[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Lines theme for ldm-themes

[Wolfgang Schweer]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 04:32:28PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2014-09-21, Jonathan Carter <jonathan at 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:
 
> Seems like I should ship the .svg in the source, and transform it into
> .png at build time; Suggestions for how to do that?

Debian Edu uses inkscape, optipng and advpng to generate slim png file 
from the svg file.

git://git.debian.org/git/debian-edu/debian-edu-artwork.git

esp. art-lines/ldm (Debian Edu uses an svg similar to the lines login 
svg)
 
> 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?

Debian Edu uses GPLv2. 

> 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...

See Debian Edu artwork/art-lines; a simple png showing 'LTSP Client 
Login' is used.
 
> 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.
 
See art-lines/ldm/greeter-gtkrc


Wolfgang

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