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Carsten Lohrke <carlo <at> gentoo.org> writes: |
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> How do you want not to enforce it? |
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Have you actually read the proposal? It's quite sensible and is entitled: |
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"Proposal: Integrated boot themes on LiveCDs and installations" |
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I suppose that the themes would be defaulted to on the LiveCDs and optional |
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for regular installations - typical emerge-if-you-need-it situation. |
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> Still, the basic question is: Why!? |
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Because it may lead to the creation of well thought out and integrated themes |
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for several programs that are able to use them? Including more robustness |
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and/or functionality similar to the one that the gfxboot provides? |
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> There's no benefit for the user, who will choose whatever theming |
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> he wants anyways. |
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I for one would be delighted if there was such new set of themes. I'd use |
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them right away. To be honest, I tend to match my bootsplash theme with the |
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one that's used on the current LiveCD. Somehow I feel I need that when people |
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come and ask me "What Linux distro do you use?". If it happens that they ask |
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when I boot my laptop they can watch the nice graphical progress (bootsplash) |
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and finally my gdm theme. Having a Gentoo theme here helps to associate the |
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theme with the distribution. Nobody forced me to do this. I just like it :) |
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> Imho it's superfluous |
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To be honest, there are not so many themes out there that are worth |
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installing. A good set of Gentoo themes is one of the best ideas |
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I've heard for a long time. (!) |
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> and therefore wasted time. |
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I understand your point. But are you sure that spreading the "negative energy" |
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and killing the idea is best? No progress is done without breaking rules |
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and working against the inertia of habits. |
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> I for one favor to stick with that, what upstream provides. |
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I guess you should be able to leave with that. No one would "force" you to |
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switch the splashes/background/themes unless you wanted it. |
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And while we are at it, is there any chance that the bug #124920 |
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could be taken into account while creating new gdm theme? |
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Regards, |
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Wiktor |
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