Re: themes

[Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale hmc edu>]

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 06:17, Mark D'voo wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 October 2002 03:06 pm, mike wrote:
> > On a connected note I have come across serious problems with the stock
> > metal theme.
> >
> > On many occasions if I have the theme selected the panel/nautilus will
> > crash and not restart.
> >
> > Dont know if it is a xft2 related problem or not.
> >
> > Has anyone else come across this - it does only happen with metal
> >
> > On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 14:55, Calum Benson wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 09:17, Mark D'voo wrote:
> > > > How come a lot of themes don't work ?  Any theme i install that shows
> > > > up in metacity-setup doesn't work.  If i manually change the theme with
> > > > gconf, about half of them work.
> > >
> > > The metacity theme format was changed slightly mid-development, so you
> > > might just be using old themes.  You can edit them yourself quite easily
> > > to make those ones work, but I forget what the magic line is you need to
> > > add to the XML file-- somebody else here can probably tell you.
> 
> Anyone know this magic line?  When while the metacity themes on art.gnome.org 
> be updated ?
> 
> 

I just fixed a theme recently so it works. (There really should be some
feedback from metacity that it sees the gconf theme key change but that
it can't load the theme. Sending a message to stderr is sub-optimal.)

Themes used to be in /usr/share/metacity/themes/[themename]/
Now they are in /usr/share/themes/[themename]/metacity-1/

So:

for each theme in /usr/share/metacity/themes/
mkdir /usr/share/themes/[themename]
mkdir /usr/share/themes/[themename]/metacity-1
cp /usr/share/metacity/themes/[themename]/*
/usr/share/themes/[themename]/metacity-1

That should work.

--Ben