The new Official fvwm.themes.org site

[Alex W. <aw...@do...>]

After many discussions on irc.openprojects.net #themes.org a simple
compromise has been agreed upon.

Since themes.org is about to undergo extensive upgrades and
modifications to their site, it was deemed unsuitable to try to setup
fvwm.themes.org pages with the old PHP sytem which is due to be replaced
with hopefully a more user friendly version. So....

It was decided to put up a temporary "Coming Soon!" page with a link to
awol.themes.org which will be just a shell account with webspace, where
I'll put the pages I've cobbled together by stealing and rearranging
snippets from fvwm-themes.sourceforge.net pages and some docs from the
package.

At the moment the new pages are simply just a bunch of text files with
no graphics, but they spell out the main details of where/how/what/why
of fvwm-themes imho. :)

I've attached them as a small 13k tarball for any comments before I
upload them.

Let me know ASAP if you think any changes are necessary.

Perhaps I should start a separate thread for this.....
On the subject of themes and themes.org, I've given some thought to the
needs of users generally. There are those users who are minimalists, and
possibly wouldn't necessarily like to install ALL the themes available.
Perhaps they might like to only install one or two themes, or even just
write their own.

Can I suggest a feature request, although I've no idea how difficult it
may be. Can another option be added to the make rpm-dist cparams(or
other) to only include certain themes? Or none at all except default?
Then all the other themes we have can be packaged separately for d/l
from the fvwm.themes.org site when it's running.

At this stage I realise the themes themselves are dictating the design
of the overall structure of the project, but eventually they should be
separated anyway.
Of course there's no reason why there can't be a minimum required number
of themes. I just think 12 is too many.

IMO the "basic" fvwm-themes package could contain only say
default/afterstep/blackbox/cde/redmond98 and all the other themes could
be add-ons or contained in the FULL version.

Just an idea.


Alex