1st Meeting: 5 Sep (Tue) 20:00UTC (irc.oftc.net - #debian-meeting)
The agenda was:
- How we're handling login screen, wallpapers and splash screens
- Template images for login screens, wallpapers and splash screens
- desktop-base or multiple source packages
- Roadmap for Etch and Etch+1
See the full log
Summary posted by Bart Cornelis (cobaco) on debian-desktop mailing list:
items discussed and their summary:
1. How are we handling login screen, wallpapers and splash screens
- We have the following items to theme:
- xfce: wallpaper, splash (needs patch)
- gnome: wallpaper, splash
- gdm: loginscreen
- kde: wallpaper (uuencoded as patch today), splash, login screen these are 'core' of our artwork initiative, let's us focus on that 1st
2. Template images/guidelines for login screens, wallpapers and splash screens
- Agreed that we need guidelines for at least 8 items named in 1)
- Gustavo Franco (stratus) will coordinate common guidelines efforts between the teams:
- pkg-gnome: Loic Minier (lool), Josselin Mouette (Np239)
- pkg-kde: Fathi Boudra (fabo)
- pkg-xfce: Rudy Godoy (sTone_heAd), Yves-Alexis Perez (Corsac)
- first requires technical guidelines for the implementations
- guidelines targetted at pkg-$foo teams initially, but also at people such as derivatives, or local sites which need an artwork / theme for GNOME or KDE or XFCE
3. desktop-base or multiple source packages
- general agreement for 1 common source package (desktop-base) building multiple (per project) binaries
- requirement: the artwork packages should be parallel installable, even mutliple artworks for same desktop at the same time
4. Roadmap for Etch and Etch+1
- generally inconclusive: let's see what we get done
- We want:
- have a common guidelines for at least 8 elements of our desktop
- use a common source package building multiple binaries
- we can do work on guidelines and the '8 elements in desktop-base' for Etch, we will have the infrastructure and organization to do more (eg: icons, bootsplash and more) Such as, can I install multiple themes, what happens if I install both KDE and GNOME themes how do I configure the default theme for GNOME, for the system
- we need documented use cases
- CDD/derivatives
- Josselin Mouette did to offer gconf overrides -- to my knowledge
- what's 'expensive' in terms of CDD is handle tons of different source packages.
- USE CASE: be able to replace the aforementionned artwork items at a single place
- USE CASE: provide means to ship multiple artwork in Debian, and even more in derivatives, installable at the same time with some central logic to configure the global artwork precendence
- we need a single source package to hold the *defaults* for Debian
- CDD/derivatives