tcmediatech wrote:I think Mozilla might be trying actively to discourage the continued development of third-party themes ...
I don`t think so
Personas is (only) for "light weight" themes .. now and in the future. Some Personas developer have a different option about it, but not the leading Firefox developer. And the same with Jetpack as "light weight" extensions.
It is simply much easier to built Personas themes ... therefore much more Personas theme developer .. and there is nothing wrong about it.
Mozilla obviously wants to build a strong and consistent visual identity for Firefox,
Naturally and it is a good idea
Themes like mine have got to be the worst in their eyes.
Firefox identity is customizing and every leading Firefox developer know it and they have for sure not a problem with it
It's my guess that Mozilla might see that as a failure on their part to keep users within their desired visual identity.
Mozilla hire after six years the first time a visual designer. That is one of main reasons for a missing visual identity ... for example had build only ONE volunteer developer nearly all Mac UI improvements and not a Mozilla employee. When they don`t really care about UI stuff is the result naturally not satisfying .. that`s all.
Perhaps it's Mozilla's goal to make enough improvements (or what they see as improvements) to the Firefox default theme so that the vast majority of users won't even want to replace it.
They should immediately fire every employee, who has not this intention
In the meantime, third-party theme developers will grow more and more frustrated with all the changes they have to keep up with, and they'll eventually stop making their own themes.
Why? One theme to rule them all, one theme to find them,
One theme to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
Is not possible