Re: themes and gnome (standardized directory idea)

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

I just opened a bug 86645 in bugzilla for this idea. I put it in general
and Cc'd the maintainers, just so the idea doesn't get lost in
obscurity.

dave

On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 15:11, Ryan Muldoon wrote:
> I'm definitely a fan of this idea.  Themes should just all be centrally
> located whenever possible, and it does make themeballs a lot more
> feasible.
> 
> (another slightly off-topic idea would be to make a "themes and
> backgrounds" red carpet channel....that would be convenient.)
> 
> On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 23:49, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> > Tigert had mentioned the idea of theme authors being able to distribute
> > themeballs on nautilus-list awhile ago. These would be tar.gz packages
> > that includes themes for a bunch of different stuff that compliment each
> > other well. These aren't quite metathemes in that the user is still free
> > to pick and choose for the individual component. So here's a proposal. 
> > 
> > themes should be distributed as such 
> > 
> > themename/gtk
> >          /gtk2
> >          /sawfish
> >          /metacity
> > 	 /gnome-cd
> > 	 /icons (assuming nautilus switches to using the icons standard)
> > 
> > Perhaps we could extend this idea to even include kde themes (maybe make
> > this a standard way of distributing themes). Obviously theme authors
> > could limit themes to only certain components(gtk, gtk2, etc.) but since
> > users are still able to mix and match this shouldnt' be an issue at all.
> > 
> > Themes should be stored globally in /usr/share/themes (distro depedent i
> > guess, but I'm basing this on redhat), or per user in the ~/.themes
> > directory.
> > 
> > just brain storming here.
> > 
> > dave
> > 
> > 
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