Re: PROPOSAL: GNOME Volume Manager for GNOME 2.8

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 19:54, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 14:52 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > a.	That themes should simply be shipped packed
> 
> It's cool that you're working on this. You're probably right about
> themes being shipped packed for maximum efficiency but the spec is
> active today and can't really be changed. 
> 
> Well it could be, but we have to get serious about backwards compat at
> *some* point, there are icon themes deployed in the wild today.

It would be an easy transition from the old themes, just have something
run on distro's upgrade scripts. 

We should be changing the icon theme spec, because it doesn't mesh well
with the other theme specs. It is the odd one out installing the theme
files in ~/.icons, instead of ~/.themes/themename/[THEMETYPE]. 

Both the packing of themes and the theme installation directory could be
fixed at the same time.

John