Op Tue, 4 Dec 2012 19:26:25 +0100 schreef Marek Buras <[email protected]>:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 05:24:49PM +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote: > > Yes, changing wmaker would still be necessary for the desired > > dependency, but this way the change to the upstream package would be > > smaller. > > > [SNIP] > > > > Sorry, I should have been more specific. Your background looked > > fine, I didn't really check if it was exactly the right color. I > > was more referring to the overall look, e.g. window decorations. > > But I'm not sure if Galaxia's gtk theme can be ported to > > WindowMaker or even if that would look appealing. Whatever you > > decide to do with that is fine with me. > > > > If you decide to follow it, then Felipe might like to add it to his > > source. And we could make wmaker-theme-gnewsense a binary of that > > source package (which I have half finished on my disk) instead of a > > separate package. > > > > I tried few approaches while working on wmaker package and in the end > it look's like the best thing to do is just replace default Debian > branding (so called "swirl theme") with our own combination of theme > file and one of walpapers made by Felipe. WindowMaker is not very > popular these days and typical gNewSense user will use GNOME > probably, so he won't care about this package. Splitting artwork from > core wmaker package would be great idea (then artists could work only > on this part without touching wmaker installation procedures), but > currently it complicate things a little (it's not hard to do it, but > still it takes time and we have to install additional theme package). > > As for porting all Galaxia theme to WindowMaker - sure, it's possible > and not that hard even, but unfortunatelly I suck at anything related > to art (including the art of coding ;)), so my creation will probably > suck too ;) From the technical point of view all this porting effort > is equivalent to changing "gNewSense" file inside "Themes" directory > and setting particular colours there (we can get the colours from > metacity configuration). But it will take some time and considering > "popularity factor"... well... noone will care about it I think. > > So, maybe we should stick with this humble Galaxia-like el-cheapo > "gNewSense+wallpaper" thing integrated into wmaker package and not > splitting anything? No problem. You're right about popularity and I'll take your word about your art skills. :p It doesn't look like a difficult or volatile package, so adding the artwork directly is fine. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
