laughlin-backgrounds-gnome size increase

[Martin Sourada]

On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 18:15 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 19:34 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> 
> > > That grew by 1MB, probably due to
> > > increased complexity of the wallpaper. I'd investigate this one more
> > > throughout if I were you.
> > 
> > If I were or a member of the design team I would not push changes like
> > this one that late. I think this level of carelessness is inappropriate.
> > 
> > There are three solutions:
> >       * A gnome-desktop-libs package, but it is too late to change for
> >         F14.
> >       * Make gnome-desktop not depend on system-backgrounds-gnome.
> >       * Revert the changes on laughlin-backgrounds-gnome.
> 
> The system-backgrounds (-gnome) virtual provides were introduced with
> for the explicit purpose of making gnome-desktop require them...
> 
> Imo, reverting the changes to the background packages is the most
> conservative and appropriate action at this time.
This is a big no-no because:
      * it would degrade the quality of wallpaper (yes, the time-of-day
        addition wasn't the only thing that was done to the wallpaper)
      * it would reintroduce errors in cc-by attribution for the extras
        subpackage

Since the time is tight I'm going now to do the following update
      * move the time-of-day images to l-b-animated(-gnome), rename and
        move there also current XMLs with description and info (so that
        it can be installed concurrent with the default)
      * recreate the XMLs for non-animated wallpaper and put them in
        l-b-gnome
      * run optipng on all images

This would effectively revert the size bump of l-b-gnome while keeping
the other changes and giving the user choice to use animated wallpaper.

Would be nice though, if you could then change the desktop spin
kickstart to use the animated version of the wallpaper by default as
we'd like to see it used on it.

Thanks,
Martin
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