Re: Recolorable themes

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Bouncing my original e-mail (below) to desktop-devel, as I didn't have 
any replies on gnome-themes-list.

Basically, I think I am now going to have to take the saving custom 
colour schemes feature out of the theme manager capplet, since there has 
been no decision on the best place to save this information (one name 
field, and six key/value pairs). I can see three options at the moment:

1) save the information in gconf somewhere
2) Save in a custom xml format file in ~/.gnome2/color_schemes.xml 
(similar to the way the gnome background manager saves the current 
background settings)
3) Save a ini format file in ~/.gnome2/color_schemes.ini (in a similar 
was to index.theme)

I think it would also be nice to be able to read a set of alternative 
schemes from the index.theme file, which has the added bonus of allowing 
the scheme names to be translated.

If we can reach a consensus on this, then I'd be happy to finish the 
implementation before next weekend.

I'd also like (if possible) someone to do a UI review on the new Colors 
tab before next weekend. There is a bug open 
<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382517> for HIG fixes, but it 
hasn't had any comments for some time.

-Thomas

Thomas Wood wrote:
> On 9 Dec 2006, at 05:13, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > > > > Would it be possible for themes to be able to suggest alternate 
> > > > > named
> > > > > schemes?
> > > > Thats probably something to be solved between the yet-to-be written
> > > > color capplet and the meta-theme file.
> > > I'm still trying to think about how to solve this one. Would adding an
> > > xml file to the gtk+-2.0 directory have any adverse ramifications?
> > Not as far as GTK+ is concerned. How will these xml files relate to the
> > existing metatheme desktop files ? Would it be easier to just add the
> > colors to these files instead ?
>
> This had been my first thought as well. However, I wanted to associate 
> colour schemes to a particular GTK+ theme, rather than to the 
> metatheme.
>
> For GNOME 2.18 however, the only feature that will be available to the 
> user is saving their local custom colour schemes. At the moment, there 
> are several ways this could be implemented. We can save the schemes to 
> keys in gconf or we can save the schemes to a file. For saving to a 
> file, it could be an xml or .desktop format file in 
> $HOME/.gnome2/colour_schemes. I think there are advantages and 
> disadvantages to both methods, so I would like to know if anyone has 
> any strong opinions either way.
>
> -Thomas
>
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