An suggestion for having all your themes in one place

[austinrojers]

Description of feature

Hey there @JezerM, I wondered if you could add glorious, aether, and litarvan themes here: https://github.com/JezerM/web-greeter/tree/master/themes, instead of someone would have to clone your fork and copy it to /usr/share/web-greeter/themes/?

In the case of litarvan you also have to build it first.

[JezerM]

Hi~ I think that's not possible.

web-greeter should only contain its own themes. Third party themes are needed to be manually installed because of these reasons:

• Some of them needs a build process, so it would mean to include a built theme or build them on web-greeter's build process; it's a lot to maintain.
• They have different Licenses, therefore they can affect the current web-greeter license.
• Because of their Licenses (and even without them), I think it's unethical to include 3rd party themes without their consent.
• Also, the recognition of these themes could be lowered if installed from other ways (web-greeter).
• Even if some of them are my forks, they aren't mines.

Unless the themes are completely abandoned and I decided to work on them with lots of changes and improvements, they won't be included as part of web-greeter.

The most I could do it's to reference them inside the README.

[austinrojers]

Oh, I didn't know that. Sorry for my ignorance.

[JezerM]

No problem~

[austinrojers]

One more suggestion from my side is, you could edit the readme file of your theme forks according to your installation instructions? The instructions there are for the original project and could be a little confusing.