On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 7:21 PM Марьин Денис wrote: > So, if I got it right, the very first step might be to fork > https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/dmz-cursor-theme right?
No, that would just fork the Debian packaging, you need a new upstream location for the DMZ cursor theme. The old location was on gitorious in the openSUSE art repository. Looking at Repology and also at a web search, there are a few potential upstreams (listed below), but none of them seem very official or active and none seem to have done it properly by forking the old openSUSE art repository. So all of them are missing the Blender source file tango-spinner.blend, not sure if any of the cursor images used that though. I think it is important to keep the history of the theme by forking the old openSUSE art repository. I note that the original author of the DMZ cursor theme is Jakub Steiner <jim...@gmail.com> so it would probably also be a good idea to seek his advice on what to do about the maintenance of the DMZ cursor theme. https://gitorious.org/opensuse/art https://repology.org/project/dmz-cursor-theme/packages https://github.com/GalliumOS/dmz-cursor-theme/ https://github.com/ganwell/dmz-cursors https://github.com/madsrh/yet-another-DMZ-cursor-theme/ > Then left-handed cursors might be added there, and then something should > happen for Debian maintainers to pick up this repo. I'm looking at the DMZ cursor theme package in Debian and I see that there are actually already some left and right handed cursor images, but not for all of the images. The same goes for the default GNOME cursor theme Adwaita. Unfortunately I don't know how to make GNOME use a left handed cursor, making the mouse left-handed instead of right handed changes the click side but not the cursor image. Any new cursor images should be added in the new upstream location, so that all distros who package the DMZ cursor theme can get the new cursor images. In addition, all the PNG images should get deleted from the repository and instead they should be created automatically at build time using the rendering script, so that everyone gets the source SVGs and knows that they can modify them and re-render the cursor images. > I am going to try forking and adding, but unfortunately I have no idea how to > signal Debian guys to pick up my repo. Once there is a new upstream location for development of the DMZ cursor theme, then you can file a bug against the Debian dmz-cursor-theme package asking for it to use the new upstream. Then also do the same thing for the other packages listed on Repology so everyone gets the new theme. PS: I note that GNOME no longer uses the DMZ cursor theme so I expect the Debian GNOME team would orphan the package and leave updating it to someone who uses it. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
