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 the Echo experience fresh in mind, I wonder if we create a 
new set only to get it called a charade and if you think what you're 
doing is 'value add' that makes Fedora look better than the 
'competition' you are wrong.


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Re: Solar derived artwork under GPLv2+

2008-10-23 Thread Samuele Storari
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.

But if I had to do something, or write something, I will.

Let me know.

Cheers
Samuele


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Subject: Solar derived artwork under GPLv2+

Would it be possible for the copyright holders of the solar artwork to 
permit two derived images to be licensed under GPLv2+.
Images:
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/background.png
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/star.png

This would remove some complications around packaging the Plymouth solar 
plugin.

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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 
rights remain intact.



But if I had to do something, or write something, I will.

Let me know.


This email should be enough.

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Re: Solar derived artwork under GPLv2+

2008-10-23 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
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.

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- Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 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 
 rights remain intact.
 
  But if I had to do something, or write something, I will.
  
  Let me know.
 
 This email should be enough.
 
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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+


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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.


The best option is dual license, both CC-BY-SA and GPL, otherwise you 
can go in murky waters: the GPL talks about the source code, and what is 
the source fode for those two images? The layered .xcf.

So having a consistent (dual) license is the easiest way.

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Re: Solar derived artwork under GPLv2+

2008-10-23 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Nicu Buculei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 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.
 
 The best option is dual license, both CC-BY-SA and GPL, otherwise you
 
 can go in murky waters: the GPL talks about the source code, and what
 is 
 the source fode for those two images? The layered .xcf.
 So having a consistent (dual) license is the easiest way.

Ok, sounds good for me. So I'm going to use multiple licenses for
solar-kde-theme. CC-BY-SA for artwork and GPLv2 for source code
of themes (it's inherited work from original KDM theme).
Thanks!

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Re: Fedora 10 Countdown

2008-10-23 Thread Ian Weller
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:51:27AM +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
 Probably is a good idea to have the countdown banner based on the beta  
 banner[1] (if that is made using a clean source).

 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Fedora-10-beta-release-graphic.png

I made it so that it would be. Wouldn't be too hard to hack the XML and
make it work with one of mizmo's previous scripts.

The SVG should be on the wiki but I'm posting it here again.

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four f's poster designs

2008-10-23 Thread Mairin Duffy

Hey folks,

I put together some designs for the four f's posters. They are *very* 
different than our infinity freedom community ones. Because they are 
such a departure (a lot less shiny) and a little weird, I won't be 
broken-hearted if you hate them, just let me know. I designed them so 
you could use any of them alone, or you can use them together and 
connect them to make an even bigger poster. They are also designed so 
they are more of a backdrop than a main event. Influences include sari 
fabric (do you see it?), Red Hat's website background, and quilts! 
You'll see what I mean when you look at them, I think/hope.


Anyhow, here's the individual posters. There's one for each f, then 
there are two that have all four f's on them:


http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fourfs/individual%20posters/

Here's what they look like connected to make a bigger poster and what 
they look like lined up horizontally:


http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fourfs/four-fs-four-posters.png

Let me know what you think. If we want to go for another look let's talk 
about the kind of look/feel we should try. Any Fedora Ambassadors 
reading this, I'd especially like to hear what direction you think we 
should go in as you're the folks with these posters at events competing 
with other booths/tables.


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Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

William Jon McCann wrote:

It is not often fun to be told that your work is not good enough or
inappropriate. 


It seems you've hijacked a thread about sound themes to indirectly 
allude that the art team's work is not good enough or appropriate. If 
you do believe this, it would be better to give direct feedback rather 
than beat around the bush. Specific critiques about the Fedora 10 
artwork, which I think exceeds the F9 artwork by far, would be greatly 
appreciated. Also, please consider that we have a number of non-native 
English speakers here who might not necessarily pick up on the nuances 
of your message.



And it is an essential part of how human
development works. You simply can't grow without it.
In this aspect, art design is no different from software design.


I trust that was meant with the best of intentions, so I'm sad to admit 
I can't help finding this somewhat patronizing, sorry.



You would be right to point out here that we don't all agree on what
our audience is and what our product should feel like.
That is indeed a serious problem.


How do you propose to fix it?


Another problem is how you define who the judges are.  Do you try to
poll your audience? (requires you to clearly define the audience) Do
you trust your peers?  (must define peers)  Do you trust the
critics/experts? 


While you have not come out and said directly to what you would like to 
apply these questions to, I'm happy to be quite direct and state that we 
have done all of the above on the art team. Over the past few releases 
we've tried different things and learning from them. Growing as human 
beings you could say, I suppose.



It is a tough problem.  But it always goes back to
audience.  Otherwise you may create something that is beautiful,
complete, and wrong.


Again, I can't help but feel a bit patronized.


I think that the desktop wallpapers we've used by default are a good
example of this:
http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2008/05/30/state-of-the-art-wallpapers/


Why not just say the Fedora 9 wallpapers sucked instead of going to all 
that effort? I wouldn't argue with you on it. There were some real 
stinkers before we had a community art process as well. Same with the 
bits of the release in general, we've had some real stinkers with some 
broken bits shipped out of the box. So artwork and code, we've never 
been perfect every release. Even so, there are quite a few fans of the 
F9 wallpaper despite its suckage.



Switching gears slightly.  When resources are limited, fragmentation
often results in inconsistency.  Or, when the problem space is too
large or unbounded the best we can do is to define standards.  For
desktop apps we have the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.  For icon
themes we have the Tango guidelines, and the upcoming Mango
guidelines.  Widget themes are slightly different because the problem
is basically bounded - there are only so many widgets to theme.


Artwork is a little different and harder to pin down than GUI design 
guidelines (which are also very difficult to pin down except on the very 
top, surface level which is all the GNOME HIG itself has actual clear 
guidelines for.) We have some basic guidelines that the artwork adhere 
to a theme that can be clearly linked back to the spirit and goals of 
Fedora. Its base color is typically a shade of blue that is the same or 
complementary to the official Fedora logo colors. We have specific 
guidelines about resolution, aspect ratio, elements (where the logo is 
and isn't allowed), and formats for every bit of artwork we put into the 
 release. These requirements, of course, are just as surface-level as 
the guidelines for widget usage in the HIG.


Just as you can't follow a formula like the GNOME HIG and pop out a 
beautiful, usable interface, you can't follow a formula like the Fedora 
theme guidelines and pop out a beautiful theme. The magic inbetween that 
makes something good is design. I'm quite saddened by the fact that you 
don't seem to believe this team has or is capable of having that magic, 
but I suppose to relate it to coding as you did in your message, perhaps 
not everyone felt Linus had the magic or capability to develop the magic 
necessary to start a real, usable operating system.


I suppose you could suggest we hire a professional Artist to sit in a 
room by themselves and design the entire theme all by themselves to get 
something beautiful, perfect, and befitting our high-quality desktop, 
but then you'd be in conflict designing artwork in a closed manner for a 
community operating system. It's not really fair to make comparisons to 
how software development and code works only when it is convenient so 
let's be fair and complete the analogy.


The thing is, when one person designs things in a vaccuum, you only ever 
see the end product and you never see the work-in-progress so the end 
result I think always seems so impressive than if you had seen it 
develop in stages. Unfortunately with the open 

Re: four f's poster designs

2008-10-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

Mairin Duffy wrote:

Hey folks,

I put together some designs for the four f's posters. They are *very* 
different than our infinity freedom community ones. Because they are 
such a departure (a lot less shiny) and a little weird, I won't be 
broken-hearted if you hate them, just let me know. I designed them so 
you could use any of them alone, or you can use them together and 
connect them to make an even bigger poster. They are also designed so 
they are more of a backdrop than a main event. Influences include sari 
fabric (do you see it?), Red Hat's website background, and quilts! 
You'll see what I mean when you look at them, I think/hope.


Shame on me, I forgot to note that the 'first' and 'features' icons were 
designed by Nicu Buculei [1,2], so thanks Nicu! :)


~m

[1] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-September/msg00146.html


[2] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-September/msg00181.html


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Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-23 Thread Paul Frields
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 William Jon McCann wrote:

 It is not often fun to be told that your work is not good enough or
 inappropriate.

 It seems you've hijacked a thread about sound themes to indirectly allude
 that the art team's work is not good enough or appropriate. If you do
 believe this, it would be better to give direct feedback rather than beat
 around the bush. Specific critiques about the Fedora 10 artwork, which I
 think exceeds the F9 artwork by far, would be greatly appreciated. Also,
 please consider that we have a number of non-native English speakers here
 who might not necessarily pick up on the nuances of your message.
[...snip...]

The Artwork team has always been open, in my experience, to criticism
and suggestions about artwork.  They exemplify the way Fedora teams
work openly and transparently in a cooperative effort.  And they've
consistently turned out designs that are always solid, and often
spectacular, not just for the desktop but for a variety of other uses
too.

We can absolutely have dissension and discussion about artwork and
design -- with specifics about what needs work.  At the end of the
day, the Fedora Artwork team has been charged with the responsibility
of the look and feel of Fedora.  They're expected to do -- and have
done -- that work in a community-friendly way, and people who want to
have input into the process should do the same.

Paul

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Re: four f's poster designs

2008-10-23 Thread Paul Frields
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 23:19 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
 Mairin Duffy wrote:
  Hey folks,
 
  I put together some designs for the four f's posters. They are *very*
  different than our infinity freedom community ones. Because they are
  such a departure (a lot less shiny) and a little weird, I won't be
  broken-hearted if you hate them, just let me know. I designed them so
  you could use any of them alone, or you can use them together and
  connect them to make an even bigger poster. They are also designed so
  they are more of a backdrop than a main event. Influences include sari
  fabric (do you see it?), Red Hat's website background, and quilts!
  You'll see what I mean when you look at them, I think/hope.

 Shame on me, I forgot to note that the 'first' and 'features' icons were
 designed by Nicu Buculei [1,2], so thanks Nicu! :)

That goes for me too.  Great work Nicu, you have helped create something
truly fantastic IMHO.

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Re: four f's poster designs

2008-10-23 Thread Ian Weller
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:02:57PM -0400, Mairin Duffy wrote:
 Let me know what you think. If we want to go for another look let's talk  
 about the kind of look/feel we should try. Any Fedora Ambassadors  
 reading this, I'd especially like to hear what direction you think we  
 should go in as you're the folks with these posters at events competing  
 with other booths/tables.

Quick thought -- how large will the two-line text be for each poster? I
didn't notice it until I looked at the individual posters. If they can't
be read from about 6 feet away, I think they need to be enlarged or
removed...

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Re: four f's poster designs

2008-10-23 Thread Máirín Duffy

Ian Weller wrote:

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:02:57PM -0400, Mairin Duffy wrote:
Let me know what you think. If we want to go for another look let's talk  
about the kind of look/feel we should try. Any Fedora Ambassadors  
reading this, I'd especially like to hear what direction you think we  
should go in as you're the folks with these posters at events competing  
with other booths/tables.



Quick thought -- how large will the two-line text be for each poster? I
didn't notice it until I looked at the individual posters. If they can't
be read from about 6 feet away, I think they need to be enlarged or
removed...


I was thinking these would be printed at maybe 20x30 or maybe larger 
proportions. These are just rough cuts so they do need some padding to 
fit that ratio, right now they scale to 20x~24. At 20x24, the two 
rows of text together are (if I'm measuring right) about 1.5 tall so 
I'm thinking not readable from 6 feet away.


Do you think they'd work if we just took the text out?

Maybe it could be resized and the little sound bites shortened even 
more, into 2-3 word phrases?


~m

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Re: four f's poster designs

2008-10-23 Thread Leigh Cantrell Day
Mairin -- these are just fabulous (IMHO, ie, not an artist or designer)! 
 Could see these icons tell the story in so many use cases, alone and 
combined.


Really great work...

leigh


Mairin Duffy wrote:

Hey folks,

I put together some designs for the four f's posters. They are *very* 
different than our infinity freedom community ones. Because they are 
such a departure (a lot less shiny) and a little weird, I won't be 
broken-hearted if you hate them, just let me know. I designed them so 
you could use any of them alone, or you can use them together and 
connect them to make an even bigger poster. They are also designed so 
they are more of a backdrop than a main event. Influences include sari 
fabric (do you see it?), Red Hat's website background, and quilts! 
You'll see what I mean when you look at them, I think/hope.


Anyhow, here's the individual posters. There's one for each f, then 
there are two that have all four f's on them:


http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fourfs/individual%20posters/

Here's what they look like connected to make a bigger poster and what 
they look like lined up horizontally:


http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fourfs/four-fs-four-posters.png

Let me know what you think. If we want to go for another look let's talk 
about the kind of look/feel we should try. Any Fedora Ambassadors 
reading this, I'd especially like to hear what direction you think we 
should go in as you're the folks with these posters at events competing 
with other booths/tables.


~m


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Re: four f's poster designs

2008-10-23 Thread Ian Weller
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:31:21AM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
 I was thinking these would be printed at maybe 20x30 or maybe larger  
 proportions. These are just rough cuts so they do need some padding to  
 fit that ratio, right now they scale to 20x~24. At 20x24, the two  
 rows of text together are (if I'm measuring right) about 1.5 tall so  
 I'm thinking not readable from 6 feet away.

 Do you think they'd work if we just took the text out?

 Maybe it could be resized and the little sound bites shortened even  
 more, into 2-3 word phrases?

Well, if those are that small, then is the text in the bubbles (i.e.,
'FEATURES') large enough? Should they be reprinted at about the same
transparency as the reprinted symbol for the foundation? Or something?

Back on the blurbs, they can definitely be shortened. What I think they
should be (mostly adapted from mo's blurbs):

freedom: freedom trumps conveinence # bit iffy on the word 'trumps',
but it's all I could think of
friends: friends around the world
features: fedora can do it
first: followed, not following

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