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In computing, a theme is a preset package containing graphical appearance details, used to customise the Look And Feel of (typically) an operating system, Widget Set or Window Manager . Graphics themes for individual applications are often referred to as Skins , and the words may be equivalent. BETTER THAN HAVING SPECIFIC SETTINGS? Themes are often used to change the appearance of a wide range of things at once, which makes them much less Granular than allowing the user to set each option individually. For example, you might want the window-borders from a particular theme, but installing it would also alter your desktop background. One method for dealing with this is to allow the user to select which parts of the theme they want to load, for example in Windows98, you could load the background and screensaver from a theme, but leave your icons and sounds untouched. THEMED SYSTEMS
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