Re: Shipping multiple themes by default (Was: Sudden Tango changes in trunk)

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 3/29/07, Loïc Minier <lool+gnome via ecp fr> wrote:
>         Hi,
>
>  Would it be difficult to ship multiple themes by default, for example
>  "legacy" and "tango" (and perhaps "qt" and "metal" themes in the
>  future?); the default theme could be selected at build time and the
>  default default could be set to "tango" for win32 and win32 only.
>
>  Distributors could easily decide which themes they do ship and it would
>  be easy to switch the default default from "legacy" to "tango" with
>  $next_major_release for all platforms -- while still making it
>  available for legacy purposes.
>
>  (In a way, this maps relatively close to how Java's Swing "Look and
>  Feel" themes are handled.)

How is that different from what existing theme engine, icon theme and
theme packages provide today ? (...other than shifting additional
maintenance burden on the GTK+ team)

Matthias