FC7ThemeProposalEnergyInterferences

2007-02-16 Thread Jiri Jakub Masek
Hi all, it's *nice* discussion around the FedoraArtList... O.K., I added an archive file to wiki, the images of EnergyInterferences, if there is a responsible person to save it for *better* times, do it. JJM -- I'm still learning English... Jiří Jakub Mašek - Mr Jiri Jakub Masek Czech Republic,

Re: Artwork conversations

2007-02-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Nicu Buculei wrote: I dont consider it a step back. In both cases the concepts was drawn and worked up a team and Diana Fong did the final work. The difference here might that Mola talked over IRC while John Baer didnt. That's just different working styles and prefered modes of interaction.

Re: Artwork conversations

2007-02-16 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Nicu Buculei wrote: And at the end, here is what I see as a proof of lack of goodwill: have a look at http://www.isity.net/blog/?p=60 Scroll down to the credit section. Do you notice there a familiar name? Maybe John Baer who came up with the idea? Me neither... FYI, the credit is for the use

Re: Artwork conversations

2007-02-16 Thread Joachim Frieben
The quality criteria is so subjective that is just too easy to use is as a strawman. Ah, and what the hell then entitles you to claim that FC6 has had the best artwork of all Fedora releases? In my opinion, FC6 artwork already showed first signs of sloppyness. Only think of the installer

Re: Artwork conversations

2007-02-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
Joachim Frieben wrote: The quality criteria is so subjective that is just too easy to use is as a strawman. Ah, and what the hell then entitles you to claim that FC6 has had the best artwork of all Fedora releases? In my opinion, FC6 artwork already showed first signs of sloppyness. Only

Re: go-home echo icon concept

2007-02-16 Thread Martin Sourada
Certainly, I can provide both png and svg. But, should I provide both with and without a folder? And, about the shadows - I saw, that svgs are usualy without shadows - is that only because inkscape didn't have the needed feature? If that is so, should I add the shadow only to the png, or to

Re: go-home echo icon concept

2007-02-16 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Martin Sourada wrote: Certainly, I can provide both png and svg. But, should I provide both with and without a folder? And, about the shadows - I saw, that svgs are usualy without shadows - is that only because inkscape didn't have the needed feature? If that is so, should I add the shadow

Re: go-home echo icon concept

2007-02-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: Certainly, I can provide both png and svg. But, should I provide both with and without a folder? And, about the shadows - I saw, that svgs are usualy without shadows - is that only because inkscape didn't have the needed feature? If that is so, should I add the shadow

Re: go-home echo icon concept

2007-02-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Without folder in order to be consistent. PNG icon can be with shadow while SVG icon can be without it. However, with Inkscape 0.45 it is possible fake a shadow because of blur effect (not supported on Firefox 2 and earlier) The shadow made with the blur filter is the

Re: go-home echo icon concept

2007-02-16 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Nicu Buculei wrote: The shadow made with the blur filter is the proper one, fake was using pre-0.45 ways, like the blur edge effect or using gradients. I used gradients for the emotes. I will plan to update them using blur filter on post F7. I don't think Firefox 2 not supporting blur is a

Early impressions of Default artwork

2007-02-16 Thread John Baer
Hello Diana, Welcome to the Fedora art team. I followed this link from your blog to your submission. http://people.redhat.com/dfong/fc7graphics/ As always your work is very nice. I have a couple of requests. 1. Would you move your work to a wiki page using a format similar to

Re: go-home echo icon concept

2007-02-16 Thread Martin Sourada
Ok, so I decided to put the shadow to the svg as well. I attach PNGs for large and small sizes. SVGs can be downloaded here: http://feannatar.hostuju.cz/fedora/files/echo/go-homeL.svg http://feannatar.hostuju.cz/fedora/files/echo/go-homeS.svg ___

Re: go-home echo icon concept

2007-02-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: Ok, so I decided to put the shadow to the svg as well. I attach PNGs for large and small sizes. SVGs can be downloaded here: http://feannatar.hostuju.cz/fedora/files/echo/go-homeL.svg http://feannatar.hostuju.cz/fedora/files/echo/go-homeS.svg I would recommend you to use

Re: Early impressions of Default artwork

2007-02-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
John Baer wrote: My first question is one of theme design. In my mind I view a theme as a story board. The images are linked, but they are different. Your approach seems to be one of image re-use. I noticed the wallpaper image is the same as the gdm login background. The balloon behind the

Re: go-home echo icon concept

2007-02-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: I folowed the guidlines and there is said: The shadow is formed by lines from the isometric grid. It is appears primarily behind the object; as well as a bit in front of and under the object. Do not to use black, as it is too harsh and does not scale well...dark gray is

Shadow guidelines in echo icon set (color, amount of blur, transparency)

2007-02-16 Thread Martin Sourada
Nicu Buculei wrote: Of course not *solid* black. I think the intention is to use black with a degree of transparency, which look gray, at least this is what the other icon sets (for example Tango) do. Well, I think the guidlines aren't as precise as one would like - there isn't stated

Re: Fedora-art-list Digest, Vol 11, Issue 28

2007-02-16 Thread John Baer
On 2/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Nicu wrote: Open the PNG with GIMP, save as xpm.gz, test it and tell us if is too grainy or not :p Thanks, I can do that ... :) Personally I would like the GRUB image to have the same blue as the rest of the graphics (the blue

Re: Artwork conversations

2007-02-16 Thread Uno Engborg
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: I dont consider it a step back. In both cases the concepts was drawn and worked up a team and Diana Fong did the final work. The difference here might that Mola talked over IRC while John Baer didnt. That's just different working styles and prefered

Re: Artwork conversations

2007-02-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Uno Engborg wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: I dont consider it a step back. In both cases the concepts was drawn and worked up a team and Diana Fong did the final work. The difference here might that Mola talked over IRC while John Baer didnt. That's just different working

Re: Artwork conversations

2007-02-16 Thread Uno Engborg
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Uno Engborg wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: I dont consider it a step back. In both cases the concepts was drawn and worked up a team and Diana Fong did the final work. The difference here might that Mola talked over IRC while John Baer didnt.

Re: go-home echo icon concept

2007-02-16 Thread Diana Fong
Martin Sourada wrote: I folowed the guidlines and there is said: The shadow is formed by lines from the isometric grid. It is appears primarily behind the object; as well as a bit in front of and under the object. Do not to use black, as it is too harsh and does not scale well...dark gray is

Re: go-home echo icon concept

2007-02-16 Thread Martin Sourada
Maybe we should at least consider whether the darkest color at the first end should be solid or semitransparent. If it would be semitranpsparent than the amount of lightness in that point could be handled only by the transparency. As it is in real world - when the object which casts the shadow