Bug#50494: general: More themes (gtk, gnome, various windowmanagers, etc) and more backgrounds
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 03:39:24PM +0000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski was heard to say:
> > Debian should have more themes and backgrounds and pixmaps in suitable packages,
> > at least all the ones Red Hat has (the principle competition) and maybe all
>
> Why to compete ? We may compete with NT or SCO, but doing sth only
> cause we must be better than RH is wrong.
On the other hand, not doing sth because RH does it is also wrong :)
If the data section is ever created, this sounds like a good candidate to go
in it.
> > the ones from themes.org that have gotten enough interest there (they
> > keep usage stats and votes to make some kind of judgment possible).
> >
> > I'm assuming this "wishlist bug" will get handled by adding entries to the
> > "ideas that need package maintainers" list.
>
> What we really need is a program that make thames packaging *trivial*
bluegreen:~> dlocate -s theme-converters
Package: theme-converters
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 48
Maintainer: Steve Haslam <araqnid@debian.org>
Version: 1.8
Depends: perl5, libdigest-md5-perl
Description: Convert WindowMaker/GTK+ theme packages to .debs
This takes .tar.gz files from, for example, wm.themes.org or
gtk.themes.orig, and converts them into .deb packages.
.
The .deb packages it produces are acceptable for local use, but are
not really policy-conformant, notably since they cannot reliably
create a reasonable /usr/doc/<theme>/copyright file.
.
Packages made using this package are named "wmaker-<foo>-theme" for
WindowMaker themes and "gtk-<foo>-theme" for GTK themes
Most themes are pretty simple, so *assuming* that the sites hosting the themes
enforce consistency in directory structure and so on you should be able to
easily write a script to extract themes.
I think the only thing that really needs to be added is the ability to query
the themes.org database for a given theme. I actually wrote my own way of doing
this (it's about an hour or an hour and a half of work) which could fetch themes
from wm.themes.org, but the site reorganization (when they went to using numeric
IDs to fetch themes, so www.themes.org/download?theme_name didn't work) broke
it and I stopped using wmaker. Does anyone know if themes.org exports their
db in an easily parsable format? I haven't poked around the new site much..
Daniel
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