changing theme colors and SVG?

[volvoguy]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:51:20 +1000, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at canonical.com> wrote:

> You need to change themes at the moment. All of the colours are defined
> in the GTK+ (or 'control') theme, and there is no cute little colour
> changer dialogue... This is something that numerous people have started
> but no one has ever finished. :-)

I see. Well, what are you waiting for? :-)  *just kidding!* I've poked
around that file a bit and being a web designer, I can ALMOST
visualize colors defined in hex form - so that shouldn't be very
difficult to play with.


> The only ways that SVG is related to GNOME themes is that some themes
> may use SVG icons, and there is a special (but very rarely used) theme
> engine (software code) based on librsvg. Instead of using images to draw
> elements like the pixbuf engine, it uses SVG.

Gotcha. I see that librsvg has it's own website now (last time I
checked it was hosted on the gnome.org site). Their website states
that the new version (2.8.0) is included with Gnome by default, and
the libraries (albeit a little outdated) are included with a default
Ubuntu install. I assume this means that if I WERE to start playing
with SVG theme ideas, they could be used in Ubuntu "out of the box".
Since it appears that the "human" theme is based on "industrial"
(which I believe is also an SVG theme), does that mean the goal is to
have a complete SVG theme as a default in Ubuntu?

On a bit of a tangent, the librsvg homepage (librsvg.sourceforge.net)
states that the latest version includes a standalone viewer and SVG
plugin for Mozilla (yay!). Have I not noticed those because we're at
librsvg version 2.7.2, or have I just not run into them yet?

Last thing - I promise. :) I haven't seen any mention of a "team
leader" for Ubuntu artwork. Do we have one? I definitely can't
contribute programming to Ubuntu, but I could definitely help with
graphic/interface design if there is a need there. BTW - I'm not
volunteering for a "lead" position. I'm most likely having spinal
fusion surgery before the end of the year, and I don't think I'll be
doing much design for a few months after that. (yuck!)

As always, thanks for the info Jeff!


-- 
Aaron

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