Re: GNOME Theme Package Proposal

[Francis James Whittle <fudje phreaker net>]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 19:03 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> I avoided .theme because it is already used by the icon theme
> specification (in index.theme) and the existing GNOME theme descriptor
> (also index.theme). So do you have any suggestions?

At risk of inciting the wrath of anti-three-letter (ATL ;�) people,
maybe .themepkg?

> Interesting idea, but this way you may end up with a lot of unnecessary
> symlinks or duplicate files. You would usually want the same themes to
> be used across different desktops. For example, even in KDE, you would
> want GTK applications to use your GTK theme so that your theme has a
> consistent look.

Theoretically it should be possible to just have a tarball of what would
go in the .themes directory, no?  I thought that was one of the
points.... Possibly icon themes mess with that though (Am I right, are
they renegade and go in ~/.icons instead?  If so, anyone know why that
is?)

> I was hoping to use the existing index.theme descriptor that GNOME
> currently uses

That would make sense to me.

Cheers,
	fudje