On Thursday 04 March 2010 03:04:22 am Merk wrote:
> What if the community themes showed up in appearance, but faded and when
> clicked the user was prompted to install?

In the future we intend to improve upon the "get more themes online" link in 
the appearance capplet. Currently it just points to a webpage but it could do 
oh so much more ;)

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Ken

> Andrew SB wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:20 PM, John Baer <bae...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> As I installed community themes and I found the only way to locate the
> >> package was through Syntapic search.
> >>
> >> As Software Center becomes the desired software installation tool is
> >> there a way to add this package?
> >
> > In Karmic software-center only presented GUI applications (with a few
> > special exceptions). This is no longer the case in Lucid. Searching
> > for "community themes" in software-center will now show the desired
> > package. Though if you just search for themes, it is buried deeply and
> > applications are still featured more prominently.
> >
> > See this blueprint for reference:
> > https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-lucid-non-
> >applications-in-software-center
> >
> > I'm not sure how we can make it more findable. One idea would be to
> > ask the desktop-team to consider placing it in the featured section.
> > Although, the current criteria states that featured packages should be
> > applications. You might want to send an email asking about this to the
> > desktop list.
> >
> > - Andrew SB
> 

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