Be sure to give some thought about what happens to the preview widget if 
the user doesn't have exchange installed and/or is not online.

dh

Toma wrote:
> Ive been giving this a little more thought, and I suspect
> e/widgets/preview should probably be capable of rendering something a
> little more interesting than a boring swallow. Perhaps the wallpaper
> wih a shelf clone and a button? I jut think this could be used better
> than just a wallpaper. Alternatively, exchange might be able to
> download a specific group of a theme and render that instead of
> grabbing a whole edj files. If its possible or not, is another
> question.
> 
> What im tryng to say is:
> Exchange extracts a button, a dialog, a wallpaper and a shelf from the
> theme. Creates a scaled down 'preview' edj from that then send it to
> the user for previewing. Issue there is server load, but it could be a
> 1 off when the theme is uploaded.
> 
> The preview edj is then downloaded when previewing and is used on a
> widget that uses these preview edje parts. The can then interact with
> the preview before deciding to download, which gets them the whole
> theme.
> 
> Its a bit wishful but its a bit more exciting than an image. Also
> takes away some of the work of the themer. It would require some more
> thought though.
> 
> Toma.
> 
> 
> 
> 2008/12/10 Massimiliano Calamelli <mcalame...@gmail.com>:
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>> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
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>>> a dep? it is? where? it may be from fontconfig or maybe librsvg - but it's 
>>> an
>>> indirect dep - not direct...
>> Uhm, you're right, not a dep for E, but for language module.
>> My fault :(
>>
>> Massimliano
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>> Massimiliano Calamelli
>> http://mcalamelli.netsons.org
>> mcalame...@gmail.com
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