FS#9417 - Need to freshen up archlinux theme for slim

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Vladislav Guberinic (neosisani) - Thursday, 31 January 2008, 13:55 GMT
Last edited by Thayer Williams (thayer) - Thursday, 15 May 2008, 16:39 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Thayer Williams (thayer)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
In archlinux theme we have old logo. Though theme is very nice, so maybe it would be nice to keep it for nostalgic reasons, and only add new one.

Additional info:
* Package: slim-themes 1.2.3-2
   background.jpg (132.7 KiB)
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Closed by  Thayer Williams (thayer)
Thursday, 15 May 2008, 16:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  The new archlinux theme is now available in the 'archlinux-themes-slim' package, along with the retro and couple of other variations.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 01 February 2008, 18:24 GMT
Yeah, the slim-themes package is mine. I'm going to snag Thayer's slim theme soon-ish and move that one to "old-archlinux" or something similar.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Friday, 01 February 2008, 18:25 GMT
Arch Retro ^_^
Comment by Thayer Williams (thayer) - Friday, 01 February 2008, 18:37 GMT
Aaron, hold off until after the weekend if you can. I'll update the theme to be resolution-independent and maybe throw in a couple more.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 01 February 2008, 19:02 GMT
Opinions on this: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=324774#p324774
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Friday, 01 February 2008, 19:25 GMT
Brilliant!
Comment by Thayer Williams (thayer) - Friday, 01 February 2008, 19:26 GMT
Looks great to me... I'd prefer the "arch" to be in white, but that's just my opinion. Could we wrap two or three themes into the package? This actually brings up another topic about how/if/where we could put together a community artwork section.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 01 February 2008, 19:31 GMT
Yeah, the slim-themes package has all the themes from the slim website. I could either add all the arch themes to it, OR make a secondary slim-themes-arch package. Opinions?
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Friday, 01 February 2008, 19:37 GMT
maybe just integrate it in current slim-themes. *shrugs*
Comment by Thayer Williams (thayer) - Friday, 01 February 2008, 19:38 GMT
I think we should consider making the slim package vanilla (and the same for KDM/GDM) and then create arch-specific theme packages that could be referenced in a post-install message.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 01 February 2008, 19:41 GMT
This is already done. slim and slim-themes are separate. The arch theme is there because it is listed on the site: http://slim.berlios.de/themes01.php

The question is this: do we modify this to include additional themes, or keep it as is while adding another slim-themes-arch (this means that the "archlinux" theme would stay the same in the slim-themes package)?
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Friday, 01 February 2008, 19:44 GMT
We could replace it with newer (and rename older) and contact mainstream so that they will do the same in a next release.
As for KDM/GDM/etc. Thayer's proposal is good (same could be done for slim-themes if mainstream wouldn't provide Arch theme, I think).
Comment by Thayer Williams (thayer) - Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 19:55 GMT
How shall we proceed with this? I have created two simple resolution-independent slim themes:

http://dev.archlinux.org/~thayer/art/slim/

I can contact the upstream devs, have the old one replaced with these. Then perhaps we could put together a single "retro" package that contains all of the old themes, icons, wallpapers, etc. of the old logo. What do you guys think?
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 19:59 GMT
Yes, I think this is the way to go.
I like how the first preview looks, but IMHO the half-gradiented logo on AUR pages is nicier, but I don't know how it will look on a console with limited colours (probably not worse)
Comment by Thayer Williams (thayer) - Sunday, 11 May 2008, 21:50 GMT
FYI the themes have been updated with the new logo upstream, our package simply needs rebuilt. I will be bundling a couple of other slim themes into a separate package which will also contain the old 'retro' logo.

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