1 [[!meta title="Help porting Windows camouflage to GNOME 3.14"]]
4 [[!meta date="Mon Jan 5 12:00:00 2015"]]
6 **Call for participation!**
8 Are you into GNOME development and want to participate to Tails? Do you
9 want to improve your GTK or GNOME Shell theming skills while
10 supporting users needing privacy and stealth? Consider porting the
11 "Windows camouflage" of Tails to GNOME 3.14.
13 # What is the Windows camouflage?
15 Tails documentation reads "if you are using a computer in public you may
16 want to avoid attracting unwanted attention by changing the way Tails
17 looks into something that resembles Microsoft Windows 8." This is what
18 we call the "[[Windows camouflage|doc/first_steps/startup_options/windows_camouflage]]".
20 [[!img doc/first_steps/startup_options/windows_camouflage/windows_camouflage.jpg size=320x240 link=no]]
24 We got reports that users have been arrested while using a
25 privacy-enhancing distribution because their screen looked very
26 different from others, which raised suspicion. It's why a Windows
27 camouflage has been added to Tails.
29 # What should be done?
31 Current Tails is based on GNOME 3.8 in "Fallback" mode. We are currently
32 upgrading Tails on top of the upcoming version on Debian ("Jessie")
33 which is based on GNOME 3.14. The Windows camouflage should be upgraded to
34 the last version of GTK and ported from GNOME Panel to GNOME shell. That
35 includes GTK and GNOME Shell theming through CSS as well as writing a
36 custom GNOME Shell extension.
40 The team currently working on Tails is very busy and decided to focus on
41 the core or the upgrade rather than on the Windows camouflage. We currently
42 plan to go ahead with the initial Tails Jessie release even if the
43 Windows camouflage is missing. However, we would love to ship a proper Windows
44 camouflage and think it's a good occasion for you to give a hand. We'll
45 provide support to anybody volunteering and work together on integrating
46 the new theme to upcoming Tails Jessie snapshots.
48 # Where should you start?
51 <https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/update_camouflage_for_jessie/>, then
52 write to <tails-dev@boum.org>. This is a public mailing list:
53 <https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev/>. Please subscribe!