Re: splash screen session and theme

["Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm usm edu ec>]

Bill Haneman wrote:

> > > How about making the splash screen image part of the icon theme?  That 
> > > way you can use the icon theme lookup functions to find the file.  This 
> > > way the standard splash screen could be part of the "gnome" theme in 
> > > gnome-icon-theme, and it would be inherited by all the other gnome icon 
> > > themes automatically.  Also, icon themes could choose a splash image 
> > > that matched the program icons it displays along the bottom edge while 
> > > the session loads.
> > >      
> > If you go down that path, why not make the default desktop background
> > part of the icon theme?
Well, it should.  (DON'T FLAME PLEASE)  Windows' theme manager has a 
background for themes <- evidently, only when the theme includes a 
background.  I'd like to distribute a "DragonFear theme" (my personal 
look/feel/works) that included a background image, and be applied when 
metatheme is used.
Including the splash screen theme into the metathemes would be a good 
idea, in my opinion.  Perhaps having a separate splash theme capplet to 
revert to the default theme is a solution?  We have to remember users 
may like the idea of portions of the theme being applied.

> > If you went down this path, you'd probably have to rename icon theme to
> > "Picture theme" or "Image theme" in all user visible areas (there is a
> > _long_ bug about the difference between these 2 and I can't remember
> > what the difference is).
If it only changed the icons, no renaming would be needed.

> >    
>
> Perhaps it would be reasonable to put splash-screen and background-image
> in a single Theme page?  I agree that those two seem more closely
> related.
I'd have to argue against the idea, because the startup splash screen is 
a process that runs on startup, and the background you get to see the 
rest of the time.  People are accustomed to have a "background" or 
"desktop" setting applet, and I for one don't see the relation between 
these two concepts and a splash screen.

I figure that as there are icon themes and window manager themes and 
splash screen themes, they should be considered separate components of a 
metatheme, and have their own way of being changed, after applying a 
metatheme.

Please, please correct me if I'm talking big piles of garbage.  Luck!

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