Hi, I was puzzling for a while over some things on the live CD that were puzzling me about theming and KDE menu options and have finally taken the time to look into it. Writing it up here while I remember. Symptoms (all on the live cd, installed may be slightly different in places): 1. liveuser starts with blank wallpaper. 2. favourites menu is the KDE spin normal one, despite some %post code in the spin kickstart. Not so much a symptom as just not covered yet: 3. wrong splash The blank wallpaper is actually quite simple, though it took a while to figure out (mainly because KDE doesn't swap wallpaper immediately on swapping themes): the oxygen theme specifies Ariya wallpaper, but this is in kde-wallpapers, which is not installed. Since we want to use a fedora-jam wallpaper the solution is of course to use the fedora-jam theme instead. In this commit: http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/music-creation.git/commit/?id=2d6cba1b396d7867b6252a50ee36bb22dc212ac8 The theme is set in /etc/skel/.kde/share/config/plasmarc, an alternative way of doing this would be to put the plasmarc in /etc/kde. The first is copied to a new users home, the second acts to set a system-wide default. Not sure which is preferable. In the theme itself http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/music-creation.git/tree/fedora-jam-kde-theme/src/desktoptheme/Fedora_Jam/metadata.desktop the FallbackTheme is set to default (or air-netbook for the netbook). This could be changed to oxygen to use the darker theme as a basis while still setting the wallpaper. (Aside: line 202 in the kickstart needs to escape the $Version string when creating plasmarc.) Assuming you've got the theme installed, etc/kde/plasmarc: [$Version] update_info=plasma_popupapplet_fix_groups.upd:PlasmaPopupAppletFixGroups2 [Theme] name=Fedora_Jam [Theme-plasma-netbook] name=Fedora_Jam-netbook Favourites menu, two things conflict. The Jam kickstart writes .kde/share/config/kickoffrc into the liveuser home directory and /etc/skel, but the fedora-live-kde-base.ks that's called as a basis writes a /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys that will overwrite that file later. The Jam kickstart needs to modify that file to prevent the FavoriteURLs field being replaced. A sed -res'#^FavoriteURLs=.*#FavoriteURLs=NEWURLSGOHEREXXXX#' would fix that. Again the kickoffrc for users other than 'liveuser' could go into /etc/skel/.kde/share/config or /etc/kde. (Aside #2: on F16 mozilla-firefox.desktop is the name for the Firefox shortcut, on F18 it's firefox.desktop, so correct in the spin, but it had me puzzled for a while when building on F16 to test.) splash, again the model ksplash file can go in /etc/skel or /etc/kde. By putting all of these in those directories I found I could create a spin with working theming without a pre-created liveuser directory. For the KSplashX theme: [KSplash] Engine=KSplashX Theme=FedoraJam For a QML theme: [KSplash] Engine=KSplashQML Theme=F-Jam Obviously this is all just cosmetic compared to the actual task of having packages ready and working, but since the spin is meant to showcase that effort it'll be nice to have it looking finished. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
