Re: F11 wallpaper mockup proposal

2009-02-20 Thread Nicu Buculei
Thomas Kole wrote: Nicu Buculei schreef: That's the idea, but try a different type of blue, more like http://images.google.com/images?hl=enq=blueprint What about this? http://dilopho-dd.deviantart.com/art/F11-map-wallpaper-113517087 Yes, this is more like a blueprint is supposed to look

Re: F11 wallpaper mockup proposal

2009-02-20 Thread Nicu Buculei
Thomas Kole wrote: what about making one by yourselve? Just a concept... http://dilopho-dd.deviantart.com/art/F11-map-wallpaper-2-113526429 Making a new one by yourself is a good idea, only that your image look (to me) modern. It does not tell Leonidas to me. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro

Re: F11 wallpaper mockup proposal

2009-02-20 Thread Nicu Buculei
Paolo Leoni wrote: Follow a simple greek-related idea...it could be useful like a basis? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:F11-wallpaper-day-deepsky-mockup3.jpg I think is a bit too simplistic to go with a photo converted to grayscale and then colorized blue. Also, it was discussed a

Re: starry background

2009-02-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 07:34 -0800, brian hurren wrote: Just created a realistic starry background but i can't figure out how to upload it so everyone can see it. I've created an account. Use https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Upload and set something descriptive for

Re: Hey

2009-02-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
Keiran Smith wrote: Hey Guys / Gals, Hi and welcom, My name is Keiran Smith. I am interested in digital art and I like doing a Little Photography here and there. I am fairly skilled in Photoshop and The GIMP. But I love to code :). If you are looking for something to work on, we have an

Re: hello

2009-02-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
Thomas Kole wrote: hello, I am Thomas Kole from the Netherlands, and i would like to help Hello Thomas! you. I am good with Gimp and if neccaciary i can do some Blindering. Since you are writing this in a reply to another message, I assume you already saw the may about he requests queue

Re: hello

2009-02-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
Thomas Kole wrote: Nicu Buculei schreef: Other than that, these days we should work on the graphics for F11, so you may try to get involved in that (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_Artwork) That would be cool! How can i help? We are still making sketches and playing with the concept

Re: More Greek Wallpaper

2009-02-09 Thread Nicu Buculei
Charlie Brej wrote: On the plymouth front, I am likely to be a bit busier at work this release than the F10 one, so I would really appreciate some of ideas as to what people would like during the system boot. The possibilities are pretty much limitless but it would be a good thing to

Re: More Greek Wallpaper

2009-02-09 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: I just posted a new F11 wallpaper mockup: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/0/0d/Artwork_F11_greek-concept_mockup2_mo.png It's more really an attempt at a nice backdrop, and maybe we can layer some of the trees and buildings we were talking about on top. What do you

Re: Fedora 11 The Antikythera Mechanism

2009-02-06 Thread Nicu Buculei
Frank Murphy wrote: Olga Segou wrote: I would like to recommend the Antikythera Mechanism as a possible theme for artwork... What is so great about the Antikythera Mechanism? * It fits within nautical and greek themes (as it is a navigation device built in Greece) * It is the first mechanical

Re: F11 visual concept idea - greek

2009-02-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: Anyway, see the concept more like I think the olive tree would be good if it were placed here, there I'd like some log, ... and as a base for further development, should we go with this approach. Though I fully realize that making 3D-looking art with perspective purely in

Re: F11 visual concept idea - greek

2009-01-27 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: This is a really really sloppy mockup but hopefully illustrates the kind of visuals I'm thinking of for F11: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/8/83/Artwork_F11_greek-concept_mockup1_mo.png I'm thinking maybe somewhere more mountainous with some mists, and with

Re: Updated EDU SIG Artwork Request

2009-01-26 Thread Nicu Buculei
María Leandro wrote: Updated. http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/EduSig/thumb_wallpaper3a.png http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/EduSig/thumb_wallpaper3b.png http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/EduSig/thumb_wallpaper3c.png I think there is still some room for improvement, hope you don't mind (I got a few

Re: Updated EDU SIG Artwork Request

2009-01-21 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: María Leandro wrote: http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/EduSig/thumb_wallpaper2.jpg http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/EduSig/thumb_wallpaper3.jpg Me too, my favorite is wallpaper 3. Me too :p It is much stronger than the other A couple quick comments: - I would take the

Re: Fedora 11 Alpha - release banner

2009-01-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
Paul W. Frields wrote: Our complementary font used for our artwork is the MgOpen Modata font, and in this font, the numeral 1 has quite a bit of space around it. That means that the number 11 as in Fedora 11 looks very oddly spaced compared to other text elements. Wherever we write 11 I'd

Re: Art ideas for Fedora 11 (grub, boot, splashes, window decorations, button styles etc...)

2009-01-12 Thread Nicu Buculei
Charlie Brej wrote: Samuele Storari wrote: Technically the vote was for the ship but I am sure (and the reaction after the announcement are a reassurance) most people voted for the Spartan. Bad things with those broken threads, as the messages got attributed incorrectly... Máirí­n, could

Re: Doubt related to the project related to Starfighter!

2009-01-09 Thread Nicu Buculei
RICHA MALHOTRA wrote: Hi,I am Richa Malhotra.I am very much interested in the project for making graphics for a game named Starfighter but i have many doubts regarding it!Firstly i dont know that what all graphics are actually required for it,although i have an idea that we need to make

Re: I need a freemedia web banner.

2009-01-08 Thread Nicu Buculei
susmit shannigrahi wrote: Like this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Artwork_ArtTeamProjects_WikiDesign_ArtTeamN1.png for the top banner of https://fedorahosted.org/freemedia/ Is there any existing design? What we have is the SVG source for the existing banners (and I believe there

Re: I need a freemedia web banner.

2009-01-08 Thread Nicu Buculei
susmit shannigrahi wrote: What we have is the SVG source for the existing banners (and I believe there should be a general template somewhere, but I am unable to find it). It should be a trivial task to take such a SVG, replace the icon (probably with a CD/DVD icon from wither Bluecurve, Mist or

Re: Fedora-Logo in 3D

2009-01-05 Thread Nicu Buculei
Gerold Kassube wrote: Hi all, Second, I'm searching for the Fedora Logo in 3D, does anybody has such a artwork? I thought I saw such a work many month (years?) before done by someone of the Art Team. Something like this? http://www.isity.net/icFedora/060419/TakeTwoA1.jpg Background is, that

Re: Kostas Antonakoglou joining fedora art team

2009-01-05 Thread Nicu Buculei
Konstantinos Antonakoglou wrote: Done! It's a full quality PNG now. So, may I follow the next steps (join the art group, etc)? Sure, go forward with the account system. It may take some hour until a sponsor will get online and approve your membership (unless you apply in the next 10

Re: apologies.....

2009-01-05 Thread Nicu Buculei
Doug Berry wrote: Hey, Sorry about posting stuff to my Scribd account. I found out from IanW that if you don't have an account, you have to create one before you can view the link. Not what I intended. You can view the link but badly (some ugly AJAX or something that does not work well in

Re: fedora 11 splash screen proposal

2009-01-05 Thread Nicu Buculei
brian hurren wrote: I think that for fedora 11 we should do a splash screen calibrating the 40th anniversary of landing on the moon. I propose a montage of Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr. and in the

Re: USB station poster Solar background.

2008-12-29 Thread Nicu Buculei
Susmit wrote: Suggessions please. http://susmit.fedorapeople.org/art/poster/usblive-f10.png It would be nice if someone with a better configuration machine can do the tuning. It took an eternity on my machine to do this. You can simplify the SVG a bit, it still contains parts of Waves which

Re: feedback required !!!

2008-12-23 Thread Nicu Buculei
jude ui wrote: Maybe this is a little off topic but, what programs do you like to use for graphics? (I don't think this will effect FOSS) We here at the Art team try to use and promote as much as we can FOSS applications for graphic creation, here are some recommendations: - Inkscape for

Re: cursors

2008-12-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ray Strode wrote: So we have this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477191 Where the user noticed that larger cursors aren't animated. That's always been true because we never finished the cursors at at the larger sizes. I was wondering if anyone would be willing to tackle

Re: wallpaer!!

2008-12-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
ANKUR ANAND wrote: these are the wallpapers i made and forgot to attach in the previous mail. aplogies for the same. anyways i would like to have your comments and feedback on d wallpapers ! I believe you used the Flame filter from GIMP, right? Here are some things I believe you can improve:

Re: feedback required !!!

2008-12-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
ANKUR ANAND wrote: greetings to the members of fedora art mailing list.. Hi, I am ankur anand and is currently new to the world of FOSS!! recently i designed sum wallpapers and would like to share one of them for your feedbacks and suggestions!!! Due to its large attachment this message

Re: cursors

2008-12-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: note: I don't see on art.gnome.org of gnome-look.org categories for cursor themes to propose something else as a base. It's under X11 mouse themes [1] on gnome-look.org. Thanks Martin, I must be blind or something :p I see there some nice looking cursors, with a lot

Re: FUDcon 2009 - Promo1

2008-12-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
María Leandro wrote: The second one; I took the song of the soundtrack of Gakuen Redux OST[0], this is a game made with renpy [1]. Inside the game is the full Wow! First time when I learn about renpy, it looks interesting (but I have not managed to start Gaken Redux on my machine).

Re: Leaflet design. Suggestion please.

2008-12-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
susmit shannigrahi wrote: Why did you made the metallic base brown/golden? It is grey in the splash: http://fedoraproject.org/static/images/f10launch.png I did both, and the second one looked a bit more glossy. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Leaflet.png and

Re: FUDcon 2009 - Promo1

2008-12-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
María Leandro wrote: Hello again! Hi, This is another test, but for FUDcon. I'm fixing some mistakes... so if anyone have suggestions, I'll be glad of take it :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTM-VDjTkDY Nice video! But someone has to ask this: how is licensed the music you used for

Re: FUDCon Boston 2009 tshirt designs

2008-12-15 Thread Nicu Buculei
María Leandro wrote: #1 +1 I join the chorus liking design 1 the best. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro

Re: Leaflet design. Suggestion please.

2008-12-15 Thread Nicu Buculei
susmit shannigrahi wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Leaflet.png This is the front page only. Rest should be easy. I made this for a local fedora booth at my place. Please suggest improvements. Why did you made the metallic base brown/golden? It is grey in the splash:

Re: submissions to join mailing list

2008-12-14 Thread Nicu Buculei
ayush goel wrote: i wanted to join fedora art mailing list. i have expreinced in working gimp in linux and i would like to join ur project team so that i can design . You joined the mailing list and are subscribed to it. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool

Re: Fedora-art-list Digest, Vol 33, Issue 18

2008-12-14 Thread Nicu Buculei
dustin wrote: Hi, I propose that for the splash screen for fedora 11 we make a collage of all the splash screens from FC1-FC10. There were some unfinished initiatives to do something like this during the F10 cycle (Mola had a wonderful work in progress image) and it make a lot of sense, since

Re: Idea for Fedora 11

2008-12-12 Thread Nicu Buculei
dustin wrote: Hi, Hi, I propose that for the splash screen for fedora 11 we make a collage of all the splash screens from FC1-FC10. There were some unfinished initiatives to do something like this during the F10 cycle (Mola had a wonderful work in progress image) and it make a lot of

Re: Special thanks to Mike and Paul - F10 XO SD cards

2008-12-11 Thread Nicu Buculei
Karlie Robinson wrote: The front design was helped along by Paul Frields and the back wouldn't have come together at all without Mike Langlie's help. And of To bad the photos do not have a view of the back side. course,the front of the cards wouldn't have looked nearly as nice without

Re: (no subject)

2008-12-10 Thread Nicu Buculei
ayush goel wrote: i wanted to join fedora art team.i have done work on gimp.and i am a beginner and i wanted to contribute in designing. Watch the list and see what is going on, step up when you see something interesting. If you feel like it, pick a task from

Re: Fedora Design Creative Team (Art Team reorg?)

2008-12-10 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: The Fedora Art Team's name and focus is more on artwork than UI design. Folks in Fedora who need help with UI design or potential contributors who want to help out with UI design might not necessarily link those kinds of tasks to an art team so they might be a bit lost.

Re: Fedora Design Creative Team (Art Team reorg?)

2008-12-10 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: Only thing I'm worried about is renaming all the references to the Art team that we control, but, eh, whatever. Are we going to rename the resources (the mailing list, the FAS group, etc.)? For the wiki pages I understand we will keep the Artwork/ infrastructure for what's

Re: (no subject)

2008-12-10 Thread Nicu Buculei
ayush goel wrote: can you please assign me a task . We don't work that way, from top to bottom, but in a more free way, from bottom to top: we don't assign tasks, we are not your boss. Take yourself something you are comfortable with. PS: and even if we would like to act bossy and give you

Re: Introduction

2008-12-09 Thread Nicu Buculei
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Hi, I'm an advanced hobbyist with lots of GIMP and Photoshop experience. Welcome on board. Have a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/DesignService -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool Fedora wallpapers:

Re: Presentation

2008-12-08 Thread Nicu Buculei
Rodrigo Leão wrote: Thanks to this welcome! To make my comics-strips I used the GIMP. In the firsts comics-strips of my blog I used Inkscape, but, to my graphical's objectives I see the GIMP as ideal. I like to work with vectors, so I can reuse objects (characters, items) form one issue to

Re: Presentation

2008-12-08 Thread Nicu Buculei
Rodrigo Leão wrote: Hi, Welcome! (excuse-me my bad english) I'm a brazilian teacher of brazilian's literature. But I like graphical arts and I make a blog whit any comic-strips (http://noisnatira.com) in portuguese. Your comic-strips are cool, which software are you using to create it? I

Re: T-shirt logo design tool

2008-12-05 Thread Nicu Buculei
Paul W. Frields wrote: Example: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/try3.png http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/try3.svg Wow, that's pretty cool! Any idea whether this would reproduce faithfully at the T-shirt printer? I guess some of the smallest fonts are to small, not sure about the

Re: F11 - Improved templates?

2008-12-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: I was wondering if anyone else would be interested in finding and developing nice-looking, general-purpose templates we could then package up for programs like OpenOffice.org Writer, OpenOffice.org Impress, Scribus, Inkscape, Gimp, etc. Some of the templates shipped with

Re: F11 naming

2008-12-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
Samuele Storari wrote: I heard something about naming contest of F11, The process is *nothing* like a contest, is a gathering of name proposals from the community, which will be reduced to a short list by the Board, then checked by Red Hat's legal team and the few remaining will be put for

Re: FirstAidKit Artwork

2008-12-01 Thread Nicu Buculei
María Leandro wrote: I was working with jgranados who need an icon and a possible logo for FirstAidKit [0]. I made some tries and finally came up something he like. This is not bad at all, but I can think of a couple of possible modifications: - maybe the band-aid (the patch) could be

Re: Fedora 10 release banner - text to path conversion

2008-11-25 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jaroslav Reznik wrote: Paolo Leoni wrote: I think that the font that you're looking for is MgOpenModata, it's in the standard repository, type: yum -y install mgopen-fonts Thanks, I've already dig it from SVG source, investigation work :) Inkscape should complain about missing font!

Re: Fedora 10 release banner - text to path conversion

2008-11-25 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jaroslav Reznik wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: Offtopic: no isn't Inkscape's work to complain, your word processor don't complain for a missing font, your PDF viewer don't complain, your web browser don't complain and so on. The applications try to find a matching font available. I know and you

Re: Fedora 10 release banner

2008-11-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
Paul W. Frields wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 02:08:25PM +0100, Paolo Leoni wrote: For your convenience, I've uploaded on my webspace a little modified version of the large banner from Mo and Jayme Hayres SVG format): http://pleoni.altervista.org/fedora10-0day-banner.svg

Re: Fedora 10 release banner

2008-11-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
Paolo Leoni wrote: I've just uploaded banners and sources on the wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/PromoBanners Good work Paolo, you did a great work with the banners for this release, I am glad to have you in the team. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro ::

Re: New designer here.

2008-11-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ibis Fernandez wrote: Hello all, I'm looking to get involved in the project. I have over 11 Hi, years experience in character animation and design and am looking to contribute artwork and (or) animation pieces, perhaps even join a dev team interesting in developing animation apps for linux.

Re: [Echo Perspective] New folder design concept

2008-11-21 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: I've just finished first take of the folder design for Echo Perspective [1]. I do not hide that the design has been inspired by Mac OS X Leopard folder as well as current Echo folder. I've more or less retained the original colour, but adjusted it to better fit with our

Re: Fedora Malaysia, DVD label and sleeves

2008-11-21 Thread Nicu Buculei
Adli Azaddin wrote: hey i'll be designing FC10 DVD label and sleeves for malaysia promo, Your DVD labels/sleeves will be different than the official ones? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/MediaArt/F10 You can simply translate those... and i'll design the fedora malaysia website

Re: Fedora 10 release banner

2008-11-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
Paolo Leoni wrote: This is a possible release banner (big): http://pleoni.altervista.org/fedora10-0day-banner.svg http://pleoni.altervista.org/fedora10-0day-banner.png Not bad at all! For better variety, it may be a good idea to have one of those screenshots showing Anaconda (more grey,

Re: Fedora-art-list Digest, Vol 32, Issue 16 - Release Banner

2008-11-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
Adli Azaddin wrote: adding and highlighting Cambridge should be cool Not necessarily, usually the release code names are used internally, for the general public the release number is more important. From: Paolo Leoni Subject: Fedora 10 release banner This is a possible Fedora

Re: Want to join the team!

2008-11-16 Thread Nicu Buculei
Nicholas Peterson wrote: Hi! My name is Nick Peterson. I want to help out on the art team for Fedora. This is my third Linux distro I've used and I have to say that this is my favorite one so far. It is light weight, streamlined, and best of all, looks nice :D Hi Nick! Welcome. Stay around

Re: Introduction

2008-11-14 Thread Nicu Buculei
Adli Azaddin wrote: Hi, my name is Mohd Adli Azaddin, im from malaysia, working as a System Welcome! Administrator, i am a RHCT holder (Cert # 605008355519675). Sometimes i do Web Application as a freelancer by using CMS (i created my own theme and i do simple php), and i find fedora is a

Re: Fedora Logo History

2008-11-12 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: It turns out the original pages on the creation of the Fedora logo, once located at http://capstrat.com/development/fedora/index.php, are gone. I took some time to grab what I could from archive.org and reconstruct it here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/History

Re: Theme praised

2008-11-10 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jayme Ayres wrote: I was giving a look at the blog Rodrigo Menezes [1] and saw on the analysis done by 10 Fedora dual blog JupiterBroadcastisng [2] (who particularly did not know), said some puerility on Fedora, but praised highly the work of Artwork and then I'd like to share with you. Ah,

Re: María's Awesome Gimp Videos

2008-11-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: Hey, María shared these with us in #fedora-art today and I wanted to post them to the list so everyone could see: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tatadbbview=videos Indeed, those are awesome... I am subscribed to her YouTube channel for quite a while. -- nicu ::

Solar praised by Ars Technica

2008-11-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Here is what Ryan Paul from Ars Technica says about the Fedora 10 theme in a short article about the Preview Release: I was particularly impressed with the high quality of the new desktop wallpaper image, which comes from the Solar artwork theme. The whole user experience felt amazingly

Re: Solar praised by Ars Technica

2008-11-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Nicu Buculei wrote: Here is what Ryan Paul from Ars Technica says about the Fedora 10 theme in a short article about the Preview Release: I was particularly impressed with the high quality of the new desktop wallpaper image, which comes from the Solar artwork theme. The whole user experience

Re: Assignment required

2008-11-06 Thread Nicu Buculei
Rahul Jha wrote: I'm Rahul Jha from India, and would be glad to help out in any form of designing assignment. Hi, Have a look at our open requests queue and see if you find something interesting to work on: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/DesignService Or you may want to try your

Re: Intoduction

2008-11-06 Thread Nicu Buculei
Rahul Jha wrote: I'm Rahul Jha from India. I do manual painting using watercolors and other media. I also use graphics design softwares, especially Photoshop. So how familiar are you with FOSS applications, like GIMP and Inkscape? We use those a lot as we try as much as possible to use

Re: Fedora 10 countdown banner

2008-11-05 Thread Nicu Buculei
DarkPark wrote: Hello Nicu. Hi Stanislav, I'm a newbie here so don't actually know to whom I should write it, moreover should I even mention this :) The mailing list where the message you are replying was posted to is a good place. We work in the open. And your bug report should in the end

Re: Fedora 10 countdown banner

2008-11-04 Thread Nicu Buculei
Paolo Leoni wrote: With the great help of Mo, I've made another version of Fedora countdown banner with horizontal layout. This is the link to the source: http://pleoni.altervista.org/fedora10-countdown-banner.svg Paolo, can you upload the final design (along with the source) to the wiki?

Re: Proposal: Wallpaper extras submission/packaging procedure

2008-11-03 Thread Nicu Buculei
I was thinking the other day about Ian's idea of adding Free images form other sources (flickr): while it is OK from a license point of view, I think it is pointless, we may give people a well crafted link, something like

Re: Fedora 10 Countdown

2008-10-30 Thread Nicu Buculei
Paolo Leoni wrote: I thought we were going to adapt the beta release banner's text and leave the rest the same -- not that this artwork isn't OK, it's just fine (might need to be adapted a little bit, change the strings, whatever)... someone more important than me needs to make that decision, I

Re: F10 on OLPC XO illustration request

2008-10-30 Thread Nicu Buculei
Michael Langlie wrote: I drew a 6-step process for opening and positioning an XO laptop for SD card insertion. Let me know if anything seems to need revising or clarification. I tried to keep it simple and readable with or without additional text explanation. (Big thanks to professional hand

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-30 Thread Nicu Buculei
Matthias Clasen wrote: Jon invested a significant amount of work in a comparison of OS background images, and sent the document to this list. Is that participating in the process ? I guess not. But it was an attempt to influence the outcome of the process for the better. Sorry, but *not*.

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-30 Thread Nicu Buculei
Bill Nottingham wrote: They almost certainly are. The audience for Fedora Electronics Lab wouldn't be the same audience as for Fedora Desktop, which isn't (necessarily) the same audience as Fedora KDE, which isn't the same audience as 'the Fedora spin'. I'm pretty sure the audience for the

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-30 Thread Nicu Buculei
Max Spevack wrote: (3) How appropriate is it characterize opinions as belonging to the Desktop Team versus individuals within that team? Far better for the Art Team to have one set of positions and the Desktop Team to have another set of positions, but to know that the collective members of

Re: F10 on OLPC XO illustration request

2008-10-30 Thread Nicu Buculei
Michael Langlie wrote: Hi Nicu, The files are still there. My site host is having domain problems. I think the URLs posted seem to be up and down depending on which server they are using at any moment. Here are more direct URLs. http://yipyop.tripod.com/blog/XO/XO_SD_card.zip

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-30 Thread Nicu Buculei
Bill Nottingham wrote: Nicu Buculei said: We get from time to time requests for such customized artwork, he most recent which come to my mind is the Security spin. Sometime the requests are meet with resistance by people like me who does not understand the need of a Fedora spin

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-30 Thread Nicu Buculei
William Jon McCann wrote: Just for the record, you are being disingenuous. Matthias mentioned it on this list before I could: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-May/msg00200.html It was even mentioned in the Fedora Weekly News: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue129 (and

Re: Fedora 10 Countdown

2008-10-29 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 01:20:59AM +0100, Paolo Leoni wrote: We are near to preview release, so I have two proposals for Fedora 10 countdown banner: I thought we were going to adapt the beta release banner's text and leave the rest the same -- not that this artwork isn't OK,

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Nicu Buculei
Mairin Duffy wrote: Matthias Clasen wrote: Well, the quality of artwork to a large extent consists of the general feeling that it gives the users. Which is a somewhat vague and unspecific thing, and varies from person to person. It is next to impossible to identify the one or two specific

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-29 Thread Nicu Buculei
William Jon McCann wrote: I'm not sure that message-dissection is a particularly fruitful way to respond to the general theme and tone of a message. But I'll respond here because I find it somewhat better than having discussions via blog posts. Speaking of blog posts, Jon, I noticed that

Re: Fedora 10 Countdown

2008-10-28 Thread Nicu Buculei
Paolo Leoni wrote: We are near to preview release, so I have two proposals for Fedora 10 countdown banner: http://pleoni.altervista.org/fedora10-countdown-banner_1.svg http://pleoni.altervista.org/fedora10-countdown-banner_2.svg I have a technical comment about the first banner: there is

Re: Bug 468277 - Solar: progress bar seems out of place

2008-10-27 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: I think rather than changing the guidelines, what we should do is decide on one we like and just make it a standard that is part of the guidelines and shipped in the logo packs we send out. I think there is too much room for error for bad gradients so we should just say,

Re: Fedora F's buttons

2008-10-27 Thread Nicu Buculei
Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: Regarding color management, I'd recommend you use the very latest snapshot of Scribus available from the OpenSuSE repo (there is a Fedora yum repo for it) because the one included in Fedora is quite outdated, and now largely unsupported (v 1.3.4) I know I am going

Re: Proposal: Wallpaper extras submission/packaging procedure

2008-10-27 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: I personally think we should hold a wallpaper contest photo artwork etc with a specific subject/theme in conduction with fedoramagazine each month or so then top 3 picture ( or top in each category ) would be picked added to the wiki and package. My tendency is to

Re: Proposal: Wallpaper extras submission/packaging procedure

2008-10-27 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: One question I have: do we want to use optipng'd PNGs or compressed JPG files? We *have* to use a compressed format and not RAW files... (my RAWs are ~15MB each) PNGs are not that good for photos and the JPEG compression is at the discretion of the uploader, it may make

Re: Sound themes

2008-10-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
William Jon McCann wrote: However well intentioned Chris' effort may have been, the results are not suitable for use in a high quality desktop product. Have you actually listened to the theme that you reference here? There is absolutely nothing wrong with creating lots of fun and creative

Re: Fedora Button artwork

2008-10-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ) wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: John Rose had a bunch of these printed up for the recent Ohio Linux Fest and they came out well. There's printer-ready artwork here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/MarketingCollateral#Fedora_Buttons Ooo nice. Can I request a design

Re: Fedora Button artwork

2008-10-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
Clint Savage wrote: Not to step on anyone's toes, but less than a month ago, I submitted some buttons that already accomplish this task. I've included the link to the reviews. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg0.html Yeah, but our memory is volatile, we are

Re: Fedora Button artwork

2008-10-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: Are you using the Fedora version of Scribus? I'm using mrdocs' which is slightly newer from SVN, maybe that is why? Yeah, that must be... and not when you say it, I remember you said it also back when created the design. (If not, I wonder why it doesn't open for you

Re: Fedora Button artwork

2008-10-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
Clint Savage wrote: No argument and I didn't mean to offend, so if I have, I apologize. However, I would upload it to the wiki except that I was told I must go through an approval process for my first bit of artwork. I wasn't told whether it was approved or not, so I didn't upload and also why

Re: Bug 468277 - Solar: progress bar seems out of place

2008-10-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: I just asked spot to add this to the fedora-logos package. It looks like this on a dark blue background: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/fedoralogo_white_shaded2.png this is what will be packaged though: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/fedoralogo_white_shaded.png Is

Sound themes

2008-10-23 Thread Nicu Buculei
Maybe you saw Lennarts' call for XDG sound themes: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/free-sound-themes.html I am afraid we may have driven away Chris with the lack of feedback when he tried to create one: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-September/msg4.html Also, with

Re: Solar derived artwork under GPLv2+

2008-10-23 Thread Nicu Buculei
Samuele Storari wrote: For me there's no problem to license the image in GPLv2+. But I think that right now Fedora is the holder of the artwork. You will be *always* the copyright holder for your work. By signing the CLA you allow Fedora to use your work under a certain license, but your

Re: Solar derived artwork under GPLv2+

2008-10-23 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jaroslav Reznik wrote: So the final license will be CC-BY-SA and/or GPLv2+? Currently I'm preparing package for Solar KDE Themes (rhbz#467943) and it's now CC-BY-SA. From my understanding, it's both. It was originally released as CC-BY-SA and the author just allowed also GPLv2+ -- nicu ::

Re: Solar derived artwork under GPLv2+

2008-10-23 Thread Nicu Buculei
Charlie Brej wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: From my understanding, it's both. It was originally released as CC-BY-SA and the author just allowed also GPLv2+ I just wanted the two images dual licensed under GPLv2. The rest can stay as CC-BY-SA which (AFAIK) is a better licence for artwork

Re: Fedora 10 Countdown

2008-10-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ricky Zhou wrote: Hey, do we have any images prepared for the F10 countdown right now? When do you thing we should try to have the counter up by? For the last release we tried to have it one month in advance. Now the Preview Release will be out 21 days before the final release, so I think

Re: Fedora Remix mark

2008-10-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: I would like to see the rounded logo done up with all these colors to make sure they don't make the 'remix' text too hard to read. If they don't that's what I recommend we go with. Does that sound reasonable? Your wish is my command :p

Re: Fedora-art-list Digest, Vol 31, Issue 35

2008-10-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
SAM wrote: Hii, Hi Abdul, welcome! this is Abdul Samad Ghanchi, I am from Pakistan, and interested in ART and got command on PHOTOSHOP, Hope i contribute my best for FEDORA... Are you familiar by any degree with GIMP or Inkscape? Please note that is not such a good idea to reply to a

Re: Fedora Remix mark

2008-10-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: Using this, here's my stab at an initial (albeit sparse) set of guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/2/29/Fedora_secondary_logo_draft_guidelines.png I like it, +1 The only change I can think of is putting the light background section at the top. I believe you

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