Theme graphics Was: [imp] IMP 4.0-ALPHA

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Paul Reilly <pareilly at tcd.ie>:

>> Of course this could be taken a step further by allowing all graphics to be
>> in a theme directory. The drawback is that all graphics need to be copied
>> to such a directory, even if they are not specific to a theme.
>>
> Could you make everything a theme, so the default graphics/icons are
> in /graphics/themes/default/* ?  I don't think it's unreasonable for

I don't think this is necessary, as long as the theme folders mimic the same
directory structure as the original graphics folder, only two levels
deeper.

> a theme creator to start with the default set, and just change what they
> want to. That way some icons could stay the same, but would still be part
> of the new theme. To rephrase, I think, a theme should have a complete
> copy of all icons/graphics even if they are the same as the default.
> Otherwise it gets too confusing, with logic like "use default icon if
> !exists $theme/$icon. That way you put the onus on theme creators to
> reproduce all icons.

Not to mention the *huge* performance hit such a solution would have.

Jan.

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