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Themes.org Returning

Posted by Hemos on from the i-will-return! dept.

Well, a number of readers noted, and I've been on X-Chat with ElCoronel and technoir regarding themes.org. It's been down for the last day or so due to some technical difficulties (hard drive go buh-bye!), but it should be returning soon -- it was not Apple seizing the hardware, like a couple of submitters had thought.Most of you probably noticed that Themes is back-up - thanks to Patrick Ashmore, Tony Ramos, and Marc Merlin (and anyone else I forgot) for riding the evil-hell bus of late night sysadmining, finding the problem and fixing it.

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  1. Re:X Themes by Genom · · Score: 3

    Hmm...I'm not sure it's an actual do-able idea - but I'd start with ONE wm, and make it compatible with the rest - then add the others.

    For example...the original poster's itch was using Windowmaker themes in Sawfish. OK - first you have to make a "generic" Windowmaker theme for Sawfish (or if there's already a good one available, modify that) with "hooks" for the various Windowmaker theme components (gradients, pixmaps, etc...) -- then you'll have to make a parser that goes through the Windowmaker theme, and converts everything to a format your meta-theme can understand.

    I'm not much of a programmer myself (I dabble in perl a bit) but that's a heckuva lot more complicated than I just made it sound. =)

    The real problems will come when you're trying to convert a theme from an "uber-shell wm" like Enlightenment (that has many, many different configs) to a more restrictive wm, like Windowmaker.

  2. Re:Siezing? by mjpaci · · Score: 3
    I just got an image in my head of a bunch of Apple stormtroopers, looking much like the Star Wars versions, except with different colored, large, shiny apple logos on their chest, marching in and siezing hardware


    Shouldn't the stormtroopers' whole body armor be in the iMac colors? Ruby, Indigo, Snow, Sage, Graphite, Tangarine, etc.


    Mike

  3. Siezing? by dimator · · Score: 3

    it was *not* Apple seizing the hardware

    I just got an image in my head of a bunch of Apple stormtroopers, looking much like the Star Wars versions, except with different colored, large, shiny apple logos on their chest, marching in and siezing hardware. And Jeff Goldblum, dressed in black, coming in right behind them, saying "I want those themes.org maintainers alive!"


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    --
    python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
  4. Re:Apple hatred by janpod66 · · Score: 3
    Apple can't legally "grab" their hardware, but if they could make a case that themes.org keeps violating their intellectual property, they could probably get some local police department to pull the plug. In addition, Apple has a pretty rocky history when it comes to intellectual property claims against others. And Jobs isn't exactly known for being the most restrained executive in the world either.

    So, yes, many people are suspicious of Apple, and based on Apple's history, there is some reason for that. I think one can ask with equal justification why so many people are so in love with Apple. The truth is probably somewhere in between: Apple is primarily a money-making venture; innovation, law suits, image, style, quality, open source, and other issues are merely means to that end. Sometimes, they may be genuine, sometimes they are merely faked.