Karmic Artwork

[Lionel Le Folgoc]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 09:03:48AM +0100, Philip Newborough wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:39:19 -0300
> "Cody A.W. Somerville" <cody-somerville at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Lionel Le Folgoc
> > <mrpouit at ubuntu.com>wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 05:17:00AM +0300, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
> > > > Here is the current state of the artwork cycle for Karmic. There
> > > > hasn't been that much discussion, so I would be really glad if
> > > > you could give your opinions on things.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 1. Wallpaper / gdm theme
> > > >
> > > > There is a draft version of the wallpaper/gdm theme on emonk.fi
> > > > [1]. As on the Jaunty cycle, I think we'll just use a modified
> > > > gdm theme as the background. Maybe lighter colors for the tree
> > > > for wallpaper mode? This wallpaper works for both wides and
> > > > normal monitors. Cody suggested it's a bit too blocky for his
> > > > taste, but what others of you think? Personally I think it's a
> > > > good depart from the earlier style [2], but it could maybe be a
> > > > bit lighter. (As I look it now, it needs some more texture at
> > > > least.) Opinions please.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I like it. ;)
> > > The only problem at the moment is that I've not been able to change
> > > the background picture of the new gdm. :]
> > >
> > 
> > Unfortunately, gnome-settings-daemon is responsible for drawing the
> > background in gnome. Since we don't install gnome-settings-daemon (as
> > we probably don't want to), we'll need to use something else to draw
> > the background. This could be xfdesktop4 but it'll need to be patched
> > to add an option to not show any menu on right click and other
> > similar tweaks to lock it down.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> 
> I am not sure if you want to consider this as a workaround, but it is
> possible to use 'feh' to set the background for GDM. It is quite a small
> package and has few dependencies [1]. It could be used by creating
> a .desktop entry in '/usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow' [2]. I have
> tested this and it works okay [3], but I am not sure if it too ugly a
> workaround? Also, there maybe lighter/smaller alternatives?
> 
> [1]: http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/336
> [2]: http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/337
> [3]: http://img6.imageshack.us/i/2009091312528277351280x.png/
> 
>  -- Philip
> 

I don't think it's worse than our usual workarounds. ;]
There are probably other alternatives, such as fbsetbg, but it's in
the fluxbox package…

I've uploaded a new version of xubuntu-default-settings using feh, and
it seems to work fine here. It uses --bg-seamless instead of --bg-scale
(my mistake, I'll change it), but eh, it's just a proof of concept to
see if it doesn't break on other systems. :p I also passed --no-menus.

Thanks for the idea!

Cheers,
Lionel

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