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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Inclusion of cursor themes in kdebase
From:       Urs Wolfer <uwolfer () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-06-26 17:57:55
Message-ID: 200806261957.55704.uwolfer () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 25 June 2008 11:01:45 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk> wrote:
> > On 2008-06-24, Marco Martin <notmart@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> they are only the final generated ones, since won't be really feasible
> >> to "build" them during the kde build, because it involves png generation
> >> from inkscape, so the svgs and the other files needed for generation
> >> would reside playground for the time being..
> >
> > Does this for distributors fulfil the requirement of providing
> > preferred form of modification (source) in the cursors license?
>
> yeah, could be a problem but the build of them from svg is really ugly.
> -it takes a series of svgs
> -replaces the colors in it with sed to make the various colored versions
> -generates the pngs with inkscape (don't really think the build of kde
> should depend from inkscape)
> -generates the cursors files with xcursorgen.
>
> could maybe the cursor directory contain the svgs and the
> configuration files that are simply here and they don't get built or
> installed?

Please do it as we do it with Oxygen icon: Pre-rendered images, with a sources 
folder. The sources folder is not really requred at installation time.

> > But wearing my packagers hat, I would actually prefer a seperate tarball
> > with the cursors, and not have them integrated in -workspace. I have
> > earlier built them myself (back in january) and that wasn't any real
> > problem.

I see no need for that if sources are also included. It just complicates 
things.

Bye
urs
 
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