From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Apr 19 18:34:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B34711523C; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:34:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA95843; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:29:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:29:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Jim Mock Cc: mharo@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: net/gaim In-Reply-To: <19990420112856.C6916@blues.ghis.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Jim Mock wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 at 20:58:10 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > Just did a cvsup, and saw cvsup stuck for a while on net/gaim > > (sometimes it's actually GOOD to have a slow line :-> ) ... > > > > Did you notice that there's a 370K logo.xpm in files/ of that port? > > No, that's not cricket ... did you realize it was there? > > It's there because the original was of the AIM logo and Tux. I tried > sizing down the replacement logo.xpm after it was sent to me (I did > the port, but not the image), and gimp wouldn't take it down any > lower. I also posted a message here and to advocacy about two weeks > before submitting the port asking if anyone was interested. The only > reply I got was from someone on IRC so that's what I went with. > > I didn't think we'd want a port that showed Tux as soon as the app is > ran on a FreeBSD system which is the reason for the new logo. > > If you can downsize the image to make it smaller or provide a new one, > by all means go for it. Keep the logo, by all means, but sticking it in the port isn't acceptable, that's what DISTFILES are for, it has to be available on a website somewhere. If you can't locate it otherwise, I'll have to stick a copy on www.freebsd.org/~chuckr. You can't leave it where it is. > > -- > Jim Mock System Administrator jim@blues.ghis.net ,-._|\ FreeBSD > work: Global Hosting Inet Svcs http://www.ghis.net/ / \ The > personal: http://www.ghis.net/~jim/ \_,--._/ Power To > The FreeBSD 'zine http://www.freebsdzine.org/ v Serve! > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message