RFC for a branding gui tool

Sivan Green sivan at piware.de
Mon Jun 5 14:55:29 BST 2006


On 15:01, Fri 21 Apr 06, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> 
> due to my work with edubuntu and its derivative status i very often have
> to fiddle with the artwork stuff to get the branding right, its a very
> time consuming procedure to go through all the settings, getting them
> right and have a consistent branding through the -artwork package in the
> end.
> 
> for edgy eft i'd like to start creating a tool that just picks up the
> current settings used (starting with distributor logo over wallpaper,
> gtk themes, metacity themes, gdm etc) and creates an artwork
> metapackage. i imagine a little gui with checkboxes for all the branding
> options, where you can select the parts you want branded, you click on
> "create package" and it builds an artwork metapackage for you, you can
> add to your customized CD image.
> 
This is a very cool idea, which could sometime along the
road in the distant future might help us in zero effort
derivatives. It's interesting. Count me in for random
help/test/feedback.

Sivan



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