Kenneth Wimer-5 wrote: > > 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 ;) > > -- > 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 >> > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > >
Just a thought ... If the "get more themes online" link pointed to a wiki page the wiki page could refer folks to many appropriate destinations/solutions. John :) -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Community-Themes-Too-Hard-To-Find-tp27776003p27840953.html Sent from the ubuntu-art mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
