Hi,
I wanted to let you all know about bug 842913, of which I just landed the patch
for on mozilla-inbound.
The goal of the bug is to make the process of working with the /browser and
/toolkit themes easier for new contributors. The previous names of
{winstripe,pinstripe,gnomestripe} were never exposed in the product and were
unclear to new users as to which platforms/environments they targeted.
In toolkit:
/toolkit/themes/winstripe/ becomes /toolkit/themes/windows/
/toolkit/themes/pinstripe/ -> /toolkit/themes/osx/
/toolkit/themes/gnomestripe/ -> /toolkit/themes/linux/
/toolkit/themes/pmstripe/ -> /toolkit/themes/os2/
/toolkit/themes/faststripe/ -> (unchanged)
In browser:
/browser/themes/winstripe/ becomes /browser/themes/windows/
/browser/themes/pinstripe/ -> /browser/themes/osx/
/browser/themes/gnomestripe/ -> /browser/themes/linux/
Most of the work to complete the patches is based on |hg rename|, but some
files that reference paths needed to be updated manually. This may affect
SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, and any other toolkit-based applications.
This work builds on top of bug 838244 (shared theme resources for /browser),
and upcoming work in bug 844412 (shared theme resources for /toolkit). These
three bugs should help to make our theme implementations easier and more
intuitive for both experienced and inexperienced contributors.
One issue that is still remaining is the non-obvious way that the linux-toolkit
theme is generated using the windows-toolkit theme as a base. The work in bug
844412 should help to reduce some of this confusion. Overall, there was a
consensus that the net-wins of this rename are worth it even though it doesn't
solve the theme-derivation situation.
Cheers,
Jared
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