Hello Diana,
Diana Fong wrote:
Its content is similar to that of the ThemingOverview page, but I
hesitated to overwrite it as it contained brief sections on Metacity and
GTK which I chose not to cover. The reasoning being that they do not
change per release nor are they really effected by the subject/look
chosen for the release (though they could). Thinking ahead, and if
there are no objections, I'd like to revamp the ThemingOverview wiki to
link to ReleaseGraphics, thus clearing the overlapped information, and
further expand the list to include such specs for screensavers and other
themable graphics that are not necessarily tied to each release design
subject.
Thank you for putting this information together in one place and making
it available. It would probably be nice to link to ReleaseGraphics from
the front Artwork page - I didn't see it there.
Some issues with the information:
1. 'File Name + Extension:' - You should include the full path of the
image so people know where to place it when they're testing their
images. Just the filename isn't that helpful.
2. We really need information on how to test each graphic. I know how to
do a few of these so I'll write them up - maybe it would be better to
have a separate page for each type of graphic with an index page linking
them and detailed testing information for each.
3. 'File Name + Extension: background.png + gdm' This isn't actually
correct. GDM themes are more complicated than this. The theme is
actually an XML file in /usr/share/gdm/themes/$THEME_NAME that
references images, and the name of the XML file & image names and
filepaths can be rather arbitrary.
4. Should probably take out the screensaver lock dialogs information
since I don't believe those are open for graphic design anymore. The
sprites can certainly be modified though.
5. Since a new page was started from scratch rather than using the old
one with all the history info, you might also want to give credit to the
folks who wrote the information on ThemingOverview as I see some of it
on here (eg. the GDM testing information.) Myself, Andy Shellam, and
Rahul all contributed to that page as well.
~m
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