Re: theme apology

[Kevin Miller <sar hempseed com>]

I knew that the themes-2 branch was gtk+, but wasnt sure why the themes
engines werent being developed alongside the main gtk+, but I would
understand the point about the modifications to the gtk+ bits to make the
engines work.. it just seemed that gtk+ was being developed on direction,
and themes-2 was going on its own direction, and not keeping track with
significant changes in the main gtk+.
I understand now.

sar

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Geoff Harrison (mandrake) wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 11:30:56AM -0500, Kevin Miller wrote:
> > 
> > Excuse me.
> > 
> > I am new to cvs and the entire structuring.. the question had been asked
> > before, and no hostility was shown, but the question wasn't answered.
> > All I meant by it was why wasnt the themes-2 branch instead of being
> > separate, why arent the themes being developed with the main gtk+, not
> > moving themes to be the main gtk+ branch... sorry if i was misunderstood.
> > It would just make sense to develop themes as its own branch that was
> > developed alongside gtk+ so it would have a better chance of conforming to
> > what gtk+ main does.  Instead, in the long run, there is a big chance that
> > gtk+ and themes-2 will be largely different, and someone will have to get
> > both to use themes and gtk, but wont be able to use themes on all gtk+
> > apps..
> > 
> > Your arguement is stable, and good resoning, I think it would be wrong to
> > just dump something into gtk+ branch also, but why not have themes-2 as
> > its own branch, instead of being a gtk+ branch, and developing it with
> > gtk+ main, instead of its own.  All I wanted was a good answer, not a
> > putdown.
> 
> Actually, with cvs's branch merging it's easy to keep the two relatively
> in sync.  in case you didn't quite grasp the ramifications of the themes-2
> modifications, there are actual gtk+ bits that are modified by the themes-2
> branch in order to make the engines actually do anything.
> it's not a question of having themes-2 and gtk+ installed, themes-2 IS gtk+.
> 
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