Re: F8 artwork update

2007-08-28 Thread Michael Beckwith
I want the default Firefox theme. I should have it done before the due date for Test 3. On 8/28/07, Máirí­n Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey folks, > > So a little bit of news on the Fedora 8 artwork front. First, since we > had the most 'votes' on list for Infinity and since Ben simply ra

Re: F8 artwork update

2007-08-28 Thread Ben Arnold
On 28/08/07, Máirí­n Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only absolutely essential artwork we do not have checked in or ready > to check in for F8 test 2 is GDM. I'm not sure what to do about it; Avio > [2] looks nice - what do you think if we used that with a theme-specific > background? Does a

Re: F8 artwork update

2007-08-27 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: The only absolutely essential artwork we do not have checked in or ready to check in for F8 test 2 is GDM. I'm not sure what to do about it; Avio [2] looks nice - what do you think if we used that with a theme-specific background? Does anybody have any other ideas for GDM

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Mola Pahnadayan wrote: Hi all :) what you think about artwork of F8 compatibility with codename,* *Mascot and Season(Fall,winter) ? So like having a theme for the fall release (F8) with dry leaves and a spring one (F9) with blooming flowers? If you have the mood, go forward and do a proposal

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-13 Thread Mola Pahnadayan
Hi all :) what you think about artwork of F8 compatibility with codename,* *Mascot and Season(Fall,winter) ? ** ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-12 Thread Mark
thanx for the information Hopefully, we'll have some sort of initial alpha/beta packaging of kde4 available within the next month (or so), so folks can look-at/work-on that. i really hope that!!! 2007/6/12, Chitlesh GOORAH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 6/11/07, Mark wrote: > But what is the l

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-12 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Rex Dieter a écrit : > Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > > >> However, like i said before, we should bear in mind KDE4 is different >> from KDE3.5. Meaning your work on kde3.5 might not be ported to kde4. >> > > +1. F8 will (almost certainly) include kde4, and only skeleton bits of kde3 > for compa

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-12 Thread Rex Dieter
Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > However, like i said before, we should bear in mind KDE4 is different > from KDE3.5. Meaning your work on kde3.5 might not be ported to kde4. +1. F8 will (almost certainly) include kde4, and only skeleton bits of kde3 for compatibility purposes, so I'd recommend not spen

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-12 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
On 6/11/07, Mark wrote: But what is the logout screen? is that kdelogo -> "Log Out" if that`s the one.. how do you theme that one? > - kcontrol main page Also good to theme but HOW? how can i theme that part? You can create a new fedora theme like for: - log out: http://kde-artists.org/log

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-11 Thread Mark
thanx for your help. i will try some things with that loguot stuff. 2007/6/11, Ben Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 11/06/07, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, like i said before, we should bear in mind KDE4 is different > > from KDE3.5. Meaning your work on kde3.5 might not be ported

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-11 Thread Ben Arnold
On 11/06/07, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, like i said before, we should bear in mind KDE4 is different > from KDE3.5. Meaning your work on kde3.5 might not be ported to kde4. > My request would be to work on several kde images such as: > - login / logout screens That`s a good idea.

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
Mark wrote: can you also reply on the other questions i had? don`t worry about the logo. i will use the official in my final proposals. Unfortunately I'm not a KDE user and haven't been for at least 5 years now :) So I'm not really equipped to answer your other questions from that email, sorr

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-11 Thread Mark
can you also reply on the other questions i had? don`t worry about the logo. i will use the official in my final proposals. 2007/6/11, Máirín Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Mark wrote: > hmm.. oke > when i make the actual proposals with the designs they will have the real > and official fedora logo

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
Mark wrote: hmm.. oke when i make the actual proposals with the designs they will have the real and official fedora logo`s. but can`t the logo itself be reworked a little with a little 3d feeling in it? It's really not supposed to, read the guidelines and see for yourself. http://fedoraproject

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-11 Thread Mark
hmm.. oke when i make the actual proposals with the designs they will have the real and official fedora logo`s. but can`t the logo itself be reworked a little with a little 3d feeling in it? 2007/6/11, Máirín Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Mark, Mark wrote: > And a fedora logo question. > i per

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Mark, Mark wrote: And a fedora logo question. i personally don`t like the default fedora ogo image so i use this one: http://mola.c100c.com/index.php?blog/show/Fedora_logo_in_blender (second one of cause) hope that`s not a problem. Unfortunately that is a problem. :( You see, the logo as

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-11 Thread Mark
However, like i said before, we should bear in mind KDE4 is different from KDE3.5. Meaning your work on kde3.5 might not be ported to kde4. My request would be to work on several kde images such as: - login / logout screens That`s a good idea. i already started on a KDM theme (not satisfied ye

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-11 Thread Jayme Ayres
Hi folks!! Thank you to put my 4elements artwork in images ideas i hope to contribute still more for the project. att. -- Jayme Ayres www.jaymeayres.com www.jaymeayres.orgfree.com Ben Arnold escreveu: Sorry to butt into the conversation here but I am throwing these ideas onto a wiki page al

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-11 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Ben, Ben Arnold wrote: Sorry to butt into the conversation here but I am throwing these ideas onto a wiki page along with links etc. to start the sketches and ideas for the design, also to save searching though this huge conversation or the images! I am, however, having trouble uploading the

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-11 Thread Ben Arnold
Sorry to butt into the conversation here but I am throwing these ideas onto a wiki page along with links etc. to start the sketches and ideas for the design, also to save searching though this huge conversation or the images! I am, however, having trouble uploading the image at the bottom. I'll t

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-10 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: - We could have a representative of Desktop team and a representative of the Fedora board to give a signoff on the final theme design, to make sure they agree its a proper representation of Fedora and the desktop. We should make sure each of these repr

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-10 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
On 6/7/07, Mark wrote: So yea if i`m the first who can actually show something with theming (not mocking up but really making it work in kde) than i would like to be the first one :) Talking about kde, what is really the path we are going to take - crystal like (my favourite) ? - gnome like (ge

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-10 Thread Mark
i`m currently working on a KDM mockup.. but i can`t really say that i`m happy with the result so far 2007/6/10, Martin Sourada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 15:45 +0200, Mark wrote: > what`s the ide with the fedora 8 theme battle? because i only see 2 > drafts.. one of myself and s

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-10 Thread Martin Sourada
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 15:45 +0200, Mark wrote: > what`s the ide with the fedora 8 theme battle? because i only see 2 > drafts.. one of myself and someone else. > or is the theming battle not even started yet. > wWll, and considering what kind of themes are we doing I see there currently zero the

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-10 Thread Mark
what`s the ide with the fedora 8 theme battle? because i only see 2 drafts.. one of myself and someone else. or is the theming battle not even started yet. 2007/6/9, Paul W. Frields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 17:55 -0400, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: > Well, I think there are two things

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-09 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 17:55 -0400, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: > Well, I think there are two things we can do to help avoid the issues > we had last release: > > - We should be as open and as transparent as possible wrt our progress > on the themes. We should post to Planet Fedora for example, at least

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-08 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Ben Arnold wrote: On 08/06/07, Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I understand you correctly, the tagline is related to the graphic theme (DNA - Evolved, FlyingHigh - Reach higher) I did, to be honest, miss this idea completely! I think it could be fun to have a caption competition op

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-08 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: If we really, really get stuck and end up with more than one really awesome theme by the round 3 deadline, we can always hold a vote of Fedora contributors similar to the F7 naming vote process. I'm hoping that it won't be necessary, though. If we don't have any completely fin

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-08 Thread Martin Sourada
Hi folks, I also made a metacity/kwm theme mockup [1]. I also provide svg [2] in case anyone would like to polish/rework it. The main ideas are: 1. usage of echo colours 2. decent gradients, echoey style 3. different coloured buttons, as it could help user faster distinguish the difference 4. onl

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-08 Thread Martin Sourada
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 12:12 +0200, Ben Arnold wrote: > I did, to be honest, miss this idea completely! I think it could be > fun to have a caption competition open to a wider audience, maybe a > FedoraForum thread or something. It may bring in more ideas. I thought it too, so I opened a thread al

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-08 Thread Martin Sourada
Sorry again for probable double posting, but my last messages got probably lost, here's the second one: On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 12:12 +0200, Ben Arnold wrote: > I did, to be honest, miss this idea completely! I think it could be > fun to have a caption competition open to a wider audience, maybe a

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-08 Thread Martin Sourada
Sorry for probable double posting, but my last messages got probably lost, so here is the first of them: Hi folks, I also made a metacity/kwm theme mockup [1]. I also provide svg [2] in case anyone would like to polish/rework it. The main ideas are: 1. usage of echo colours 2. decent gradients,

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-08 Thread Ben Arnold
On 08/06/07, Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Máirí-n Duffy wrote: > - Milestone 4: Mon 10 Sept - concept discussion for F8 marketing > materials on the marketing list. Come up with a standard tagline for the > release the way we did "Reach higher" for the new static FPO website, > and may

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-08 Thread Mark
thanx for the suggestion i will keep that in mind 2007/6/8, Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Le Ven 8 juin 2007 09:12, Mark a écrit : > comments? critics? feel free to post it here (don`t pm.. let everyone > read it here on this list) Be very carreful with gradients. They're pretty but i

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-08 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Ven 8 juin 2007 09:12, Mark a écrit : > comments? critics? feel free to post it here (don`t pm.. let everyone > read it here on this list) Be very carreful with gradients. They're pretty but it's difficult to have text with good contrast over them. -- Nicolas Mailhot ___

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: > I looked at the F8 release schedule and the calendar and came up with the following (somewhat aggressive, but if all goes well we'll have everything for the feature freeze deadline) schedule: - Round 1 deadline: Monday July 2nd - Any ideas that don't have a formal propo

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: Well I don't know if we should even have to 'make up our mind.' I think it's cool to have a different look each time, it keeps people guessing and like I mentioned earlier, I think it's a good platform for showing off what FOSS creative software can do. This is something

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-07 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: OK, I quickly kicked a page in the wiki with content mostly copied/adapted from the F7 page and all dates put as TBD: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes Nicu, this is great! Thanks!!! I looked at the F8 release schedule and the calendar and came up with the fol

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-07 Thread Ben Arnold
On 07/06/07, Máirín Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well I don't know if we should even have to 'make up our mind.' I think it's cool to have a different look each time, it keeps people guessing and like I mentioned earlier, I think it's a good platform for showing off what FOSS creative softwa

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-07 Thread Máirín Duffy
Ben Arnold wrote: It may seem from the outside that we haven't made up our minds with regard to our style. Well I don't know if we should even have to 'make up our mind.' I think it's cool to have a different look each time, it keeps people guessing and like I mentioned earlier, I think it's

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-07 Thread Ben Arnold
On 07/06/07, Máirín Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you ever seen JDe's work on deviantart? I've been following her for a while, she does that style a lot. No, I haven't but I like some of them, especially http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/41350296/?qo=14&q=by%3Ajde&qh=sort%3Atime+-in

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-07 Thread Mark
i will TRY and make a theme how i like it. expect it to be tiny :) i will make a mockup as soon as i get home. i`m not certain if i`m capable of making a complete theme but if i can i will make it for KDE (time isn`t much of a issue with the upcomming vacation (2 1/2 months) expect a mockup here

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-07 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Quoting Martin Sourada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi folks, > > I am at the beginning of the exams, so I have not much time left now for > Fedora, yet I'll start working on Echo again in after I am done with the > exams (hopefully)... I also have some comments and suggestions that fits > into this thr

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: Do you think is the case for us to start a 3 round process similar with the one proposed for F7? - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/FC7Themes We can easily adapt it with dates following the F8 schedule. +1 OK, I quickly kicked a page in the wiki

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 23:55 -0400, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: Oh okay. Would it not be acceptable if a nice GDM theme was proposed that didn't use the plain greeter yet had all the necessary buttons and menu items to make it accessible? I don't necessarily agree with Brian's

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 23:55 -0400, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: > Oh okay. Would it not be acceptable if a nice GDM theme was proposed > that didn't use the plain greeter yet had all the necessary buttons and > menu items to make it accessible? I don't necessarily agree with Brian's assessment that all

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 23:45 -0400, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: Matthias Clasen wrote: On the topic of the login screen, I forgot to mention that we are also considering switching to the plain greeter to improve the accessibility situation on the login screen. If we go forward wi

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 23:45 -0400, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: > Matthias Clasen wrote: > > On the topic of the login screen, I forgot to mention that we are also > > considering switching to the plain greeter to improve the accessibility > > situation on the login screen. If we go forward with this idea,

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Matthias Clasen wrote: On the topic of the login screen, I forgot to mention that we are also considering switching to the plain greeter to improve the accessibility situation on the login screen. If we go forward with this idea, it would imply some changes to the themeability of the login screen

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:20 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > > With those things in mind, a good approach I think could be to focus on > the wallpaper and GDM and tone down the rest. We can still make a big > impression and 'keep up the tradition' or whatever, and use the > wallpaper and gdm theme

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Marek Mahut
Mark wrote: [...] @ a possible new theme for F8 first i would like to say that a 3 round theme "battle" like with F7 would be nice [...] We should not forget about prices for winner(s). Fedora caps, tshirts, gadgets or maybe even a free sits in GLS classes. -- Marek Mahut

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Marek Mahut
Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi Marek! Hey Mo, Marek Mahut wrote: I think it's a good idea. Why not involve schools for example? I know a very nice info-graphic school in Brussels, I'll drop them a mail, maybe they are interested to help. This is a good idea; the one thing I am concerned about is

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
John Baer wrote: All, +1 to all of the comments on this thread. But we need to get some direction from Red Hat as it's my understanding Red Hat is the owner of the desktop artwork. I'm really pleased on how things are coming around as I see the preliminary F8 release schedule is already out

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread John Baer
All, +1 to all of the comments on this thread. But we need to get some direction from Red Hat as it's my understanding Red Hat is the owner of the desktop artwork. I'm really pleased on how things are coming around as I see the preliminary F8 release schedule is already out! Mo, can you ma

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Matthias Clasen a écrit : > - I haven't heard much about the status of the Echo icon theme lately; > are you hoping to have this in good enough shape to become the default > in F8 ? We also need to redo the experiment to include svns. > Few notes - SVG issues are fixed although some icons need

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Martin Sourada
Hi folks, I am at the beginning of the exams, so I have not much time left now for Fedora, yet I'll start working on Echo again in after I am done with the exams (hopefully)... I also have some comments and suggestions that fits into this thread. On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 20:03 +0200, Mark wrote: >

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Máirín Duffy wrote: 2) We should have a general discussion here on list to get our thoughts out on where F8's artwork could go. What desktop wallpaper are you using these days? Have you seen any cool ones lately? Seen any cool current graphic design in general lately? Have an idea for a nice s

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Matthias Clasen a écrit : > - I haven't heard much about the status of the Echo icon theme lately; > are you hoping to have this in good enough shape to become the default > in F8 ? We also need to redo the experiment to include svns > Few notes - SVG issues are fixed although some icons need

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Mark
@ the school idea. i like that alot! @ a possible new theme for F8 first i would like to say that a 3 round theme "battle" like with F7 would be nice About the new theme itself.. i think fedora should drop the default gnome look and create a real theme... not that the current default themes (gnom

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Marek! Marek Mahut wrote: I think it's a good idea. Why not involve schools for example? I know a very nice info-graphic school in Brussels, I'll drop them a mail, maybe they are interested to help. This is a good idea; the one thing I am concerned about is that the artwork is produced us

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Marek Mahut
Hey all, Nicu Buculei wrote: Matthias Clasen wrote: Some unsorted thoughts to start a discussion about artwork for F8: - As most people will probably have noticed by now, Diana is longer with Red Hat, and it looks unlikely that we will have a full-time artist that can help with the artwork in

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 6 juin 2007 17:20, Máirín Duffy a écrit : > 2) We should have a general discussion here on list to get our > thoughts out on where F8's artwork could go. Daring thought : have a non-blue wallpaper (blue is great but there are other colors too. Fedora theming have bordered on the monochrom

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Máirín Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: Do you think is the case for us to start a 3 round process similar with the one proposed for F7? - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/FC7Themes We can easily adapt it with dates following the F8 schedule. +1 I think this is a good idea. I agree with Matthias though and

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Nicu Buculei
Matthias Clasen wrote: Some unsorted thoughts to start a discussion about artwork for F8: - As most people will probably have noticed by now, Diana is longer with Red Hat, and it looks unlikely that we will have a full-time artist that can help with the artwork in time for F8. Do you think is