[opensuse-factory] Tumbleweed - Review of the week 2019/15
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, We had a larger gap this week, while the openSUSE Kubic medium (formerly openSUSE Tumbleweed Kubic) was restructured and renamed. Getting all the bits and pieces together to uphold the quality and not break things on the move meant to slow down a little bit. Nevertheless, we published three snapshots this week (0408, 0409 and 0411), containing those changes: * Apache 2.4.39 * KDE Plasma 5.15.4 * Linux kernel 5.0.6 & 5.0.7 * Switch of the Plymouth theme to bgrt Thinks currently being forged in staging areas: * linux-glibc-devel 5.0 * Python2 2.7.16 & Python3 3.7.3 * Wireshark 3.0: libvirt fails to build against it * CMake 3.14.x: libzypp fix ready, zypper pending * Qt 5.13 * KDE Applications 19.04 Cheers, Dominique
On pią, Apr 12, 2019 at 6:03 PM, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar
* Switch of the Plymouth theme to bgrt
Hi, Thank you for assistance with that, GDM will soon be switching to displaying Tumbleweed logo instead of openSUSE following the plymouth theme, and I hope default openSUSE themes on other DMs will follow with placing branding logo in that spot, just so plymouth is continuous with display managers (and preferably SVG version as GDM, plymouth still relies on PNGs, although with recent developments of rendering fonts through cairo, mainly for translation reasons, this might hopefully change). There is an obvious issue of Kubic/MicroOS sharing repo with Tumbleweed, and with those distros it would be preferable to have own branding, which we do not provide in any way this far. It's a big TODO on my part, suggestions welcome :D Due to branding-openSUSE being such a big category of different packages, it would be basically impossible to provide branding-Kubic and branding-MicroOS, unless there was a fallback to branding-openSUSE packages, which does not exist yet. There is always an option to try to resolve this Fedora way, provide a package like "{distroname}-logos" and create a mess of symlinks in directories to point to /usr/share/pixmaps/distribution/, depend on a logos package to provide subset of branding elements we want to replace for seperate distros. Just thinking out loud... The obvious reason for the distribution instead of distributor logo is seperating identity and establishing the distros in conscience of users, just to say there is no openSUSE distro, there are openSUSE distros called this and that, and we are doing this cool stuff with them. LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 7:22 PM Stasiek Michalski
There is always an option to try to resolve this Fedora way, provide a package like "{distroname}-logos" and create a mess of symlinks in directories to point to /usr/share/pixmaps/distribution/, depend on a logos package to provide subset of branding elements we want to replace for seperate distros.
Just thinking out loud...
The obvious reason for the distribution instead of distributor logo is seperating identity and establishing the distros in conscience of users, just to say there is no openSUSE distro, there are openSUSE distros called this and that, and we are doing this cool stuff with them.
I think there's enough independently developed openSUSE distribution trees that it's probably worth doing this. And for what it's worth, the "Fedora way" doesn't really have a lot of complexity to it. It's just installing branded files in place with consistent names and having symlinks to the generic names so that the software doesn't have to be aware of it. I maintain the generic branding in Fedora that people can use as a base for making their own branding of Fedora derivatives, and it surprises me that this is not a thing in most distributions that offer "easy" rebranding. It'd be nice to see something similar for openSUSE. :) -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar -
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Stasiek Michalski