Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-12 Thread Valent Turkovic
Valent Turkovic wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: (do these seem right?) Will there be a resolution of 800x480 for Asus eee? Cheers, Valent. Never mind I saw that it will. Valent. ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.r

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-12 Thread Valent Turkovic
Máirín Duffy wrote: (do these seem right?) Will there be a resolution of 800x480 for Asus eee? Cheers, Valent. ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-10 Thread Ian Weller
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Mark wrote: Are those nice wallpapers gonna be in fedora 9 now? because we are past the final freeze now.. Or is this gonna be saved for F10? I'm being told by mizmo that it'll be fine. I'm making a few quick edits at her request, so I'm sure they're fine. The current ve

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-10 Thread Mark
2008/4/10, Ian Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Nicu Buculei wrote: > > > > It is possible to convert with GIMP from SVG to PNG in a scripted way > (command line)? > > Is it acceptable to include Inkscape or GIMP in the build system? (they > will drag a lot of dependencies and Inks

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-09 Thread Ian Weller
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Nicu Buculei wrote: It is possible to convert with GIMP from SVG to PNG in a scripted way (command line)? Is it acceptable to include Inkscape or GIMP in the build system? (they will drag a lot of dependencies and Inkscape is not even "core"). ImageMagik is *not* acceptable

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-09 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 14:05 -0500, Ian Weller wrote: > On 4/8/08, Frank Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is what I'm worried about. Right now I'm only doing the 4:3 > screen ratio because of that. Are we going to expand the image or just > cut it off (mostly on the bottom, of course, so th

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-08 Thread Nicu Buculei
Ian Weller wrote: Also, if you haven't seen, ricky and I in #fedora-art were discussing the possibility of creating the SRPM for the wallpapers with just the SVGs and the spec file would direct rpmbuild to render the PNGs. It would be nice for those who would like to *easily* find the vector sou

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-08 Thread Ian Weller
On 4/8/08, Frank Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 11:41 +0200, Mark wrote: > > > > > > > > I'll render 1600x1200. Should be done near 03:00 UTC or so. > > > Theoretically we shouldn't have to render any other 4:3 wallpapers, > > > unless we want larger, which we s

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-08 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 11:41 +0200, Mark wrote: > > > > > I'll render 1600x1200. Should be done near 03:00 UTC or so. > > Theoretically we shouldn't have to render any other 4:3 wallpapers, > > unless we want larger, which we shouldn't need. -- ian > > Seems big enough to me. > Best to just pr

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-08 Thread Mark
2008/4/8, Ian Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Nicu Buculei wrote: > > > > Máirín Duffy wrote: > > > > > > > > Normal Ratio: > > > - 2560x1600 > > > > > > > that one is widescreen > > > > > > > - 1600x1200 > > > - 1024x768 > > > - 800x600 > > > > > > Widescreen Ratio: > > > - 1680x

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-07 Thread Ian Weller
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Nicu Buculei wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Normal Ratio: - 2560x1600 that one is widescreen - 1600x1200 - 1024x768 - 800x600 Widescreen Ratio: - 1680x1050 - 1440x900 - 1280x800 I believe there is also 1920x1200 (do these seem right?) Currently we have in Rawhide als

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-07 Thread Máirín Duffy
Pavel Shevchuk wrote: From package description: ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD image formats I meant to package ridiculously large PNGs with different aspect ratios, then scale them down Oh okay. I don't know if we have much room for the ~2-3 MB initial imag

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-07 Thread Pavel Shevchuk
>From package description: ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD image formats I meant to package ridiculously large PNGs with different aspect ratios, then scale them down On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Máirín Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pavel Shevchuk wrote:

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-07 Thread Máirín Duffy
Pavel Shevchuk wrote: You can put in package largest square and wide wpaps and on package installation call imagemagick to scale them down to different sizes Does imagemagick support the SVG blur filter? ~m ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-ar

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-07 Thread Pavel Shevchuk
You can put in package largest square and wide wpaps and on package installation call imagemagick to scale them down to different sizes On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Máirín Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > > Mark wrote: > > > The sizes you posted seem right to me.. > > But about

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-07 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Mark, Mark wrote: The sizes you posted seem right to me.. But about the sizes.. Nautilus can handly SVG backgrounds so why not put that one in the dist? then you can drop all the other images.. unless that's not gonna work with day/night wallpapers (fancy and nice but not really useful anyway

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-07 Thread Máirín Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Normal Ratio: - 2560x1600 that one is widescreen Whoops I meant 2560x1920! good catch. - 1600x1200 - 1024x768 - 800x600 Widescreen Ratio: - 1680x1050 - 1440x900 - 1280x800 I believe there is also 1920x1200 (do these seem right?) Currently we

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-07 Thread Mark
2008/4/7, Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Máirín Duffy wrote: > > > > > Normal Ratio: > > - 2560x1600 > > > > that one is widescreen > > > > - 1600x1200 > > - 1024x768 > > - 800x600 > > > > Widescreen Ratio: > > - 1680x1050 > > - 1440x900 > > - 1280x800 > > > > I believe there is also 1920x12

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: Normal Ratio: - 2560x1600 that one is widescreen - 1600x1200 - 1024x768 - 800x600 Widescreen Ratio: - 1680x1050 - 1440x900 - 1280x800 I believe there is also 1920x1200 (do these seem right?) Currently we have in Rawhide also: - 1280x1024 (a *lot* of people use this

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-07 Thread Máirín Duffy
Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi folks, So here is what has to be done to get this new wallpaper into rawhide & the release candidate: 1 - integrate hi-res (2560x1920) render of background [1] with the sparkles svg [2] so they are the same size and line up. Export this. Would help if I provided them

Re: revised f9 wallpaper - workitems

2008-04-07 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi folks, So here is what has to be done to get this new wallpaper into rawhide & the release candidate: 1 - integrate hi-res (2560x1920) render of background [1] with the sparkles svg [2] so they are the same size and line up. Export this. 2 - from the integrated 2560x1920 bitmap, create t

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-07 Thread Mark
2008/4/7, Máirín Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Máirín Duffy wrote: > > > Um, okay so that took way more than 45 minutes... sorry but I've been > playing with it a lot and think it's getting better. I added some bubbles & > sparkles and mucked with the ripples such that they match the rest of the

Re: [Waves] revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-07 Thread Máirín Duffy
Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Máirín Duffy a écrit : The source files (these will be changing as I play around): - http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f9wallpaper/0008.svg - this is the main background without sparkles; this one you will not be able to work with unless you go into view >outlines mod

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-07 Thread Máirín Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: I've received a few complaints about the f9 wallpaper (it seems the sulphur is really unpopular) and I've been experimenting with alternative designs for it but trying to keep the same look and feel of the rest of the artwork. I saw my share of compl

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
Máirín Duffy wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Um, okay so that took way more than 45 minutes... sorry but I've been playing with it a lot and think it's getting better. I added some bubbles & sparkles and mucked with the ripples such that they match the rest of the artwork a little better and lo

[Waves] revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-07 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Máirín Duffy a écrit : > > The source files (these will be changing as I play around): > > - http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f9wallpaper/0008.svg - this is > the main background without sparkles; this one you will not be able to > work with unless you go into view >outlines mode. > > - http://d

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: I've received a few complaints about the f9 wallpaper (it seems the sulphur is really unpopular) and I've been experimenting with alternative designs for it but trying to keep the same look and feel of the rest of the artwork. I saw my share of complaints too, both on my

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Ian Weller
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Máirín Duffy wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Um, okay so that took way more than 45 minutes... sorry but I've been playing with it a lot and think it's getting better. I added some bubbles & sparkles and mucked with the ripples such that they match the rest of the artwork a

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Martin Sourada
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 01:19 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Máirín Duffy wrote: > > Um, okay so that took way more than 45 minutes... sorry but I've > > been playing with it a lot and think it's getting better. I added some > > bubbles & sparkles and mucked with the ripples such that they match

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Michael Beckwith
I really want to know how you can crank out such good stuff so fast. I am envious. I approve of these replacing what we had. Máirín Duffy wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Um, okay so that took way more than 45 minutes... sorry but I've been playing with it a lot and think it's getting better. I a

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu
Máirín Duffy escribió: Máirín Duffy wrote: That would be awesome! Give me maybe 45 minutes to clean it up and I'll send it here. One thing though, when working with this file you've gotta put it in outline mode otherwise the blurs will slow your machine to a halt. Also, I've been rendering the

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Máirín Duffy
Máirín Duffy wrote: Um, okay so that took way more than 45 minutes... sorry but I've been playing with it a lot and think it's getting better. I added some bubbles & sparkles and mucked with the ripples such that they match the rest of the artwork a little better and look a little bit more

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Máirín Duffy
Máirín Duffy wrote: That would be awesome! Give me maybe 45 minutes to clean it up and I'll send it here. One thing though, when working with this file you've gotta put it in outline mode otherwise the blurs will slow your machine to a halt. Also, I've been rendering the bitmaps on the command

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Gian Paolo Mureddu
Máirín Duffy escribió: Ian Weller wrote: On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Máirín Duffy wrote: This is one of the ideas I've been working with - http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/0001.png Whoa. Almost looks like a UFO is abducting my taskbar. ;) Oh crap, I totally see that now too. :) This is a sligh

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 04:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Matthias Clasen wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 02:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > >> Of note is the fact that the new GDM loads up the default desktop > >> wallpaper and it seems that a fancy wallpaper with animations and > >> ef

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Matthias Clasen wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 02:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Of note is the fact that the new GDM loads up the default desktop wallpaper and it seems that a fancy wallpaper with animations and effects would really slow down the GDM load time which is not a nice user experie

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 02:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Of note is the fact that the new GDM loads up the default desktop > wallpaper and it seems that a fancy wallpaper with animations and > effects would really slow down the GDM load time which is not a nice > user experience since the who

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Máirín Duffy
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Máirín Duffy wrote: Hey Luya, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: It looks like a underwater view of the wave. I think these wave needs to be dynamic i.e spreading toward. It will be also an opportunity to take advantage of the script Matthias created from Fedora 7 where the wave va

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Máirín Duffy wrote: Hey Luya, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: It looks like a underwater view of the wave. I think these wave needs to be dynamic i.e spreading toward. It will be also an opportunity to take advantage of the script Matthias created from Fedora 7 where the wave varies weekly. The effec

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hey Luya, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: It looks like a underwater view of the wave. I think these wave needs to be dynamic i.e spreading toward. It will be also an opportunity to take advantage of the script Matthias created from Fedora 7 where the wave varies weekly. The effects should be subtle.

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Máirín Duffy
Martin Sourada wrote: Looks good! The only thing I miss there are the reflections... ;-) Only one thing bugs me, devel freeze is very near, we are way after the round 3 freeze... Are we going to make it in time? Yeh the freeze is Tuesday. I'm going to be trying very hard to get this prepared f

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Ian Weller
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Matthias Clasen wrote: We'll be able to get final backgrounds in, even if they are a day or two late. The purpose of putting the current waves background into rawhide was to get some feedback, it would be silly to ignore that feedback now ... I forgot about the feedback pro

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 15:29 -0500, Ian Weller wrote: > On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Martin Sourada wrote: > > one thing bugs me, devel freeze is very near, we are way after the round > > 3 freeze... Are we going to make it in time? > > > > So for this, if we are able to make it in time, +1 from me. > > > If

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Ian Weller
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Martin Sourada wrote: one thing bugs me, devel freeze is very near, we are way after the round 3 freeze... Are we going to make it in time? So for this, if we are able to make it in time, +1 from me. If we scramble, get the colors picked today, and finalize the wallpapers t

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Martin Sourada
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 14:00 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Ian Weller wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Máirín Duffy wrote: > > > >> This is one of the ideas I've been working with - > >> http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/0001.png > >> > > Whoa. Almost looks like a UFO is abducting my taskbar. ;) >

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Dimitris Glezos
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Máirín Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > What people didn't seem to like was the flames on top. The original > > sulphuric waves gray wallpaper and associated artwork was very good IMO. > > > > They don't like the sulphur, either. I've h

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Máirín Duffy a écrit : > Hi folks, > > I've received a few complaints about the f9 wallpaper (it seems the > sulphur is really unpopular) and I've been experimenting with > alternative designs for it but trying to keep the same look and feel > of the rest of the artwork. > > This is one of the idea

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Ian Weller
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Máirín Duffy wrote: This is a slightly different render of it, does it look less invasion-like? Very yes. +1 -- ian___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Máirín Duffy
Rahul Sundaram wrote: What people didn't seem to like was the flames on top. The original sulphuric waves gray wallpaper and associated artwork was very good IMO. They don't like the sulphur, either. I've heard it referred to as 'dog crap', 'cheese', and 'nuggets'. And some other less savory t

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Máirín Duffy
Ian Weller wrote: On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Máirín Duffy wrote: This is one of the ideas I've been working with - http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/0001.png Whoa. Almost looks like a UFO is abducting my taskbar. ;) Oh crap, I totally see that now too. :) This is a slightly different render of

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi folks, I've received a few complaints about the f9 wallpaper (it seems the sulphur is really unpopular) and I've been experimenting with alternative designs for it but trying to keep the same look and feel of the rest of the artwork. This is one of the ideas I've been

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Klaatu and Gort
yeah that's quite nice. 2008/4/6 brian hurren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > try turning it up the other way. It has got good ambiance, not to > distracting. Once you have all your folders ect over it there are no > annoying background objects competing with them. > Maybe open the waves up a bit more. >

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread brian hurren
try turning it up the other way. It has got good ambiance, not to distracting. Once you have all your folders ect over it there are no annoying background objects competing with them. Maybe open the waves up a bit more. Máirín Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks, I've received a few comp

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Ian Weller
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Frank Murphy wrote: Don't think it needs bling, at times less is more. Agreed. -- ian ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 12:10 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Hi folks, > > This is one of the ideas I've been working with - > http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/0001.png Looks fine on a dual. > > Do you think it's a good direction? Do you have ideas on how to bling it up? Don't think it needs b

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
Ian Weller wrote: On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Máirín Duffy wrote: This is one of the ideas I've been working with - http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/0001.png Whoa. Almost looks like a UFO is abducting my taskbar. ;) I personally like it a lot better, it almost seems a bit out of place though... b

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Michael Beckwith
Kind of pushing the deadlines on everything, but if we need to, I don't see why we couldn't make this work if we bust our butts. Not a lot seems to be off with the mockup you just sent. Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi folks, I've received a few complaints about the f9 wallpaper (it seems the sulphur

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread inode0
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Máirín Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've received a few complaints about the f9 wallpaper (it seems the sulphur > is really unpopular) and I've been experimenting with alternative designs > for it but trying to keep the same look and feel of the

Re: revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Ian Weller
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Máirín Duffy wrote: This is one of the ideas I've been working with - http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/0001.png Whoa. Almost looks like a UFO is abducting my taskbar. ;) I personally like it a lot better, it almost seems a bit out of place though... but it works. It's r

revised f9 wallpaper

2008-04-06 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi folks, I've received a few complaints about the f9 wallpaper (it seems the sulphur is really unpopular) and I've been experimenting with alternative designs for it but trying to keep the same look and feel of the rest of the artwork. This is one of the ideas I've been working with - http