lxdm, ldxe-common require constantine-backgrounds-single

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 18 14:39:34 UTC 2010


Am Montag, den 15.03.2010, 10:57 +0100 schrieb Martin Sourada: 
> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 10:01 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> 
> > BTW: This applies to Xfce too, xfdesktop also uses the
> > symlink /usr/share/backgrounds/default.png.
> > 
> Well, if you need only this symlink and if it's in -compat it's just as
> easy as pointing the symlink to 
> /usr/share/backgrounds/goddard/default/standard/goddard.png
> 
> and requiring goddard-backgrounds-single

I know, I did it in the F12 release cycle too, although it's not my
package. The package has 17 maintainers (!) but nobody seems to care
about it. So I just stepped up another time and did the update for
F13/Goddard.

> PS: Chris, if you wish to be more informed about backgrounds changes
> (since F12 we are pushing the new backgrounds since Alpha) feel free to
> ask on design team mailing list (design-team AT lists.fp.o) or tell us
> there how/where/when would you like to be notified about the change. I
> usually prepare some basic stuff for gnome and kde myself (the packaging
> work) and then just ping the gnome and kde folks to change their
> defaults to the new one. The KDE folks are also deriving their artwork
> (KDM etc) from ours so they usually are following more closely directly
> on our list.

Sorry if this may sound impolite, but I don't think it's on my to ask
the design team. Usually the maintainers who change something are to
notify the maintainers of the affected packages. So when Goddard becomes
default, the person doing this change should ping
desktop-backgrounds-owner at fpo.

In a perfect world (tm) I wouldn't need to care about this because my
packages only require desktop-backgrounds-compat but not
goddard-backgrounds. But the world is not perfect, so feel free to also
notify lxde-common-owner, lxdm-owner and xfdesktop-owner just as you did
this time. Would be nice to be notified a little earlier next time.

Regards,
Christoph





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