Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: I don't want to come off as not doing anything with this theme, and just saying what I think without any contribution back. As I did last release, I can probably help out in rendering all the different wallpaper sizes from the scratch SVGs -- maybe we can do it early enough whe

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: It also seems like there's too many gears and the desktop, as a whole, is distracting. To my eye, there are not too many gears. Have a look at the "Open Type" wallpaper included by default in Fedora (which is somewhat alike with this concept): that would be too many. -- n

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Michael Beckwith
[21:34] lightbulb! [21:35] if we're going for the feel of inside some machine for the gears proposal [21:35] we should have a rather direct light source that changes color as the day goes by [21:36] not everything in the area would get to change color, just the parts in the way of the light

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Robin Norwood
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:32:21 -0500 Ian Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:50:38PM -0400, Robin Norwood wrote: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Clock_Tower,_Great_Court,_Trinity_College,_Cambridge.jpg > > > Not that this has anything to do with anything, but.

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Ian Weller
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 05:37:05PM -0400, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1ir=EDn_Duffy_ wrote: > http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h58/mairinduffy/gears-blueswirl_steampunk_screened.png > Excellent, although I am *not* a fan of the gold gears. All blue for the desktop at least, maybe with different gradients d

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Mike Langlie
Máirín Duffy wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: Since the first round ended, we had very little theme activity, so maybe is time to heat the things a bit. I worked on a possible evolution of the Gears theme, about having a lot of gears in a very complex machinery, here is its current status (work in

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
Ian Weller wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:17:36PM -0400, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1ir=EDn_Duffy_ wrote: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/gears-blueswirl-normal2.png Re: the colors - they should be easy enough to adjust. This monitor I have at work, I think the colors are a bit off so I may nee

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Ian Weller
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:50:38PM -0400, Robin Norwood wrote: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Clock_Tower,_Great_Court,_Trinity_College,_Cambridge.jpg > Not that this has anything to do with anything, but... /me spots Cambridge in the URL /me looks at the Fedora 10 release name /me duck

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Robin Norwood
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:17:36 -0400 Máirín Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * The multitude of gears is AWESOME. It might be nice to make them > > a bit more faded and subtle, but I wonder if that might lose detail > > to a point of losing the theme. > > Yeh. I am thinking maybe some clever f

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Ian Weller
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:17:36PM -0400, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1ir=EDn_Duffy_ wrote: > http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/gears-blueswirl-normal2.png > > Re: the colors - they should be easy enough to adjust. This monitor I > have at work, I think the colors are a bit off so I may need to adjust

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 14:17 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 19:08 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: > >> Máirín Duffy wrote: > >>> Here's my try that I showed you in IRC today. It's very blue :) It seems > >>> more cyberpunk than steampunk. I may try a differ

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
Paul W. Frields wrote: On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 19:08 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Here's my try that I showed you in IRC today. It's very blue :) It seems more cyberpunk than steampunk. I may try a different approach to give it a more steampunk feel. http://duffy.fedorapeople

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Here's my try that I showed you in IRC today. It's very blue :) It seems more cyberpunk than steampunk. I may try a different approach to give it a more steampunk feel. http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/gears-blueswirl.png Which I think is a very c

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 19:08 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: > Máirín Duffy wrote: > > > > Here's my try that I showed you in IRC today. It's very blue :) It seems > > more cyberpunk than steampunk. I may try a different approach to give it > > a more steampunk feel. > > > > http://duffy.fedorapeople

Re: Hello hello

2008-08-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Evangeline McGlynn wrote: I'm afraid I'm terrible about putting things online, but Well, this is more a "community" thing, if we know each others work probably we can collaborate better. Here's a link to my most recent project at Red Hat: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MyFedora/Mockups Ni

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: Here's my try that I showed you in IRC today. It's very blue :) It seems more cyberpunk than steampunk. I may try a different approach to give it a more steampunk feel. http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/gears-blueswirl.png Which I think is a very cool looking image, I

Re: [F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: Since the first round ended, we had very little theme activity, so maybe is time to heat the things a bit. I worked on a possible evolution of the Gears theme, about having a lot of gears in a very complex machinery, here is its current status (work in progress, there is a

Re: Hello hello

2008-08-13 Thread Evangeline McGlynn
> > Have you any graphics to share? > I'm afraid I'm terrible about putting things online, but Here's a link to my most recent project at Red Hat: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MyFedora/Mockups I'm working on the Fedora Community interfaces with another member of the Art group, the very tal

[F10 themes: round 2] Gears: lot of gears

2008-08-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Since the first round ended, we had very little theme activity, so maybe is time to heat the things a bit. I worked on a possible evolution of the Gears theme, about having a lot of gears in a very complex machinery, here is its current status (work in progress, there is a ton of work to do on

Re: Hello hello

2008-08-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
Evangeline McGlynn wrote: Greetings Fedora Art group, Hi, My name is Eve McGlynn and I am hoping to join the Fedora Art group. A little bit about myself: my formal background is in cartography, which focuses a lot more on design than some people realize (though others are suspicious of the t