Re: Announcing a Debian wallpaper package.
On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Steve Kemp wrote:
> After a mention in the Debian weekly news I've received a lot
> of interesting feedback, and the base package is now much improved.
Many thanks.
> Would anybody care to recommend any freely distributable Debian
> wallpaper images I could use? I'd be keen to see the base
> package, and a wallpapers-debian enter the archive at some point
> in the future.
I would really like that. Moreover I think you could add an xsceensaver
plugin to cycle these images as screen saver.
> (If there are no *cough*bloat*cough* objections..)
No objections from my side, but some remarks:
1. You should provide linux-sphere1.png instead of linux-sphere1.gif.
(Not unly that gif sucks the png is in fact smaller in this special
case.)
2. You should mention the origin from where you obtained this image
from and add a license statement in the copyright file.
3. Regarding those two images you obtained from my site I would strongly
recommend to replace them. I just uploaded a strange resolution
for these images.
Moreover I found a clue how to handle different screen resolutions.
I tried to iron out this in a wallpapers-at package which is
available at
http://people.debian.org/~tille/debian-background/
So in fact I would not ask you to replace the images in your package
but just *use* my package with my images. Feel free to provide this
package at your side. I do not plan to make an apt-get - able archive
in the next couple of days, but I will add some further images if
people like them.
If you want to provide this wallpaper-at package from your side I
should add a "{Depends|Suggests}: wallpaper-common", but I currently
left this out because people who might step over the packages not
necessarily know about your fine packages.
Kind regards and thanks for your good work
Andreas.
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