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Re: Themes - do we package them?



On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 servis@purdue.edu wrote:
> 
> Just a thought. How about some mechanism similiar to kernel-package say
> gtk-themes-package, wmaker-themes-package, etc? A program that takes the
> standardized file structure of the theme tarball and packages it up in a
> nice custom named deb that drops into the correct setup for Debian.  
> 
> This saves space on the mirrors and lets dpkg keep track of it.

That had occurred to me too.

Someone said a few messages ago that they had a prerelease of such a
wmaker tool.  I'll have a go at such an E tool.

In fact, it could be nicely automated, by using the *.themes.org website
to offer you choices and fetch the right version automagically.

Jules

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