Including a new GTK theme in Ubuntu GNOME

[Satyajit Sahoo]

No, not as the default theme. Just an additional theme as another choice.
Like additional background.


On 19 February 2014 01:06, Fran Dieguez <fran.dieguez at mabishu.com> wrote:

> 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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