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[Grant McWilliams]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu>wrote:

> Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
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> > anyway please if you do not like to change the layout please at least
> > supply a first login layout chooser
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>        -brian
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Wow, I don't check in for a couple of days and thing go haywire!

So I just read read this whole thread and I'm going to add my 2 cents (which
is worth nothing really). Maybe our asking/requesting a change is too much.
I'm going to throw an idea out there just to keep it on everyone's mind for
the future. We currently have themes for the user interface and styles for
the window manager. Is there a way we could start moving toward keeping more
stuff in a "theme"? What I'm wondering is that the various settings for
things like panel placement/size, window manager style, user interface theme
etc... could be grouped to create a "desktop theme". I'm not saying that we
need to divert and head in this direction but my vision is that there could
be a Gnome theme, KDE theme, CDE theme etc.. Of course hopefully with more
variety that what I've mentioned. Fedora would maintain their theme but if a
user liked Xubuntu's theme they'd just download it. I don't see that it
would be that big a deal because all it would really be doing is grouping
the settings that we already have. If it was easy enough to create and
bundle themes (snapshot?) users could make them and offer them for download.
I don't believe there'd be any real heavy lifting changes to make, just an
interface to manage it. Maybe even it would just archive the .config/xfce4
directory or something. I'm sure there's a more elegant way... Also I'm
really ignorant about xconf since all I know is mcs_settings so maybe the
theme gui would go hand in hand with xconf.

Just an idea that came to me after reading all of this.

Cheers!
Grant McWilliams

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
Windows."
Now they have two problems.
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