Theme graphics Was: [imp] IMP 4.0-ALPHA

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> 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

No, not really. Disk space is cheap, but cpu time is expensive. Thus the
scripts should assume that *all* graphics are in a different location
instead of checking for each image.

Jan.

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