Re: A question about the relation between different kind of themes on the Gnome Horizon!

["Eugene O'Connor" <eugene oconnor sun com>]

I made some suggestions to simplify themes in
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111346. They might help
clarify the UI at least.

Eugene
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On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 15:58, Richard Torkar wrote:
> ** SNIP **
> >I am quite wondering about the inter-relation of different kind of 
> >themes.
> >
> >In my knowledge, there is GTK2 themes, icon themes, metacity themes,
> >metathemes. SVG themes.
> >I also know that, gtk2 themes, icon themes, and metacity themes are
> >quite standalone.
> >i.e. You untar it, and configure with gconf-editor. that's it. Right?
> >
> >How about SVG theme?
> >Is it also a kind of gtk2 theme engine?
> >
> >And how about metathemes?
> >I think I would like to know a little bit more, so that I can have a
> >clear picture..
> 
> Hehehe, clear picture?
> 
> To be honest, I find this whole matter a mess.
> I think Gnome is clean and nice now, but the theming is still a mess...
> 
> There are X ways to change the appearance with themes. Then you have
> several different engines which are used for theming. Some themes should
> be un-tarred other should use the theme-GUI.
> 
> I just wish that we'd clean it up so that there would be _one_ true way
> to change the appearance with themes.
> 
> /Richard
> 
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