Re: Proposal: Theme manager UI (#326070)

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 21:50 +0000, Alberto Carlos Ruiz wrote:
> Another discussion that I want to start is about the themes distribution.
> Right now art.gnome.org is working really good, gnome-look.org too, there
> are a lot of new themes and updates every day.
> But, for common users, is hard to realize how to install them (that's why I
> added that drag and drop thing in my mockup). I was thinking about change
> the extensions of tar.gz files from names (.mth .ith .gth for metacity,
> icons and gtk themes for example) in order to create a new MIME type so when
> you right click on package files, nautilus open the appropiate MIME handler,
> uncompress the theme package on .icons/ or .themes/ and start up the theme
> manager.
> 
that is a good idea IMO. Also, we could link the theme manager capplet
to art.gnome.org/gnome-look.org, and allow users to install them
directly.
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>