Bug#1038660: desktop-base: please set a placeholder theme during development, different from any release
Package: desktop-base
Version: 12.0.6
Severity: normal
Tags: trixie sid
Now that Debian 12 has been released, the version of desktop-base in
testing should no longer include Debian 12 branding, so that the testing
installer will be visually distinct from the Debian 12 stable release.
The simplest possible implementation of this would be to remove the "12"
from all the art components, but I think it would be better to use artwork
that is obviously different.
One simple "programmer-art" way to do that would be to desaturate the
Debian 12 artwork down to greyscale to make it obviously a placeholder,
or rotate the hue to make it a different colour.
However, it might be nicer (and definitely more fun!) to have a theme
specifically for Debian in its alpha/beta state, with a sense of "this is
under construction", to be replaced by a proper Debian 13 theme closer
to the Debian 13 freeze. Some of the contributors who were helping with
debian-cd testing during the Debian 12 release process had a similar
thought a while ago, and got as far as preparing a background image for
this purpose - I'll ask them to follow up here.
Prior art: GNOME applications built from their alpha/beta branches often
have yellow and black stripes (resembling hazard tape) overlaying part
of their icon, and a gear-wheel motif in the titlebar, to distinguish
them from the stable version of the same application.
smcv
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