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Month: March 2012

Re: [trinity-devel] Distribution-specific theme

From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 18:50:53 -0500
2012/3/5 François ANDRIOT <francois.andriot@...>:
> Hello,
> I'm packaging TDE for RHEL and Fedora, but trying to keep each distribution
> specific artwork (at least, the default wallpaper, and the default "start"
> button in kicker). That way, TDE looks like it is integrated in each distro.
>
> To do so, I currently modify the default 'startkde' script, so that default
> user preference file are created upon first login.
> In fact, there are ubuntu-specific stuff in the default startkde script, I
> just wrote a patch that replaces ubuntu stuff with RHEL/Fedora stuff.

This ubuntu stuff should be removed - anything extra should patched
distro by distro I think.

> Should we consider an easy way (e.g. a cmake directive ...) to put the
> distribution-specific artwork at build time ?

I think a distro-agnostic way to do it would be best - If cmake could
handle this that would be good. TDE as a project should ship only
distro independent packages, then packagers can add their stuff back
in.

Calvin