Hi Ronoaldo, 2012/7/10 Ronoaldo José de Lana Pereira <ronoa...@gmail.com>: > I'm working on theme packages for the Debian Desktop, and came with a few > problems overriding the default KDE wallpaper. I noticed that > kde-wallpaper-default comes with a symlink in > /usr/share/wallpapers/kde-default, that points to the default wallpaper. It > would be very nice to be able to override this default link with a new > installed theme.
I don't have much experience with /etc/alternatives, but managing the KDE related artwork with symlinks is definitely doable. > Currently, desktop-base (and probably any other theme package) creates a > plasma script to run upon the user's first KDE configuration, and at that > point override the default. It took me a bit of time, to get this working correctly with plasma scripting. This was suggested to be the way to go, if you want to modify the users workspace. > This simply don't work very well for some > scenarios, like installing a new theme or changing the default theme to > another one by the installation of a package. Put in other words: it could > be nice to be able to change the default KDE wallpaper systemwide. > I wold like to discuss with the kde maintainers if there is any way to > change this symlink to use the alternatives system, allowing the default > theme to be replaced by another package or by user choice if there is more > than one alternative, and potentially avoiding the use of plasma-scripts to > set the default wallpaper. The plasma script is part of the desktop-base package. So there is probably no change needed for KDE packages. We just have to make sure that /usr/share/wallpapers/kde-default (and also kdm and ksplash themes) is reset to whatever KDE upstream has as default, when no theme package is installed. Another alternative would be to have a clone of the desktop-base package, using the same current methods to set defaults but additionally conflict with desktop-base (and other theme packages), so that users can only have one theme package installed at a time. This definitely is an unclean way, but would avoid changes to the current desktop-base package, which could be a problem because of wheezy's freeze. > If something similar could be done with the default Ksplash theme, that wold > be also great. Well, this is handled by /usr/share/desktop-base/profiles/kde-profile/share/config/ksplashrc which could also be changed by /etc/alternatives/. Same is true for the KDM Theme. Since KDE packages are not involved here, we could move this discussion to the debian-desktop ML or to IRC, where you can find me and Paul in #debian-desktop. I'd want at least Paul (CC'ed) to confirm /etc/alternatives is the way to go to manage multiple themes. What about the other DEs like Gnome and Xfce? Are they already working with your theme package? I myself, as co-maintainer, am fine to clean up the deskop-base package to work with multiple themes for KDE. > Thanks for your attention and comments. And thank you for working on the other theme packages. Cheers, Eshat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/canafrjbvsq+xzuhdwg2z+xsstffjrvojj+updhyf8gm6_ac...@mail.gmail.com
