Hi Aurélien, thanks for digging into this issue in depth. On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 11:53:43PM +0200, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > I initially thought we could "just" patch debian-edu-artwork to ship an > SVG versions of the edu-spacefun wallpaper, but there’s no such thing in > the source repository even going back in time to squeeze. There are SVGs > for edu-spacefun but they look like imports from bitmap with vain > attempts to make them vector…
Yeah; it was a crude workaround to get a suited login background. > By itself it’s a problem since it means these wallpapers are essentially > sourceless and we cannot easily adapt them should the need arise (higher > resolution, etc). Right; it happened with this (almost historical) theme, but hopefully won't happen again. > What I can think of is for each theme pack to provide a > "default-wallpaper" symlink to their wallpaper file of choice and the > desktop-background alternative will target link for the active theme, so > it works whatever wallpaper/resolution/format the theme wants as default. Sounds reasonable. > For buster I’ll create the links for the themes included in desktop-base > and the *all* debian-edu-artwork-* themes should do the same. > That would be for example with softwaves: > softwaves-theme/wallpaper/contents/images$ ls -l > 1920x1080.svg > default-wallpaper -> 1920x1080.svg > … > and second example with debian-edu-spacefun: > debian-edu-spacefun-theme/wallpaper/contents/images$ ls -l > 1920x1080.png > default-wallpaper -> 1920x1080.png > … > > Would that be OK with you ? I guess, yes. Wolfgang
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