Packaging KDE window decorations, etc

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 2/23/07, Francois Aucamp <faucamp at csir.co.za> wrote:
> Good work so far!
>
> I just have a few suggestions:
>
> from wiki:
> 1. Themes for Amarok should be named
>    kde-themes-amarok-%{packagename}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm.
>
> - I don't think this is necessary, especially since lots of Gnome users
> also use amarok - IMO it could be something like:
> amarok-theme-%{packagename}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm.
>
> The same goes for k3b, as I also know of a few people that use k3b in
> Gnome.
>
> Actually, I think most (all?) "application-level" themes should _not_
> have a prefix such as "kde-themes-"; imo they are not strictly part of
> the "KDE-naming scheme", and it over-complicates things a bit. :-)
>
> As for the kde-decoration-%{type}-%{packagename}/{kwin-%{packagename}
> debate, I'm happy with both. However, if we are going to use something
> like kde-style-* and kde-icon-* for widget styles and icons, it might be
> better to stick to kde-decoration-* so that everything looks similar.
> We could even do something like:
> kde-kwin-(%{type}-)%{packagename}
> where %{type} is optional, depending on whether or not something like
> deKorator is required.
>
> Your PyQt app sounds interesting; some kind of "find KDE stuff"
> yum-frontend? I would find that _very_ useful - let me know if I can
> help you out with that... :-)

Still very much in the idea (all in my head stage), but I will try to
materialize it as soon as possible.

> Cheers,
> -Francois
>
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 16:22 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On 2/22/07, Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > On 2/22/07, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > >
> > > > Be sure to critique so that I do much better next time on the
> first try.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Wouldn't it be better with
> > > kwin-%{packagename}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm.
> > > instead of
> > >
> kde-decoration-%{type}-%{packagename}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm.
> > >
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Chitlesh
> > > --
> >
> > It would definetly be shorter, but I'm thinking of being able to write
> > a PyQt app that can simply display apps from `yum list "kde-*"`
> >
> > --
> > Fedora Core 6 and proud
> >
>
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