On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Cory K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What everyone doesn't think about is that this is forking app X that you > want to put this feature in. Further adding to technical maintenance. > > Best to change the wallpapers in the current package and/or provide > another add-on package that can be grabbed through the repos. >
There's no reason this would have to be an Ubuntu specific feature. I would suggest contributing the idea to upstream and make it easy to dictate how it downloads additional themes and wallpapers. Therefore it would not be a fork, it would be an Ubuntu community contribution. Suse users would benefit because suse could reconfigure it to download themes from their selected list. Likewise if a cross-desktop initiative worked with the system (like gnome look) then multiple locations could be incorporated. By the way, there is a program like this already, it's just not integrated with the appearance applet. I downloaded it from synaptic and used it to install themes directly from some central place (art.gnome). It's not very easy to use though. It's called gnome-art 0.2. With some polish and a little integration with the appearance applet it could be a nice solution. -- Matthew Nuzum newz2000 on freenode -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
