[Kde-games-devel] Update on theme names.

Parker Coates parker.coates at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 12:30:56 CEST 2009


On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> A Diumenge 05 Juliol 2009 20:49:43, Sean va escriure:
>> Hello all.
>>
>> Yesterday I did some name changing in trunk and the old default themes now
>> have proper names and descriptions attached to them. Ideally this should
>> have been done for 4.3 but was not because of a oversight.
>>
>> I personally don't like the file names being called default at all just to
>> be set as default. It should be done like lsKat where it's set in the
>> .desktop file. This has it's advantages;
>
> Yes, it has advantages and also disadvantages, for example without the default
> being called default if you are not careful , if you change the default from
> one release to another the user will not use the new default because what it
> was stored on the config file is the theme name and as the old default theme
> still exists it's the one that would be loaded.

Personally, I think this should be easy enough to get working in
Killbots (and other games that use KConfigXT) once your default getter
patch is committed to KConfigCompiler
(http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/881/).

Parker


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