Re: SVG themes in GNOME2.4

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 01:23, Jonathan Blandford wrote:

> I mildly object.  What happens when someone running one of these themes
> upgrades from GNOME-2.2 to GNOME-2.4?  Their theme will disappear and
> randomly be replaced with the default.  If nothing else, we need to have
> this in the Release notes somewhere.  But it would be kinder to warn
> them, give a hint where to find it again, and migrate them to another
> theme.  We should think this through.

Agreed, and I think there's probably a more general usability issue here
that isn't currently addressed... if the theme or any of its sub-bits
that I've chosen can't be found for some reason (e.g. I've uninstalled
it without changing my prefs, or I've logged into a different machine on
the network that never had it installed in the first place), I ought to
be told about it.  And I ought to at least be given the option of not
having to change my prefs to some other theme instead, so that my
preferred theme still Just Works when I log back into my usual machine
again.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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