And as you pointed out, what makes the web (and by extension
computing) so popular is it's absolute inclusiveness. If a
"www.fedora-themes.org" (or whatever) becomes a popular, well
trafficked and active site that anyone is free to submit work to, then
a year from now, the fact that users download theme "x" 90% of the
time will tell the Fedora developers "hey- you need to look at this".
If something like that doesn't take off, they're not encumbered with a
few people trying to vote on whether icon "y" should be blue or green.
And in either case, that group of 5 users who want a Jimi
Hendrix/Darth Vader theme in ancient sanskrit can still have that,
too.
IMO, what is needed is a tool to easily create cross-desktop bitmap
themes (icon themes, GTK/XUL/QT widget styles and Metacity themes all in
one tool), and a website to browse/download install them easily (as
Fedora RPMs).
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Julien Olivier <julo(a)altern.org>