Re: But in theme applet that is likely to really confuse users

[Mark Finlay <sisob eircom net>]

> Fix the Icon Theme spec and the various pieces of code in gnome
> for icon themes to accept ~/.themes/<name>/icons/ and
> $prefix/share/themes/<name>/icons/ as valid locations for the themes.

If you decided to support both that an ~/.icons then you would have a
situation where some icon theme tarballs use one format and some use the
other and if you install one into the wrong location it won't work.

The only option would be to use ~/.themes instead of ~/.icons

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