Proposal: Split oxygen sounds

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Mon Nov 29 17:18:34 GMT 2021


Remember to tell packagers so they know about the new repository and
eventually the new tarball.

It would make sense to mark it as a runtime dependency to Breeze so
they can detect it too.

On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 1:12 PM Benjamin Port <benjamin.port at enioka.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for your reply Aleix,
>
> I suggest to do an oxygen-sounds repository that will install sounds to /usr/share/sounds/oxygen/stereo/name_without_oxygen and add an oxygen.theme file
> We can then create a breeze-sounds repository and as first step we can inherit oxygen
> Create symlink to /usr/share/sounds/name_starting_with_Oxygen (like now)
>
> We will still need to implement the spec in knotification to support the spec
>
> Benjamin
>
> > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 2:55 PM Benjamin Port <benjamin.port at enioka.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Currently all plasma sounds came from oxygen, even if you use breeze theme you still need to install oxygen package in order to have sound notification for example.
> > >
> > > That's why I will suggest to split oxygen repository. Current oxygen repository will keep everything except sounds. And a new one oxygen-sounds will have them.
> > >
> > > This will allow to not depend on the whole oxygen theme anymore, and allow more minimal setup
> > >
> > > My action Plan (if you are ok with the split):
> > > - Ask sysadmin to create the new repository
> > > - Do the split
> >
> > Not opposing, but:
> > - We need to be clear to coordinate with whoever takes on the task to
> > do the new sound theme:
> > https://community.kde.org/SoK/Ideas/2022#Plasma_Sound_Design
> > - Are you sure about oxygen-sounds? If we rely on it (at least for
> > now) from breeze it should be called something different like ocean or
> > whatever.
> >
> > Aleix
> >
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