Pmbootstrap: Adding postmarketos-artwork

[MartijnBraam]

I guess we need a postmarketos-artwork package to provide default wallpapers for this distro

The *-artwork package name is based on how debian handles artwork for different distro variations, these packages provide a bunch of images in /usr/share (https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/debian-edu-artwork-lines/filelist)

I think we should provide wallpapers and a icon to be used for "start" buttons

Photo's that I made that can be used: http://imgur.com/a/73XW6 (I haven't added a licence to them yet, anyone knows what would be the best one?)

[PabloCastellano]

About the licensing I would choose some creative commons variant.
See https://creativecommons.org/choose/

[MartijnBraam]

Here is a mint-style wallpaper created with blender

The blender source:
pmos.zip

[MartijnBraam]

I found the solution for the stem of the "p" when using the full name. Smallcaps:

[Jgjot-Singh]

I have some photos(my own work) that I'd like to make available. Should I just create an imgur gallery and link to it here?

[MartijnBraam]

We've moved the artwork to https://github.com/postmarketOS/artwork, you can create a PR there with your wallpapers

[moondeck]

I like the idea of a common package, but doesn't that require to either:

1. Have individual packages for each DE (as they store wallpapers in different places)

2. Have some sort of DE detection

or am i missing something?

[PabloCastellano]

I ignore if different DE have different locations for wallpapers. However for this case, we could achieve it this way:

1. Create a postmarketos-artwork package that install the wallpapers to some location like /usr/share/wallpapers
2. By using the install_if variable, copy or symlink the files to the proper location for the installed DE:

subpackages="$pkgname-artwork"
artwork() {
    install_if="$pkgname postmarketos-artwork"
    install -Dm644 /usr/share/wallpapers/01.png /path/to/DE/wallpapers/01.png
    install -Dm644 /usr/share/wallpapers/02.png /path/to/DE/wallpapers/02.png
}

[ollieparanoid]

We have the postmarketos-ui-* packages, which handle postmarketOS configuration of the interfaces / desktop environments. I would recommend that we set the default wallpapers also in there instead of the install_if block.

Freedesktop.org has a specification where wallpapers should go:

DesktopThemeSpec:

Wallpapers should be installed in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/wallpapers

XDG Base Directory Specification

If $XDG_DATA_DIRS is either not set or empty, a value equal to /usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ should be used.

=> /usr/share/wallpapers seems to be the appropriate location.

Finally I recommend that we don't make the wallpaper/artwork package too big - it's probably good to make use of subpackages here, so people can only install the wallpapers they want to have and not a huge wallpaper pack that blows up the installation without using them. And we probably don't need to provide everything from the artwork repository in the packages (e.g. the reddit theme).

[moondeck]

I will try to package that and submit a pull request then.

[ollieparanoid]

During research of the Freedesktop.org spec, I've found this page which lists where different desktop environments look for wallpapers (we could add a symlink to that path in the `postmarketos-ui-* package) and how to change them programmatically.

[MartijnBraam]

Hmm the DE's I've used all read either /usr/share/wallpapers or /usr/share/backgrounds but that might just be my luck. Maybe create a postmarketos-artwork package with the wallpapers that literally say postmarketOS and a postmarketos-artwork-extra that contain all the nice-but-unbranded wallpapers since that will the the big bunch.

[ollieparanoid]

I like the idea, but "artwork" might be a bit too generic for wallpapers (what if we want to package ringtones etc. later?) - how about:

• postmarketos-artwork (meta-package that depends on the subpackages)
• postmarketos-artwork-wallpapers (the wallpapers saying pmOS or postmarketOS)
• postmarketos-artwork-wallpapers-extra (the nice-but-unbranded wallpapers)

[moondeck]

Sure, i'll do it like that. I don't know if its gonna be tomorrow or (european) sunday, but i will try to package that this weekend.

[drebrez]

@MartijnBraam now that the artwork has been packaged, this can be closed?

[MartijnBraam]

Yep