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Re: Backporting the Theme to Jupiter

 

I think you should abandon Jupiter. With no upgrade path to Luna and a
radically different setup all around, I don't think it merits any more
updates.

On 5 March 2012 11:25, Cassidy James <c@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> What do you all think about pushing out a simple update to Jupiter with a
> backported version of our GTK theme? We already have a decent version of
> the GTK3 theme backported to GTK2, and it'd be really simple to push it to
> the Jupiter repos.
>
> I've actually already done it on my Jupiter machine and it looks really
> nice. All I had to do was copy the gtkrc file from the egtk trunk and add
> back in some includes at the bottom. There are some things I'd like to get
> ironed out in the theme itself, but it looks identical to the GTK2 theme
> for Luna.
>
> The main differences from the current Jupiter theme are the menus (white
> instead of dark gray) and the blue color (more saturated). Of course we'd
> want to test it sufficiently and I plan to do so for the next week or two.
>
> As I see it, there are two main arguments: 1. Push it to Jupiter to ease
> the transition to Luna, show that we're still improving things, and because
> it's pretty; and 2. Don't push it to Jupiter to make the difference between
> it and Luna bigger, to prevent unexpected changes to the theme, and because
> it's Jupiter and we don't care about it anymore.
>
> Let me know what you think. Regardless, I'll continue to test it on my
> machine and can help anyone else do the same.
>
> Regards,
> Cassidy James
>
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