On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...> wrote:
> 2012/3/5 Fran�ois 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.

I actually had one of my friends ask me why I suddenly started using
Ubuntu -- he recognized the logo on one of the icons and heard me
talking about Linux awhile back (he could vividly remember me
describing the problems I had with Ubuntu in my days as a young
grasshopper in the world of Linux).

The artwork definitely needs to be generic. Even the TDM reference to
Ubuntu needs changed -- I changed the theme the other day and when I
turned on my laptop next, I was greeted with "Welcome to Ubuntu" (or
something to that effect).

Adding distro-agnositc options to cmake to change icons that most
distros would change is definitely a good idea. Possibly even for the
default greeting for KDM.

--
Kristopher Gamrat