Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist
* Package name : gib Version : 0.0.2 Upstream Author : Tomislav Markovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://users.ossm.org.mk/~tome/gib/ * License : GPL Description : GIB (GNOME Iconset Builder) allows you to create icon themes for GNOME GIB (GNOME Iconset Builder) allows you to create icon themes for GNOME with ease. No more manual copy/resize/move/convert/rename actions. GIB automatically does this for you and organizes the icons in a GNOME compliant theme. It is suitable for rapidly generating icon themes from existing (non-theme) iconsets. Upcoming features include KDE icon theme support and one-click icon theme conversion from GNOME to KDE and vice-versa. A drag-n-drop feature is also under developemnt. GiB has lots of potential. I found out about it on kde-look.org where a few theme authors were discussing it. I enjoy hacking on themes so I took a look at it. This was my first experience with Mono/C# and although the project is in it's infancy, it's usable at this point. I plan on getting involved in the development of GiB and have already contributed some minor fixes to the code ( In need to get up to speed with Mono ). I'm hoping a Debian developer out there can see the value of an application such as GiB and will chose to maintain it. The original build was weak and only provided enough to get a binary in the source directory. I've rewritten the entire build to use GNU Autotools so that it was more robust and I could create Debian packages from it. At this point, the build is trivial. It relies on very few other packages and builds in a few seconds. My point it that this is a trivial package to maintain and wouldn't require an extensive amount of work. It relies on Mono which currently only runs on x86 and PPC (AFAIK). I have no problem maintaining this package however finding a sponsor is not an easy task and my main concern is seeing this in Debian. A current DD may just find it easier to maintain the package themselves rather than have to sponsor someone else's work. I have x86 and PPC packages built as well as the source if anyone wants to take a look at what they'd be getting involved in. deb ftp://corp.primenetwork.net/debian/ prime contrib deb-src ftp://corp.primenetwork.net/debian prime contrib My sources are are actually modified from that of the upstream authors. Mostly with respect to the build but I also had to make some changes in order to be able to install these files on the system. These would include things like modifying calls to glade so that the glade assemblies were embeded in the actual source and distributing the dot glade file would not be necessary. The icon path was also hard coded to the current working directory. I changed this to look in /usr/share/pixmaps. A Gnome desktop file was added for menu entry. Lastly I created a wrapper executable to be placed in /usr/bin/ and have the actual exe and assemblies installed to /usr/lib/gib -- this seems to be the Debian standard for mono apps (i.e. blam, tomboy, etc...). Once I get settled I'm going to get in contact with the author and try to resolve some of these issues upstream. All I can say is apt-get the package and take a look at it. If you've done any work with Gnome themes you'll immediately see the potential of GiB. Thanks, Eric Gaumer -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.4.22-ben2 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
