[ubuntu-art] Firefox theme set 0.3 released

Ian Jackson ian at davenant.greenend.org.uk
Tue May 9 19:15:55 BST 2006


Frank Schoep writes ("Re: [ubuntu-art] Firefox theme set 0.3 released"):
> An icon theme update doesn't necessarily mean that the Firefox
> themes need to be rebuilt. Most updates will probably not include
> icons that are used in Firefox so the impact of each update could be
> relatively low.

This is a good point.

> If an icon in the theme used in Firefox does get changed it's mostly
> a matter of typing in "make" again and awaiting the result. I'm not
> sure if that equals "having to rebuild a whole stack of stuff".

The upstream theme will need to be rebuilt too, I mean, and I'm not
sure of the dependency chain.

> On the other hand, pardon my French, I think a matching Firefox theme that 
> lags behind on one or two low-visibility icons is always better than 
> reverting to the default Firefox theme.

Quite so.

> While the period leading up to the Dapper release is going to be frantic, I 
> expect the actual long term support to be an easy ride for these Firefox 
> themes. Please correct me if you think I'm misjudging this.

No, no, not at all.  I'm just trying to cover all of the angles and
understand the whole situation.

Regards,
Ian.



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