customizing Fedora Core 2

[Rex Dieter]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Aaron Bennett wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 12:08, Rex Dieter wrote:
>
>>>
>>> - change the Gnome theme
>>
>> If using kde-redhat packages (at least our gtk+/gtk2/redhat-artwork rpms),
>
> eek.  I'm using Gnome only.

These packages: gtk+,gtk2,redhat-artwork in question are not kde-specific 
at all.

>> p.s.  I thought I'd at least ask if there is any possibility of getting
>> this "using alternatives to set the system default theme/style" idea into
>> Fedora Core.  What say you?  We've been using it now for a couple of years
>> in the kde-redhat project, and our implementation is fairly simple and
>> robust.
>>
>>
>
> I'm all for that.  Is it really true that there's no easy way to change
> the default theme without using Rex's kde-redhat packages?

Not without rebuilding at least the 3 rpms I mentioned.  They have 
redhat-artwork(Bluecurve) hardcoded as the default theme.

-- Rex