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[PCMan <pcman.tw@xxxxxxxxx>]

As stated in previous posts, LXAppearance is currently being
rewritten. Today, the rewrite is finished.
Now LXAppearance becomes the most feature-rich Gnome-free gtk+ theme changer.

If the gtk+ theme you use supports color schemes, such as Clearlooks,
you can customize these colors in LXAppearance, just like what you can
do in gnome-appearance-properties.

For screenshot:
http://blog.lxde.org/?attachment_id=780

Later, LXAppearance2  will replace LXAppearance and move to
lxappearance git repository.

Main features of LXApppearance2:
1.Depends on gtk+ only. Can work completely without gnome.
2.Friendly and Gnome HIG compliant user interface
3.Provides real-time preview of the selected themes
4.Changes icon theme
5.Changes cursor theme in a almost desktop independent way.
6.Supports color schemes. You can change the color used by themes if
the themes support gtk color scheme.
7.Able to install/remove icon and cursor themes in a user-friendly way
8.Provides additional options for gtk toolbars
9.Able to turn off event sound provided by libcanberra-gtk-module.
10.Changes default font used by gtk+ applications
11.Although this is a LXDE component, it works perfectly well outside
LXDE and it has no LXDE dependencies.
To get the latest source code in development:
git clone git://lxde.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/lxde/lxappearance2
(This repo will become invalid once the code is moved to master branch
of the original lxappearance repo.)

A note for translators:
Please don't start the translation now. The UI is not frozen now. I'm
still waiting for user feedbacks.
In addition, the English strings need some proof reading before being
translated.
The translation should be started after lxappearance2 is moved to the
original lxappearance repo.
The original master branch of old lxappearance will be moved to
another branch for backup.

Please get it heavily tested and give some feedbacks. Patches are also welcomed.
Cheers!