Re: PROPOSAL: GNOME Volume Manager for GNOME 2.8

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 02:20:41PM +0200, Jochem Huhmann wrote:
> 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.

I don't think that is right, idealy for the average user we should
present a couple knobs that adjust the colours of the theme. Users that
really want to tinker with themes will just have to deal with the extra
hurdle of unpacking and then repacking the theme, which could be made
arbitrarily small with the aid of helper programs.

John