[Proposal] Meta-themes

[Jean-Philippe Guillemin]

I think that it's a very good idea, I would add the following 2 
constraints :

- it should always be possible to install separate pieces of artwork for 
xfwm, gtk, icon set, ...
- the meta theme should handle the desktop wallpaper.

Cheers

JP

Stephan Arts wrote:
> As you all might now, handling themes for Gtk+, xfwm4 or even
> icon-themes is not really trivial for new users. And installing them
> from a GUI is not really possible with Xfce at this moment.
>
> Another issue, when an artist designs a general look-n-feel for the
> desktop, he is required to package each component separately. When
> browsing around the *-look.org websites, you see that several themes
> are first created for one windowmanager, and later ported to another.
> Like metacity, xfwm, and (sometimes) kwin. The same is true for Qt and
> Gtk+ themes.
>
> To allow artists to create 'complete' themes, and to simplify the
> installation interface for those themes, I would like to propose
> meta-themes. Theme packages which contain all the themes and a file
> with information about where to install them, the license of each
> component, it's author and the release-date.
>
> This might be something worth to consider when implementing some sort
> of theme-install mechanism for 4.6.
>
> However, for something like this to be useful, it might be a good idea
> to get it accepted by KDE and Gnome developers too. So it might be an
> idea to pass it through to freedesktop.org.
>
> But as a first step, I would like to know what you think of the idea.
> I have made a first draft[1], as a first example of how it could be
> done and I would like you to take a look.
>
>
> -- Stephan
>
>
> [1] http://mocha.foo-projects.org/~stephan/meta-themes-spec.html
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