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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Theming manager [was: Re: KDE 3.1]
From:       Torsten Rahn <tackat () suse ! de>
Date:       2002-03-29 17:33:19
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Am Freitag, 29. März 2002 11:11 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:

> i definitely understand the need and desire for metatheme capabilities, but
> this could be done without conglomerating all the kcms into one megakcm?

The kcm's as they are are quite excellent.

They allow to configure each item separately down to the user's needs.
What's still missing is the feature that makes it possible to install a whole 
bunch of settings for icons, sounds, system-events, backgrounds, styles, 
win-decoration, widget-settings, launch feedback, panel-settings, colors, 
etc. at once. 

Ideally a new thememgr would offer an easy to use frontend to install a theme.
The user would have to care not at all about the "type" of the theme (the user 
doesn't want to have to choose the codec in a mediaplayer explicitely 
either): He could just select an icontheme, a KDE-meta-theme, a GTK-theme, a 
Windows-Theme and KDE install it. While/After installing it the user can 
optionally select/deselect parts of the theme (if it is a meta-theme) or 
finetune the whole look using the kcm-modules.

Greetings,
Tackat 
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