the first tab , since most of the themes have all the work done and are ready for use.
- "Customize" switches the user to the next tab > Behavior.
- No need icons for the tabs , right now , the appearance tab does not have an icon  , but the behavior and the add-on tabs have icons and the icons are not really very descriptive of the function. 
- "Save as..." defaults to saving both the launchers and the behavior
- No need to overwhelm user with ratings and other extra info.
- No need to show the author name in the theme and again in the theme preview. We could show it in the preview alone. [and the previews can be improved more]
- If possible cache the preview images , if not , display a throbber while getting a preview. Since as of now , if the user selects a theme for a few secs nothing happens , if the user does not know that the preview is being downloaded , it seems as if the window is unresponsive. 
- The theme download size can also be shown along with preview.
- Drag-n-drop to install themes works as before , and can be mentioned in the tooltips when user hovers over the "theme list"

The advanced mode has the "themes" as a category which has all the
options.

> PS : oh, it's you 'mac_v' :)
Oh yeah , i updated my lp name :)

** Attachment added: "Simple.png"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37202606/Simple.png

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Bug description:
Since , i noticed that the cairo dock is cleaning up the configurations window , I thought I'd mention a couple of other simple issues:

- The "Quit" button , in the configurations window , should actually be named "Close" , since all it does is close the window. Generally , in all other applications "Quit" is used to quit the whole application including all running instances.
- "OK" and "Quit" buttons seem to perform the same function. Why have two buttons? "Close" could just replace both. 

- When user right-clicks on the dock , the Cairo-dock submenu , has too many options. 
Could the "Developer site" and the "Community site" options be moved to the "About" window? It would be easier to better explain the options and provide these links in the "About" window.

- Using the Up and down arrow icons for the Unmaximize and the minimize is a bit misleading... Ideally, the dock could use its own icons which are consistent with default metacity buttons , or not show any icons like how metacity does it. 
- Keep the unmaximize and minimize options together , similar to the options shown in the window , Would give some consistentcy to the user when using both the dock and the metacity window. [currently they are separated by the "show" option ]

PS: nice work on the new simple mode :)