Theme graphics Was: [imp] IMP 4.0-ALPHA

[Oliver Kuhl]

Hi,

Jan Schneider wrote:

> 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.
What about using symlinks? A little script could do that at installation 
time. This would save space and be definitely fast. :-)

Gruss,
    Ollie.