[ubuntu-art] Creation of a theme and make it default - HELP PLEASE

[Ryan Pavlik]

Who wrote:
> On 6/2/06, Indraveni <indraveni at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  We are working for a distro. So I want to create a new theme and 
>> make  it
>> the default theme after installation of our distro.
>>
>>  Can any one tell me how this can be done.
>>
>
> If you have the theme, you need to put it into /usr/share/themes (or
> at least, that's where they've been on all distros I've ever used...).
> If not then you should probably start with a theme that you want to
> edit and play around with it - for this you can just copy a directory
> in /usr/share/themes to ~/.themes (to ease permissions when editing
> it...) and edit the ~/.themes/[themename]/gtk-2.0/gtkrc file
>
> A good list of tutorials is here:
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials
>
>>  Please tell me how how Ubuntu is doing this, I have seen that ubuntu 
>> has
>> added a theme called Human into the themes list and it ia activated as
>> default theme once Ubuntu is installed.
>>
>>  How I can make my theme as default once we install Our OS..
>>
> I do not _know_ how to do this, but I do know it is possible to change
> the theme that is being used using gconf - I am not on Linux now and
> can't remember where the key is, but I would guess that that is one
> possible way to set a theme during install...
>
>>  HELP PLEASE
>>
>>  Thankyou
>>  Indraveni
>
> Sorry about a lack of solid information
>
> Who
>
Based on changes that showed up in Sabayon ("User Profile Editor"), when 
you change themes the following gconf keys change
/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme
/apps/metacity/general/theme
/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme

There may be other changes, but I do not know for sure.

Hope this helps!


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