Including a new GTK theme in Ubuntu GNOME

Fran Dieguez fran.dieguez at mabishu.com
Tue Feb 18 19:36:37 UTC 2014


On mar 18 feb 2014 20:16:56 CET, Satyajit Sahoo wrote:
> I have been busy due to my exams. My exams will finish on 22nd. So I
> can be back in action after that.
>
> For now, when I joined, I talked with Alfredo with the possibility of
> including new themes and wallpapers. The wallpaper contest is already
> live. So lets come to the themes.
>
> We cannot include a Gnome Shell theme for obvious reasons. They break
> every release, and when a user installs a newer Gnome version through
> PPA, it'll be pretty broken.
>
> Coming to GTK themes, they no longer break for quite a few Gnome
> releases. New widgets are introduced, but the theme is backwards
> compatible. So I think it's safe to include a GTK theme. I'll make
> sure it is updated for latest GNOME.
>
> I have a theme, named Evolve <http://fav.me/d4dn66o>, that I would
> propose to include in Ubuntu GNOME.
>
> It doesn't use any engine, so no extra dependency. Let me know what
> you think.
>
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Does it mean that the default GTK theme will be replaced? In that case 
I will be completely against the change, as we are Ubuntu GNOME (for 
good and bad).

Regards.




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