On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 21:52 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote: > The top 5 rated GTK+ themes on art.gnome.org actually use engines that > should already be available in most distributions, since they are > included in gtk-engines, or use the pixmap engine which is now available > in GTK+.
ClearLooks is still pretty new - I don't think it's available in Fedora Core <4, right? Lots of users haven't upgraded yet. Anyway, I'm sure your right and most engines are now in gtk-engines, you guys do a great job of maintaining that and keeping it responsive. Still, especially once Cairo/GTK+ 2.8 is out and drawing isn't only for people who enjoy pain anymore I'd expect to see lots more theme engines > Metacity and Icon themes can be installed via drag and drop without any > problems. Yes. That's good. Actually last time I tried that the icons went to the wrong place but I guess these days that's fixed :) > Packaging engines has been one of the sticking points for distributing > GTK+ themes. A more powerful/faster pixmap engine might take away much of the need for custom engines, but some themes will always be software and not default settings. > However, a simple check for the existence of a library > could notify the user if a theme being installed will not work because a > theme engine is not present. That's incredibly lame, it'd be better not to give one-click installs at all if it'll randomly fail on the hottest new themes. > While not ideal, we certainly don't want to start trying to distribute > binaries. Why not? ;) thanks -mike _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
