Re: gtk-engines photographed eating children

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Thomas Wood">
>
>
>
> > > a) Why do we have two packages for themes again? Why can't these all be
> > > gnome-themes?
> > Because gtk-engines is not used exclusively by GNOME.
>
> Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me... 
> Are you
> serious? Why move things around at all, in that case? Industrial is 
> not used
> by everything that uses GTK+...
No, that's why gtk does not depend on gkt-engines, but has it's own 
default engine (and now the pixmap engine too).

> > > b) Versioning gtk-engines with GNOME, as it's no longer maintained 
> > > by the
> > > GTK+ folks.
> > See above.
>
> Regardless of the fact that you've now reduced the only version number 
> that
> matters (upstream source tarball version) of these theme engines?
The theme engine version numbers have never changed, just the version of 
the package they have been put together in.

Andrew is already explaining this, so apologies for splitting the 
thread. Please don't reply to this e-mail.

-Thomas