January 2008 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

Re: [arch-dev-public] Kernel framebuffer logo
by Thayer Williams 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Thursday 24 January 2008, Damir Perisa wrote: > we ARE having the arch logo in the kernel replacing the linux 2.0 > pinguin (i made it). so i'm not getting the point in discussing if we > want it or not. its just that somebody has to transform the new logo > to the kernel-usable formats and rebuild the kernel. quite easy if > you have the logo in good enough quality (or svg). > My apologies Damir, I wasn't aware that a final decision had been made yet. My method for making the kernel logo: 1. Extract a png from the svg sources 2. Resize and optimize the colour depth with GIMP/Fireworks 3. Use pngtopnm (after patching our netpbm package) 4. Use pnmtoplainpnm to finish it off I didn't realize there was so much passion behind the inclusion of a framebuffer logo; it's on my screen for all of about 20 seconds. I see a number of aesthetic problems with using such a logo, and they are as follows: 1. Limited use of colour makes it less than ideal for 'fancy graphics' 2. Users must customize their fb to be widescreen and like someone else pointed out, 1680x1050 and other widescreen resolutions are not supported even when customized. 3. The icon is fairly small and limiting in its scope Bootsplashes such as splashy, suffer from the same distortion problem unless fine-tuned. This means that out-of-the-box there's a potential that it will look 'fugly' or unprofessional at best. To counter this, I created a logo-less splashy theme that used a simple progress bar--it looks fine in any resolution. I agree that having the logo appear in the fb is a good idea--in theory at least--I only wish it could be done better. For example, it might be great to have the full logo (with text) appear at the top of the screen, but at the size we're dealing with that wouldn't be practical--it'd also look silly for us dual cpu/core owners to have two logos mirrored side by side. In my opinion, there are better ways to brand the distro; whether through the use of GDM/KDM/SLiM themes, wallpapers, or even desktop icons. I'm not going to lose any sleep about it either way...I just thought I'd share my take if it was still being decided--which apparently it isn't =) If anybody wants to have a go with the white logo, you can grab the ppm version here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~thayer/art/logo_linux_clut224.ppm

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[arch-dev-public] request: move qof to Extra
by Roman Kyrylych 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hi! When updating gnotime I've noticed that it depends on qof now, which is in Community repo. qof depends only on libgda which is already in Extra. Can I get some "ok" for this move? ;-) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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Re: [arch-dev-public] [arch-commits] CVS update of extra/gnome/nautilus-sendto (2 files)
by Jan de Groot 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: arch-commits-bounces(a)archlinux.org [mailto:arch-commits- > bounces(a)archlinux.org] Namens Roman Kyrylych > Verzonden: woensdag 30 januari 2008 16:14 > Aan: arch-commits(a)archlinux.org > Onderwerp: [arch-commits] CVS update of extra/gnome/nautilus-sendto (2 > files) > > Date: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 @ 10:13:45 > Author: roman > Path: /home/cvs-extra/extra/gnome/nautilus-sendto > > Modified: PKGBUILD (1.10 -> 1.11) nautilus-sendto.install (1.2 -> 1.3) > > upgpkg: nautilus-sendto 0.13-1 > > - > -op=$1 > -shift > - > -$op $* Does pacman 3.1 remove the need to specify these lines now? Or is this a simple mistake that was caused by a bit too massive cleanup of the install scriptlet?

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[arch-dev-public] where is logrotate?
by Roman Kyrylych 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

On i686: # pacman -Q logrotate logrotate 3.7.1-5 # pacman -Si syslog-ng | grep Depends Depends On : logrotate glibc # pacman -S logrotate error: 'logrotate': not found in sync db http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9401 -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-dev-public] disowning gnome-bluetooth and bluez-gnome
by Varun Acharya 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

I don't use gnome-bluetooth and bluez-gnome anymore, and I don't have the time to maintain them..so please grab these if you can.. Varun

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] iwlwifi-4965-ucode
by Thomas Bächler 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

This update seems to have been forgotten, so please sign off quickly.

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[arch-dev-public] [core] requests: dmraid (/base) and linux-atm (/support)
by Tobias Powalowski 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Hi 2 requests from bugtracker, time to get them here on the list: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4762 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8852 if noone has objections i would like to add those 2 packages to core. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] filesystem 2007.11-5
by Aaron Griffin 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Changes that were in -4 Setup for FHS compliant man pages - FS#8839 Claim ownership of /etc/profile from bash - FS#4766 Remove LESSCHARSET env var from /etc/profile - FS#8877 /etc/profile revamp Changes in -5: Removal of /tmp workaround - FS#7194 close message Removal of pacman dirs - FS#6062 comments /proc permissions set to 555 - FS#8857

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[arch-dev-public] lirc testing package older than extra
by Thomas Bächler 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/search/?q=lirc The testing package has an older pkgrel than the extra package, what happened here?

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[arch-dev-public] absence
by Varun Acharya 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

2008 has started off really busy for me, and I have to attend a medical conference tomorrow. I wont be able to access the internet for a week (till the 29th of Jan). Please feel free to update my packages if you feel the need to do so. Thanks, Varun

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