[Phpmyadmin-devel] Theme names and advertising

[Marc Delisle]

Sebastian Mendel a écrit :
> Thijs Kinkhorst schrieb:
>> On Monday 14 May 2007 11:25, Sebastian Mendel wrote:
>>> yes, and by this we 'force' the author to use names we 'aprove' ... this is
>>> not what i would call free or open ...
>> Freedom goes both ways: the author is free to name is theme how he wants, 
>> phpmyadmin is free to decide what they think is desirable about naming 
>> conventions, especially if it is phpmyadmin that is doing the "work" of 
>> distributing it. 
> 
> yes, and i think phpMyAdmin should give the authors the freedom to name they
> themes as they want.
> 
> but i still do not know about what names we are talking

We got these submissions:

$theme_name = 'MySQL SynergyMX.com';

and

/* Theme by Pixeline (http://www.pixeline.be) */
$theme_name = 'Pixeline';

See in the Themes tracker.

> 
> 
>> I'd keep theme names generic in any case
> 
> how generic?
> 
> Blue_Orange?
> 
> a second blue orange themes should be called
> 
> Blue_Orange_Other_Icons
> 
> a third blue orange themes should be called
> 
> Blue_Orange_Other_Icons_and_smaller_text
> 
> ...
> 
> i don't think 'generic' is always a good choice for themes ...
> 
> 
> i do not know other software that have restrictions on theme names ...
> 
>