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Bug 86232 - Should include icon themer in the theme capplet
Should include icon themer in the theme capplet
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 86231
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] theme-manager
1.99
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-06-23 08:09 UTC by Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail]
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-06-23 08:09:09 UTC 
It would be nice if icon themes (currently nautilus themes, but i'm
thinking mime type theming in general based on the new spec) could be set
in the themer. That way all theming is done in the say control center
capplet. Also see bug 86231 which is a request for wm theming in the theme
capplet.
Comment 1 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-06-23 14:05:46 UTC 
ccing hp since i think he may be interested
Comment 2 Luis Villa 2002-06-24 17:06:36 UTC 
Can you just file a 'theme capplet should be metatheme' bug to track
all of these? :)
Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-06-24 17:14:31 UTC 
I don't really think it should be metatheme; what the "metatheme" idea
should be IMO is that if you switch to a metatheme, it changes your
sub-themes and your font and your background and other preferences. 
Then you could go to the background capplet and e.g. change the
background again, while keeping the rest of the settings.

i.e. I believe the metatheme implementation could just be a script that 
runs "gconftool" a few times to set up various settings to create a
coordinated overall look.
Comment 4 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-06-24 18:59:51 UTC 
I agree with hp i don't particularly like the idea of a metatheme
persay. What i envision is something akin to tigerts suggestion of
themeballs. Where theme distributors can distribute one single theme
package that contains themes for gtk, gtk2, sawfish, metacity, icons,
perhaps even qt/kde.

as tigert had suggested i'd like to see theme distributed as such

themename => gtk
          => gtk2
          => metacity
          => sawfish
          => nautilus (icon themes)

That way a user could install a themeball into  /usr/share/themes or
into their personal .themes folder and then could pick and choose
which components to use, mixing and matching. Plus theme authors could
choose to only include themes for gtk or only for metacity etc. But
all themes would be installed the same way. 

This is in contrast to my understanding of metathemes which are fixed
themes for everything. plus I do not like the idea of associating the
desktop background with theming as is currently done in metatheme.
Comment 5 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-08-30 22:35:30 UTC 
somehow my include wm theme in the theme capplet bug turned into a 
include icon theme in the theme capplet bug, so marking this a dupe 
of that one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86231 ***