Hello colleagues, I asked Jacub, he answered that he didn't touch DMZ theme for ages and does not remember where it was hosted. So at a first glance I wanted to just create repo on Github and start there from scratch taking SVGs from current Debian packaging.
The major issue is absence of animated spinner anywhere in SVGs, I guess it must be the mentioned tango-spinner.blender. So right now I seem to be stuck with this, as I don't have required artistic skills. On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 19:31, Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 7:21 PM Марьин Денис wrote: > > > So, if I got it right, the very first step might be to fork > https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/dmz-cursor-theme right? > > No, that would just fork the Debian packaging, you need a new upstream > location for the DMZ cursor theme. The old location was on gitorious > in the openSUSE art repository. Looking at Repology and also at a web > search, there are a few potential upstreams (listed below), but none > of them seem very official or active and none seem to have done it > properly by forking the old openSUSE art repository. So all of them > are missing the Blender source file tango-spinner.blend, not sure if > any of the cursor images used that though. I think it is important to > keep the history of the theme by forking the old openSUSE art > repository. I note that the original author of the DMZ cursor theme is > Jakub Steiner <[email protected]> so it would probably also be a good > idea to seek his advice on what to do about the maintenance of the DMZ > cursor theme. > > https://gitorious.org/opensuse/art > https://repology.org/project/dmz-cursor-theme/packages > https://github.com/GalliumOS/dmz-cursor-theme/ > https://github.com/ganwell/dmz-cursors > https://github.com/madsrh/yet-another-DMZ-cursor-theme/ > > > Then left-handed cursors might be added there, and then something should > happen for Debian maintainers to pick up this repo. > > I'm looking at the DMZ cursor theme package in Debian and I see that > there are actually already some left and right handed cursor images, > but not for all of the images. The same goes for the default GNOME > cursor theme Adwaita. Unfortunately I don't know how to make GNOME use > a left handed cursor, making the mouse left-handed instead of right > handed changes the click side but not the cursor image. > > Any new cursor images should be added in the new upstream location, so > that all distros who package the DMZ cursor theme can get the new > cursor images. > > In addition, all the PNG images should get deleted from the repository > and instead they should be created automatically at build time using > the rendering script, so that everyone gets the source SVGs and knows > that they can modify them and re-render the cursor images. > > > I am going to try forking and adding, but unfortunately I have no idea > how to signal Debian guys to pick up my repo. > > Once there is a new upstream location for development of the DMZ > cursor theme, then you can file a bug against the Debian > dmz-cursor-theme package asking for it to use the new upstream. Then > also do the same thing for the other packages listed on Repology so > everyone gets the new theme. > > PS: I note that GNOME no longer uses the DMZ cursor theme so I expect > the Debian GNOME team would orphan the package and leave updating it > to someone who uses it. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise >
