Devon's Blog

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Oxygen SVN Ebuild

I am really getting into this whole making ebuilds thing. If you don't know about the Oxygen icons they are a elegant set of icons being made for KDE4, check out their site. So I wanted to be able to see and use the icons as they are being developed, back to SVN. If you havn't noticed by now I love having bleeding edge stuff which is one of the reasons why I am such a Gentoo addict. So I went to the KDE websvn and found the icons however there were only the SVGs and no PNGs and to use the icons I need the PNGs. So I had to figure out how to render the SVGs in the different sizes and keep the transparency. I asked around on the Gentoo Forums and mark_alec suggested rsvg (from the librsvg package in Portage). The program worked great and is easy as pie to use. Then I had to test my BASH skills (or lack there of). Anyways here is the script just run it in the directory that has the svg folder and 22x22 and 48x48, etc. Unfortunately in the SVN repositories README it says "Nobody should pacakge Oxygen and/or make it available in any form anywhere, except in the KDE svn repository "svn.kde.org/home/kde/playground/artwork/Oxygen/" until we feel it is ready to be released.". So I am not sure if this would be packaging it since it is basically just a script that links to their SVN. I emailed them about this yesterday (7/9/06) however I have not gotten a response. So unless I get the OK from them I am not going to release it to the public.

UPDATE: I did not get a response in my email so I went to the IRC channel and asked but they said they would rather I don't release the ebuild. Sorry, hopefully they will let me release it in the next few months.

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