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Idea #6165: Improved Theme Manager!!

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #1655: Make an Add/Remove-like theme manager.
Written by origr15 the 31 Mar 08 at 14:29. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Ok so ubuntu has the worst themes ever , but i suggest a online system for the creators of ubuntu - they would take themes from www.gnome-look.org compile them into packages (full packages like with meta gtk2 icons ...) and when we look in the theme manager it will show the packages and let u download it.
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Written by origr15 the 31 Mar 08 at 14:29.
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mangar wrote on the 31 Mar 08 at 15:51
+1, great idea.
Maybe launchpad should have a themes section

julio wrote on the 31 Mar 08 at 16:09
something like gnome-art and gnome-art-ng?

http://developer.berlios.de/projects/gnomeartng/
http://www.miketech.net/gnome-art/

vexorian wrote on the 31 Mar 08 at 17:21
Regarding the first statement in the post: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5900/

Eldmannen wrote on the 31 Mar 08 at 18:27
I find myself wasting a lot of time to configure themes.
You have to make wallpaper, fonts, icons, colors, cursors, window borders, etc.
Takes a lot of time.

It should be easier...

scherer13 wrote on the 31 Mar 08 at 18:43
Would be cool to see this implemented in a fashion similar to installing Firefox themes.

vexorian wrote on the 31 Mar 08 at 19:43
It works for firefox because you only need to install the theme for your firefox configuration.

For ubuntu themes I think installing them from the browser would be a little too integrated and that's what everybody hated about IE...

misfitpierce wrote on the 2 Apr 08 at 11:14
Would be very nice if you could just view inside and instant download inside the theme browser etc. If not all then some like top rated 20 themes and instant download and apply.

captain wrote on the 12 Apr 08 at 11:39
What about integration with gnome-look.org or a gnome-look.org client that can get the latest updates to your themes (like Firefox updates). A lot of themes are updated on gnome-look and you have to go back to the site, download the updated theme and manually replace the older version. An auto-update feature would make it so easy to keep your themes up to date.

wanderer wrote on the 22 Apr 08 at 06:52
It would be nice if we can map the individual cursor animation to events. Meaning I have this cursor image I want it to be my pointer I have this other hourglass image I want it to be my processing cursor.

There is currently a problem with the cursor themeing too. If you use the conventional way and apply theme in appearance it will only appear in firefox and still show default in others.
I'm using emerald with compiz-fusion. The roundabout was to set the default to the theme too by editing /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme and copying your theme folder into the icons folder but that is 2 different cursor theme in action at one time.

editing ~/.Xdefaults

Xcursor.theme: mytheme
Xcursor.size: 48

like this still applies theme only to firefox and default theme still used in normal desktop. The themeing mechanism definitely some polishing


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