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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