Re: PROPOSAL: GNOME Volume Manager for GNOME 2.8

[Jochem Huhmann <joh gmx net>]

Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk> writes:

> It's not trying to be an archive format. It pads stuff out, it doesn't
> compress. It's trying to be a very fast way to load icon/theme sets that
> also saves a lot of memory. Its akin to compiling stuff - you don't
> recompile gnome each boot (some gentoo users excepted) so why do you
> load all your themes in pieces at high memory and disk cost ?

One reason would be that themes are a part of Gnome where lots of
users and other non-programmers like to play with. Having themes as a
collection of plain old files certainly helps a lot here.

The Right Thing would be to handle themes with GnomeVFS. To the user
the themes could be presented as directories and files, easy to tinker
with. Behind the scenes the themes could be stored/queried in a more
efficient way then.


        Jochem

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