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

[Jerome Leclanche]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Vincent Untz <vuntz at gnome.org> wrote:

> Le lundi 26 mars 2012, à 13:36 +0100, Jerome Leclanche a écrit :
> > 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?
> >
> > 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.
>
> I would think that the right way to get the themes would be through
> xsettings:
>
>
> http://specifications.freedesktop.org/xsettings-spec/xsettings-latest.html
>  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/XSettingsRegistry
>
> (more settings could be added to the registry, if needed)
>
> As for setting the theme, don't all environments provide a tool to
> change the theme? Is your proposed spec intented to allow creating
> third-party tools, or to script changing the theme?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vincent
>
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The issue is not just changing the theme, it's also getting it. This is an
issue for libraries that provide tools to get file paths for a theme action
(in this case, Qt's QIcon.fromTheme:
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qicon.html#fromTheme). And while it's true
DEs provide custom ways to change the local theme, someone may wish to
create a cross-platform cross-desktop one.

J. Leclanche
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