Adding logo images to base-files?

[Erich Eickmeyer]

On Monday, June 13, 2022 5:08:37 PM PDT Erich Eickmeyer wrote:
> On Monday, June 13, 2022 4:44:04 PM PDT Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Hi Seb,
> > 
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 09:44:30PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > > Hey there,
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to see how we can fix https://launchpad.net/bugs/1931582 in
> > > Ubuntu, which is about adding a LOGO=<logoname> entry to os-release.
> > > 
> > > I think it somewhat would make sense to provide the logos (plural
> > > because
> > > following
> > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/985
> > > it
> > > makes sense to have -text/-dark/text-dark variants.) in the same package
> > > as
> > > the key is defined?
> > > 
> > > Checking the current logo images it would be ~15kB of svg (or maybe png)
> > > files added to the package.
> > > 
> > > Would that sound something reasonable?
> > 
> > This seems ok in terms of the impact on the size of the base system (i.e.
> > negligible), but I wonder about the interfaces here.  Flavors have their
> > own individual logos, which they use for plymouth/grub themes for
> > example.  If we add LOGO to /etc/os-release, do we have to worry about
> > other upstreams picking this up and using it in other contexts where it's
> > less appropriate, because we want flavors to be able to customize
> > appearance independently of base-files?
> 
> Just chiming-in here from a Flavor Lead perspective. It seems like this
> could be something that could be implemented via update-alternatives,
> similar to how plymouth themes and distributor-logo and are controlled.
> 
> In fact, there are multiple ways alternatives could be used by flavors with
> simple alternatives registrations, if only they were utilized.
> 
> Just my two pennies. :)

Heh, meant that to go to the ML.

-- 
Erich Eickmeyer
Project Leader - Ubuntu Studio
Member - Ubuntu Community Council
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