Re: Fedora 10 Countdown

2008-10-29 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 01:20:59AM +0100, Paolo Leoni wrote: We are near to preview release, so I have two proposals for Fedora 10 countdown banner: I thought we were going to adapt the beta release banner's text and leave the rest the same -- not that this artwork isn't OK,

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Nicu Buculei
Mairin Duffy wrote: Matthias Clasen wrote: Well, the quality of artwork to a large extent consists of the general feeling that it gives the users. Which is a somewhat vague and unspecific thing, and varies from person to person. It is next to impossible to identify the one or two specific

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Jonathan Roberts
PRIMARY TARGET * Free and open source software enthusiasts, developers, and remixers. I haven't polled the entire team about it, but I can pretty much guarantee you that this description is _not_ what we see as the target audience for the Fedora Desktop. Matthias, I guess the

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Nicu Buculei
William Jon McCann wrote: I'm not sure that message-dissection is a particularly fruitful way to respond to the general theme and tone of a message. But I'll respond here because I find it somewhat better than having discussions via blog posts. Speaking of blog posts, Jon, I noticed that

Re: four f's poster designs

2008-10-29 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 22:02 -0400, Mairin Duffy wrote: I put together some designs for the four f's posters. Excellent work as always. I share Ian's concerns about the exact slicing of the logo (midway? Edge? Overlap?), but that's a minor issue. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fedora 10 Countdown

2008-10-29 Thread Paolo Leoni
I thought we were going to adapt the beta release banner's text and leave the rest the same -- not that this artwork isn't OK, it's just fine (might need to be adapted a little bit, change the strings, whatever)... someone more important than me needs to make that decision, I think. I have

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Mairin Duffy wrote: William Jon McCann wrote: I think a lot of the responsibility is on the desktop team (and also the upstream community) to communicate more effectively. What do you mean by upstream? You mean the Fedora Artwork team is the upstream for the Fedora-branded artwork, right? I

Re: F10 on OLPC XO illustration request

2008-10-29 Thread Michael Langlie
Hi Karlie, I can render the process of positioning the XO and inserting an SD card in several steps as technical illustrations. Dan Williams demonstrated for me and it looks like a drawing may also be needed for removing the SD card. I will try to have these for you by the end of this week or

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:24 +0100, Max Spevack wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Jonathan Roberts wrote: PRIMARY TARGET * Free and open source software enthusiasts, developers, and remixers. I haven't polled the entire team about it, but I can pretty much guarantee you that

Re: F10 on OLPC XO illustration request

2008-10-29 Thread Karlie Robinson
I don't know, but I can find out. Though I did get these yesterday - I don't know if they'll help at all http://en.flossmanuals.net/floss/publish/XO/rsrc/XO/resized_600x398_sdcardinsertion.JPG http://dev.laptop.org/~bjordan/sdcards/ ryan lerch wrote: Are there any existing line drawings /

advertisement for Fedora Scholarship

2008-10-29 Thread Max Spevack
Hi guys, I'm trying to generate some buzz around this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship and it was suggested to me that perhaps a nice looking flyer that people could print out and stick on walls at high schools or various places would be useful. I guess we'd want to include the

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Mairin Duffy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: PRIMARY TARGET * Free and open source software enthusiasts, developers, and remixers. I haven't polled the entire team about it, but I can pretty much guarantee you that this description is _not_ what we see as the target audience for

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Mike McGrath
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote: We have a Desktop team that is trying to innovate towards its particular vision. I will admit that I don't know enough about what that vision is as I would like to, but I am definitely eager to learn. As am I -- there's a good opportunity to

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Mike McGrath wrote: Perhaps they should also register themselves via the bottom of this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Main_Page Create an IRC channel at #fedora-desktop and get involved. FWIW, I've never heard of a Fedora Desktop team. Well, there is already a #fedora-desktop

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Mike McGrath
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Mike McGrath wrote: Perhaps they should also register themselves via the bottom of this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Main_Page Create an IRC channel at #fedora-desktop and get involved. FWIW, I've never heard of a Fedora Desktop

Updated Solar Backgrounds Package

2008-10-29 Thread Martin Sourada
Hi, I've just built an updated Solar Backgrounds Package with many fixes provided by Mo, and more resolutions/ratios [1]. As per request from both gnome and kde folks the package has been split into solar-backgrounds (for Desktop Live Spin) solar-backgrounds-common (for KDE) and

Re: F10 on OLPC XO illustration request

2008-10-29 Thread Michael Langlie
I drew a 6-step process for opening and positioning an XO laptop for SD card insertion. Let me know if anything seems to need revising or clarification. I tried to keep it simple and readable with or without additional text explanation. (Big thanks to professional hand model Dan Williams!) PNG

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 09:37 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: I am not sure I am reading this right, but it may be the intention for a Desktop spin with a different target audience than the rest of the distro. I honestly don't think that the 'rest of the distro' has any clearly defined target

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 08:19 +, Jonathan Roberts wrote: PRIMARY TARGET * Free and open source software enthusiasts, developers, and remixers. I haven't polled the entire team about it, but I can pretty much guarantee you that this description is _not_ what we see as the

Re: Updated Solar Backgrounds Package

2008-10-29 Thread Mairin Duffy
Hi Martin, Martin Sourada wrote: If no serious problems/regressions are reported, I'll request a freeze break at Friday. Jesse said he really needs this ASAP, so I think we should get it to him tomorrow morning. He's on West Coast US time so that will give us a few more hours for folks to

Re: F10 on OLPC XO illustration request

2008-10-29 Thread Mairin Duffy
Michael Langlie wrote: I drew a 6-step process for opening and positioning an XO laptop for SD card insertion. Let me know if anything seems to need revising or clarification. I tried to keep it simple and readable with or without additional text explanation. (Big thanks to professional hand

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Mike McGrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Perhaps they should also register themselves via the bottom of this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Main_Page Create an IRC channel at #fedora-desktop and get involved. FWIW, I've never heard of a Fedora Desktop team. No offense, but... First

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:24 +0100, Max Spevack wrote: Fedora is *forced* to be a lot of things to a lot of people. Of course. That doesn't mean that individual spins cannot have a more clearly defined target audience. We have a Desktop team that is trying to innovate towards its particular

Re: Updated Solar Backgrounds Package

2008-10-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Martin Sourada martin.sourada at gmail.com writes: I've just built an updated Solar Backgrounds Package with many fixes provided by Mo, and more resolutions/ratios [1]. As per request from both gnome and kde folks the package has been split into solar-backgrounds (for Desktop Live Spin)

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Mike McGrath
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Bill Nottingham wrote: Mike McGrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Perhaps they should also register themselves via the bottom of this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Main_Page Create an IRC channel at #fedora-desktop and get involved. FWIW, I've never heard of

Re: Updated Solar Backgrounds Package

2008-10-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at writes: Thanks a lot! I updated solar-kde-theme to use the new images. There is, however, a problem: the 1280x1024 image is only 1280x1014, any chance this can be fixed? (It leads to bad transitions between KSplash and Plasma because they use different