Branding: (hoary+1 goal)

Goal

• brand any distro/derivate completely

What needs to be done

• exchange text, images in applications, configuration-files
• documentation changes
• code changes (d-i, vim)
• infrastructure change (bug tracking system, live CD, install CD, archive)

Proposals/Ideas

• use Replace on hundreds of packages
• use Divert on hundreds of packages
• change hundreds of source packages (patch it or use hct with tagged branches)
• use gettext (and push the problem to rosetta)
• make a general branding framework (make each package brandable and provide branding packages)

proposed solution

• parameterized source packages change + buildd (dh_brand) and a environment variable include file replacement
• have one $distro-branding and one $distro-artwork package

Problems

• we'll get fuzzy translations because of the branding changes (rosetta needs to optimize for it)
• some dispute about what parts of the branding need to be done at run-time and what at build-time

what needs to be branded:

• DistributionDefaultsAndBranding

• apache:
  • - "no site here" page:
    • remove it from the apache package and make it depend on $distro-branding package that contains this page
    • - serverstring: try to make it configurable and push it upstream
• bug-buddy: should magically work
• gdm:
  • - default theme: try to push a patch upstream to make that easy - Disable the gdm face configuration item: ?
• gnome-cups-manager: neutralize test-page printing
• gnome-desktop: can be done at build-time (--with-gnome-distributor)
• lsb, lsb_release: ?
• gnome-system-tools: not a branding issue
• mozilla, epiphany: get homepage from $distro-branding, bookmarks, menu-items, homepage-url
  • - need more work/thought on the application-branding
• openoffice.org: ?

• ubuntu-artwork -> $distro-artwork, branding

• xscreensaver: needs upstream love to make it configurable (bounty)
• boot-splash: usplash-images: branding can go into the $distro-artwork
• kernel-image: neutralize it
• installer:
  • - initial image when the you boot the cd: need to parameterize boot-cd, build-depends on ubuntu-artwork

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