BrandingForDerivatives
Revision 4 as of 2005-04-19 00:36:07
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People
Goal
Implement a mechanism to allow simple, centralized branding for Ubuntu derivatives
Requirements
- Provide for branding or neutralization, as appropriate, of the following components:
- Installer
- Boot loader splash image
- Boot loader text
- Debconf templates
- Package selection
- Live CD
- "Starting Ubuntu..."
- Base
- Archive keyring?
- Debconf templates?
- lsb-release? (hard)
- Boot
- USplash image
- "Starting Ubuntu..."
- Desktop
- GDM theme
- Splash graphic
- Default wallpaper
- Installer
Agenda
- Runtime branding, build-time branding and package-selection branding
- Which approach is most suitable for each requirement?
- Can we avoid build-time branding entirely? It causes big infrastructure problems
- Branded CD builds
- Debconf branding
- Refactoring desktop branding
gconf schemas, etc. (<dist>-branding)
artwork (<dist>-artwork)
Pre-Work
Review [http://www.ubuntu.com/wiki/DistributionDefaultsAndBranding DistributionDefaultsAndBranding] against the above