How hard is it to maintain themes, and whats involved in doing so.

Thank you

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As ondoho notes that is a hard one to answer. You need:

• patience
• alot of free time to do the work
• graphics art skills
• familiarity with how EFL works
• esp familiarity with EDC files
• understanding gtk themes
• you should be able to use git
• it helps to know how to build proper deb files
• you should know the various way we debug enlightenment/moksha/elementary
• and prob more i forgot to add

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Well, have lots of free time and patience, and barely draw stick figures, and everything else (see below).

One time having a bright idea, as the saying goes, bit off more than one can chew came along.

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As an only current Bodhi theme maintainer I can add to Roberts notes:

• Lots of passion and loyality to the Bodhi project
• To be enough strict to yourself

Stefan

Thanks for everything Stefan, and rbtylee too.

Conclusion, mantaining themes would be way over my head.

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Oh, sorry to discourage you. I do not know your skills and abilities. We just summed list of some abilities we needed to gain to maintain themes. My story is pretty simple. When I started I had zero skills. Nothing from that list apart from time and patience. Believe me or not. What I want to say is, pick up a theme you want to change or take care (probably other than I maintain) and try to understand how it all works. Trial-and-error procedure is a good start. Feel free to ask me or Robert anytime you need help

Stefan

Oh, it depends on what you're theming.
Maintaining GTK3 themes really is near impossible.
Openbox themes otoh do not require maintaining at all since the theme specification hasn't really changed for over a decade. Bodhi does not use openbox, but the same might apply to moksha (e17?).
But it doesn't end there. There's so much more to theme: Qt, GTK2, terminal and console colors.......
So yes, maintaining all that is a lot.
But why don't you start with just one?
And usually you start by modifying an existing theme.
There, I gave you a little finger. Hopefully you won't try to grab my or anybody's whole hand now.
In other words, do some research next. I have given you a few keywords.

By no means nothing what anyone said (wrote) discourages me.

Think for now, just keeping it to visual basic (since 2001/02) and enjoy it. And web related stuff, such as HTML, css, PHP.

Well, just don't have the drive to learn something else.

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BTW, offtopic

Have you heard of GAMBAS? I found Visual Basic for Linux does exist in very good project...

http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

Stefan

I should clarify. Microsoft Visual Basic 6, Gambas isn't entirely the same.

About the first message, given up the idea.

Yes, I know it is not the same. I just wanted to put your attention at that project. BTW, there should be a script which helps importing VB 6 projects to Gambas. But not fully sure. I found Gambas just last week.

Good news for me as I am VB programmer. Mostly VBA to be precise

S

I have an older computer (2000/01/02)* with Windows XP Pro SP3 and Microsoft Visual Basic 6, all it does.

Oh I know, taking this off-topic.

I did install Gambas and looking at it, so who knows.