Re: [Design-team] Fedora 15 GNOME Default Wallpaper

2010-12-22 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi all, Fab's comment below seems to be a recurring feeling in this thread that I want to better understand. How does using a wallpaper that was not a product of solely this team [1] result in fear for the future of this team? I understand that the wallpaper is a large part of the visual

Re: [Design-team] Question about fedora design suite

2011-01-05 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi Raul, I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora for a number of reasons, one of which was that my Wacom tablet works out of the box without needing to do a lot of custom compiling/installation of things. I confirmed things worked by using the LiveCD first, and I suggest you do the same. Simply

Re: [Design-team] Fedora RPG Mockup critique request (was Re: Fedora RPG Thumbnail sketches)

2011-01-05 Thread Kirk Bridger
I just have to say, that image annotation thing is absolutely cool! Can we put an Add Note button at the top of the page too? Could we also increase the default size of the box for the annotation? It's a little tough to resize and it currently is almost always too small to leave alone. Or

Re: [Design-team] Artboard test server available design challenge

2011-05-18 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi there, I'm still quite new to the mailing list and am working on my first task. So please bear with me as I expose my newbness for a moment here. But what exactly are you looking for us to do? I'm not familiar with what an imageboard system is, nor what I can do with it. How does this

Re: [Design-team] Votes open! Wallpaper Design Stage 1 Complete!

2011-06-21 Thread Kirk Bridger
My votes: 50 47 46 35 ___ design-team mailing list design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team

Re: [Design-team] Fedora 16 Codename

2011-07-10 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi Ryan, The release name follows a pattern and is chosen (voted on) quite early on in the release cycle. Check here for the history and some info. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Fedora_release_names Verne is after Jules Verne, which might give you more imagery to work with than

Re: [Design-team] Supplemental wallpaper voting

2011-08-02 Thread Kirk Bridger
In no particular order: * Dandelion * Roof * Icecycles * Longfellow * Stump * Sunset at Kadaru * Splash * Skye * Sunflower * UK Seed Cathedral * Kyoto Station West 1 * Bee on Flower (Flowerbee.jpg) * River Nile * Sheep * Firehouse3 Thanks to everyone

Re: [Design-team] Supplemental wallpaper voting

2011-08-02 Thread Kirk Bridger
Great way to get those last minute submitters to actually submit, pcon ;) It urged me to move the task from my to-do list to my done list - thanks! Kirk On 08/02/2011 11:29 AM, Patrick Connelly wrote: Whoops! So we got a little mixed up, and didn't realize that the deadline was next week.

Re: [Design-team] Fedora Baseball Cards

2012-05-17 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi Vanessa, The only thought I had was that the design team's strengths in usability and user experience aren't well defined in these cards yet. I suppose this skill set could be put under the designer card in some way, but it really is a different skill set. If you want to put another

Re: [Design-team] Fedora GRUB2 boot menu, from design perspective

2012-06-20 Thread Kirk Bridger
Perhaps we can put some additional solution ideas forward. As a quasi-novice kernel user I always found it helpful to have the kernel versions visible. When I update Fedora and the nvidia blob causes X to fail, I like being able to choose older versions because I can't do anything else.

Re: [Design-team] Fedora GRUB2 boot menu, from design perspective

2012-06-20 Thread Kirk Bridger
tl;dr version: 1 - I think data should be collected before we make assumptions about our user base. 2 - I think categorizing is a better solution than hiding, as users with lots of kernels/OSs are more likely to be switching more often, vs users with just a few. The value of reducing

Re: [Design-team] Fedora GRUB2 boot menu, from design perspective

2012-06-20 Thread Kirk Bridger
from Fedora users via a survey? Useful or redundant? Thanks, Kirk On 06/20/2012 07:30 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi Kirk, On 2012-06-20 19:04, Kirk Bridger wrote: 1 - I think data should be collected before we make assumptions about our user base. We need to take the user base as defined

Re: [Design-team] 10 Tshirt slogan ideas

2012-12-07 Thread Kirk Bridger
I really like Freedom as a Feature. Feel it where your heart leaps actually sounds a little awkward from an English standpoint - certainly poetic but perhaps overly elaborate. I think Freedom as a Feature is also a nice idea or theme for the 10 year celebration too ... Kirk On

Re: [Design-team] Centre cursor after boot?

2013-01-28 Thread Kirk Bridger
I think this makes sense. Ask the question where would most people expect it to be. There probably is no good answer to that since it might depend on the widgets available on the login screen. So we're looking for a sane default then - one that makes sense in most situations. I believe

Re: [Design-team] Plan for Fedora 20 Design Suite

2013-08-14 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi Luya, I like the idea of having some how-tos/tutorials for the design tools. What's your vision for these things? For example tatica/Maria has several YouTube tutorials already available [1] on her channel. Having a default browser page that links to these would be simple I believe?

Re: [Design-team] Plan for Fedora 20 Design Suite

2013-08-15 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hey, The Color Hug discussion sounds interesting and might be worth putting somewhere, as I hadn't heard about this before now. An FAQ about color profiling linked from the browser in the spin? gnokki, could you please send me a link for your monitor profiling tutorial, I'd like to

Re: [Design-team] Plans for Nuancier: A Fedora Wallpapers Voting App

2013-09-09 Thread Kirk Bridger
I agree with Máirín's comments - well stated! It feels like there is a feature here that hasn't been defined as such: the ability for me to choose any number of images as Maybe's and then have a second round of choosing/narrowing down. I think it could be a compelling feature but it is not

Re: [Design-team] About nuancier

2013-12-17 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi Pierre, I tried uploading an image but nothing seems to be active (the upload just seemed to finish quietly and nothing happened). Am I missing how to add a new election or is that not a permission I have, or am I just blind? ;) Kirk On 12/17/2013 03:15 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:

Re: [Design-team] About nuancier

2013-12-17 Thread Kirk Bridger
at it - really like how it is coming together so quickly! Kirk On 12/17/2013 09:58 AM, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 09:04:17AM -0800, Kirk Bridger wrote: Hi Pierre, I tried uploading an image but nothing seems to be active (the upload just seemed to finish quietly

Re: [Design-team] wallpaper f21a

2014-08-23 Thread Kirk Bridger
As someone with more UX skills than artwork skills I'm not really seeing the UX requests from applications coming through our ticket system (and I'm not on IRC to be honest). I've been mostly inactive but listening for some time now. Did I miss some key requests? The trac list [1] shows very

Re: [Design-team] future for Nuancier

2014-09-12 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hey br gnokii, You included quite a few problem statements and even more solution statements. I hope I'm getting to the core problems you're describing. Apologies if I missed the mark. It sounds to me, if I'm hearing you correctly, that a first challenge is getting more voters. A second

Re: [Design-team] Live inkscape classes / lessons

2015-01-21 Thread Kirk Bridger
+1 Kirk On 01/21/2015 01:01 PM, Chris Roberts wrote: This would be awesome to see and I totally would be up for learning how to Inkscape better :) - Chris Roberts - Original Message - From: Ryan Lerch rle...@redhat.com To: Fedora Design Team design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [Design-team] Live inkscape classes / lessons

2015-01-21 Thread Kirk Bridger
I've always wanted to know if Fedora would be interested in setting up a Media Goblin [1] installation, to help raise awareness of the project. This feels like a good project to explore Media Goblin as an alternative to YouTube. But I suspect it would require more effort on our parts as the

Re: [Design-team] Anyone planning to go to Flock?

2015-03-26 Thread Kirk Bridger
On 03/25/2015 10:48 AM, Emily Dirsh wrote: I'm planning to go. I think it would be great to have some UX-related sessions - since one of our team goals is to do more UX work. I'd love to have something hands-on like a user testing workshop. And this is me volunteering you, mo, but it might

Re: [Design-team] Wallpaper pictures

2015-08-19 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hi Andrew, These are fantastic - beautiful photos! I'd suggest you submit them for the currently-open supplemental wallpaper contest [1] so they can get bundled with F23. The page I linked to describes how to contribute them to the contest, including the licenses involved. Thanks for sharing

[Design-team] Re: Updated Design team wiki page

2015-11-05 Thread Kirk Bridger
On 11/05/2015 08:34 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Hi, > > We reviewed the draft wiki page kirkb did for us today in the team > meeting and decided to go ahead and push it to the main page. So I > just did that. :) The only edit I made was to update to our new > meeting time. > > Take a look here: >

Re: [Design-team] New Meeting Time

2015-10-13 Thread Kirk Bridger
On 2015-10-13 8:37 PM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: > On 13/10/15 10:28 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: >> 12 PM UTC on Thursdays >> >> >> Which is: >> >> - 4 hours earlier than our current time, on Thurs instead of Tues >> - 5 AM (US + Canada/Pacific) >> > a bit early on Pacific timezone. I will set the

Re: [Design-team] Today's Team Meeting Summary

2015-09-08 Thread Kirk Bridger
Thanks for the summary via email (very helpful) - sorry I missed the meeting. Definitely want to finish up 347 (Design Team wiki redesign) - this is a moving target as we continue to add new content to the existing page so the quicker we can flip over the better (e.g. the recent photo tuts).

[Design-team] Re: logo usage

2015-12-16 Thread Kirk Bridger
Hey Karoly, Re: proper use of of trademark - I think you're hitting on a topic that not many of us know about, and those that do know aren't able to reply right now. I'm not an expert so I would look over the pages Bryan provided. Overall I'm a little confused by the ticket you're working on

[Design-team] Re: Summary of today's meeting - 24 March 2016

2016-03-25 Thread Kirk Bridger
On 24/03/16 08:37 PM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: On 24/03/16 06:39 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi folks, mleonova and I met today and did some ticket triage. It was only us two who showed up - should we try changing the meeting time so more folks can make it? Is the time a barrier? That will be

[Design-team] Re: Quick idea for revamping the getfedora.org front page

2016-06-30 Thread Kirk Bridger
On 30/06/16 10:24 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: On 06/30/2016 12:55 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: Yep, definitely! The thought there is that the button would appear when you hover; only Atomic's button is shown just as an example of what it'd look like on hover (I know it's unclear without reading the

[Design-team] Re: Quick idea for revamping the getfedora.org front page

2016-06-30 Thread Kirk Bridger
Plunker is finicky to share - the run.plnkr.co link only works while the plunk itself is running in your browser (assuming you're looking at the edit screen), and even then the run stops after a couple of minutes of no editing to the files. I've had some success by freezing the plunk and then

[Design-team] Re: Release readiness meeting tomorrow

2016-08-17 Thread Kirk Bridger
If that time is translated properly in the UTC web-thingy it looks like noon my time tomorrow (noon PT)?  I know I've been quiet lately but I can attend that meeting if it is helpful. Kirk On 17/08/16 05:18 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:

[Design-team] Re: Any ideas for Fedora 26 visuals?

2016-12-01 Thread Kirk Bridger
:42 AM, Kirk Bridger wrote: I can quickly add this to the wiki - do I need to open a tracking ticket or just go ahead and make the change? Kirk On 01/12/16 06:03 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote

[Design-team] Re: Any ideas for Fedora 26 visuals?

2016-12-01 Thread Kirk Bridger
I can quickly add this to the wiki - do I need to open a tracking ticket or just go ahead and make the change? Kirk On 01/12/16 06:03 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: Some specs for the wallpaper (we should probably

[Design-team] Re: [badges] Fedora Badges: Switching from bad...@lists.fp.o list to Discourse?

2018-10-12 Thread Kirk Bridger
I'm not active on the badges side of the project, but I believe a Discourse-like tool is more inviting for participation that a big scary mailing list of anon people. Kirk On 2018-10-12 9:57 a.m., Justin W. Flory wrote:

[Design-team] Re: F31 and beyond theming

2019-03-10 Thread Kirk Bridger
I'm not a contributor to many of these activities nowadays so won't pretend to know how to do things better. I will say though that I'm not a huge fan of using Google for our work, not just legally but ethically.  There are plenty of open

[Design-team] Re: F31 and beyond theming

2019-03-10 Thread Kirk Bridger
I host a NextCloud instance and am happy to offer it to the team to explore POC or whatever.  Ultimately if the Design Team needs infrastructure I'm not sure Fedora would want this to be the final solution? If we wanted to think a little more

[Design-team] Re: F31 and beyond theming

2019-03-10 Thread Kirk Bridger
OK, I'll leave this conversation then. On 2019-03-10 11:51 a.m., S.Kemter wrote: Feels like I'm solutioning without really knowing what the requirements/problems are though. exactly

[Design-team] Re: Fedora 31 theming

2019-06-03 Thread Kirk Bridger
On 2019-06-01 10:54 p.m., Sirko Kemter wrote: Hi, Ok, its time to give you the result, I think the outcome was a bit expected. The winner is: Galileo Galilei we had not many votes this time, I think the google login is for many the issue,