Hi Stephan, Regarding your Metathemes proposal, it all sounds good and similar to what we basically have in GNOME already. However, in GNOME we use a .desktop style file to describe what the package contains. Currently this can be any combination of icon, gtk+, metacity themes, and a gtk+ colour scheme string. It can also indicate font names and sizes, and a wallpaper (although in the theme manager, these are only implemented as "suggestions"). The data for the themes are then kept in specified directories within the archive. For the most part, this also means that simply extracting the archive to ~/.themes should be sufficient to install it.
GNOME has recently introduced a custom mime type to allow easier installation of theme packages. However, it has not yet achieved wide spread adoption and I think there would be little opposition to replacing it with a freedesktop.org specification. I would be happy to help out with the creation and adoption of a freedesktop.org specification for these types of archives. Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list
