On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 15:23 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 14:11 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> > IIRC, the only major objection was that during the transition, newer > > versions of gnome-themes wouldn't contain the HC icons for older > > versions of an application (i.e. before the application had begun > > installing them itself), so we'd have to figure out how to handle those > > kinds of dependencies. > > IMO it's no different than when that application uses new API in a newer > version of a library. For instance, applications requiring GTK+ 2.10 > aren't going to run on GTK+ 2.8. If people are going to upgrade the > core theme for the desktop, they should upgrade the rest of the desktop > as well, generally. Otherwise, yeah, there could be breakage. Yeah, I think it's more of a management-expectation problem, really-- applications shouldn't depend on themes, so users have come to expect themes to be independent entities, upgradable at any time with no noticeable ill-effects. Which, indeed, they would be again, after the transition was complete. So the question is, how would people take to having to upgrade a bunch of applications every time they updated gnome-themes? Would probably be acceptable if we could complete the transition within one dev cycle, I guess-- it would certainly be cool to get it done during 2.19 (although I've no idea how that would impact/align with KDE). There's also the question of what happens if two applications want to install HC icons with the same name (which may or may not look the same). I guess we already have that problem with the hicolor theme, though, and it probably just needs a 'best practice' guideline, if there isn't one already. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list
