removing themes

[Thomas Thurman]

Ysgrifennodd Mark Shuttleworth:
> Thomas, has there been any discussion about creating a standardised
> online repo of themes, with dynamic access from the appearance manager?
> Then we could highlight the standard GNOME themes there.

There hasn't been (well, not that I've heard, anyway), but it's a rather 
exciting idea.  I suppose we could base it around apt or something, but 
it seems overkill just for single themes, and besides wouldn't work very 
well on non-apt distros... I'm imagining a standard CGI which you could 
give a set of zipped Metacity themes and it would be able to serve any 
of them up, plus generate and be able to serve an index in a standard 
form:

[Gorilla]
name=Gorilla
author=Kenneth Christiansen <kenneth at gnu.org> Anders Carlsson <andersca at gnu.org>
copyright=Ximian, Inc, 2001
date=February 8, 2002
description=A port of the Gorilla theme by Jacub Steiner
preview=R0lGODlhEAAQAPcAAAAAAAQEBAUEBAcGBhwcGxwcHCUlJS4uLjs6O0JBQUZFRUpKSlJSUlNUVlRU
	VFlZW11dXWNjY3V3en19fISEg4SEhI6OjY6PkaOjo7S0s7W1tcDAwMLCwsbGxcrKysnLzdTV1Nvb
	297e3N/f3tzk7t7n8d/n8d7n8uTk4eXl4uPj5OPk5eTk5Obm5ufn5unp5+rq5urr6Ovr6erq6uzs
(etc)

and would also be able to serve all parts added after a certain date, 
etc.  I think I may work on this this weekend, unless anyone knows of 
prior art.

Thomas

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