Re: Clarius

[Evandro Fernandes Giovanini <efgiovanini gmail com>]

Em Ter, 2006-08-29 �14:40 -0500, Shaun McCance escreveu:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 18:42 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 10:01 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > > 
> > > Shaun McCance wrote:
> > > > I'm going to coin a new term: key churn.  This is when people
> > > > make frivolous and unnecessary changes to GConf keys or their
> > > > default values.  It sucks for large deployments.  Gnome is
> > > > bigger than your personal desktop.
> > > 
> > > I don't really care too much about the name change, but what I do
> > care about is
> > > the migration story between themes as new engines/icons/whatever are
> > dropped in
> > > and out. This stuff isn't as smooth as it should be - hopefully
> > Calum can
> > > provide details of what currently happens [we documented this for an
> > ARC case
> > > recently].
> > 
> > It seems to go something like this (at least on the 2.15 machine I was
> > using to experiment with it):
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > 2. If a theme's index.theme file remains after an upgrade, but one or
> > more of its three components are no longer installed, on opening the
> > theme capplet your theme is shown as selected, as if nothing was
> > wrong.
> > When you drill down into the details dialog, though, the behaviour is
> > the same as case 1... the 'phantom' theme components are shown as
> > selected, until you select an alternative instead, at which point they
> > disappear. 
> 
> This is the relevant point.  The Clearlooks gtkrc file will no longer
> be available (assuming you've done a clean install, or updated using
> a package manager that removes old files).
> 
> I'm less concerned about the theme manager's behavior than I am about
> how your desktop will appear.  If there's no gtkrc file, GTK+ has no
> choice but to fall back to its boxy default.
> 

Clearlooks is still available, it's installed by the gtk-engines
package.

Cheers,
Evandro