Re: One Theme Module to Rule Them All: gnome-icon-theme, gnome-themes

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 01:46, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> So, we now have a gnome-themes module and a gnome-icon-theme module. Even
> though the gnome-themes module is currently referred to as 'Accessibility
> Themes', could these be combined?

I certainly like the idea of having all the community default themes in
the same place... although perhaps, as Alex says, the default theme is a
special case if it's a requirement rather than an option.

Such a module would certainly need the love of a build wizard to come up
with some good build scripts, though... right now gnome-themes is
optimized[1] to make it easy to add the appropriate versions of the same
icon to all the themes at once without having to hand-edit a gazillion
different config files, and as such it doesn't support building
different themes in different stages of development very well.

Cheeri,
Calum.

[1] Actually I'm sure it's far from optimal, but my knowledge of
autotools is tiny :)

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