GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 86645
Standardized gnome themes and directory
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I sent this email to desktop-devel today, but just to make sure this idea doesn't escape into obscurity I'll post it in bugzilla too. Not really sure which component this should go into, so putting it in general. Louie if there is somewhere better to put it please feel free to move as needed. Also I'm going to cc the maintainers of the relevant modules. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) /spinners (so all apps can share the available spinners/throbbers) 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 include certain components(gtk, metacity, etc.) since users can still mix and match themes. 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. (this is basically how gtk themes are currently distributed). just brain storming here.
If this is done then adding a directory under /usr/local/ (e.g. /usr/local/share/themes) to the above suggestions would also be a good idea I think.
marking fixed i guess, for all intensive purposes we have this now.