Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz> writes:
Hallo.
Here is a first draft of first part of proposal: creating of branding-enabled packages.
Let's give some background to the readers: This comes from the needs of building appliances and distributions where we need to change the look of the distribution but do not want to rebuild any of the binary packages at all. Therefore we need to create some conventions that allow the following: * Easy replacement of all branding contents * Figuring out which branding is used in a distribution to check that everything is properly branded (e.g. rpm -qa '*-branding*' |grep -v opensuse should be empty on an openSUSE distribution)
More should come later.
Let's add some usecases: * Joe likes to create his own distribution called "Flocke" on openSUSE and likes to replace everywhere the green SUSE geeko with a white polar bear. * Novell likes to release based on the openSUSE distribution their SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Thorsten is tasked with changing all occurences of "openSUSE" with "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server". * Tara prefers the upstream branding of the various openSUSE projects and does not like to see openSUSE and Novell logos everywhere. She wants to change her system and replace the custom branding everything in an easy way. Please add more - and reformulate the above ;-)
Proposal: Distribution Branding / Branding-Enabled Packages
Description of branding-enabled packages
Please add which packages we have and what constitutes branding, e.g.: * Branding of artwork, e.g. desktop background, bootsplash, OpenOffice.Org startup logo * Branding of trademarked symbols, e.g. the SUSE geeko and openSUSE logo in the KDE kicker menu * Branding of default bookmarks, e.g. in Mozilla Firefox Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126