That doesn't sound right. According to the Help available from the
Themes control panel, the theme should be tarred and gzip'd when you
install it. I did try tar -zxf on one and got a directory that the
installer didn't know what to do with.
Hugh
> * /From/: Tommy Eliassen <pusle pusle com>
> * /To/: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> <fedora-test-list redhat com>
> * /Subject/: Re: Metacity Themes?
> * /Date/: Sat, 01 May 2004 01:47:42 +0200
>
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>
> Are themes broken in Test 3? I can use the pre-installed themes,
> but I can't seem to install any new ones; the list of themes
> doesn't get updated.
>
> Hugh
>
>
> I may be totally off here, but to get themes installed, I first
> downloaded the skin (ofcourse..), then I tar -xvzf'it, installed the
> .tar file and then installed the .theme file (from the theme dialog).
> It seemed to work for me, but I may have been drunk at the time since
> it was friday night, and I have saturday off.
>
> -Tommy-
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