On 6/11/07, Thomas Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
I think the first step would be to describe the existing approach in some detail, to see what (if any) changes are desirable to turn in into a freedesktop spec. _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list
