Re: cleaning up themes

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On 30 Jul 2005, at 5:18 am, Davyd Madeley wrote:

> I'm sure I've brought this up before, but I think we should clean up 
> the
> list of themes we ship for G2.12.
>
> Looking at the default list, we appear to have:
>   Clearlooks,
>   Glider,
>   Mist, and
>   Simple
> which are all pretty good themes, and should stay in by default.
>
> Then we have
>   Crux,
>   Default (which is not),
>   Grand Canyon,
>   Ocean Dream,
>   Traditional, and
>   Smokey Blue
>
> Perhaps we should consider moving these into the -extras package. What 
> I
> think would be really cool is having a level of integration that allows
> you to install themes right off art.gnome.org from your favourite web
> browser. That way we could ship our 4 very nice themes, and everyone 
> can
> install whatever else they want with ease. Very rapidly integrated with
> web backgrounds, and one day web-shipped applets.

gtk-engines has had a number of bugs filed for both Crux and Ocean 
Dream (lighthouseblue) recently, so it's possible quite a few people 
still use these themes. There was also talk of including Industrial in 
gnome-themes at some point, since it no longer has a permanent home.


It is already possibly to install themes straight from art.gnome.org by 
dragging and dropping the links into gnome-theme-manager. What would be 
ideal would be a new mime-type for gnome themes, and a proper file 
format for themes too. Then we could do the install (and possibly 
apply) straight form clicking on a link. I made several suggestions on 
a file format and mime-type for gnome themes a while ago, but it didn't 
get much further than a few ideas on paper.

-Thomas