Re: themes

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 3 Oct 2002, Ben FrantzDale wrote:

> > 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.)
> 

The proper way would be to establish a dtd and only load dtd conforming
themes. You naturaly wouldn't load a theme that advertized a different
(version of) the dtd.

> 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
> 

	Sander

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