[ubuntu-art] questions about building art pacakges....
I know this is a bad time, what with the last week of edgy stuff going on and all, however, its a question I must ask: Here @ work, we have some ubuntu (dapper) lab systems, that are slowly becoming my project. One of the first things I'm doing with them is branding them a bit more. (that is, re-themeing via adding the Harvard crest, crimson colors, etc). I already have some basic stuff done, and am now trying to figure out the best way to get these themes onto the systems. right now, the systems PXE boot and do a custom net install. custom isn't quite right, because its all default things except its both ubuntu and kubuntu, and the system are set up for network logon. my first though was/is to modify the ubuntu-art pacakge, add my new themes, rebuild it, and replace the standard one on our repository. However, I'm not a debian packaging champ, and haven't been able to figure out where in the pacakge/scripts, X gdm theme/background/whatever gets set as default. another solution is obviously to create a seperate package to be installed with the system, but, once again, I need ot figure out how/where these thigns get set as defaults. any one that can help out, or point me in the direction would be helping me out a ton. Thanks, and keep up the great work. -- Matthew Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] sjoeboo.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] questions about building art pacakges....
Em Sex, 2006-10-20 às 08:36 -0400, Matthew Nicholson escreveu: I know this is a bad time, what with the last week of edgy stuff going on and all, however, its a question I must ask: Here @ work, we have some ubuntu (dapper) lab systems, that are slowly becoming my project. One of the first things I'm doing with them is branding them a bit more. (that is, re-themeing via adding the Harvard crest, crimson colors, etc). I already have some basic stuff done, and am now trying to figure out the best way to get these themes onto the systems. right now, the systems PXE boot and do a custom net install. custom isn't quite right, because its all default things except its both ubuntu and kubuntu, and the system are set up for network logon. my first though was/is to modify the ubuntu-art pacakge, add my new themes, rebuild it, and replace the standard one on our repository. However, I'm not a debian packaging champ, and haven't been able to figure out where in the pacakge/scripts, X gdm theme/background/whatever gets set as default. another solution is obviously to create a seperate package to be installed with the system, but, once again, I need ot figure out how/where these thigns get set as defaults. any one that can help out, or point me in the direction would be helping me out a ton. Thanks, and keep up the great work. You can install your new theme with a package, or just drop the files in /usr/local. The GNOME defaults are set with from files in /usr/share/gconf/defaults; they're quite easy to understand if you ever used gconf-editor. After changing a file there you should run update-gconf-defaults for the changes to take effect. Package updates may overwrite your changes, so you should use use the divert dpkg feature to make sure these files are not updated. If you have any questions try searching the wiki, this information is probably posted there already. You may also ask the ubuntu-users mailing list, which is better than this one for technical questions. Cheers, Evandro -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] questions about building art pacakges....
Hello Matthew, Am Freitag, den 20.10.2006, 08:36 -0400 schrieb Matthew Nicholson: another solution is obviously to create a seperate package to be installed with the system, but, once again, I need ot figure out how/where these thigns get set as defaults. Doing this in a separate package would involve using dkpg-divert or using nasty tricks. The easiest thing you can do, if you just replace files is: # get build dependencies sudo apt-get install devscripts build-essential sudo apt-get build-dep ubuntu-artwork # get the source of the last package apt-get source ubuntu-artwork (in Dapper) cd ubuntu-artwork-* # replace all the files, but be sure to have the same names. dch -i # a new version number, plus some fancy changelog entry debuild -us -uc sudo debi Voilà: you should now have a ubuntu-artwork_something.deb package lying around, which you can install and give to others. This is the simplest case, everything else requires more mumbo-jumbo and would probably not fit on this list. If you're interested in packaging, join * #ubuntu-motu on irc.freenode.net * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU and/or * https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Hello everyone
Hi Viper, Etienne,thanks for your welcome. The following days I'll try to get up to date with the current state of the art in Ubuntu by the desktop design point of view.Cheers,Gianluca 2006/10/19, Viper550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gianluca Sartori wrote: Hello, my name i Gianluca Sartori, I'm Italian and I'd like to help somehow to the design of the Ubuntu Desktop. I had some previous experience with UserLinux, a project lead by Bruce Perence. I created the first basic draft arwork for the distrbution. You can find my work on art.gnome.org http://art.gnome.org under the name of the Office Theme. There are also screenshots of the draft themes I made here: http://www.userlinux.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Screenshots http://www.userlinux.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Screenshots . I also designed the paperplane logo you can see there. My personal website is www.razionale.com http://www.razionale.com even if it's nothing more than a brief resue of my actual and past working activities. My background is on Software Development (mainly C++, Java and a little bit of python), Graphic Design and Teaching various technical stuff but mayinly OOD and OOP. Actually I'm working as a consultant/team leader and instructor. Well, that's more or less what I am :) Now, I think Ubuntu is really a great thing and I really need to thanks all of you guys for the work you've done cause it's great! :) I'd like to dedicate some time to this beautiful beast we all care about. I think I could give my contribution on various aspects but most of all on the desktop design side. I'd like to know the state-of the art of the desktop design effort, and the plans you have. I'm new to your organization so I need a little help tfor the kick-off. Could someone dedicate me a bit of its time to give a brief introduction or point me to the right places to read about? Cheers, GianlucaWelcome Gianluca, we hope you'll be a big help for Fiesty, we were kindahaving a rough time with the new process developed for Edgy...Viper550 --ubuntu-art mailing listubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
