[Doug Alcorn ] Re: New Theme Scripts

Doug Alcorn (alcornd@earthlink.net)
20 Nov 1998 11:01:47 -0500


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having problems with my sendmail.cf.  hopefully you will get this...
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To: davemann@ionet.net
Subject: Re: New Theme Scripts
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From: Doug Alcorn <alcornd@earthlink.net>
Date: 20 Nov 1998 09:47:01 -0500
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David Mihm <davemann@ionet.net> writes:

> ftp.afterstep.org/themes/theme.maker-lathi-0.1.tar.gz .  I think this
> should be included in the next release - it's not really an app, it should
> be a working function of the window mgr, but since it's not, it'll be
> shipped (if I shall be so bold).  The #1 question asked of AfterStep is
> "How do I use/make themes?"

Thanks for handling this.

> 	The package has been renamed (and should have included a README -
> see NOTE below) to theme.maker-lathi, as it is a "theme-maker" more than
> it is a [set of] lathi-themes.  [Lathi: if you wish to come up with a
> better name that will reflect it's actual functionality, i.e. maker &
> installer of themes, then please mail me ASAP, and I'll change the name
> and.]

I was struggling with a name myself.  I really didn't want my name in
the title; however, there was some concern expressed about it being
differentiated from an "official" AfterStep theme.maker.  So,
"theme.maker-lathi" or maybe "theme.handler-lathi" is fine.  I do
expect this to be a temporary solution to the themes problem.
Hopefully, the themes actually built by this theme.handler will be
compatible with any future theme handlers - but maybe not.

> NOTE: when uploading to fao, please mail the ftpmaster@afterstep.org to
> alert him (me (: ) of a package sitting in incoming.  I don't sit at the
> terminal of this machine, nor is it allowed to run any jobs which check
> the incoming dir.  If I receive a mail that something is in incoming/; I
> will drop what I am doing and mv it to the appropriate place ASAP!  Also,

I tried to upload to fao, but didn't think it was working properly.
After I did the "put", I did an "ls" and didn't see it there.  What's
up with that?

BTW, I have an updated package at my home page:
<http://home.earthlink.net/~alcornd>. There was a stupid syntax error
in makeastheme.pl that I should have caught before I published to the
world... :(

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