On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 5:29 PM, George Kendros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm new to this list, but I was just wondering what consideration was being > given to different theme engines and if any development is being put into a > specific theme engine? > > I was just wondering because I was looking at the official page of the > Nodoka engine and was pretty impressed with the direction it was taking. > Here is a link to the page; > https://fedorahosted.org/nodoka/wiki/0.8.x_Brainstorm . Of specific interest > is the 'Modern' screenshot. I think a theme based on that engine (when that > engine comes to fruition) could be really great.
Complete, new, well maintained theme engines that are packaged for Ubuntu are not common. The problem with making a theme that relies on a newer engine is likely to be finding a maintainer for the code and someone to keep the new engine in Universe and up-to-date. For this reason there are people on this list that would encourage you to either: - Be the maintainer of the theme in Ubuntu if you want to use it - this involves managing bugreports, etc - Use a theme for which there is already a maintainer - ask the designers of the new engine if they want to maintain it in Ubuntu (obviously, to them the news that someone wants to make a great theme based on it that would also be packaged in Universe or even Main could be a big incentive here...) In the case of Nodoka I don't know whether there is already someone pushing this into Ubuntu - sorry. There are people on this list that know more about this than I do, but I understand that (at least when Nodoka was first released) it was largely based on Murrine (which _will_ be packaged for Int. Ib. ) and that you could achieve the same look with both. This looks like it might no longer be true... I dunno... Andrea Cimitan, who develops Murrine might be able to answer to this part. Does that help? Who -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
