[Open Office] Branding made easier

Jan Holesovsky kendy at suse.cz
Mon Jun 12 13:26:33 EDT 2006


Hi,

I've created patches that make the branding easier for the distributors.  From 
now on, you can use --with-intro-bitmaps, --with-about-bitmaps, and 
--with-vendor in your distro-configs/*.conf.in files in order to specify the 
intro and about bitmaps, and the vendor name.  The bitmaps you specify in the 
--with-*-bitmaps will be copied to the solver & installed in <OOo>/program/.

You can specify more than one bitmap in the --with-*-bitmaps; then the order 
means priority.  Eg. when you specify 
--with-intro-bitmaps="/path/to/first.bmp /another/path/second.bmp", first.bmp 
will be used during OOo startup if exists.  If not, second.bmp will be used.  
If even that one does not exist, the OOo default bitmap will be used.  This 
is interesting for packagers that package OOo for several products.

From now on, your distro-config file should start with something like:

--with-intro-bitmaps=\"$SRCDIR/yourintro.bmp\"
--with-about-bitmaps=\"$SRCDIR/yourabout.bmp\"
--with-vendor=\"Your company\"

if you have your branding bitmaps in the src/ subdir.  Please consult 
distro-configs/SUSE*.conf.in if in doubt.

Please update your distro-configs & remove the *splash.diff accordingly:

ark-splash.diff
dropline-gnome-splash.diff
gentoo-splash.diff
mandriva-splash.diff
pld-splash.diff
qilinux-splash.diff
translate-org-za-splash.diff
ubuntu-splash.diff

I'd like you to get rid of the *-splash.diff soon; then we'll be able to avoid 
copying the src/*.bmp to the OOo tree.

Thank you,
Jan


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