Bug#1038660: desktop-base: please set a placeholder theme during development, different from any release

Dear Jonathan,

Le 23 juin 2023 16:33:43 GMT+02:00, Jonathan Carter <[email protected]> a écrit :
>On 2023/06/19 20:50, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> Prior art: GNOME applications built from their alpha/beta branches often
>> have yellow and black stripes (resembling hazard tape) overlaying part
>> of their icon, and a gear-wheel motif in the titlebar, to distinguish
>> them from the stable version of the same application.
>
>I've been playing with the idea of "egg", a theme based on Juliet Taka's Homeworld theme, previously used on Debian 11.
>
>The egg represents something that hasn't hatched yet, screenshot attached. I can probably work on this a bit more after I've taken care of the live bugs for 12.1.
>
>Any thoughts?

I don't think I would have seen the « egg » look of it without the subtitle, but I do like it. 🙂

Are you willing to work on the whole theme including login background, wallpaper (and maybe lock screen) variants ? The dark version of the wallpaper ? (OK we don't even have that until now, but… why not !)

Also while at it I'd like to be able to ship each theme in their own debian-artwork-${release} binary package (including that testing theme), but still handle the theme n->theme testing->theme n+1 transition automagically for users.

I've pondered over it a couple of times but couldn't come up with a nice way of doing it.

Thoughts ?

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Aurélien