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Idea #16152: Install the gnome theme complete with one click

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #105: Theme Manager, simple theme export/import.
Written by nq6 the 3 Dec 08 at 00:29. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Install the gnome theme complete with one click. No configuration, no tutorials. Install a full subject is complex and requires time. This can be facilitated in a single operation.

We have to make everything much simpler. New users do not want complication in Ubuntu. They want simple solutions.

Visualize the idea.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3199/3077953373_593edd5207_b.jpg

With the possibility of each user export their particular subject, and send to a friend.

I know you have similar ideas.

My idea is based on installing the theme of the entire system from the grub to the themes of Firefox. Including specific configurations of gnome and programs.

The basic idea is to point the possibility of exporting its user customized themes. That's the difference. I can send by e-mail all my theme for a friend or relative who uses Ubuntu.

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Solution #1: Install the gnome theme complete with one click
Written by nq6 the 3 Dec 08 at 00:29.
Install the gnome theme complete with one click. No configuration, no tutorials. Install a full subject is complex and requires time. This can be facilitated in a single operation.

We have to make everything much simpler. New users do not want complication in Ubuntu. They want simple solutions.

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andruk (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 3 Dec 08 at 07:54
The only problem I see with this is that the theme that I created is only for Metacity and GTK. I'm not really interested in creating a theme for XMMS, etc, although I'm perfectly happy if others do so. There needs to be a way to group themes/skins for different applications on gnome-look.org, so when other people extend a theme to other applications, they can all be bundled together like your idea suggests.

+1

Jojan wrote on the 3 Dec 08 at 12:33
There should be a option for what to install, or be able to extract the archive.

Xero Xenith wrote on the 3 Dec 08 at 16:50
This would be awesome - the one thing Ubuntu needs to work on is how to use what it's already got.

Like Compiz-Fusion - 99% of users never experience what it's got to offer, because the Advanced Desktop Effects Manager is hidden away in a dark corner of the repos. Oh, and it's Advanced. Most people have no idea how to use it.

This is another thing that really needs to be improved. +1

rouge568 wrote on the 3 Dec 08 at 20:47
I completely agree.

I visualize a GUI program that automates exporting and importing, while giving the user a degree of control over what they want to include. For example:

[ ]All
[ ]Compiz
[x]Emerald
[x]Metacity
[x]System Theme
[x]Desktop background(s)
[x]Icons
[ ]Sounds
[x]Awn Theme
[ ]Firefox Theme
[x]Terminal Theme
[ ]Bootsplash
[ ]Fonts
[ ]GDM Theme
[ ]Gdesklets/OtherWidgets
...etc

[Export] [Import]

sparky11 wrote on the 3 Dec 08 at 21:49
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Desktop+Designer+(running+Mock-up)?conte nt=75581

Perhaps This?

Popoi wrote on the 23 Dec 08 at 20:44
This could be implemented at least partial.

danshumaker wrote on the 12 Sep 09 at 17:06
Great idea. Bump! I was specifically looking for an easier way to install themes like these people:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=261282




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