default plasma theme and fallback

[Nuno Pinheiro]

A Thursday 25 June 2009 13:21:22, Marco Martin escreveu:

My vote goes for b)

most themes around are very incomplete.


> Hi all,
> as i was talking today with Ivan on irc, there could be a problem in having
> air as default theme now, since is the fallback theme too, many existing
> (and incomplete) themes that relied on many elements to be the fallback
> ones now have the air elements, a thing that could quite break their look.
>
> there are few possible solutions:
> a) not caring, be a bad boys and just require the themes to be complete
> (ok, not a solution this one :p)
> b)mantain oxygen as "default" and just load air instead of oxygen at kde
> startup
> c)have a fallbackTo=foo entry in themes desktop files making possible for
> themes to fallback to a desired theme (maybe kinda overkill and what
> happens when a 3rd party theme falls back to another 3rd party theme? or
> what happens when a theme falls back to an incomplete theme?)
>
> soo, if we just make the default as air every time the default theme will
> change the same pain will repeat, if we keep oxygen  as the fallback theme
> we are condemned to keep it complete for ever (that sounds sensible
> anyways) but will be less painful for old themes even if someday another
> new default theme will be provided...
>
>
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
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