Moving plasma themes to kdeartworks

[Sean]

On Tuesday 16 December 2008 3:34:23 pm Davide Bettio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think that kdeartworks is the right place for plasma themes:
> 1) themes are artworks
> 2) we'll be able to add more themes without increasing the size of
> kdeplasma-addons.
>
> Bye,
> Davide Bettio.
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I dont believe this is a good idea for reasons below.

1.  Just because it's artwork dont mean they should go into kdeartwork unless 
you have a big plan to move everything to it.

2. Stuff already in kdeartwork is not even classed as artwork(unless you plan 
to move it elsewhere).

3. Plasma themes are very small in size, so unless we have about 30 themes by 
the time we get to 4.5(which shouldn't happen anyway) then size is a non 
issue.

4. What about people who dont want whats in there already?, crystal icons, 
screensavers, ect.., they just want a few plasma themes not the whole lot,  
yes any seasoned cmake dude can install what they want but thats not the 
point.

5 Packagers, yes they do split them up already but this means even more split 
up(we may well make even more work for them)  ,surely a factor to consider.

Anyway thats my view as a plasma theme maintainer.

Regards

Sean Wilson