<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000000"> Thomas Thurman wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20081010212054.GA29514@dorothy.members.linode.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Ysgrifennodd Kenneth Wimer: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I think that if we replaced the aging themes we could, in their place, include a couple of interesting new ones. I think users would get much more out of being able to select a modern sexy theme. In this way we offer our default theme, accessability themes and a few beautiful, sexy themes. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Do you have any appropriately-licensed beautiful, sexy themes you want to contribute to upstream? I'm quite happy to consider them. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I realize that the upstream issue is important but I wonder what gnome is thinking when they offer "glider" or "crux" as a modern theme for their users. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Nobody's suggested taking them out yet. If you want to suggest taking them out, the usual way is buying the maintainers a beer^W^W^W^W^W raising a bug. </pre> </blockquote> A beer is the solution to many problems! I hope there's room for creative differences without ruffling feathers. I'm determined we offer the standard GNOME theme portfolio in main, but also keen to make sure that the initial set of themes has a consistent look and feel. 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. Mark </body> </html>