On 04/24/2014 01:18 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:11:00 +0200 Pierre Couderc <pie...@couderc.eu> said:
>
>> Le 23/04/2014 16:51, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) a écrit :
>>> On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:15:42 +0200 Pierre Couderc <pie...@couderc.eu> said:
>>>
>>>> On 04/23/2014 01:36 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:29:05 +0200 Pierre Couderc <pie...@couderc.eu>
>>>>> said:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you consider that when the user makes a mistake, it is a bug, then it
>>>>>> is bug.
>>>>>> Else it is that the user - myself - is a bit silly (I am generous with
>>>>>> myself with the "a bit"...).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In fact, I did open the "Theme selector" dialog,  clicked on Personal,
>>>>>> navigate to my ~/Download directory, find my .edj file
>>>>>> click on  it, I see the new them displayed, than I click on Apply,
>>>>>> then... I turn back to previous theme !
>>>>> how did you navigate to there? you shouldnt be able to.. oh wait.. you
>>>>> might have used keyboard shortcuts like typing in a path? argh. that
>>>>> wasnt meant to be possible. the theme selector displays one of 2
>>>>> directories only (personal and system) and anything else you import and
>>>>> is copied there (the intent is that if you delete the original you select
>>>>> it wont break e).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Mmm, no , I did not enter a path "by hand"
>>>> I did exactly :
>>>> - clicked on Personal (I have checkd later that I was in
>>>> - /home/xxxx/.elementary/themes
>>> oh the go up a dir button.... i forgot about that. it shouldt allow you
>>> above the base dir there you start in. that's an oops.
>>>
>>>
>> Well, the other solution is to keep the up directory and remove the
>> "import" button, which use was not clear for the 'silly" user...
> didn't you see the bit where import == copy in so if the user goes and
> deletes/moves/renames the original things don't break? theme files are
> continually paged from all the time - data is loaded continually from that 
> file
> based on indexes loaded and cached. you are not meant to go outside the little
> sandbox of themes safely copied in. (we can't do anything about a user 
> manually
> finding that path and messing around but the intent was to not make it easy to
> shoot yourself in the foot)
>
>
Oh yes, sure, I understand - now,  and as a developer myself - the need 
of an internal copy of the theme.
I am only trying to help by giving you the feeling of a neophyte in 
enlightenment...
Maybe, "apply" should make import if not soon done.

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