Clean up default theme and wallpaper collection

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Pasi Lallinaho
<pasi at shimmerproject.org> wrote:
> [...]
> As Nick suggested, Xfce could advise distros to include a package with
> the Shimmer (and why not other) themes in their Xfce group. I think this
> is a fair way of achieving both the Xfce and Shimmer Project goals: the
> Xfce core can stay minimalistic with it's gtk-xfce-engine/themes, but at
> least the majority of Xfce users would have a choice to easily switch to
> themes that appeal to them.

I still don't get it, what's the point of us (upstream) "advising"
anything?  Distro packagers should know exactly what to do and how to
package things.

Xfce users already have the choice to use whatever they want, as long
as their distribution of choice ships what they want (and if not, they
can always use another distribution)

If the point is a distribution wants to use another theme and/or
engine in place of the defaults we ship, then it's just a matter of
adding a dependency on the required components and patching the
sources to set the defaults to whatever the distro wants. Nothing new
here.

> All this theme engine problematic should vanish or reduce to minimum
> anyway when Xfce switches to GTK3.

Why? There are themes and engines in 3.0 as well, I don't see the
switch to gtk-3.0 making much difference here...

Cheers,
Olivier