Including a new GTK theme in Ubuntu GNOME

[Tim]

On 20/02/14 03:06, Satyajit Sahoo wrote:
> I have it in my own PPA currently. But having it preinstalled will
> have its own advantages.
First of all you are going to have to start doing proper releases, you can't have daily-landing stuff in the archives. At the very least this
means tagging releases on github.

The packaging you have on the PPA is mostly ok, just needs a few minor changes. We can help you with the initial packaging however are you
planning on maintaining this packaging going forward? That would probably make more sense since you will be the one making releases, packaging
on themes, is fairly trivial and wouldn't take you too long to prepare an update and file a sponsorship bug.


>
> On 19 February 2014 21:28, Alfredo Hernández <aldomann.designs at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If we have someone who does a proper maintaining process, I'm all in.
>> However, wouldn't maintaining out own PPA be a better solution?
>>
>> Chers.
>>
>>
>> On 19 February 2014 14:05, Satyajit Sahoo <satyajit.happy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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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