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<refentrytitle>History</refentrytitle>

<refmiscinfo>Notification Themes History</refmiscinfo>

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<title>History of Notifications Themes</title>

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Each project has had unique experiences with their attempts to

implement themes. As such we feel it beneficial to discuss them

here to explain why we are looking for a specific format to adopt.

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<title>Guifications</title>

<para>

Themes were initially introduced in Guifications 2.x to combat

a growing problem that Gary Kramlich saw; In Guifications 1.x

users had the ability to customize the background image and the

text seen in the notifications. This meant, that for someone

to have the same or similiar notifications as another, that

they would have to copy their settings manually. This was

unacceptable. Thus a theme format was created.

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<para>

It was aparent around the time of Guifications 2.4 that the

theme format would not scale to quite what Gary wanted.

Unfortunately, due to the amount of 3rd party themes already

created, it was decided that the necessary changes would go

into Guifications 3 rather than a Guifications 2.x release.

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