On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 05:28:25PM -0400, > Now, they list in the GNOME Control Center's Appearences tab > just fine, but when I Try them the Try button has no effect. This is because of something stupid sawmill.themes.org started doing. They started putting the Sawfish version number in the name of the archive, but not in the directory inside the archive. So, if you upload NewTheme.tar.gz, sawmill.themes.org renames this to NewTheme-0.25.2.tar.gz, but the directory inside the tarball is still NewTheme, not NewTheme-0.25.2. The sawmillthemetodeb program just stores the tarball in the themes directory; it does not extract it. This is to save disk space, since Sawfish is smart enough to load themes from tarballs, but only if the directory name inside the tarball matches the name of the tarball. Thanks to the strange sawmill.themes.org policy, this doesn't work. The quick fix is to remove the version number from the tarball name before running the conversion program. The solution is for the sawmill.themes.org people to stop messing with the filenames. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> epg@pobox.com "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." --RFC 1925
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