Re: RFC: Gnome-themes

[Michael ROGERS <M Rogers cs ucl ac uk>]

>Oh - I think this can be easily avoided - people are thinking complex 
>solutions to very simple problems.
>
>basically you need two files for a GNOME theme - one for the actual GNOME 
>stuff, and one for the WM specific stuff - so we would have:
>
>brushed-metal.tar.gz
>brushed-metal-sawmill.tar.gz
>brushed-metal-e.tar.gz
>brushed-metal-wm.tar.gz
>brushed-metal-bb.tar.gz 
>etc...
>
>That way each person can download the GNOME theme, and then OPTIONALLY 
>download the window manager specific theme. Not that complicated - The 
>potentially complicated part is to include some 'installation code' in 
>the original GNOME theme on how it should handle the different WM 
>specific files (i.e. installation paths).
>
>Comments?

Sounds like a great idea. Some of the matching GTK and E themes on themes.org 
already contain links to each other in the blurb.

Michael Rogers