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2010-07-05 , 09:53
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Hi!

One thing that I really like in gnome is the ability to drag a tarball to appearances to install new themes. It would be great if this was possible to do in the n900 too. An app that lets you import a tarball in the theme selection-menu.

This would be good for the following reasons:

1. Easy to test a theme for developers.
2. Easy to share and try out for collaboration.
3. Noobs like me could contribute and make good stuff, at least I will not make any themes right now since it is too many obstacles, and the process is time-conuming. But if this was possible, I surely would make 2-3 nice themes.

I do now that keeping stuff in the regular software chanels has its pros but this would ease the process and we could maybe also get a sub-section over att opendesktop.org.



How about it?
 
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2010-07-05 , 10:50
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What's wrong with .deb -file? It's basically just compressed file which you can extract and see the contents of it (the structure of how theme is constructed).
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2010-07-05 , 11:00
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I think daddeddad meant that it would be nice to use themes without actually installing them. I guess it wouldn't be too hard to make a program which extracts tarballed theme into some temporary theme folder (and also checks that the folder structure is correct) and you could then choose the theme from the theme selection menu. But I don't know if the "Import tarball" selection can be added straight into the theme menu.
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Originally Posted by TNiga View Post
I think daddeddad meant that it would be nice to use themes without actually installing them. I guess it wouldn't be too hard to make a program which extracts tarballed theme into some temporary theme folder (and also checks that the folder structure is correct) and you could then choose the theme from the theme selection menu. But I don't know if the "Import tarball" selection can be added straight into the theme menu.
Well.. my variant selector which comes with devel version of Black Plastic Theme almost does this: you just drop theme images under correct folder and edit one text file and selector will show that as available color variant. Next task is to make it completely dynamic so I don't have to edit anything, just drop folders to the package and upload to repos
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2010-07-05 , 13:10
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Originally Posted by TNiga View Post
I think daddeddad meant that it would be nice to use themes without actually installing them. I guess it wouldn't be too hard to make a program which extracts tarballed theme into some temporary theme folder (and also checks that the folder structure is correct) and you could then choose the theme from the theme selection menu. But I don't know if the "Import tarball" selection can be added straight into the theme menu.
This is about what I meant.

And I know about black plastic and think it's great. It might do this. Do you think it will be able to also linc other custom rc-files via "include" in the gtkrc-file? Well if your project actually will allow users to easily customize any part of the theme and quickly will let them check it out - then this will solve my problem!

But there is still one thing with debs. And that is that you need to trust the source in a whole other way. If you've got at tarball with themes you can without to much doubts install it without being concerned that it will also install suspicious binaries too.
 
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