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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Just for fun: Occam Style
From:       mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-03-24 8:51:19
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Matthias Elter wrote:
> 
> mosfet wrote:
> >
> > Sven Radej wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, David Faure wrote:
> > > >On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 11:41:26PM +0100, Sven Radej wrote:
> > > >> On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Harri Porten wrote:
> > > >> (...)
> > > >> >How about creating a web/ftp site or a cvs module to host such
> > > >                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > >> >extensions. Meaning: we can't go on forever with putting each new style
> > > >> >into kdelibs. The top 5 candidates should then make it into official
> > > >> >releases.
> > > >>
> > > >> Or optional cvs module?
> > > >              ^^^^^^^^^^
> > > >
> > > >You guys seem to agree ;-)
> > > No, please I said nothing about "web/ftp site" and "cvs module" is quite
> > > different from "optional cvs module" :-)
> > >
> >
> > Well, ever since the beginning I intended to have another module for
> > extra themes, styles, etc... My intent was to have only original themes
> > and styles that function correctly and are under a certain size in
> > kdelibs (for kstyles) and kdebase (for kwin). All other stuff should go
> > in another module IMHO.
> >
> > As far as if it's optional or not, all styles except one are optional
> > really ;-) We can distribute the module and resulting tarballs under
> > something like kde-styleaddons and let the user decide if it's optional
> > or not :)
> 
> Perhaps the styles are a good start for a kmedia module Torsten was
> proposing
> some time ago. kmedia should then hold additional styles,themes,sounds
> and wallpapers.
> 

Yes, this is what we should do IMHO. We still should hold a few styles
and themes in the main packages, but only a couple that match the above
criteria. It's still not really a big problem but will become one
eventually.

> --
> Matthias Elter
> elter@kde.org
> me@caldera.de

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