Re: Themes

Ben Tracy (tracy@wsicorp.com)
Wed, 1 Jul 1998 20:19:23 +0000 (GMT)



Guylhem-

Would it be possible under your scheme to remove themes that have already
been installed?  That would be a nice feature, becuase I would probably
download a theme then get sick of it and never want to see it again. I
can't be the only one.

Ben

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On Wed, 1 Jul 1998 guylhem@club-internet.fr wrote:

> > Howdy folks!
> 
> Hiya
>  
> > Has there been any thought put into how to accomplish some sort of theme
> > support with AS1.5?  I was thinking about a standard sort of packaging and
> > a standard install (and uninstall) script.  
> 
> I was working on it...
> 
> > look file
> > feel file
> > titlebar button files
> > wharf pixmap
> > icon background pixmap (may or may not be the same as wharf pix)
> > icons (perhaps we should have the restriction to only use icons in
> >        the distribution so we don't pass hundreds of icons around)
> 
> No icons at all, sorry, else each theme would be > 2M :-)
> 
> > title bar pixmaps
> > background pixmaps
> 
> Ok
> 
> > I think that about covers it.  I am willing to do some work on this, but I
> > just wanted to touch base and see if someone was already doing stuff like
> > this.  
> 
> The idea would be 2 text-mode programs (with a nice script interface of course)
> 
> * theme.make
> 
> Accepts as arguments :
>  -l look.file
>  -f feel.file
>  -b background
> 
> But all 3 can be taken by default from ~/G/L/A/non-configurable/desk0/
> 
>  -w wharf pixmap
>  -i icon pixmap
>  -t titlebar pixmap
>  -m menu pixmap (...)
> 
> Then it makes a tgz of all this
> 
> * theme.read
> 
> Put look, feel & background in ~/G/L/A/non-configurable/desk0/
> 
> Put other things on their right place
> 
> > BTW - This whole sort of operation kind of assumes that the
> > GNUstep/Library/Afterstep heirarchy will remain as is for some meaningful
> > length of time.  Is that a reasonable assumption??
> 
> Right, it is here to stay :-)
> 
> > Ben 
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