Re: New Osinfo logo repository

[Marc-André Lureau <marcandre lureau gmail com>]

Hi

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 4:24 PM, Felipe Borges <felipeborges gnome org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The recently introduced "Download an OS" feature gives a nice
> spotlight to operating systems and therefore having a nice logo in
> there makes it even more pleasant.
>
> In order to better manage the logos database I set up a git
> repository[0] where we can store the SVG files alongside with their
> permission notes.
>
> I will try to keep a policy of updating the README.logos file in
> gnome-boxes with the new permission notes and also paste these notes
> in the commit message which introduces the logo in the logos
> repository.
>
> I can't ever thank Zeeshan Ali enough for his work in Boxes, and among
> all things, for setting up the old logo download infrastructure.
>
> My hopes is that we can now publicly discuss these issues better in
> GitLab and prevent any bottlenecks in case we want to add/update a
> logo.
>
> I have proposed a merge-request[1] updating the logo URLs in the
> Osinfo data we ship, and FreeDOS is the latest logo addition[2].
> Thanks to Jim Hall for granting us permission to use their logo.

Out of curiosity, is there a documented way for third-party packages
to provide their own logo and/or OS details? or is it a design choice
of libosinfo to have only central databases?

> Cheers,
> Felipe Borges.
>
> [0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes-logos
> [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes/merge_requests/23
> [2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes/merge_requests/25
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Marc-André Lureau