Re: Fedora F's buttons

2008-10-27 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Nicu Buculei escribió:

Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
Regarding color management, I'd recommend you use the very latest 
snapshot of Scribus available from the OpenSuSE repo (there is a 
Fedora yum repo for it) because the one included in Fedora is quite 
outdated, and now largely unsupported (v 1.3.4)


I know I am going to a tangent here, but can we get in touch somehow 
with our Scribus maintainer and get him to do an update?



Actually I have filed a bug regarding this particular issue...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461196

There's been an answer, and hopefully we'll see better sync with 
upstream (also upstream provides a yum repository as well for latest SVN 
head, at  the home_mrdocs repository, from OpenSuSE 
[http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mrdocs/]).


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Re: Fedora F's buttons

2008-10-25 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Clint Savage escribió:

I do.  I have done that before many times.  I'll look into doing that
on sunday.  I assume you are referring to the fact that I need to make
the images CMYK and making them pdfs so printers won't complain.  I'm
capable of doing that :)

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

Cheers,

Clint
  
You don't have to do that, actually... However Scribus SVG support is 
rather flaky and most of the time (except for really simple kosher SVG 
files) you will get an error stating that some features of the file were 
not supported. Also it tends to get the size wrong, not the actual 
size of the drawing, but rather it kind of adds an additional holding 
box to the drawing. My personal recommendation when handling graphics 
with Scribus would be to export to EPS and then import that into 
Scribus, or export to bitmap (with the added side effect of reduced 
quality and raster artifacts [pixelation]). Regarding color 
management, I'd recommend you use the very latest snapshot of Scribus 
available from the OpenSuSE repo (there is a Fedora yum repo for it) 
because the one included in Fedora is quite outdated, and now largely 
unsupported (v 1.3.4), then you may grab the package with ICC profiles 
off Adobe's download section and install one of those ICC profiles into 
scribus so you get a color managed window (it is NOT recommended to 
install a printer ICC profile into Scribus unless you *REALLY* need it 
and the target printer supports it). Then you can generate the desired 
PDF and you may even embed an ICC profile into it to ensure proper 
display/print, don't forget to select the desired target media when 
generating the PDF!


my 2¢

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Re: Fedora F's buttons

2008-10-25 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Clint Savage escribió:

So I got bored today while giving an RHCT exam and while waiting at
the airport.  I made these buttons, let me know what you think...

http://herlo.fedorapeople.org/art/fedora_four_fs_logo2.png
http://herlo.fedorapeople.org/art/fedora_four_fs_logo3.png
http://herlo.fedorapeople.org/art/fedora_four_fs_logo4.png

Cheers,

Clint

  

Nice indeed, it would seem like #2 is the winner :)

However, I like them all. Nice work indeed!

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Re: Fedora F's buttons

2008-10-25 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Máirín Duffy escribió:

Hi Gian,

Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:

Clint Savage escribió:

I do.  I have done that before many times.  I'll look into doing that
on sunday.  I assume you are referring to the fact that I need to make
the images CMYK and making them pdfs so printers won't complain.  I'm
capable of doing that :)

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

Cheers,

Clint
  
You don't have to do that, actually... 


Why don't you need to do it? The printers must have sent the cd and 
sleeve designs for Fedora 7 back and forth with me at least 20 times 
before they could do anything with them. They couldn't get the colors 
to come out right at all and eventually gave up (You'll note that the 
Fedora 7 discs are actually purple, not blue. That's why.) That was a 
nightmare and ever since I've used Scribus for setting up colors 
(definitely for Fedora 9 and I think Fedora 8's media artwork) and it 
just went so much more smoothly.


So I do really think you have to do it, unless you know something I 
don't? :)?


I wouldn't *DARE* to say I know something you don't, Mo ;)

However in my experience (and that may very well too subjective) Scribus 
can pretty much represent all colors on screen through CMYK (kind of 
converting them on-the-fly, or so it would seem). I have also struggled 
for the longest time to get colors right on print-outs with Linux (any 
distro, pretty much any program). However since F8 (IIRC, or was it F7?) 
the inclusion of lcms has actually helped a lot for color management 
(still a bit rudimentary as it would seem you have to do it in a 
per-application basis instead of being applied to the X session, like 
Windows or Mac seem to do it [and they still have per-application settings])




However Scribus SVG support is rather flaky and most of the time 
(except for really simple kosher SVG files) you will get an error 
stating that some features of the file were not supported. Also it 
tends to get the size wrong, not the actual size of the drawing, 
but rather it kind of adds an additional holding box to the 
drawing. My personal recommendation when handling graphics with 
Scribus would be to export to EPS and then import that into Scribus, 
or export to bitmap (with the added side effect of reduced quality 
and raster artifacts [pixelation]). Regarding color management, I'd 
recommend you use the very latest snapshot of Scribus available from 
the OpenSuSE repo (there is a Fedora yum repo for it) because the one 
included in Fedora is quite outdated, and now largely unsupported (v 
1.3.4), then you may grab the package with ICC profiles off Adobe's 
download section and install one of those ICC profiles into scribus 
so you get a color managed window (it is NOT recommended to install a 
printer ICC profile into Scribus unless you *REALLY* need it and the 
target printer supports it). Then you can generate the desired PDF 
and you may even embed an ICC profile into it to ensure proper 
display/print, don't forget to select the desired target media when 
generating the PDF!


Is it effective to use the color profiles if your monitor isn't 
calibrated? (I honestly don't know but I wouldn't assume so which is 
why I don't bother with color profiles right now)


I assume that doing the artwork first in Inkscape and then importing 
it into scribus and modifying the palette in Scribus to have the exact 
CMYK colors needed will ensure the colors come out right in the end 
since a CMYK value is a CMYK value (maybe not as reproducable as a 
spot color but more reliable than picking blindly based on what shows 
up on my monitor.) Past experience printing Fedora swag has shown this 
to be close enough / true enough that I'm comfortable with this method.


The main problem with CMYK (again, at least in my experience) is that 
support for this color space in Inkscape is MORE than flaky, it would 
seem that color values wouldn't stick, that may be due to the fact 
that Inkscape follows as close as possible the SVG specification which 
IIRC only support SRGB, and Inkscape actually converts those SRGB color 
values to CMYK color space on-the-fly (or so I remember reading, albeit 
some time ago, on the Inkscape mailing list, most likely things have 
changed in 0.46, maybe I'll ask in the list again). I'm not sure if the 
color values are perfectly preserved when you import the vector graphics 
from Inkscape to Scribus (SVG, EPS or PS format), but I can tell you 
that *perceptually* speaking it would seem that colors you *see* on the 
screen (when you color manage Scribus, of course) indeed is the color 
you *get* (or very close) on the print out. This, though good, is a bit 
problematic, as you can't actually change the colors of the objects you 
import into Scribus and can only see the resulting colors as they may be 
printed, and any modifications imply that you have to go back to 
Inkscape, modify the color, and test again in Scribus (at least that's 
how I've done it, not the best way, though

Re: GIMP 2.6 packages

2008-10-06 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Nicu Buculei escribió:

Rahul Sundaram wrote:


RPM packages

http://www.nabble.com/GIMP-2.6.0-for-Fedora-8-9-(Was:-Re:-ANNOUNCE:-GIMP-2.6.0)-p19815879.html 



I understand that I sound like a n00b, but I feel a bit uncomfortable 
about updating glib2 this way.




Indeed. It'd be much better an official update, especially when you have 
into consideration the number of dependencies to build the package for 
say F8 x86_64 (or PPC)


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Re: Another Solar Update remaining F10 release tasks (volunteers needed!)

2008-09-30 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Nicu Buculei escribió:


And I think it will work only on select AMD graphic cards.


I think it is actually AMD and Intel graphics cards which support this 
(AFAIK mode setting was recently added to the ati driver, and it has 
been present for a longer time (since F9) on the Intel driver. Support 
is driver dependent rather than hardware dependent, but yeah, only a 
couple drivers currently support it.





now we can have consistent look from very first time of boot to desktop.


I think we have at last one mode change, from GRUB to Plymouth (that 
is, on supported cards).
The way I understand this, is that there actually is a change from text 
(in end Grub uses the same graphics capabilities as the BIOS) to the 
kernel mode setting when the kernel loads (and before the rest of the 
services start), currently in any Fedora release you can somewhat see 
this transition if you set a VGA accelerated mode as a command line 
argument (such as vga=791 in F1 - F8 or vga=823 in F9, which causes the 
kernel to use a framebuffer of 1024x768 in size at 16-bit color depth), 
there is a brief print-out of the GRUB arguments for the selected while 
the kernel loads before you are presented with the graphics (the 
penguin(s) at the top-left corner) and smoother letters, bigger size, 
etc. I'm not all that familiar with GRUB2 and if would require the same 
kind of drivers as the mode setting feature of the kernel. My guess 
would be it wouldn't since it'd be running prior any kernel (and hence 
drivers) are loaded, so it may very well rely only on the VESA 
capabilities of the cards, but again, I don't know for certain... Will 
have to take a look.


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Re: Happy 5th Birthday banner - Italian version

2008-09-23 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Nicu Buculei escribió:

Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
I have done a translation of the banner to Spanish, following your 
banners as template. However, I don't seem to have the fonts you guys 
used to create the banner (on F9)... At any rate, I have used URW 
Gothic L in substitution, this is work in progress as I'll most 
likely use another font, just a quick prototype to see how it looks 
in Spanish.


yum install -y mgopen-fonts

Read more about this font and why we are using it 
here:http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/UsageGuidelines#Complementary_Font 



Later today I'll be uploading the updated version... Strange, though 
that in PackageKit the description for the mgopen-fonts package is that 
of TrueType Greek fonts (no wonder why I did not have them installed 
when I installed additional fonts on this laptop)


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Re: Plymouth animated startup

2008-09-22 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Charlie Brej escribió:
I added some shading to the invinXble theme [1]. And I had a bit of a 
go at creating solar flares[2] on the solar theme[3]. This still needs 
quite a bit of work and it doesn't look as nice as thee invinXble one.


[1] http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/3.swf
[3] http://www.crystalinks.com/solarflare105a.jpg
[2] http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/4.swf


I LOVE the solar animation!! Looks incredible! Very nice work. Now I'm 
eager to see this on F10 :-)


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Re: Plymouth animated startup

2008-09-15 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Charlie Brej escribió:

David Nielsen wrote:



2008/9/13 Charlie Brej [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]


In Fedora 10 there will be a new graphical startup program replacing
RHGB[1]. Its called Plymouth and it starts even earlier than rhgb.
You can see a demo of the current default fedora startup here[2].
The system works on plugins to allow different styles of splash
screens. To play around with it I wrote a plugin which uses
components of the InvinXble theme and animates them. You can see a
video of this[3]. It is still work in progress but it does not seem
too CPU intensive. I kept the plugin pretty general so it should be
easy to change it to suit any theme.

What I would like is some feedback as to whether something like this
is desirable.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterStartup
[2] http://katzj.livejournal.com/432586.html
[3] http://brej.org/test/plymouth_invx.mpg
  and http://brej.org/test/plymouth_invx.gif


That is definitely sexy, I do have one comment though. The current 
plymouth splash has a progress bar, and as pretty as this is it 
doesn't tell us anything about the boot progress so a user might be 
tempted to think we stalled, any thoughts as to the need for such 
visual feedback?. Aside that I love it.


- David


I was planning adding a progress bar (not necessarily a bar). Because 
the process starts before any disks have been mounted, it makes a 
timed progress bar a little complicated. I think I have a solution but 
I will need agreement of the developers. The best way is probably to 
have an estimated 1 minute timer, and as soon as the root is mounted 
we read the target time from the disk. We then write the boot time to 
the disk when we are finished averaged over multiple runs. This would 
more suited to be within the core rather than the plugin. A lot of the 
callback structures are already there to support this.
Only a suggestion, how about a blue-ish hue to on the Katana's blade as 
the boot progresses to give a sort of feedback? (instead of a progress 
bar as such, using the same logic that would apply to a progress bar), 
though I'm not sure how feasible it might be, especially considering 
graphics overlapping, added overhead, code involved, etc.


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Re: [Echo] git screencasts

2008-08-01 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Martin Sourada escribió:

Hi,

I've just recorded another screencast for the echo-icon-theme git
repository how-to's. That makes two versions of the Setting up the git
repository screencast (mkv+h264+ass subs and ogv+theora) and one
version of Adding new icons to git [1]. As I am still new to this area
I'd appreciate any feedback and suggestions what to do with the files
next and which way is better - mkv+h264 or theora wherever (preferably
in matroska as well) - and whether the subtitle commentary is desired.

I also noticed that the ogv file causes a lot of problems, one being
that rawhide totem complains of missing codecs, but plays it fine,
another that mkvmerge fails to read the file and the same goes for
avidemux. I tried renaming to ogm or ogg, and whereas both ogg and ogm
fixes totem and enable nautilus to generate thumbnail, the other issues
remain unchanged. It seems to me that the file header is incorrect.
Since mplayer can play it, it is probably possible to fix these issues
via mencoder, but I have zero experience with it.

Any suggestions, ideas, advices?

Thanks,
Martin

References:
[1] http://mso.fedorapeople.org/screencasts/

PS: The matroska one was recorded with xvidcap (which however tends to
freeze lately), re-encoded to h264 and put to matroska with avidemux,
subtitles were done in subtitleeditor and merged with the video using
mkvmerge-gui. The other two were recorded with gtk-recordmydesktop, no
editing done. Everything was done in rawhide.
  


So the Matroska is encoded into h264 or theora encapsulated into the mkv 
(would that even be possible to do?)


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Re: Does blue make you blue?

2008-07-30 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Paul W. Frields escribió:

Does the Artwork team think, overall, that using a blue palette for our
desktop theme (background) helps Fedora with its identity and branding?
Do you want to continue that for Fedora 10?
  


In my opinion Blue has become part of the Fedora identity, from the Logo 
to the desktop themes and defaults.  Sure some other colors blended in 
with it are welcome, but I do believe that Blue now has an identity to 
Fedora as much as red did for Red Hat back in the day (I mean in the 
days of Red Hat Linux as the free version of Red Hat).


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Re: Does blue make you blue?

2008-07-30 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Max Spevack escribió:

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:

In my opinion Blue has become part of the Fedora identity, from the 
Logo to the desktop themes and defaults.  Sure some other colors 
blended in with it are welcome, but I do believe that Blue now has an 
identity to Fedora as much as red did for Red Hat back in the day (I 
mean in the days of Red Hat Linux as the free version of Red Hat).


Blue = Fedora.  Mix in some other stuff as appropriate, but I believe 
that Blue is now our color.  We shouldn't give that up.  Ubuntu has 
brown, OpenSuse has green.  Red Hat has red.  We have blue. 
Personally, I like that we maintain that general blue-ish feel.  Play 
with the shades if you like, mix in some spice and variety if you 
like, but I think Fedora should always be identifiable with the color 
blue.


Just my $.02,
Max


My thoughts exactly. The color has become part of the identity of the 
distribution itself, as much as other colors have become part of other 
distributions. Other distributions may share colors as well: green SuSE 
and Mint, purple Gentoo and Mandriva or blue Fedora and Arch. And I like 
our Blue-ish hue.


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Re: [Echo] new computer icon draft

2008-04-23 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu




2) I have never seen, in real life, a monitor placed that way up 
against a computer tower


~m


Interesting, my main computer is arranged like that (more for space 
reasons than anything)


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Re: artTeam

2008-04-10 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Jonathan Bizama escribió:

Hola,

bueno les escribo porque me gustaria participar en este grupo, bueno 
yo soy diseñador, soy de chile y utilizo fedora hace 2 años



My reply will be in two languages: Spanish and English...

Spanish:

Hola, Jonathan.

Lamentablemente el idioma oficial de la lista es Inglés. Si puedes 
comunicarte con el resto de la lista en este idioma sería excelente, de 
lo contrario, yo te puedo ayudar para que puedas participar en ella.




English:

Hello, Jonathan.

Sadly the official language of the list is English. If you can 
communicate with the rest of the list in this language, it would be 
excellent, otherwise, I may help you so that you can participate in it.


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Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Máirín Duffy escribió:

Ian Weller wrote:

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Máirín Duffy wrote:

This is one of the ideas I've been working with - 
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/0001.png



Whoa. Almost looks like a UFO is abducting my taskbar. ;)


Oh crap, I totally see that now too. :)

This is a slightly different render of it, does it look less 
invasion-like?


http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/from-below.7.png

~m


It looks like ripples on water surface viewed from underwater, and the 
light rays penetrating from the surface. Looks nice.


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Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Máirín Duffy escribió:

Máirín Duffy wrote:
That would be awesome! Give me maybe 45 minutes to clean it up and 
I'll send it here. One thing though, when working with this file 
you've gotta put it in outline mode otherwise the blurs will slow 
your machine to a halt. Also, I've been rendering the bitmaps on the 
command line, eg:


inkscape --without-gui --export-png=0003b.png 0003.svg


Um, okay so that took way more than 45 minutes... sorry but I've 
been playing with it a lot and think it's getting better. I added some 
bubbles  sparkles and mucked with the ripples such that they match 
the rest of the artwork a little better and look a little bit more 
natural. Here's the mock so far:


http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f9wallpaper/sparkles-6_test.png

The source files (these will be changing as I play around):

- http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f9wallpaper/0008.svg  - this is 
the main background without sparkles; this one you will not be able to 
work with unless you go into view outlines mode.


- http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f9wallpaper/sparkles-6.svg - this 
is the bitmap output of the 0008.svg file on one layer with vector 
sparkles, etc on top.


~m

Wow! These look *REALLY* nice with the added stars and sparkling.

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Re: Nodoka suggestions for Fedora 10

2008-04-04 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Martin Sourada escribió:

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 21:10 +0200, Mark wrote:
  

Hey,

i'm having some suggestions for nodoka in the next fedora version.
My general idea for fedora is to have the themes polished in F10.
Nodoka can do a lot to get that done.

Oke for the first one.
When you hover a button or anything that's nodoka controlled like the
buttons: minimize, maximize and close. When you put your mouse on one
of them the image behind it is instantly changing to the hover state
(or something like it). My suggestion would be to make a effect of it.
Fade out the old one and simultaneously fade in the new image so that
you get some nice effects there. Also do this for every other thing
that has another state when it's selected, hovered etc.



AFAIK, metacity does not support it. Correct me if I'm wrong. It would
possible to make these effects of these using Compiz' wm but I have no
experience in this area and also compositing isn't currently working
almost nowhere in rawhide (you know, intel is broken a little, and
nvidia does not support the new Xorg yet).
  


As far as I know composite can work with 2D only drivers like VESA. IIRC 
xcompmgr wasn't particularly slow (though very unstable). I'm not 
familiar with the implementation of the Composite extension of Metacity, 
or what effects are possible with it. I however am more familiar with 
the implementation of XFWM4, and it is lightweight enough to be used 
with 2D only drivers such as 2D-only radeon drivers on R500 hardware (or 
radeonhd drivers) as well as VESA, with very decent a performance. But 
this isn't a discussion for the art-list, but for -devel and maybe 
Desktop. Just wanted to point out that you can have composite enabled by 
default with 2D-only drivers and have good performance.


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Re: Nodoka suggestions for Fedora 10

2008-04-03 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu
Wow... No that I look at your mockups the look on the F7 notification 
balloons reminded me of FC5-6 look. Nice, though. The ones for F9 look 
also very nice, and the important thing: the panel style for the taskbar 
panel looks really nice, now I'd wonder how would it look if the upper 
panel had also the same style (the main problem would be the menu bar 
inheriting the same style for consistency look. For the buttons I 
thought of something like the mouse-over hover effect you have in the 
taksbar buttons (for consistency's sake), in another (but consistent) 
color, if like. Now how to make this play nice with Nodoka? So that it 
all looks consistent?


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Re: Nodoka suggestions for Fedora 10

2008-04-02 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Mark escribió:

Hey,

i'm having some suggestions for nodoka in the next fedora version.
My general idea for fedora is to have the themes polished in F10.
Nodoka can do a lot to get that done.

Oke for the first one.
When you hover a button or anything that's nodoka controlled like the
buttons: minimize, maximize and close. When you put your mouse on one
of them the image behind it is instantly changing to the hover state
(or something like it). My suggestion would be to make a effect of it.
Fade out the old one and simultaneously fade in the new image so that
you get some nice effects there. Also do this for every other thing
that has another state when it's selected, hovered etc.
  


That is very interesting. One thing I've noticed, though, and since 
Metacity allows for that, is that if you change the order of the buttons 
(using gconf-editor), the properties of the buttons will be inherited by 
the new elements in their place. For example, I like to have the close 
and minimize buttons together at the upper left corner of the window, 
and the menu and maximize buttons on the right corner. The problem with 
the current implementation of the theme is that it locks the buttons 
to the right corner of the window and even though all effects are 
inherited when they are changed, the highlight around the buttons 
persists and is locked to the buttons on the right hand corner[1]. Maybe 
the first step would be to lock the highlight border to the properties 
of the buttons instead of a location in the title bar? (is this even 
possible in GTK? [or any other toolkit for that matter?])



The second one is something i've requested before but never got in.
Theme the taskbar! fully theme it, not just change the colour but
really give it a theme. As far as i know this has never been done in
fedora. I will try to make a mockup of it sometime soon.
  


This sounds VERY interesting indeed... It also opens all sorts of 
possibilities for themes... Like having both the lower and upper panes 
have different colors/combinations/highlights, etc. Make launcher icons 
stand out as buttons, give a glossy look (or not), etc. And have the 
lower panel (with the Show Desktop, Window List Recycle Bin and 
Desktop Pager applets) a completely different, but complementary look 
than that of the upper panel. Have the Window List applet have its own 
properties so that (as some people do) if a user deletes one of the 
panels (to reclaim desktop pace, for instance) and moves the Window List 
to the other panel, these properties are retained and what not.



Third.
A while back i made a mockup of a themed notification message. the
current one looks kinda plain. The one i had made was one you all
seemed to like one way or the other but never got implemented. I will
try to find that mockup and post it again to see if this could find
it's way in Fedora 10.
  


I don't remember seeing this one, and I would very much like to see it!


That's it for this moment. i'm sure i will come with more once i'm
busy making mockups.

But what is your opinion about those ideas so far and how likely is it
to get them in Fedora 10?

  


PS: I hate it having a sense of good taste when it comes to graphics, 
but 0 talent whatsoever! I would very much like to help the artwork 
team, if only with some feedback (as my drawing and graphics skills in 
general really suck)


[1]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/thetargos/Desktop/Nodoka-1.png

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Self introduction.

2008-03-20 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Hi all,

My name is Gian Paolo Mureddu, a long time Fedora user and fan of the 
distribution. I've always liked graphics arts, but lack the skill. 
However, through the use of Open Source tools such as ImageMagick, GIMP, 
Inkscape and a few others, I have had the chance to experiment with the 
creative me. I still lack a lot of skill, but I'd like to at least 
help the artwork team with some opinions and critique (mostly 
appreciation), and maybe ask a few tips here and there.


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Color management in Fedora 8

2008-03-20 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu

Hi list, new here.

I'm terribly sorry if this has been asked previously, but it is a bit of 
a pain searching the archives (unless there is a better way than 
browsing each month and trying to search within the thread list with the 
browser's search function. At any rate, I have noticed that Fedora 8 
includes a tool for color management, however I don't know how to use 
icc color profiles with it, etc. As I write these lines I'm reading 
through what I could find in Google about color management and ICC 
profiles to get a better understanding of it, still there is not much 
documentation covering Linux or free software tools.


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