Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7
On 05/14/2009 01:17 AM, Martin Sourada wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 22:03 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Why not file an RFE against the application in the *DE that handle background settings that will be able to browse and preview those images from the online gallery which the end user can then select and set as his default background? This would save bandwith and the needed packaging hazzle.. The end user would also be able to preview the backgrounds online in his browser and right click the image and select to set as his default background... It would create a mess in the system. Installing the wallpaper for all users requires su authorisation, enabling it as default means that it I think this is the whole point of personalization: don't care about all users, make easy the personalization tor each user. needs to be copied to some directory that is readable by all users and we don't like to mess up with the dirs that are usually handled by I like a lot how the default wallpapers are set now in the distro: check a box and input a password. rpm,... Think also about removing. But yeah, I have the concern about Removing should not be an issue, we are talking about relatively small files, JPEGs or PNGs. bandwidth as well and I am really not sure what is the best approach to this... Some nice app that would let you select the wallpapers you'd like to install (after seeing their thumbnailed preview) would be nice to have, but I'd prefer it to integrate with our rpm (or even better packagekit) infrastructure. Do you currently wave a wallpaper installed from rpm? Mine is a JPEG somewhere in my homedir and it survived a clean install of F11 Beta. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ photography: http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/ my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/ ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7
On 05/13/2009 12:15 AM, William Jon McCann wrote: Some food for thought... http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/05/02/a-little-bit-of-personality.aspx I think that is very close to what we are trying to do with Wallpaper Extras - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/Wallpaper_Extras - the plan there is to gather as many as possible images from the larger community and figure out a way to select some which we think are both good and diverse. But our project is currently in hiatus, needing some coordination (and I have my share of guilt, I have a large number of photos which can be uploaded but was lazy lately) From the Microsoft collection, I think some images are really bad from an usability point of view, much worse than our lion head. I still think a much better and useful thing would be to have the old background channels idea from clarkbw, but populated with Free images: http://www.gnome.org/~clarkbw/designs/background-channels/background%20channels.html -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ photography: http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/ my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/ ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7
On 05/13/2009 12:32 PM, Nicu Buculei wrote: On 05/13/2009 12:15 AM, William Jon McCann wrote: Some food for thought... http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/05/02/a-little-bit-of-personality.aspx I think that is very close to what we are trying to do with Wallpaper Extras - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/Wallpaper_Extras - the plan there is to gather as many as possible images from the larger community and figure out a way to select some which we think are both good and diverse. But our project is currently in hiatus, needing some coordination (and I have my share of guilt, I have a large number of photos which can be uploaded but was lazy lately) Did we ever settle on how and where to store all the images etc ? -- Viking-Ice One of my gods has a hammer your's was nailed to a cross You do the math! ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 20:48 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 05/13/2009 12:32 PM, Nicu Buculei wrote: On 05/13/2009 12:15 AM, William Jon McCann wrote: Some food for thought... http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/05/02/a-little-bit-of-personality.aspx I think that is very close to what we are trying to do with Wallpaper Extras - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/Wallpaper_Extras - the plan there is to gather as many as possible images from the larger community and figure out a way to select some which we think are both good and diverse. But our project is currently in hiatus, needing some coordination (and I have my share of guilt, I have a large number of photos which can be uploaded but was lazy lately) Did we ever settle on how and where to store all the images etc ? I don't think so... I really liked Ian's proposal (dig through the archives if you do not know what I am referring to), but people seemed to be generally against it. But basically what I thing we need is: * an easy way to upload images (with info on licensing and various other comments included) * a place to store the images in * a place to preview the images * a system on selecting what goes in/out of the rpm packages (voting?) I think our current setup is suboptimal in most of those points, but I ain't sure how to make it better. Martin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
