On 13 Aug 2008, at 21:34, Mark Phalan wrote: > Can't a single "full" theme be delivered minus all the redundancy? If > Nimbus doesn't have some icons then beef it up with icons from the > others and drop the rest.
Technically possible I would think, yes-- would need to check that all the themes we were borrowing from had a licence that allowed us to mix- and-match their icons with Nimbus, though. The main drawback would probably be the effort in creating such a theme in the first place, and then maintaining it, especially when either: * the themes we were borrowing from were updated (which wouldn't be a strictly necessary activity, I suppose, but then our mega-Nimbus would potentially look less polished than the current Nimbus) * we decide one day that it would be visually more appealing to fill in the gaps from some other theme(s) than the ones we originally picked. Speaking as a maintainer of a couple of the current GNOME icon themes, I know how much of a chore it is to make even relatively simple changes to them; making sweeping changes is a bit like sticking needles in your eyes. So I suspect this isn't a change we'd consider doing lightly... but I'm not the Nimbus maintainer, so it's not for me to say :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
