On 2014-09-21, Jonathan Carter <jonathan@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 20/09/2014 04:11, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> On 2014-09-19 20:47:29 -0500, Paul Wise wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Jonathan Carter wrote: >>>> I'm on the debian-desktop list. Will LDMify and add the lines theme to >>>> the ldm-themes package. >>> >>> Um, shouldn't LDM just be taught to look at the data in the >>> desktop-base package? >> >> If it requires code changes, I don't think it's feasible in time for >> Jessie's freeze. If it's just syminking a few files, sure, that would be >> nice. > > It's just a few .png files and a gtkrc file, so I doubt it would be a > problem. Well, I've given a go at this, but due to having little familiarity with graphics tools or digital artwork in general, could use some help with a few things: I didn't find any .png files to symlink, so I've used gimp to transform desktop-base's login/background.svg to .png and used as a background in ldm-theme. Works fine at a variety of resolutions; this seems to get it 90% of the way to a useable theme for LDM. Seems like I should ship the .svg in the source, and transform it into .png at build time; Suggestions for how to do that? I'm curious what license terms and copyright info should be used for login/background.svg; it appears to be the one displayed as "Login" at: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Lines So GPLv2 or CC-attribution-somethingorother-3.0? LDM also requires a logo.png present, which is diplayed above the username box at login. Since background.svg contains the logo in the lower-right corner already, I'd like to just make a transparent .png or something. My hackish workaround is a 1x1 pixel .png, but it shows one little white pixel, and seems somehow connected to the placement of the login box. A larger truely transparent .png might help with that, if a transparent .png will work at all... Lastly, the theme for LDM needs a greeter-gtkrc adjusted to go with the background colorscheme and otherwise make it look nice. Just grabbing the old one from the joy theme looks a bit dark. I see a few color value fields in it, but my attempts at experimenting with changing them aren't worth hurting anyone else's eyes over. With those issues sorted, I should be able to have an updated ldm-themes package updated soon. Thanks! live well, vagrant
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