Re: New Osinfo logo repository

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

Hi

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 6:45 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 06:42:08PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Both the host sysadmin and individual users can augment the default
> libosinfo database with extra content, and even blackout existing
> content. It works in a similar style to the way you can customize
> systemd unit files.
>
> https://gitlab.com/libosinfo/osinfo-db-tools/blob/master/docs/database-layout.txt

Great,
thanks Daniel for the quick reply.

> Regards,
> Daniel
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