[ubuntu-art] How to provide more alternate wallpapers without influencing CD size requirements

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Cory K. <coryisatm at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> What everyone doesn't think about is that this is forking app X that you
> want to put this feature in. Further adding to technical maintenance.
>
> Best to change the wallpapers in the current package and/or provide
> another add-on package that can be grabbed through the repos.
>

There's no reason this would have to be an Ubuntu specific feature. I
would suggest contributing the idea to upstream and make it easy to
dictate how it downloads additional themes and wallpapers.

Therefore it would not be a fork, it would be an Ubuntu community
contribution. Suse users would benefit because suse could reconfigure
it to download themes from their selected list. Likewise if a
cross-desktop initiative worked with the system (like gnome look) then
multiple locations could be incorporated.

By the way, there is a program like this already, it's just not
integrated with the appearance applet. I downloaded it from synaptic
and used it to install themes directly from some central place
(art.gnome). It's not very easy to use though. It's called gnome-art
0.2. With some polish and a little integration with the appearance
applet it could be a nice solution.

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