Bug 427812

Summary:	RFE: Split animation related backgrounds
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rahul Sundaram <sundaram>
Component:	desktop-backgrounds	Assignee:	David Zeuthen <davidz>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	kevin, mclasen, smohan
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Description Rahul Sundaram 2008-01-07 17:30:09 UTC

Description of problem:

Desktop basic backgrounds package is currently large in part because of the
animated backgrounds feature used by default in Fedora 8 in GNOME. However this
feature is not used by either KDE or Xfce and adds a large size to the current
KDE spin and the new Xfce, Single CD size games spin that I am working on. Since
we could use that space for other purposes while retaining the same default
background across spins, I would like to see the animated backgrounds split into
a different package and prune down the size of the desktop basic backgrounds
package.


Additional info:

The current Xfce maintainer is in agreement with me and Xfce has a dependency on
desktop basic backgrounds package which is the major reason for the current
request.

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2008-01-07 17:41:16 UTC

Note that I would be happy to quickly review such a split off package for you. ;)

Comment 2 David Zeuthen 2008-01-07 19:15:49 UTC

I dunno. I think now that it's 2008 we should simply just ditch the idea of
fitting on a single CD and go for DVD-only. Dunno.

Comment 3 Kevin Fenzi 2008-01-07 19:25:10 UTC

Perhaps for full Gnome/KDE spins... but it would be nice to have Xfce available
on CD, especially for those older machines that might need fewer resources, and
not have a DVD drive available.

Comment 4 Rahul Sundaram 2008-01-07 19:46:56 UTC

Also in some countries DVD readers/writers and media is very expensive compared
to CD media and we will miss out quite a lot of potential end users if we just
do a DVD spin

Comment 5 Jon Stanley 2008-04-23 20:30:25 UTC

Adding FutureFeature keyword to RFE's.

Comment 6 Matthias Clasen 2009-08-29 18:39:14 UTC

Don't think this is relevant anymore. We ship animated backgrounds in their own packages nowadays.