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Swim's design gives it the ability to implement features which were once |
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Most people involved with WM (Window Managers) have heard of themes. |
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Themes have become very popular. You can design a real cool look for your |
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WM and then pass it on to other people to recreate what you have. But, |
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who ever thought that themes could also apply to distributions? The only |
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requirement to develop a theme from the Debian distributions is to create |
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a customized Packages database. Apt can take it from there, by simply |
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clearing the old cache, making a new cache from this Package, and |
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installing everything. This theme can even be installed along with an |
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existing installation because apt will figure out what needs to be done. |
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Themes can easily be made using swim. Here's a list of ideas. |
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* A module with the capability of taking the output from apt, and creating |
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a database which would correlate to a successful installation without ever |
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installing one package. This would essentially be a not-installed |
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database with one major difference, this database would represent the real |
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state of a successful installation. This would allow a developer to test |
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a hypothetical installation, and look at it's structure. Then a Packages |
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file could be made from this database and tested on a real installation. |
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Although this module doesn't exist, yet, it could easily be made with a |
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special designated database interacting with the other functions offered |
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by swim's existing modules. |
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* Swim already allows Packages files to be made from *debs placed in the |
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DF - including creating a place for a personalized distribution (coming). |
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A person can make there own real personalized distribution in this |
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manner, and then share their unique Packages file with the rest of the |
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world, allowing other people to recreate the state of your own |
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distribution on their machines. |
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