new kdm theme

[Yuriy Kozlov]

Looks great, just one thing:
Can we get a Kubuntu logo on there?  The screen that comes up when my
computer turns on should really say what operating system I'm running,
and the KDE 3.x releases always had it.

~ Yuriy

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Roman Shtylman <shtylman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I changed the kdm theme that I did with the Quadros wallpaper to use
> the new Ethais wallpaper:
> http://shtylman.com/stuff/kdm_latest.png
>
> The actual files are here:
> http://shtylman.com/stuff/new_kdm_theme.tar.gz
>
> Just run the install.sh, all it does is copy the ethais kdm theme to
> the right location. It also copies one of the png's (rectangle.png) to
> change the ksplash theme center part. The overall transition from kdm
> -> kplash -> desktop is much much nicer that way.
>
> I am proposing that we aim to use this as the default kdm theme
> (instead of the current one we have) for lucid. That is if no one has
> any serious objections.
>
> Some concerns I do have with this...and even the current packaging.
> Given how there are different resolutions of the wallpaper (and yes...
> the code does pick the right one) that means that there are three
> locations with THE SAME files:
>
> /usr/share/wallpapers
> /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/ethais/...
> /usr/share/kde4/apps/ksplash/Themes ... anyhow... yall get the point.
>
> My point... is that this is ridiculous. There needs to only be ONE
> copy of these giant wallpaper files. I am not a packager... but I
> would hope there is a way to just make the symlinks? during the
> install or something... food for thought for those that like to keep
> the disk size smaller :)
>
> ~Roman
>
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