Integrating new console colors in D-I (was Re: Call for testing: Aubergine-love for Server folks!)

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday, March 19, 2011 12:08:16 am Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Dropped server from cc, since it's no OT there.
> 
> On Friday, March 18, 2011 11:55:35 pm Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > > On Thursday, March 17, 2011 10:01:51 pm Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> ...
> 
> > >> Spiffy, huh?  Thanks to everyone who help spread some Aubergine-love
> > >> to Ubuntu Server folks!
> > > 
> > > So now every Ubuntu flavor gets Aubergine even though that's not their
> > > color scheme?
> > 
> > Until now, Ubuntu and all Ubuntu flavors have inherited a color scheme
> > wasn't theirs either, actually.
> > 
> > > How do we over-ride this for Kubuntu (there have been complaints on
> > > #kubuntu- devel today)?
> > 
> > I filed and fixed Bug: #730672, on your behalf.
> > 
> > The newt library can now read its palette from a configuration file,
> > which is installed using update-alternatives.
> > 
> >  +       update-alternatives --install /etc/newt/palette newt-palette
> > 
> > /usr/share/newt/palette.ubuntu 50
> > 
> >  +       update-alternatives --install /etc/newt/palette newt-palette
> > 
> > /usr/share/newt/palette 20
> > 
> > Furthermore, the console-setup package now also installs its color
> > scheme using update-alternatives as well.
> > 
> >  +    update-alternatives --install /etc/vtrgb vtrgb
> > 
> > /usr/share/console-setup/vtrgb 50
> > 
> > Other packages can install palettes and different color schemes at
> > different priorities.
> 
> Thanks.  How do I get this integrated into D-I to use a different
> alternative for Kubuntu?

Perhaps, particularly since this affects a number of different groups and it 
was introduced after feature freeze with no notice (and no FFe that I recall) 
it should default to the old behavior and be opt-in for packages/people that 
want to use alternatives to enable it?

Scott K