Re: why so few themes are shipped with gnome-1.4?

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru> writes:

>  Hi, 
> 
>  I wonder why almost no gtk themes are shipped with gnome-1.4? The package
> gtk-engines provides only about 5 engines (libraries that are used by themes),
> and a one sample theme for each of them. 
>  I think the themes is the one of the biggest advantages of gtk, why be shy
> and only provide only few themes, 3 of which look boring like win95? I just
> don't understand this, guys. By sparing one extra MB of packaged themes the
> user will have two dozen themes to choose from.. I also suggest to add a
> couple of unusable, but stunning themes just for completness and for pride of
> gnome users.
> 
>  What do you think?
> 

I think it would be cool if for GNOME 1.4.1 we included some of the
nicer themes out htere (Crux, ThinIce, etc) in the fifth toe release.

 - Maciej