Re: Gnome Theme Engines

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 11:30 -0500, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> As mentioned in the other thread, in an effort to clean up the
> gnome-theme dependency chain, and provide a centralized location for the
> most important theme engines too be installed by default in any GNOME
> install; and given that gtk-engines is not available, I would like to
> see a new module in place in time for GNOME 2.10, which means any
> decision needs to be made NOW if there is any hope of it getting
> accepted. Especially given that there is nothing in cvs yet, and
> gnome-themes and gnome-themes extras would also have to be patched and
> cleaned up accordingly.
> 
> I have tried to make this as simple as possible for everyone by creating
> a module which could potentially simply be dropped into CVS, and can
> make a patch for gnome-themes and gnome-themes-extras as well if I can
> get someone to go ahead with this.
> 
> http://ajgenius.us/Code/gnome-theme-engines.tar.gz
> 
> For this to happen, I need either a yea or nay from at the least Calum
> who seems to be the primary maintainer of gnome-themes where most of the
> engines are currently located, and from someone who has cvs access, can
> commit this to CVS and is willing to become the maintainer for it.

I'd be happy to commit and maintain the module in CVS. Separation of
themes from engine code is a good thing so if we can do this and also
clean up the dependency chain at the same time, I don't see why we
shouldn't go ahead with this. If we want it in 2.10 though we have got
to act fast. As soon as Calum is happy with this, we should make a
module proposal on desktop-devel-list.

-Thomas