GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 312249
Make Shaun's life easier
Last modified: 2005-08-01 19:16:49 UTC
As per consensus on d-d-l, we're switching the theme to Clearlooks. According to Shaun's claim on d-d-l, Havoc already approved this (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-July/msg00512.html), so I'll just attach the patch I'm committing. Kick me if I'm wrong to do so.
Created attachment 50072 [details] [review] Change default theme to clearlooks
What effect can we expect if the clearlooks theme isn't found? Metacity doesn't depend on gnome-themes so it's possible that the default references a theme which does not exist on the system... Either make metacity depend on gnome-themes (silly), add the clearlooks theme to metacity (dunno) or do something along the lines Luca proposed on d-d-l, make gnome-themes change the default theme setting at install time (perhaps a problem for distributions?)
I don't see how that's a new problem; Simple (the previous default) was under gnome-themes/metacity-themes/Simple. So it's something distributors are already used to dealing with--and already used to patching around (the defaults were so ugly that nearly everyone set it to something different, if not providing a whole new theme altogether (industrial, bluecurve, galaxy...)).
There is extensive fallback code if the theme fails to load, as of I think 2 stable releases back.
Metacity will run and not crash if the default theme is missing, other than that I don't think it's worth worrying about.