Re: F9 artwork

2008-03-28 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 18:33 -0500, Michael Beckwith wrote: Here's an updated version with the support for multi-resolutions. However, I'm not sure how to handle it once we reach the static moments. Perhaps someone with some more experience can help at those points. You can use size elements

Re: F9 artwork

2008-03-28 Thread Nicu Buculei
Matthias Clasen wrote: Wrt to the resolutions, it will be much more useful to have them as separate pngs if we can actually correct the aspect ratio of the images, just rendering the same svg at the different sizes will not give much of an improvement over just using the svg in the first place.

Re: F9 artwork

2008-03-28 Thread Máirín Duffy
Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi Matthias! Matthias Clasen wrote: Hey, now that the beta is out, it is high time that we start getting the F9 artwork in place. Unfortunately, I haven't followed the discussions on this list very closely in the last weeks, so I need a quick update on where we stand wrt

Re: F9 artwork

2008-03-27 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Matthias! Matthias Clasen wrote: Hey, now that the beta is out, it is high time that we start getting the F9 artwork in place. Unfortunately, I haven't followed the discussions on this list very closely in the last weeks, so I need a quick update on where we stand wrt to F9 art. Where can I

Re: F9 artwork

2008-03-27 Thread Nicu Buculei
Matthias Clasen wrote: now that the beta is out, it is high time that we start getting the F9 artwork in place. Unfortunately, I haven't followed the discussions on this list very closely in the last weeks, so I need a quick update on where we stand wrt to F9 art. Where can I find the existing

Re: F9 artwork

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Beckwith
I can go in and edit the xml. I'd like to play around a little bit with it anyway to figure out the bits anyway. Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi Matthias! Matthias Clasen wrote: Hey, now that the beta is out, it is high time that we start getting the F9 artwork in place. Unfortunately, I haven't

Re: F9 artwork

2008-03-27 Thread Ian Weller
On 3/27/08, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pavel's KDE splash isn't yet on the wiki but it seems Rex is going to handle checking it into fedora-logos. Should I hunt for that and get it up? -- ian ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list

Re: F9 artwork

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Beckwith
name part. Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi Matthias! Matthias Clasen wrote: Hey, now that the beta is out, it is high time that we start getting the F9 artwork in place. Unfortunately, I haven't followed the discussions on this list very closely in the last weeks, so I need a quick update on where we

Re: F9 artwork

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Sourada
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:55 -0500, Michael Beckwith wrote: Attached is the xml file that I edited from the infinity.xml to waves.xml Basically all I had to do was edit the start time, which I put for April 1st(not fooling here), and then change instances of infinity to waves. I kept the

Re: F9 artwork

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Beckwith
I'll get that added, thanks for the reminder Martin. Martin Sourada wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:55 -0500, Michael Beckwith wrote: Attached is the xml file that I edited from the infinity.xml to waves.xml Basically all I had to do was edit the start time, which I put for April 1st(not

Re: F9 artwork

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Beckwith
Here's an updated version with the support for multi-resolutions. However, I'm not sure how to handle it once we reach the static moments. Perhaps someone with some more experience can help at those points. Martin Sourada wrote: It might still need some tweaking, especially considering gnome

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-22 Thread Máirín Duffy
Valent Turkovic wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi Valent, Valent Turkovic wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Whenever we try anything that is !blue, we get a whole lot of negative feedback. People like to look at the colors far more symbolically than they should I think. ~m I don't like opensuse

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-13 Thread Valent Turkovic
Martin Sourada wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:49 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote: Steven Garrity wrote: Please look these two screenshots: http://bayimg.com/MAIAIaaBLhttp://bayimg.com/MAiagaABL One is FC6 and other is F8. Can you make the difference. The differences are subtle, too subtle and

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-13 Thread Valent Turkovic
Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi Valent, Valent Turkovic wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Whenever we try anything that is !blue, we get a whole lot of negative feedback. People like to look at the colors far more symbolically than they should I think. ~m I don't like opensuse in particular but they

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Valent Turkovic wrote: It have the ability to bring some really talented people to fedora and they will contribute, but they use proprietary tools (photoshop and the like). Is that forbidden to use non OSS apps in making fedora themes? I heard that before in some post but I wasn't sure so

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-10 Thread Martin Sourada
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 10:11 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote: 2008/1/9, Luya Tshimbalanga [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Valent Turkovic a écrit : I know that lot of things you can't change because Gnome is responsible for that. Nobody has touched gnome

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-10 Thread Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek
2008/1/10, Martin Sourada [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 10:11 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote: 2008/1/9, Luya Tshimbalanga [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Valent Turkovic a écrit : I know that lot of things you can't change because Gnome is

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-10 Thread Martin Sourada
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 15:38 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote: I dislike favourites etc in panels/dock. I even hate it. Menu with favourites is better idea imo. And what I hate is having a favourites menu which is constantly changing its contents. As for having a favourites menu, I am sure

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-09 Thread Valent Turkovic
John Baer wrote: All, IMO the F8 artwork presents Fedora very favorably and it seems a waste not to leverage this success in F9. Does it make sense to change the theme every other release cycle and use the off cycle to improve or tweak the current theme? What do you actually mean when you

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-09 Thread Valent Turkovic
Steven Garrity wrote: John Baer wrote: Does it make sense to change the theme every other release cycle and use the off cycle to improve or tweak the current theme? This is a good point - it would be nice to see a somewhat common theme getting more and more polished with each release. More of

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-09 Thread Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek
Exactly. Fedora should make some revolution, as it's one the most modern distros (openSUSE provides nice GUI improvements, but below GUI, they really suck). openSUSE shows nice artwork progress - every version has new nice art, exactly like Fedora does. We made big improvment from FC5 until F8.

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-09 Thread Valent Turkovic
Martin Sourada wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:49 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote: Steven Garrity wrote: Please look these two screenshots: http://bayimg.com/MAIAIaaBL http://bayimg.com/MAiagaABL One is FC6 and other is F8. Can you make the difference. The differences are subtle, too subtle

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-09 Thread Laith Juwaidah
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 21:01:56 Martin Sourada wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:49 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote: Steven Garrity wrote: Please look these two screenshots: http://bayimg.com/MAIAIaaBL http://bayimg.com/MAiagaABL One is FC6 and other is F8. Can you make the

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-09 Thread Valent Turkovic
Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote: Fedora shouldn't change main color! It should only push some freshness and live to the Linux desktop. But fresh is a new colour :) Come on you burned blue colour from all your monitors that if one more blue theme comes out it will look washed ot because the blue

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Sourada
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:59 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Laith Juwaidah wrote: Perhaps we could adopt a spring visual theme for the odd-numbered releases that fall in the spring, and a fall visual theme for the even-numbered releases that fall in the, well,

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-09 Thread Valent Turkovic
Máirín Duffy wrote: Laith Juwaidah wrote: Perhaps we could adopt a spring visual theme for the odd-numbered releases that fall in the spring, and a fall visual theme for the even-numbered releases that fall in the, well, fall. Could it also be that the colors match the season (green

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Sourada
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 18:22 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote: How do I did it? I just used quick reply in Gmail. You write your answer above the quotation. It's much easier to follow if you can read first what you are answering to and after that the answer. Especially on the mail lists it's

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-09 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Valent, Valent Turkovic wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Whenever we try anything that is !blue, we get a whole lot of negative feedback. People like to look at the colors far more symbolically than they should I think. ~m I don't like opensuse in particular but they have made a break from

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-09 Thread Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek
2008/1/9, Michael Beckwith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sticking with blues is what they call brand recognition and brand association. Yeah, some companies go through the trouble of changing their entire color scheme, but when they do they span across absolutely everything, not just some aspects.

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-03 Thread Nicu Buculei
John Baer wrote: IMO the F8 artwork presents Fedora very favorably and it seems a waste not to leverage this success in F9. Duh! and we have another parallel thread about how F8 was the worst :D Talk about artistic subjectivity... Does it make sense to change the theme every other release

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-03 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Jan 1, 2008 6:13 PM, Daniel Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe it would be beneficial to Fedora to stabilize the artwork in successive releases. IMO, radically changing the artwork each release detracts from giving Fedora a recognizable look and feel. I think having a distinguishing

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-03 Thread Uno Engborg
2008/1/3, Jeff Spaleta [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The rest of the graphics (except maybe splash screens) I would agree deserve refinement because they serve a more functional role. Users interact with window borders and buttons and icons and whatnot. But the desktop background itself is purely

A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-01 Thread John Baer
All, IMO the F8 artwork presents Fedora very favorably and it seems a waste not to leverage this success in F9. Does it make sense to change the theme every other release cycle and use the off cycle to improve or tweak the current theme? Presenting the same question a differ way. Would Fedora

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Steven Garrity wrote: I proposed a seasonal Spring/Fall theme set to coincide with the time-based release schedule of Fedora back in November. I've been trying to create a page for it on the wiki, but I'm having trouble getting my account created (probably my own fault). Are you following

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-01 Thread Laith Juwaidah
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 00:06:07 Steven Garrity wrote: John Baer wrote: Does it make sense to change the theme every other release cycle and use the off cycle to improve or tweak the current theme? This is a good point - it would be nice to see a somewhat common theme getting more and

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-01 Thread Máirín Duffy
Laith Juwaidah wrote: Perhaps we could adopt a spring visual theme for the odd-numbered releases that fall in the spring, and a fall visual theme for the even-numbered releases that fall in the, well, fall. Could it also be that the colors match the season (green for spring releases and

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-01 Thread Daniel Geiger
I believe it would be beneficial to Fedora to stabilize the artwork in successive releases. IMO, radically changing the artwork each release detracts from giving Fedora a recognizable look and feel. I am for refining and improving the artwork, though--maybe in the degree to which Ubuntu

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-01 Thread Michael Beckwith
New themes, that are relatively radically different, I tend to think ARE Fedora's recognizable look. Something new and well done to greet you with each release. No you can't satisfy everyone, but that should be expected. Just look at modern art for an example of that. Daniel Geiger wrote: I

Re: A Thought About F9 Artwork

2008-01-01 Thread inode0
On Jan 1, 2008 9:40 PM, Michael Beckwith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New themes, that are relatively radically different, I tend to think ARE Fedora's recognizable look. Something new and well done to greet you with each release. No you can't satisfy everyone, but that should be expected. Just

Re: [F9 Artwork Proposal] Waves

2007-12-19 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Dec 18, 2007 10:35 PM, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the best how this one look, BUT there is a compiz effect simulating water ripples, just imagine the redundancy of a ripple background and ripple effect on top of it. this thread reminds me. Did I ever show off my effort to

Re: [F9 Artwork Proposal] Waves

2007-12-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: Hi, I had in mind some time an idea of having waves based artwork, so I quickly sketched three different images: * one based simply on amplitude - more or less what you see when you throw some stones into watter I like the best how this one look, BUT there is a compiz