Em Ter, 2006-08-29 às 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 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
