Re: Crux & icon themes
<quote who="Filip Van Raemdonck">
> The new upstream version of the GTK Crux engine (for which I've uploaded a
> "bare" version for GTK 2.2 which was only seconds late to get picked up by
> dinstall so it is sitting in incoming now :-<) includes an icon theme.
> I'm going to put that in a separate binary package, and I guess more of
> these will come along in the future, so I'm asking here first about a naming
> convention, as happened with GTK themes.
>
> The obvious choice would be icon-themes-<somename>. I'd avoid adding "gtk",
> "gnome" or another such specific label to it as icon themes are a draft spec
> of the desktop discussion group and should be(come) interchangeable between
> desktops and non-desktop applications even. Any objections?
I think that would be a little bit silly. ;-) Now that we're very close to a
sane theme system, there are lots of metatheme packages (such as mist, crux,
etc). Installing them as one package makes a lot of sense (though I guess
splitting the GTK+ 1.x theme is sensible).
I guess if you thought the metatheme stuff was it's own special thing, you
could call it crux-metatheme and include all the icons and things, and
depend on the GTK+ 2.x theme.
> On a related note, what about metathemes? Should they be packaged separate,
> too, being (AFAIK) only one XML file and perhaps a preview image? How are
> they handled by GTK & GNOME, and what happens if say the GTK theme specified
> in a metatheme I choose isn't installed?
It will just fall back to the default.
- Jeff
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