On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:08, Fathi Boudra wrote:
> just the timing is the problem, for Etch or post Etch ...
Ok here's my take:
For Etch:
1) agreement from the different pkg-foo packages that there should be a
common theme
-> done?
2) agreement that this will be setup by a common source package
(desktop-base)
-> done?
3) setup common neutral repository for desktop-base, and some people from
the various DE's with commit rights who collectively maintain it
-> there's a debian-desktop project on alioth, is it currently used for
anything?
4) decide on a set of artwork to include in etch
-> start with 1 set of the 8 items identified in the meeting
(debblue?)
5) package the artwork and configuration to activate it
-> start with putting everything in desktop-base refactor in 1 source
package with multiple binaries later ?
-> the meeting log say something about pkg-config overrides for gnome
-> xfce and kde can be configured by defining a config-set and using
desktop-profiles to activate it (as demonstrated by #348702)
=> just needs some work, no real problems here AFAICT, I'll volunteer to
create the config sets for xfce and kde if someone can tell me which
artwork to use.
Post-etch:
- have some clear documentation of the requirements for the artwork, size
format, ...
- have a contest for more and better artwork
- enlarge the scope of desktop-base to do more:
+ more elements (icons, bootsplash, ...)
+ tweaks to upstream default configuration sets.
- ...
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Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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