On Wednesday 03 February 2010 12:31:13 David C. Rankin wrote: > I have several good collections of miscellaneous kde themes, kdm/gdm > themes, metacity, gtk-2, xcursors, etc.. that I would like to find how > best to contribute them to the community. The color-schemes, gnome and kde > layout are original and the are available from gnome-look, kde-look, etc. > (all GPL), but given all the 3rd party redirection that those sites put > you through to find any given file, it is almost not worth downloading > them anymore one-at-a-time (same applies to many of the other 'now > commercialized' sites). > > If this is something that you guys may be interested in, my main question > is I don't know whether it would be better to put them together as several > AUR package, ABS package or whether Arch has a place for this type of > stuff. I generally just make them available on my server at > 3111skyline.com, but I'm limited to 384k upstream so putting a bunch of > material out for community wide download can result in logjams. The idea > here is to just make it convenient for Arch users to have a convenient > couple of packages to install to get a good cross-section of some of the > better desktop packages themes, cursors, etc.. that are a real pain to go > search for, find and download separately. Why don't you host a repo? I can host a subdomain at dreamhost for you if you want. -- Regards Shridhar
