Re: New 2.4 modules - fontilus and themus

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 14:43, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> Murray Cumming Comneon com writes:
> 
> > > From: Jonathan Blandford [mailto:jrb redhat com] 
> > > >   fontilus - Font management and information tools.
> > > >   themus - Theme management and information tools.
> > > 
> > > It makes a lot of sense for these two modules to be folded 
> > > back into the
> > > control-center,
> > 
> > Do you mean there would be Fonts and Themes menu items next to the other
> > control center menu items that would just
> > open nautilus windows for fonts:// and themes:// ?
> 
> Nope.  I'm just talking about moving the code there as there's a bunch
> of shared/cut-n-paste code between the three modules.
> 

Here's the themus roadmap.

1) Fix monitoring stuff, so that you don't have to keep banging refresh
in Nautilus.
2) Bump the version number to 1.0.0 and release a "stable" version that
people can use with GD2.2.
3) Move the code into control-center.
4) Do all bugfixing in control-center; themus as a separate module will
die.

> > Does this mean that your new Themes control panel would disappear. I'd like
> > to hear how themus is better than, or adds something to, the current control
> > panel.
> 
> They supplement it.  That is, the 'manage themes' button that currently
> opens nautilus in ~/.themes will instead send you to themes:///

5) Then clicking on a theme in themes:/// should open the theme manager
to edit that theme; the code's essentially there, it just needs a bit of
modification so it can be used in this way. Which I'm planning on doing
eventually.

So themus should be in the control center by GD 2.3.[1|2].

-- 
Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>

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