Re: gnome-themes-extras in GNOME 2.4

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

Well I don't know what theme limit you will end up setting on
gnome-themes, but it seems to me that unless we go with Havoc's 20 then
integrating gnome-themes-extras into gnome-themes would be kinda hard.

I also object to pulling some of the themes out of gnome-themes-extras
as that would maim the gnome-themes-extras package. I see
gnome-themes-extras as the gnome-svg-themes package and as such it is
different from gnome-themes and it makes sense to keep it a separate
package.

Havoc also mentioned maintainership. I would like to point out that
gnome-themes-extras has been worked on by me, Jimmac,  Yanko Kaneti,
Alex Duggan and with contributions from Andrew Johnson and others over
the last few months, while gnome-themes haven't afaik seen a commit
since it was put together. Which means that if any of those themes has
seen a update/bugfix it hasn't been included.

Christian

On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 03:23, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Malcolm Tredinnick">
> 
> > > Wouldn't it make more sense to integrate these themes back into
> > > gnome-themes? Surely we don't need Yet Another Package for stuff we
> > > already have a module for?
> > 
> > Sounds like we are getting back to needing a "themes-extra" package again.
> 
> Which, one would hope, would be a for-fun module, not one included in the
> Desktop release (it makes no sense to me to ship two themes modules, unless
> one is for special interests, etc).
> 
> > In the past there has been a lot of (justified) concern about not putting
> > every theme known to mankind in the core theme module because it just
> > becomes too large.
> 
> It's only very recently that we've had a useful themes module. ;-)
> 
> > But please keep a eye on the ever-increasing size of some modules like
> > this one you step down the slippery slope.
> 
> It's easy enough to switch some themes if we decide that, say, Gorilla would
> be more useful or appealing to our users than Grand Canyon. (I would support
> the replacement of Grand Canyon with Gorilla, anyway.) gnome-themes should
> only have about 6 themes in it, max.
> 
> - Jeff
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Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>