Theme graphics Was: [imp] IMP 4.0-ALPHA

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Paul Reilly <pareilly at tcd.ie>:

> Could you make everything a theme, so the default graphics/icons are
> in /graphics/themes/default/* ?  I don't think it's unreasonable for
> 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.

Yes, though you also take up a lot of disk space by doing this, which 
was one of
Jan's points earlier. But at any rate, I think someone who really wants this
functionality should act on that desire and create a patch for this and 
propose
it.

-chuck

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