F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Matthias Clasen
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. - Personally, I'd like to explore a

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

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 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 monochrome

Re: Fedora-art-list Digest, Vol 15, Issue 3

2007-06-06 Thread Caleb Wellauer
- 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. After looking at the Echo icons again, they look about 3/4 of the way done, and

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 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

Re: Fedora-art-list Digest, Vol 15, Issue 3

2007-06-06 Thread Máirín Duffy
Caleb Wellauer wrote: I... somewhat agree. I know I personally always go in and change the theme of the whole system when I install Fedora :P But stripes doesn't really sound like the way to go for me. I think Matthias was more referring to a meme folks on Planet GNOME have been

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

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 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: test

2007-06-06 Thread Martin Sourada
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 20:45 +0200, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: just testing. It appears the mail list has issues because my replies are not displayed. I see three messages from you coming today. This one [1] and two identical Re: F8 artwork [2][3]. Maybe the problem is somewhere else? [1]

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

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 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 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

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