Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:16:19 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: original wallpapers Message-ID: <20040922201619.GA20278@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <415252FC.6060606@broadpark.no> References: <20040922185653.GA54311@zeik.wns.amu.edu.pl> <415252FC.6060606@broadpark.no>
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On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:37:16PM -0700, Henrik W Lund wrote:
> Bart??omiej Rutkowski wrote:
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> >Hi,
> >
> >Can anybody tell me to who I shall mail with question about my wallpape=
r=20
> >submission to became 'official' and about chances fot that? I think abou=
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> >somebody form freebsd dev team.
> >
> >Thanks for any reply, r.
> >
> Greetings!
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> You could just do a send-pr(1), I guess. It's the regular way for us=20
> mere mortals to submit patches, suggestions and the like. You do run a=20
> risk of it getting missed, though, so making friends with a committer=20
> would probably make actually getting things committed a bit easier.
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> Mind you, though, committers are shy creatures - they mostly stick to=20
> themselves, emerging from their hideouts only to discuss really=20
> important commits among themselves (talking out of my ass here, of=20
> course ;-) ). Alternatively, you may have a better chance of getting=20
> one's attention over on -hackers or -current (although I probably would=
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> go the send-pr(1) route. -hackers and -current are rather strictly=20
> on-topic, I imagine).
Actually, a better route would be to make a port of the wall paper.
The base system doesn't hold much stuff that is strictly decorative,
and it doesn't include X window system stuff either. All that
generally comes from the ports.
See the Porter's Handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index=
.html
for instructions on how to create and submit a port. As you're pretty
much just downloading a single file and installing it to some location
under /usr/X11R6 without having to do any compilation or anything, it
should be a pretty simple port to create.
Cheers,
Matthew
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