Why isn’t Notified themeable

When Daniel and I started working on Notified, it supported themes, in fact, the first beta on M* had a pretty much complete theme support. What happened to that?

At an early stage of development, we realized that themes represented a big hit on the performance of the app, an app which was supposed to be quick and light.

Having theme support means having a lot more images in place, a lot more checks to see where to position everything, what colors to use, what font size, and many more things.

We decided to sacrifice customization in favor of performance, and I think it was the right choice.

We were able to focus on one simple but great design, standard enough to fit with most configurations, and simple enough to be really fast and light.

We’re really proud of how this turned out, and it’s not changing anytime soon, so don’t hold your breath for themes support on Notified.

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