Bug#385026: Possible workaround to this bug

[Attilio Fiandrotti]

Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> [this is just a "are we sure that what we're doing is necessary" mail]
> 
> Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
> 
>>Josselin Mouette wrote:
>>
>>>Le jeudi 12 octobre 2006 à 10:19 +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>>>I really suggest including the clearlooks engine into the gtkdfb udeb
>>>>right now, test it and make sure it works correctly in the case this
>>>>bugs couldn't be fixed in time for RC1.
>>>
>>>
>>>In all cases this would have to be a different udeb, as clearlooks is
>>>included in the gtk2-engines source.
>>>
>>>It also means revamping the gtk2-engines build process so it's not
>>>trivial, but certainly feasible.
>>
>>My idea was including clearlooks engine dfb flavour into
>>libgtk-directfb-2.0-0-udeb package.
>>I know this is not very clean, but as a temporary solution, given also
>>the time of the release we are , could be an acceptable solution.
>>Something similar [1] was also done to provide the g-i the dfbinfo tool.
> 
> 
> I have seen that Denis Barbier was able to apply the hicontrast theme to
> G-I just fine without the engine. Is the engine really necessary? (I
> never understood what is the pupose of those, so I could use some light
> on the subject).
> 

I guess it was because that theme uses the libpixmap engine, which is 
already part of gtk source package.. or not?