I beg to disagree. The "essentials" are food, water, air and hopefully shelter. All the toys we play with are just the products of churning, deluded minds. And what a mess we make of it!

LOL! Maybe it is because Ceres is "unstable" and always in flux until it is officially released as "stable"?

Hey, mweishaar . . . That's really cute but how does it relate to Excalibur or Freia?  It is also only about 1% of what is needed to theme a Devuan release. Theming is a very deep dive. It always took me several months to get a theme together because there are so many parts that need to be integrated. Do have a look at this to get oriented. Note that I have not touched any of this for several years so there will likely be a lot of debugging to get things to work with the current GTK etc :

https://git.devuan.org/devuan/documenta … -devuan.md

IIRC we decided to "freeze" the theming change per release for www and other online sites but all the other parts need to be integrated with the current theme.

@ruenoak . . .

There are many moving parts and revisions upstream may require fiddling to accommodate new GTK etc. so be prepared to take a deep dive. You can find the theming instructions here:

https://git.devuan.org/devuan/documenta … -devuan.md

FYI . . . I always tried to create a color palette that reflected the name of the release. For Excalibur that was "deathmetal" (referring to King Arthur's sword). It is very subtle so look at it full screen:

https://git.devuan.org/devuan/documenta … rge-M2.svg

Feel free to use it or forge a new path . . .

Have you ever considered that greenjeans might be making those decisions in order to best serve his local community of aging, non-techie neighbors that often only have access to older, sub-par hardware? Or community service at his local Library to provide public internet access? Didn't think so. Service to others is so not your forte . . .

No. It was split off and moved to "Favorite Games" on OT and I forgot to leave a message pointing to it:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7801

rolfie . . . I think the Devuan live installer uses Simple Distro Kit which is a Dyne thing.

Congrats!

We experience the external world as a reflection of who and what we are. Not all our users are as grumpy, hostile and insulting as some who have been posting recently:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=58675#p58675

We have always consulted very different crystal balls.  At least you get credit for qualifying and hedging your "conclusion" . . .

Hey greenjeans . . . We go back even further than that. Remember the rebel Debian forum created around the time of the rigged Resolution vote that changed the course of Debian forever?

You have always done your thing to provide your local community and other De***n  users with your alternative re-spin Vu-Doo. I know what a re-spin is because I use Refracta myself. Sometimes, you might find a bug but afaik are not contributing to or maintaining critical chunks of Devuan infrastructure itself. You scratch your own itch. I know that well because I scratched my itch to give Devuan an integrated visual identity to all of its user-facing content. But - and please correct me if I'm wrong - neither of those Devuan derivatives would survive for long if Devuan ceased to exist.

Currently too many critical tasks are SPOF due to lack of developer redundancy so I really don't get why we are  expanding options to distract users from focusing on essentials. Seems a bit like "fiddling while Rome burns" . . .

@steve_v . . . You never miss an opportunity do you. LOL!

For those who might not know, I will list a few of my contributions to the Devuan project. Visually, Devuan would be a completely different animal without my input. This very forum would never have been created. Neither would the Devuan logo or the customized default desktops for Jessie through Daedalus. The current minimal forum layout was also my doing. It has been an honor to have created and unified Devuan's visual identity and messaging that so many have appreciated. Many thanks to all the wonderful Devuan users that have passed through and also left their mark on Devuan over the years.