Re: original wallpapers
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:37:16PM -0700, Henrik W Lund wrote: > Bart??omiej Rutkowski wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Can anybody tell me to who I shall mail with question about my wallpaper > >submission to became 'official' and about chances fot that? I think about > >somebody form freebsd dev team. > > > >Thanks for any reply, r. > > > Greetings! > > You could just do a send-pr(1), I guess. It's the regular way for us > mere mortals to submit patches, suggestions and the like. You do run a > risk of it getting missed, though, so making friends with a committer > would probably make actually getting things committed a bit easier. > > Mind you, though, committers are shy creatures - they mostly stick to > themselves, emerging from their hideouts only to discuss really > important commits among themselves (talking out of my ass here, of > course ;-) ). Alternatively, you may have a better chance of getting > one's attention over on -hackers or -current (although I probably would > go the send-pr(1) route. -hackers and -current are rather strictly > on-topic, I imagine). I think a send-pr and then wait two week before sending to maillinglist would be the way to go. One could also try www or doc maillinglists. A port seems like a lot of trouble for a couple wallpapers. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: original wallpapers
On 2004-09-22 23:01, Henrik W Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > True - I didn't think of that. In light of this, making a port does seem > like the best solution, yes. That way, more wallpapers can easily be added > too. Yep. A lot of people would find it very convenient if you (or anyone else for that matter) bundled some freely available wallpapers to a nice port, which would install in a breeze. Smart port hackers might even categorize these wallpapers and add a WITH_RESOLUTION option to the port, which would allow one to select a particular set of wallpapers or just "all". Indeed, a port sounds cool. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: original wallpapers
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:37:16PM -0700, Henrik W Lund wrote: Bart??omiej Rutkowski wrote: Actually, a better route would be to make a port of the wall paper. The base system doesn't hold much stuff that is strictly decorative, and it doesn't include X window system stuff either. All that generally comes from the ports. True - I didn't think of that. In light of this, making a port does seem like the best solution, yes. That way, more wallpapers can easily be added too. -Henrik W Lund ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: original wallpapers
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:37:16PM -0700, Henrik W Lund wrote: > Bart??omiej Rutkowski wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Can anybody tell me to who I shall mail with question about my wallpaper > >submission to became 'official' and about chances fot that? I think about > >somebody form freebsd dev team. > > > >Thanks for any reply, r. > > > Greetings! > > You could just do a send-pr(1), I guess. It's the regular way for us > mere mortals to submit patches, suggestions and the like. You do run a > risk of it getting missed, though, so making friends with a committer > would probably make actually getting things committed a bit easier. > > Mind you, though, committers are shy creatures - they mostly stick to > themselves, emerging from their hideouts only to discuss really > important commits among themselves (talking out of my ass here, of > course ;-) ). Alternatively, you may have a better chance of getting > one's attention over on -hackers or -current (although I probably would > go the send-pr(1) route. -hackers and -current are rather strictly > on-topic, I imagine). Actually, a better route would be to make a port of the wall paper. The base system doesn't hold much stuff that is strictly decorative, and it doesn't include X window system stuff either. All that generally comes from the ports. See the Porter's Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html for instructions on how to create and submit a port. As you're pretty much just downloading a single file and installing it to some location under /usr/X11R6 without having to do any compilation or anything, it should be a pretty simple port to create. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgph13U2nwQSA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: original wallpapers
BartÅomiej Rutkowski wrote: Hi, Can anybody tell me to who I shall mail with question about my wallpaper submission to became 'official' and about chances fot that? I think about somebody form freebsd dev team. Thanks for any reply, r. Greetings! You could just do a send-pr(1), I guess. It's the regular way for us mere mortals to submit patches, suggestions and the like. You do run a risk of it getting missed, though, so making friends with a committer would probably make actually getting things committed a bit easier. Mind you, though, committers are shy creatures - they mostly stick to themselves, emerging from their hideouts only to discuss really important commits among themselves (talking out of my ass here, of course ;-) ). Alternatively, you may have a better chance of getting one's attention over on -hackers or -current (although I probably would go the send-pr(1) route. -hackers and -current are rather strictly on-topic, I imagine). Hope this helps! -Henrik W Lund ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
