Including a new GTK theme in Ubuntu GNOME

[Satyajit Sahoo]

Well, there are not a plenty of glitches if the theme is well maintained.

Anyways, I had talked with Alfredo about this before. If you guys
agree, then some packager could take the task of putting it into the
Ubuntu archives.

On 19 February 2014 16:59, Tim <tim at feathertop.org> wrote:
> Hi Satyajit,
>   I think you have really left this a bit late.
>
>   While I am not opposed to shipping extra themes, I will not be putting a
> non-default theme in ubuntu-gnome-default-settings. Despite what you say,
> GTK themes do break each and every cycle, perhaps not as critical but still
> plenty of glitches etc. I also have a suspicion that people looking for a
> theme, are at a first instance going to search google for it, rather than
> checking what is installed.
>
> Now the right way to do this would be to get your theme into the ubuntu
> Archives as a package, then we could get it included in the default install
> (as an additional theme) if the rest of the artwork team are happy with
> that. All of this may be a little late for trusty however you could atleast
> try.
>
>
> Tim
>
> On 19/02/14 21:51, Satyajit Sahoo wrote:
>
> Waiting for inputs from Ali, Alfredo and other team members.
>
> On Wednesday, 19 February 2014, Satyajit Sahoo <satyajit.happy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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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