[Design-team] Wallpaper refresh

[Jaroslav Reznik]

Hi Martin!
I
On Thursday 22 April 2010 23:08:25 Martin Sourada wrote:
> Hi Jaroslav,
> 
> On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 10:34 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 April 2010 07:38:57 pm Martin Sourada wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 17:39 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:54:29PM +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
> > > > > Because of the changes we need to also update
> > > > > desktop-backgrounds-compat, I've already pinged Chris Wickert about
> > > > > that (my ACL on commints on desktop-backgrounds is still pending
> > > > > and he seems to be the only one doing the changes there...)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Martin
> > > > 
> > > > Brilliant, Martin!
> > > 
> > > Chris submitted the update. Please test and give positive karma :)
> > > 
> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/desktop-backgrounds-9.0.0-14,go
> > > ddar d-backgrounds-13.0.0-1.fc13
> > 
> > Hi Martin,
> > this update switches from PNG to JPG - this breaks KDE theming. KSplashX
> > even does not support JPG as splash background. Could be -kde subpackage
> > shipping PNG's a solution? Kevin Kofler prepared initial JPG support
> > patch for KSplashX but it's probably too late to do a proper testing.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584603
> 
> Argh, sorry about the breakage, this time I remembered about
> desktop-backgrounds and such, but forgot you depend on this for KDM and
> KSplash as well (and for the packaging I just take what I'm given and I
> always thought there were problems neither with PNGs nor JPGs [we used
> both formats for our backgrounds in the past])...
> 
> After reading the bug, I'm not sure if you still need the PNGs? IMHO the
> best solution at this point would be to put a PNG copy (you could even
> generate it at build time from one of the JPGs with e.g. ImageMagick)
> into the KSplash package.
> 
> For others -- perhaps we should, starting with F14, use only PNGs for
> backgrounds, or at least do *not* change the format post beta?

I was out on Friday and whole weekend as I was organizing Openmobility 
conference. Rex worked on it, I'm about checking his fix. I'll let you know 
asap.

Would be great for F-14 to go with PNG only, format change after beta is 
problem and same problem is applying Kevin's fix for KSplash - it's too late 
for inclusion to F-13. Maybe we can try to make it possible to F-14 but the 
reason for limited support of fileformats is speed - splash should be as quick 
as possible - so currently KSplash even isn't proper Qt application. So we 
should check performance impact first.

Jaroslav

> Regards,
> Martin

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