A question of themes - solved (mostly)

[Bret Busby]

On 23/10/22 00:56, Bret Busby wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I had previously, downloaded and installed a particular legacy theme, 
> which I cannot find anymore, to download and install, and, I am 
> wondering whether the download package for the theme, can be found on a 
> system on which it was downloaded and installed, so that the package 
> could (hopefully) be copied across to another system that does not have 
> the theme installed, to be installed thereupon.
> 
> I had previously found and located it, in the gnome themes, on the World 
> Wide Web, for a person who wanted something like it, on the Debian list, 
> to install on Ubuntu, but, it has disappeared, from where I had found it 
> for that person.
> 
> Could someone please advise regarding this?
> 
> It is an old gnome theme, named TraditionalOk, and, I have also seen it 
> named TraditionalOkBrave. It was similar in appearance, to YaruBlue, I 
> think, but, I believe that the Yaru themes, have also, since, disappeared.
> 
> Thank you in anticipation.
> 
> ..
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> (UTC+0800)
> ..............
> 
> 
I have figured how to do it - as I cannot now find the theme on the 
World Wide Web, in searching for the theme, using google, on the World 
Wide Web (as opposed to trying to find it in the designated online 
repositories), I found a forum discussion of the theme, where a person 
was seeking a colour variation of the theme (wanted it in orange), and, 
one of the responses, included a path where they have it, so, I searched 
for an installation of the theme, on  a multi-boot system, using that 
path (/usr/share/themes), and, found it, and, used  a recursive copy of 
the theme from that location, to the equivalent location on the system 
where I also want the theme, and then went into the Control Center, 
selected Appearance, and, the theme was displayed in there, after the 
recursive copy, selected it, and, now, have the theme installed and 
running, where it was previously, not available as an option.

So, now, all I need to do, is copy it to a USB thumb drive, and copy 
from that, to any system that I want to have it installed upon.

I think (but, am not sure), that non-iso files )and thence, directories) 
can be written to, and, copied from, Ventoy thumb drives (which would 
mean that the theme could be carried on the same medium as an installing 
iso).

I am not sure of the intellectual property restrictions that might 
apply, if I would upload (recursively, the subdirectories for, and, 
therefore, the whole of) the theme, to a web site that I have, for me 
(and, should anyone else, seek a copy of the theme, for them) to 
download the theme from my web site, and install it - if I would do 
that, I would, as much as I could, attribute the credit for the theme (I 
do not know its origin, exactly - all that I could say, is that it came 
from a previous version of Ubuntu MATE Linux, and, apart from the 
copying of it, none of it is at all, my own work, and, it is not in any 
way, modified by me).

Perhaps, someone could advise me, regarding that aspect of the 
intellectual property restrictions applicable to it.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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