Yes, there is a way to share with a limited user base. You store the
theme as your browser home page instead of  your iGoogle page.

You still need to have your XML and images on a public server but,
instead of submitting the theme to Google, you simply add "?
skin=<theme-url>" to the end of your iGoogle URL, and make it the
browser's home page.

This is described in the "To test your theme" section of the
Developer's Guide at:
http://code.google.com/apis/themes/docs/dev_guide.html#Testing

What you would be doing, in effect, is to set each company computer up
with a permanent theme test URL as its home page.

To illustrate with one of my own themes, located at:
http://users.on.net/~dvcox/gadgets/kaputar.xml
simply make:
http://www.google.com/ig?
skin=http://users.on.net/~dvcox/gadgets/kaputar.xml
your browser home page.

Hope this makes sense, and I wish you happy theming!

Dave


On Aug 14, 8:46 pm, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've just discovered the joys of the Theme API and am interested in
> creating a theme for our employees to use.
>
> Is it possible to share a theme without it being listed as a publicly
> available theme?
>
> I don't want to waste a couple of months designing something only to
> discover it can only be published publicly.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Mike
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