Hello Debianistas. After Debian-desktop begin, our distro has become more and more user-friendly, but there's still a barrier between artists and developers inside the project. There comes DebianArt, to show that Debian is not only made of developers, but of many artists too. Now, through this message, i'm trying to unite forces among different sub-projects inside Debian: developers, maintainers and artists.
First i'd like that the [EMAIL PROTECTED] be created, to discuss the choices made about the visual identity of the distribution and project. These days, to release a new theme or to modify the project's visual identity, many different teams/maintainers must be contacted, in different lists (kde, xfce, gnome, etc). Among other discussions, the list will be used be used by other sub-projects, CDDs, teams asking for graphic art to promote the project, events, and so on. As soon as the list is on, i'd like to work to standardize the theme packaging system to the whole project, that's why this message goes as an invitation to all the theme packagers. This standardization would begin by the packages names, initially going like this: theme-(gdm,kdm,usplash)-$nametheme, to every theme, of every environment or theme-supporting application. It'll be a little harder to standardize the desktop environments, which would take a little longer discussing with developers/packagers of every sub-project. These days, a gdm theme package carries inside it a lot of loose themes, my idea is to have "theme-kits" and and stand-alone themes, E.G.: theme-debian-nightly * theme-gdm-nightly * theme-kde-nightly * theme-base-nightly * theme-usplash-nighty a package gdm-themes link to all theme-gdm-* Then, a user can install the whole kit, or only it's preferred window manager theme. Currently i'm trying to develop a standard for this kind of packaging at DebianArt SVN[2], developers are welcome specially the current generic theme maintainers. I'm counting on you to create a solid standard theme structure, not only for debian, but for its CDDs. Lastly, i'd like to make it clear that this sub-project would be the one and only responsible for preserving Debian's visual identity, as well as the application of its logos, colors and promotional stuff. A sub-project where volunteers who make art instead of code can contribute, transforming ideas in reality within the project. [0] http://lists.debian.org/Debian-devel/2002/10/msg01471.html [1] http://lists.debian.org/Debian-devel/2007/05/msg00275.html [2] http://svn.debianart.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
