The truth about Themes in Fedora's GTK 2.2

[nikozai]

I've been having the same problem as everyone else with Fedora's themes and I just realized the main problem all the noobies are having with Themes is that they're downloading Non-GTK 2.2 themes. They're getting the ones for an earlier version.
And out of the dozens of threads i read it would have been nice of you experts to realize and point that out BUT you didn't - you insulted every noobie and gave them bad advice... i'm disappointed. Mechanics on car forums are more patient and knowledgable in their craft than you self proclaimed linux geniuses seem to be. Hopefully i've deflated your ego enough to get a responce other than "RTFM" out of you.

Now how about some expert post me a serious "HOW TO convert earlier GTK themes to 2.2"
AND, explain the directories to make them universal - /usr/share/themes and /usr/share/icons etc...

Thanks in advance. ~ Nikozai

[crackers]

Dear nikozai,

Since this is your first post, I'm going to be generous and offer you some advice, publicly. (I'm also doing this publicly so that others can read and respond, if they so wish, after I've moved the thread to a more appropriate place.)

This is a volunteer forum, and many of the people who post here are not experts. Most have won their knowledge through countless personal screwups and countless hours of reading and chasing little facts all over the WorldWideWeb. Because of that, the people who attempt to help others are doing so based on personal knowledge and not necessarily because they've exhaustively examined the code.

Usually, if you'll note in many of the posts here, there's always "we need more information." If more information is not forthcoming, the best the person attempting to aid another can do is guess. Nowhere in the threads you seem to be speaking about is there any mention of the themes that are downloaded belonging to a previous version. The messages, typically from someone completely new to Linux, are quite devoid of that kind of information. This is the typical knowledge gap that exists between a novice and someone who's already made their mistakes.

You, yourself, have presented a solution, which is a guess because you don't know for sure exactly what someone else has done. You have, in fact, done exactly what you accuse others of doing. On Usenet, this is called "pot, kettle, black." (You also would have been "flamed" into something resembling a small pile of ash, but I digress...)

And then you follow it with a demand for an explicit explanation. After being so insulted and castigated, what makes you think the "experts" would bother giving you the time of day?

My advice to you: take a chill pill, re-read the words you have written and consider how you would feel being on the receiving end of them.