Re: Using photos rather than art

2008-08-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Bob Peterson wrote: I'm a Red Hat developer, and completely new to this list, so forgive my ignorance. I like the blue themes that Fedora has traditionally chosen, but I was wondering if Fedora could have a photo for its main background screen. As an amateur photographer, I have several

Re: Using photos rather than art

2008-08-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Bob Peterson wrote: Here's another photo I took. This one has nice blue Fedora-like colors and shows the top side of a jellyfish. The symbol on the back of the jellyfish is pretty close to the Fedora infinity symbol; it could be morphed into one pretty easily by some creative soul with tools.

Re: FUDCon Brno banner

2008-08-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Paul W. Frields wrote: would it be possible to move the city landscape up a bit, and fit in a description like this? FUDCon Brno 2008.09.05 - 07 -- Does that make sense as a European notation? Then all the needed info is in one siNgle frame and we don't need the animation any more

Re: Hi

2008-08-07 Thread Karthik e
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Karthik e wrote: Hi !! Hi! I am karthik.I am doing my UG(B.tech) at National Institute of Technology ,Trichy ,India. i am both windows and linux(Fedora) user.. i have a good knowledge on Photoshop and GIMP,

R: Re: Using photos rather than art

2008-08-07 Thread Samuele Storari
I really think that the bottom isn't a Blue Beatyfull Subject, but THE Right Blue Beatyfull Subject. This time we have to work with a difficult name to face, we can ignore it, but I really don't think this will be the right way. But maybe this time we can use a photo, it would be something

Re: Wallpaper Extras

2008-08-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: I noticed there were some proposals for additional backgrounds in fedora, *again*. I also think it would be nice if we, the art team, have provided some sort of background-extras package(s) with hand-picked wallpapers. So I quickly put together a wiki page [1] for tracking

Re: R: Re: Using photos rather than art

2008-08-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Samuele Storari wrote: I really think that the bottom isn't a Blue Beatyfull Subject, but THE Right Blue Beatyfull Subject. What we need is, IMO, a good metaphor. This time we have to work with a difficult name to face, we can ignore it, but I really don't think this will be the right way.

Re: Wallpaper Extras

2008-08-07 Thread Martin Sourada
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 12:26 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: What do you think is the best way to use it: upload the images (as big as they are) to the wiki or have those hosted in our own space (fedorapeople?) and just link to them? A disadvantage of having them directly in the wiki is the

Re: R: Re: R: Re: Using photos rather than art

2008-08-07 Thread RazGriz
+1 but i think that its time to change the process of the name choose, its Marketing and Artwork teams work , fedora is a product like another distros or proprietary systems but we have a way of life inside it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Samuele Storari [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Ok, I see,

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2008-08-07 Thread Samuele Storari
yes! but who decide? - Messaggio originale - Da: RazGriz [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Discussions about the artwork included with Fedora, including icons, themes, and wallpapers. fedora-art-list@redhat.com Inviato: Giovedì, 7 agosto 2008 12:02:47 GMT +01:00

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2008-08-07 Thread RazGriz
We can make something like the process of theme choose and devel. =] On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Samuele Storari [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: yes! but who decide? - Messaggio originale - Da: RazGriz [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Discussions about the artwork included with Fedora, including

Re: Wallpaper Extras

2008-08-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: I think either is fine, but the gallery feature seems to win this for me, IMHO it's perfect for such page. Is there a way to use within the gallery external images? That would be even better. Or does the I don't know that much about MediaWiki. MediaWiki also resize the

Re: Wallpaper Extras

2008-08-07 Thread Martin Sourada
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 13:11 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: For images stored in the wiki the thumbnails are created on the server. Then I think uploading it to wiki directly is better way. I was thinking about file sizes... the JPEGs straight from my camera are about 4.5-5MB, resized at

Re: Wallpaper Extras

2008-08-07 Thread Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 10:51 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: Hi, I noticed there were some proposals for additional backgrounds in fedora, This could tie in with: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-August/msg00103.html By using extra packages give more control back to the

Re: Wallpaper Extras

2008-08-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 10:51 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: Hi, I noticed there were some proposals for additional backgrounds in fedora, This could tie in with: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-August/msg00103.html Exactly that thread was

Re: Wallpaper Extras

2008-08-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: Btw. it is good thing to have upstream in more convenient place than wiki/rpm, therefore making a fedorahosted.org project for that might be a good idea. What do you think? Any ideas/comments on that matter? Having the upstream or fedorahosted may bring us the benefit

Re: Using photos rather than art

2008-08-07 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 02:50 +0200, Hylke Bons wrote: The air balloons in one of the earlier releases were very nice. I agree, but as a corollary, the amount of detail and color made it less usable as a background. Icons and text tended to get lost in the detailed areas. The effect was worse on

Re: FUDCon Brno banner

2008-08-07 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 06:37 -0300, RazGriz wrote: Hi =] here is my sugestion, just a little mod like this: I think the picture really needs a more contrasting color in the rays. It makes the picture a little more dyanmic, and the yellow I see there seems like a good complement to the Fedora

Re: FUDCon Brno banner

2008-08-07 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 09:41 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: Paul W. Frields wrote: would it be possible to move the city landscape up a bit, and fit in a description like this? FUDCon Brno 2008.09.05 - 07 -- Does that make sense as a European notation? Then all the needed info is

Re: Wallpaper Extras

2008-08-07 Thread Martin Sourada
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 14:39 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: Martin Sourada wrote: Btw. it is good thing to have upstream in more convenient place than wiki/rpm, therefore making a fedorahosted.org project for that might be a good idea. What do you think? Any ideas/comments on that

Re: About me and my work

2008-08-07 Thread Marcone Alves de Sousa
Thanks a lot, Niku, I woul do as you said. I'll took InkScape at proper site, install it and learn about it. Leave it up to me, I'll do it. Soon, I'll be back. DruPen On 8/6/08, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TransNet Informática wrote: Hi, fellows! Hi, I'm DruPen (say Dru-Pen), a

Re: Wallpaper Extras

2008-08-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: But first things first :-p We need to get started and pick some wallpapers for consideration ;-) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/Wallpaper_Extras OK, I uploaded a [not that great] few, to break the ice, start the ball rolling, provide an incentive and show how

Re: Wallpaper Extras

2008-08-07 Thread Michael Beckwith
How about uploading scaled down images to the wiki to show there, and uploading the full sized images to fedorapeople and providing a direct link to those on the wiki page with the gallery? May be a bit of extra work, but it'd save strain on the wiki. Martin Sourada wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-07

Re: Using photos rather than art

2008-08-07 Thread ryan lerch
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: The general thought is against fedorification, so if we will use photos will most likely leave them unbranded. I agree with this nicu on this point. The wallpapers will then be more useful upstream if they ever wanted to be

Re: Wallpaper Extras - update

2008-08-07 Thread Martin Sourada
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 16:27 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/Wallpaper_Extras OK, I uploaded a [not that great] few, to break the ice, start the ball rolling, provide an incentive and show how to use the gallery tag. Cool, some of them might even work very

Re: Wallpaper Extras - update

2008-08-07 Thread ryan lerch
What licences can / should the images be? cheers, ryanlerch 2008/8/8 Martin Sourada [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 16:27 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/Wallpaper_Extras OK, I uploaded a [not that great] few, to break the ice, start the ball

[Fwd: Comedy: On Art and, Specifically, Fedora Art Concepts]

2008-08-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
This was posted on the Marketing list, I know that not all of us are subscribed there and I think you cah use the laugh too: Original Message Subject: Comedy: On Art and, Specifically, Fedora Art Concepts Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:50:58 +0530 From: Rahul Sundaram To: [EMAIL