On 02/03/2014 09:54 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> On 2/2/14 16:22 , Chris Morley wrote:
>> For some of the new screens that favour touch screens,
>> it is desirable to use a theme that make the scroll bar
>> wider.
>>
>> I would like to add a theme to the linuxcnc package that
>> is an example of this.
>>
>> I'm not sure what the proper way to do this is.
>> I guess in a RIP, use a system link, otherwise install it??
>> themes are stored in /use/share/themes and require root
>> to add.

What about ~/.themes?

>>
>> Anybody got suggestions/comments
> 
> It's awkward to mix rip builds and system modifications of this kind.
> 
> LinuxCNC requires a number of system modifications, most notably the 
> ulimit memlock increase in /etc/security/limits.d.  If you wanted to add 
> more system modifications, that would be the least-worst model to follow.
> 
> Look at John Morris' check-system-configuration.sh script in his 
> zultron/ubc3-dev branch for how to detect missing system modifications 
> and inform the user on how to (ill-advisedly!) hand-modify their system.

I don't know anything about GTK themes, but in general, RIP builds
should not install anything outside the source tree.  The checks Seb
pointed to inform the user at build time.  Are there run-time checks
that could be made in addition/instead?

        John

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