Proposal: preferred-theme-spec - a spec for getting and setting default icon/cursor/sound themes

[Jerome Leclanche]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Vincent Untz <vuntz at gnome.org> wrote:

> Le dimanche 25 mars 2012, à 21:47 +0100, Jerome Leclanche a écrit :
> > Hi lists
> >
> > Followup on my previous post, this is my submission for a spec that
> stores
> > default and fallback Icon, Cursor and Sound theme with the possibility of
> > adding more themes or metadata to it.
> >
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Slqk1yTFsiTBS0P8EnDcqp5G7sGmJ8SW7iQTdw7NUTs/edit
> >
> > I'm looking for more comments and would like to eventually get the
> process
> > started on submitting it.
>
> It's unclear to me what's the exact goal of this spec: is it intended to
> be used by theme authors as a hint for desktop environments? Or is it
> intended to be used by desktop environments to store the theme
> preferences of the user?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vincent
>
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The latter. It's currently impossible to get/set default themes (unless you
do it on an environment-per-environment basis), the spec solves that.

The following bug is linked at the bottom, the spec closes it:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43943
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