On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 15:42, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > Hmm, well, no derivative can be called BlueCurve; only the single > > original theme can be called BlueCurve. I don't really see where it > > could get confusing; unless you mean theme engines? In that case, one > > can have an engine called bluecurve and an engine called wonderland > > installed at the same time; just so long as authors only make themes > > that use the wonderland engine, it should be good, no? > > I made a theme called "DeepIce". It's a quick gtkrc-only hack on ThinIce so > that it doesn't look so depressingly blue. Just changing the settings and > colours a bit. > > If ThinIce was called "SmackHappy" on Red Hat machines, and ThinIce > everywhere else, my theme would break for all Red Hat users. Should I > distributed a separate theme called "DeepSmack" for them? > > When I start shipping my "DeepIceCollection" metatheme, which theme > (gtk1|gtk2|metacity|icons) do I point to? Do I make a "DeepSmackCollection"? > > What about more advanced engine themes? > > Sure, perhaps it's just an inconvenience - but it does create a subtle > incompatibility between GNOME desktops. That's bad. Will further use of > trademarks affect Free Software cooperation on a larger scale? Should we > accept this, or advocate better behaviour? Is it worth the hassle for some > (high quality) themes?
It would be a pain, but truly that major? RedHat users could still install pure ThinIce along side 'SmackHappy'. Many many other themes require engines that aren't in many distros (save Debian ^,^ ), so it shouldn't be much a bump to the RedHat users if the theme 'Requires the ThinIce engine, which you do not have instaleld.' The user wouldn't even need to know that ThinIce==SmackHappy; just that they need to install ThinIce. Granted, I could now bitch how much a pain installing a theme engine can be without packages for the average user, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms that was a problem before BlueCurve ever came to us. ^,^ Inconvenience, yes, but not anything that throws the Theme Universe out of whack entirely. ;-) > > - Jeff -- Sean Middleditch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.
