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

[Jerome Leclanche]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Frederic Crozat <fred at crozat.net> wrote:

> 2012/3/26 Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com>:
>
> > I don't believe xsettings fits the needs brought forward by this spec:
> >  - Human readable/editable
> >  - Ease of use and implementation
> >  - Usable by all DEs with simple fallbacks
> >  - Multiple-level configuration (with XDG_DATA_DIRS)
> >
> > Additionally, please correct me if I'm mistaken, xsettings is barely in
> use
> > by all DEs. It would be hard to convince DEs to use it for this, I
> think. Am
> > I incorrect?
>
> It is used by GNOME and AFAIK LXDE, XFCE and I even wrote an
> implementation for KDE (not merged) years ago.
> --
> Frederic Crozat
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Forgive me, I've never worked with xsettings before. Is it feasible to
store theme settings in xsettings (I see it already stores cursor theme)
all the while enabling fallbacks and theme-specific settings?

J. Leclanche
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