Darryl Rees wrote:
Calum Benson wrote:On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 15:30, Havoc Pennington wrote:In GNOME 2.2, a "theme" is now a collection of subthemes, such as icon subtheme, GTK+ subtheme, and metacity subtheme.Weren't we going to use "theme set" and "theme" rather than "theme" and "subtheme"? No point in making up words when there are perfectly good ones already available :) Cheeri, Calum.Calum,In normal english usage a 'theme' implies a thread of continuity or similarity that ties together a number of items. I think the word theme for a desktop's appearance came originally from mswin, where they were indeed 'themes' in the normal english sense of the word - eg. music theme, medieval theme, racing car theme, etc... where icons, sounds, desktop colouring etc all worked together to make up a theme. But a wm framestyle or application skin by itself doesn't have much to do with the normal english usage of the word theme.'Subtheme' and 'theme set' are both just completely wierd nonwords :-) A theme is a theme. Other stuff can be called whatever - icon sets, window frames, backgrounds, skins, chrome, looks, render, facades ( panoply? livery?, ok getting silly ). my 2c.Darryl Rees, English Pedant
Perhaps "theme elements" if you definately need a general term for all the bits and have no fixed syllable limit :-)
Darryl.