From: Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:10:05 -0700

2009/6/28 Jonas Häggqvist <rasher_at_rasher.dk>:
> Jonathan Gordon wrote:
>> 2009/6/28 Jonas Häggqvist <rasher_at_rasher.dk>:
>>> FS#10391
>>
>> I dont know if this should go in... unlike font and wps filenames, the
>> .cfg can be loaded from anywhere, so just assuming that it will be
>> loaded from the themes dir is a bad assumption.
>
> If the user has gone through the trouble of loading a theme from somewhere
> other than the theme dir, I think it's fair to expect that the user should
> understand what's going on.
>
>> Also the fact that
>> changeing any "theme" setting will make the selection technically
>> wrong...
>
> Again, I don't see how this will be surprising to the user. The
> alternative is that a random theme (the one that sorts first) is selected.
> At least most of the settings will probably still be from the loaded theme.
>
>> and finally, there is nothing stopping you from loading two
>> theme .cfg's and have them work together.
>
> Huh? At any rate, I don't see how it will be surprising that the most
> recently loaded one of the two is selected?
>
> --
> Jonas Häggqvist
> rasher(at)rasher(dot)dk
>

The point is that theme configs are no different from any other .cfg
file... you might have a .cfg which does nothing but change the icons
file, or one which changes the font and colours, it doesnt make sense
to suggest that that is then the currently running theme.
Received on 2009-06-28