Installing Themes - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual

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10.3 Installing Themes

A theme is a group of coordinated settings that specifies the visual appearance of a part
of the GNOME Desktop. Users can select themes to change the appearance of the
GNOME Desktop.
A theme contains settings that affect different parts of the GNOME Desktop, as follows:
Controls
Determines the visual appearance of windows, panels, and applets. It also determines
the visual appearance of the GNOME-compliant interface items that appear on
windows, panels, and applets (such as menus, icons, and buttons). Some of the
controls setting options that are available are designed for special accessibility
needs. Users can select an option for the controls setting from the Controls tabbed
section in the Theme preference tool.
Window frame
Determines the appearance of the frames around windows only. Users can select
an option for the window frame setting from the Window Border tabbed section
in the Theme preference tool.
Icon
Determines the appearance of the icons on panels and the desktop background.
Users can select an option for the icon setting from the Icons tabbed section in the
Theme preference tool.
10.3.1 Theme Index File
Each theme has an index file which defines the characteristics of the theme. The name
of the index file is /opt/gnome/share/themes/theme-name/index.theme.
The following is a sample theme index file:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=X-GNOME-Metatheme
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