gnome-themes now obsolete (was Re: A11y themes in GNOME3)

[Calum Benson <calum benson oracle com>]

Further to Matthias' email below, please note that as of now, I am not expecting any more development on gnome-themes master.   Although I made a nominal 3.0.0 release yesterday for posterity, it's unlikely to be of much use to anyone, and I do not intend to create a gnome-3-0 branch.

Development on the accessibility themes will continue in gnome-themes-standard. If anybody wants to port any of the other themes to GNOME 3, they should probably do so in a new module. (But if you'd rather take over maintainership of gnome-themes to do anything like that, do let me know.)

Over the next couple of weeks, I'll probably go through bugzilla and fix as many of the outstanding bugs as I can on the gnome-2-32 branch, just to tidy up a bit before we turn off the lights after 9 years...

Cheeri,
Calum.

On 4 Mar 2011, at 17:52, Calum Benson wrote:

> FYI.
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>
>> Date: 2 March 2011 15:40:27 GMT
>> To: desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org>, accessibility mailing list <gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org>, release-team gnome org
>> Subject: A11y themes in GNOME3
>> 
>> Hey,
>> 
>> I've spent some time yesterday working on the HighContrast.
>> LowContrast and Inverse themes. I thought I should post a quick note
>> about a11y themes in GNOME 3, so people know what things currently
>> work, what things don't, and where things live.
>> 
>> The Contrast control in the universal access panel sets both the gtk
>> theme and the icon theme to the same value, the options being
>> HighContrast, LowContrast and HighContrastInverse. The high contrast
>> switch in the universal access menu of the shell does the same (just
>> for HighContrast, obviously), as does the toggle-contrast keybinding
>> that is implemented in g-s-d. The meta-theme information in the
>> /usr/share/themes/<theme>/index.theme files _is ignored_. When
>> metacity/mutter move to gsettings, we might consider adding the
>> metacity theme to the set of components that are set for Contrast. And
>> maybe it makes sense to tie the cursor and icon size to the text size
>> control, not sure. But for now, these theme components are not
>> affected at all, so if you want to need a different cursor theme or
>> size, you have to go directly to gsettings.
>> 
>> The a11y themes for gtk2 used to live in gnome-themes. They did not
>> really have matching icon themes and instead relied on setting stock
>> icons in rc files. Carlos has added a11y themes for gtk3 to
>> gnome-theme-standards last week. Yesterday, I have added gtk2 rc files
>> there too, and also created matching icon themes reusing icons found
>> in gnome-themes, mostly. This means that the three a11y themes that
>> are available from the universal access panel should work reasonably
>> for both gtk2 and gtk3. The icon themes are far from complete; help in
>> improving their coverage would be greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> For distributors, this means that it should be safe to consider
>> gnome-themes obsolete for GNOME 3. Keep in mind that you will have to
>> make gnome-themes-standard depend on gtk2-engines, in order for the
>> gtk2 themes to work.
>> 
>> 
>> Matthias
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