#397716 - please provide a debian-icon on the default desktop install, not an ubuntu one

2006-11-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I filled this as #397716 and have received no reply yet, thats why I bring it up here. Besides the issue brought up in the report it also brings up another interesting question: is there a way to detect if a buildd is building for debian or ubuntu? I can make up a rules file for manual buil

Bug#496444: please recommend usplash

2008-08-24 Thread Holger Levsen
package: desktop-base version: 5.0.0 severity: wishlist Hi, I think it would be great if you'd add a recommends on usplash (and probably usplash-theme-debian), so that we finally get usplash on default for desktop installs :-) Thanks for maintaining desktop-base! regards, Holger pg

Bug#496444: please recommend usplash

2008-08-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 24 August 2008 22:00, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > I'm not sure. usplash didn't work on two of my boxes last time I tried. > I didn't yet report any bugs Please do. > , but I'm not sure we (as debian-desktop > team) should take responsibility to have usplash installed on each and >

Bug#496444: please recommend usplash

2008-08-24 Thread Holger Levsen
severity 468735 important block 496444 by 468735 kthxbye Hi, On Sunday 24 August 2008 22:31, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > At the moment usplash breaks hibernation, which is a pretty basic > feature for a desktop system. This is bug 468735, it would be great if > it could be fixed before it's installed

Re: Call for opinions: slogan for the Lenny release ?

2008-10-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 12 October 2008 09:17, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > I believe that the phrase "The Universal Operating System" doesn't fit > anymore for Debian, because it's simply not universal (=for all archs) > anymore. Huh? The universal OS was never only ment to mean "all archs"... (Also we nev

Re: Bug#581488: general: lower vm.swappiness by default for desktop installations

2010-05-13 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 581488 desktop-base thanks On Mittwoch, 12. Mai 2010, Marcus Better wrote: > Package: general > Severity: wishlist > > I have been plagued by long delays with an unresponsive laptop, > waiting for it to swap in Eclipse for several minutes at a time, > several times per day. This is a Thin

Re: Problem with Squeeze Artwork

2010-11-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 14. November 2010, Francesco Poli wrote: > However, "this bug is not a regression" should *not* be an excuse for > not addressing the RC bug itself... You are entitled to have this opinion. Others might have others, and choose their priorities well. cheers, Holger sig

Bug#603785: desktop-base and debian-edu-artwork: error when trying to install together

2010-11-17 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 603785 debian-edu-artwork thanks Hi Ralf, thanks again for your bug reports! :-) On Mittwoch, 17. November 2010, Ralf Treinen wrote: > Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages > /usr/share/desktop-base/grub_background.sh $ cat ./art/splash/grub_background.

Re: Status update for debian-desktop

2010-11-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 16. November 2010, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > For wheezy I'd love to see us working more closely together! > Hmmh, yeah, definitely. \o/ > Is the debian-edu-artwork package a clone of > desktop-base package with different artwork or do you do it differently? > I'm not sure t

Re: Status update for debian-desktop

2010-11-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, thanks for your work on making the Debian desktop experience more beautiful! On Dienstag, 16. November 2010, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > == Wheezy plans debian-edu has a debian-edu-artwork package, shipping our artwork for grub(2), gdm, kdm, desktop backgrounds and we also modify debian-cd t

Bug#605915: please make it a non-native package

2010-12-04 Thread Holger Levsen
package: desktop-base version: 6.02 severity: wishlist Hi, please make desktop-base a non-native package (even though its native to Debian...). Non-native packages dont have any advantages (afaik) but only downsides, ie. backports will use a different orig.tar.gz and for fixing a simple bug yo

Bug#606125: gdm not themed, plymouth not run

2010-12-06 Thread Holger Levsen
package: desktop-base version: 6.0.2 Hi, on a current squeeze system (which was upgraded from lenny half a year ago) I purged desktop-base from lenny and then installed desktop-base 6.0.2 from sid. the plymouth package was installed at that time already. the grub2 splashscreen was updated to s

Bug#606125: gdm not themed, plymouth not run

2010-12-06 Thread Holger Levsen
retitle #606125 plymouth not run thanks Hi, no need to cc: me, I'm subscribed to the package :-) On Montag, 6. Dezember 2010, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > gdm theme is in 2.20.11-4. ah, thanks, title adjusted. > Can you cat /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf? # cat /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf # Admi

Bug#612163: README.Debian: inform about updating initrds too

2011-02-06 Thread Holger Levsen
package: desktop-base version: 6.0.5 severity: minor tags: patch Hi, README.Debian says under "5. Boot splash": desktop-base ships a plymouth theme. If you want to activate it, install plymouth and run: plymouth-set-default-theme spacefun Then remember to add “splash” to your kernel command li

Bug#612163: README.Debian: inform about updating initrds too

2011-02-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 6. Februar 2011, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Yeah good point, though reading the manpage about > plymouth-set-default-theme would give the -R arg which will rebuild the > initramfs (but people might not read manpages before executing commands > in README so I'll push a change anyway

Re: Bug#607839: Question about GNOME Trademark and GNOME project packages in Debian

2011-07-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Steve, I just want to say "thank you very much" for your calm and sane words. Much appreciated + agreed. cheers, Holger, who first wanted to send a private mail and then decided against that -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-desktop-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Debian artwork for Wheezy

2011-11-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 10. November 2011, Joey Hess wrote: > Not quite, Joss doesn't want icon/theme changes but is open to a desktop > background in http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2011/10/msg00022.html [...] > If we're removing spacefun then d-i can revert to the old "klowner" boot > logo, po

Re: thinking together artwork to 'Wheezy'

2012-02-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Valessio, On Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012, ValessioBrito wrote: > I wonder what you think of it as the next visual conception of Debian. I'd like to see a design based on the design of http://debconf13.debconf.org - I think that design is beautiful and already asked it's developers to submit s

Re: thinking together artwork to 'Wheezy'

2012-02-21 Thread Holger Levsen
On Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Host debconf13.debconf.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) heh - I ment http://debconf12.debconf.org - yesterdays dc13 meeting was still in my mind it seems :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-desktop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Opinion poll: artwork for Wheezy?

2012-06-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, (not pariticulary aimed at Steven...) On Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > If you had put "Vote: Joy" in your mail it would be already in first > place :) it doesnt matter which artwork is at which place. what matters is, what is packaged. so if you want "Joy" or "X", go

Re: Opinion poll: artwork for Wheezy?

2012-06-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, Joan Singla wrote: > Where I can find Information about how to package my theme? I believe this is a (rough) start: apt-get source desktop-base cp -a desktop-base-* desktop-$mytheme cheers, Holger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-desktop-requ...@list

Re: Volunteer to do automatic testing upgrades from Squeeze to Wheezy?

2012-12-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Rick, On Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2012, Rick Thomas wrote: > I've got some leisure time and a small cluster of machines (ppc, > x86-64, and arm) I've dedicated for testing, so I can run Peter's > script or some variant, or I can help with making jenkins better. > Should I get started there by cont

Re: Volunteer to do automatic testing upgrades from Squeeze to Wheezy?

2012-12-23 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2012, Holger Levsen wrote: > check the jenkins.d.n site, clone the git repo, read README, INSTALL & TODO > & then let's discuss the next steps on #debian-qa on irc or on the > debian-qa@ or debian-desktop@ lists. & do ask questions please! One o

Bug#704105: desktop-base: no spacefun theme selectable for desktop-background.xml link group and KDM

2013-03-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 28. März 2013, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > We can't ship all the desktop from all releases in the package, it'd be > too huge. please define huge?! > But nobody prevents you to keep a copy around. Some people > might be interested in having multiple packages for previous themes

Bug#704105: desktop-base: no spacefun theme selectable for desktop-background.xml link group and KDM

2013-03-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Paul :-) On Donnerstag, 28. März 2013, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > I'm interested in such work, as is pabs awesome! > -- I'd be keen on making this > happen for jessie, and re-packaging all old themes. sounds like a good plan. > Currently, it's a major pain to replace artwork properly (as we

Bug#704105: desktop-base: no spacefun theme selectable for desktop-background.xml link group and KDM

2013-03-28 Thread Holger Levsen
reopen 704105 reassign 704105 wnpp thanks On Donnerstag, 28. März 2013, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Paul Tagliamonte dixit: > >Although, I now disagree with some of the approach. Need to braindump > >again and work out the kinks. I'd like to prepare patches and work on > >this early in Jessie :) > OK

Re: GDM / GNOME shell theming

2014-12-05 Thread Holger Levsen
On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2014, juliette Belin wrote: > I had time to experiment with colored background ! > What do you think of theses 2 versions ? I actually like Joss' first version the best, so far. all: keep up the nice work! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: Artwork for jessie?

2014-12-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2014, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > I just had the opportunity to test the plymouth script, and it's quite > nice. The passphrase box could be a little larger, especially > considering the number of widescreens and the fact that disk encryption > phassphrase might be l

Re: Poll: GNOME/GDM lock screen

2014-12-11 Thread Holger Levsen
On Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2014, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Please vote by ranking options (e.g. D > C > B > A). A > B > C > D Thanks to everyone involved! :-) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#772943: cryptsetup: please soften cryptroot messages

2014-12-12 Thread Holger Levsen
package: cryptsetup severity: wishlist x-debbugs-cc: debian-desktop@lists.debian.org Hi, (if you haven't followed this thread on -desktop, please read the quoted text to get context.) On Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2014, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > > On Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2014, Yves-Alexis Per

Bug#772943: cryptsetup: please soften cryptroot messages

2014-12-12 Thread Holger Levsen
package: cryptsetup severity: wishlist x-debbugs-cc: 772...@bugs.debian.org, debian-desktop@lists.debian.org Hi, On Freitag, 12. Dezember 2014, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2014, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > > Check : > > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/sc

Bug#772945: cryptsetup: please provide means to localize cryptroot messages

2014-12-12 Thread Holger Levsen
package: cryptsetup severity: wishlist x-debbugs-cc: 772...@bugs.debian.org, debian-desktop@lists.debian.org Hi, On Freitag, 12. Dezember 2014, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2014, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > > Check : > > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/sc

Re: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#772943: Bug#772943: Bug#772943: Bug#772943: cryptsetup: please soften cryptroot messages

2015-12-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Jonas, On Donnerstag, 17. Dezember 2015, Jonas Meurer wrote: > For now, I'll bring the passphrase prompt from the init script in line > with the one from initramfs. This is, all prompts will display "Please > unlock disk $diskname: " from now on. I don't have any idea on how to > further soften

Re: Policy on software used to create desktop theme?

2016-10-27 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 07:35:53PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > But, oh, look, we actually have requirements already! > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Artwork/Requirements thanks for that pointer! I've added the sentence "The finally submitted artworks must be in a source format that i

Re: Default theme for Stretch

2016-10-28 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Juliette, On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:21:50PM +0200, juliette Belin wrote: > Wow :D > I'm glad to work again with the debian community ! :-) Thanks for your nice artwork! You can already see it in use for the graphical installer used by Debian Edu: (the screenshots at the top) https://jenkins.

Re: Default theme for Stretch

2016-12-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Juliette, what's the correct spelling of the name of the chosen artwork? The URL says https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/softWaves while that pages title says "soft Waves" ?! - please clarify, best in that wiki page as well. Thanks! cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: D

Re: Default theme for Stretch

2016-12-03 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 05:09:49PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Juliette, > > what's the correct spelling of the name of the chosen artwork? The URL says > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/softWaves while that pages title > says "soft Waves" ?! - ple

Re: Default theme for Stretch

2016-12-05 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 04:40:17PM +0100, juliette Belin wrote: > it is soft Waves, I just edited the page, thanks for the feedback :) thanks, updated the Debian Edu manual accordingly. :) -- cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#843727: fix inside

2016-12-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:27:26AM +0100, Eric Valette wrote: > While you are at it, maybe it is time to replace update-grub2 by update-grub > because the move is complete even for jessie... this has happened in svn r391 on 2016-11-10. today svn is at r409, but there hasn't been any upload since

Re: Bug#843727: fix inside

2016-12-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 01:09:25PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 12:33 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > > what's stalling the uploads? (either to experimental or unstable even…) > See <1481014791.20278.9.ca...@debian.org> but nothing is really preve

Re: Bug#843727: fix inside

2016-12-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 01:22:10PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 12:17 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > > justification: testing should always be in a releasable state, and even more > > so now the freeze is getting closer… > > Well, that won't re

Re: Bug#843727: fix inside

2016-12-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 01:58:42PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > Even incomplete, I consider having it in to be better than having the > > totally wrong jessie artwork in stretch for these two reasons: > I understand that, it's just not my opinion (as expressed earlier). > > I won't oppose a

Bug#613040: retitle 613040 to desktop-base should depend or recommend plymouth-themes-script

2016-12-21 Thread Holger Levsen
control: retitle -1 desktop-base should depend or recommend plymouth-themes-script #thanks Hi, I think a depends its totally fine. if one uses desktop-base, one probably wants plymouth. At least I always do. -- cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#613040: retitle 613040 to desktop-base should depend or recommend plymouth-themes-script

2016-12-21 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 03:11:44PM +0100, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > I would like to have that done too, with a few reservations : > - If we make it a recommend / depends I'd like to see it activated by > default, as that's what you'd expect next. well, still it's two steps and it often helps to g

Re: Pushing 9.0.0 to unstable

2017-01-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Aurélien, On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 11:13:53PM +0100, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > I just committed a usable version of the Plymouth theme for soft Waves into > SVN. very nice! > Some reasonable amount testing was done including LUKS passphrase handling so > it should be suitable for general use

Re: Pushing 9.0.0 to unstable

2017-01-02 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 11:58:47AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > I'll probably still sponsor this now (with the above issues) and will > then be happy to sponsor another upload fixing those… After looking at the diff (*) between 9.0.0~exp2 and 9.0.0 as in svn I've decided I'm

Re: Pushing 9.0.0 to unstable

2017-01-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Aurélien, On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 04:28:45PM +0100, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > thanks for your interest in this. thanks for your work on this! [...] > Had overlooked that, fixed now. [...] > > which I think should all be fixed, the latter by adding yourself to > > uploaders. > OK, I’ve done t

Re: Bug#850601: desktop-base does not install on live images

2017-01-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, this is just to ask to please not upload a new version of desktop-base to unstable until 9.0.0 has migrated to testing (in 4 days). Reason: debian-edu-artwork in sid depends on desktop-base >= 9.0.0 and we would like to see debian-edu-artwork to migrate to testing in 4 days too. Thanks! --

Re: desktop-base 9.0.0 MIGRATED to testing

2017-01-14 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 04:39:21PM +, Debian testing watch wrote: > FYI: The status of the desktop-base source package > in Debian's testing distribution has changed. > > Previous version: 8.0.2 > Current version: 9.0.0 yay! I'd be glad to sponsor the 9.0.1 upload if you think it's rea

Re: desktop-base 9.0.0 MIGRATED to testing

2017-01-15 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 07:11:32AM +0100, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > >I'd be glad to sponsor the 9.0.1 upload if you think it's ready. > More yay ! :) > I'd like to cram a few more fixes before next upload. why not upload today what is in svn and then upload again on the 25? (yesterday would hav

Re: desktop-base 9.0.0 MIGRATED to testing

2017-01-15 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 10:32:28AM +0100, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > OK give me a few mins to test and commit the fsck label alignment fix if it > works. > I'll push 9.0.1 to mentors with/without it depending on the result. ok, cool! (+please ping me once done…) -- cheers, Holger sig

Re: desktop-base 9.0.0 MIGRATED to testing

2017-01-15 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 12:13:14PM +0100, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > Ping. pong, aka uploaded. > The minutes had more seconds than usual. > Here it is : > https://mentors.debian.net/package/desktop-base thanks! > I don’t know the process for uploading from mentors, but please take care to

Re: Uploading 9.0.2 to unstable

2017-01-24 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:28:40PM +0100, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > 9.0.2 needs to be pushed quickly to unstable in order to migrate to > testing before the freeze. I’m doing a few last minute checks and Holger > is willing to do the upload any time soon. indeed, we should upload this tomorrow, We

Bug#853224: Processed: severity

2017-03-14 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 09:09:46PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > My guess is that Raphaël didn't disagree and Aurélien, as member of the > maintainers team, is perfectly legitimate to set the severity. I've discussed this privatly with Aurélien prio doing this… -- cheers, Holger si

Bug#853224: desktop-base 9.0.3 (was Re: Fwd: Bug#857373: unblock: plasma-workspace/4:5.8.6-2

2017-03-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 10:23:25PM +0100, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > I’ve prepared a 9.0.3 and pushed it to mentors. If you get it there, > take care to use the last one as there were several tries. > > Feel free to diff and review it and push it to unstable as I don’t know > if / when I’ll ge

Re: [Artwork] result of the survey for the default artwork for Buster

2019-01-10 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 01:39:51PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > +1, thanks again for all the work! indeed, thank you! > Any objections or thoughts from the -desktop list before an announcement > is made? no, please go ahead ASAP, the freeze is getting closer every day... -- cheers,

Re: Plans for bullseye?

2019-09-25 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 01:46:33PM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > I thought that it might be about time to start talking about plans for > bullseye. sounds all good to me, thanks. -- cheers, Holger ---

re: remove desktop-profiles?

2019-11-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, hello debian-desktop folks, we are pondering to remove src:desktop-profiles from sid and bullseye, because: On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 05:45:43PM +0100, Wolfgang Schweer wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 07:14:00PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 05:03:10AM +000

Re: remove desktop-profiles?

2019-11-18 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 09:53:10AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Holger Levsen] > > doing so now. I've seen the higher popcon value too, and wondered why, > > but still, I don't see any usecase left for desktop-profiles which > > cannot be done better with X

Re: Needed: Desktop artwork plan for bookworm - work idea

2022-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:10:16PM +0200, Onsemeliot wrote: > I can imagine doing the animation in a SVG animation similar to the > color animation I did for my proposal but I have no idea if this would > be a viable technical solution to be used on the desktop. there's no such concept as *the* de

Re: Debian Pure Blend - Desktop

2022-07-04 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > PS: please note, currently there are no live images for bookworm, there are no official live images available to download from .debian.org, but we do know how to build them and currently they are even reproducible for bullseye and sid.

+1 (Re: Debian 12 theme?)

2022-12-01 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 10:21:44AM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > It doesn't seem like anyone ever stepped up for that, and with soft freeze > fast approaching, we have to make some decisions. right. > Looking at the 3 proposals that was posted to the wiki[1] (even though we > didn't do a forma