On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Rodney Dawes<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Torsten, > > I think the problem is that you're simply conflating the locations to > mean that the icons and such *must* be part of some meta theme, when in > fact, they do not have to be. Metacity, GTK+, and other themes currently > stored in the "themes" path, can be completely independent, and a > meta-theme could provide only a Metacity theme, and reference other GTK, > QT, icon, or sound themes just as they do now. The only difference would > be that the implementations would be looking in some additional place, > than where they do now, to resolve those theme lookups. > > The number of files in those themes, and their location on disk isn't an > issue that would require their location to be somewhere specifically > away from where other theme content is kept. The bigger problem is that > currently, icon themes and cursor themes, are stored in the exact same > place on disk. The changes here would fix that, and make it simpler for > artists to package entire collections of themes as a desktop theme, > which they can't do now, because all of the files are in independent > locations on disk. > > With the proposed change, the GNOME icon theme for example would simply > switch from: > > /usr/share/icons/gnome/ > > to: > > /usr/share/themes/gnome/icons/ > > It's quite a simple change, with lots of benefits. I've even advocated > making the change several years ago, but alas. > > -- Rodney
Seems like a good solution. So you would have: /usr/share/themes/gnome/icons /usr/share/themes/gnome/cursor /usr/share/themes/gnome/sound /usr/share/themes/gnome/metacity /usr/share/themes/gnome/gtk-2/ right? - Stephan _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
