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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Inclusion of cursor themes in kdebase
From:       Marco Martin <notmart () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-06-26 18:20:57
Message-ID: 200806262020.57420.notmart () gmail ! com
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On Thursday 26 June 2008, Urs Wolfer wrote:
> 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.

ok, now the source dir is moved to 
/trunk/playground/artwork/cursors/

that should have the structure that will have in workspace.
now, now the last thing i would like to ear before doing any damage (ahem :P)
is if the last version of the startkde patch could go or if it still has 
problems.

Cheers,
Marco Martin

> Bye
> urs
>
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