Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-30 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 09:45 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Paul W. Frields ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: 
> > "User Experience. Fedora offers a user experience unsurpassed by other
> > fully free software distributions."
> 
> Which means what exactly? 'Unsurpassed' implies a great quantity or
> level of something, and I'm not sure 'user experience' is quantified
> in that way.
> 
> (Sorry, being nitpicky.)

Actually one of that word's meanings is simply to excel, which need not
be related to quantity.

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Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-30 Thread Máirín Duffy
William Jon McCann wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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*.
>> Jon wrote that piece half year ago (in May) and published it on his blog
>> which is aggregated *only* on Planet Gnome. He didn't brought it on either
>> fedora-desktop or fedora-art. So I qualify it as outside of the process.
>> The talked here about it for the first time only a few days ago, roughly 6
>> months after publishing.
> 
> 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 says that you were the author of that section)

In either case, I do not remember your being involved in a
discussion about it until now. Not six months ago. I think
that is why a few of us here are having a hard time even
recalling it being posted here.

I mean, if I write a document about, I don't know, creating
Gimp brushes, and some community somewhere picks up on it,
let's say a brushes group on deviant art, and discusses it,
that is great. But if I'm not participating directly in that
community or even are aware that community is using my
document am I really a part of that deviant art brush group?
I would think not.

But this is a really silly point to argue. So let's talk
about your analysis of the document rather than who posted
it where and when. I would love to hear more about your
takeaways from creating it.

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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 says that you were the author of that section)


Sorry for that, I forgot about that, I was remembering the post form 
Planet Gnome and today I searched the list archive only for threads 
start, not deep into conversation. So sorry, my mistake.



At that time I *was* syndicated on planet fedora.  Seth Vidal added me
on Apr 14.  That was before the new account system kicked in or
something.

Also a little shocking that you consider planet gnome outside your community.


I *do* read Planet Gnome almost daily, but I *do not* read Planet KDE or 
Planet XFCE, Planet Mozilla or Planet OpenOffice.org at all and 
arguably, they are equally part of the community.


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Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Nicu Buculei ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 with a different look and feel 
>>> (or the purpose of  still calling it Fedora)
>>
>> ... ? Part of the whole purpose is to have different spins for what
>> people want to do with Fedora software, whether it's the Games spin,
>> the Education spin, the XO/Sugar spin. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you.
>
> If a spin is geared for games, for example, you think is a good idea for  
> it to have an inverted GTK+ theme (white on black), a wallpaper that  
> make your eyes hurt and a general look that does not resemble Fedora at 
> all?
> I think is a bad idea to go for something like  
> http://ubuntustudio.org/screenshots

There's a difference between having somewhat of a 'different look and feel'
depending on audience, and something that 'makes your eyes hurt', aside
from the subjective taste issues that involves. XO would be a primary
example - Sugar's going to have a different look and feel before you even
get to any artwork, and Fedora specific artwork may be better off trying
to fit into that motif than coercing it to the motif we have now.
(Especially if the target audience is a different userbase/age group/whatever.)

Bill

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Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-30 Thread William Jon McCann
Hey,

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:03 AM, Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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*.
> Jon wrote that piece half year ago (in May) and published it on his blog
> which is aggregated *only* on Planet Gnome. He didn't brought it on either
> fedora-desktop or fedora-art. So I qualify it as outside of the process.
> The talked here about it for the first time only a few days ago, roughly 6
> months after publishing.

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 says that you were the author of that section)

At that time I *was* syndicated on planet fedora.  Seth Vidal added me
on Apr 14.  That was before the new account system kicked in or
something.

Also a little shocking that you consider planet gnome outside your community.

Dude, seriously.

Jon

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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 with a different look and feel (or the purpose of  
still calling it Fedora)


... ? Part of the whole purpose is to have different spins for what
people want to do with Fedora software, whether it's the Games spin,
the Education spin, the XO/Sugar spin. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you.


If a spin is geared for games, for example, you think is a good idea for 
it to have an inverted GTK+ theme (white on black), a wallpaper that 
make your eyes hurt and a general look that does not resemble Fedora at all?
I think is a bad idea to go for something like 
http://ubuntustudio.org/screenshots


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Re: F10 on OLPC XO illustration request - Closed

2008-10-30 Thread Michael Langlie
I closed the diagram request from Karlie Robinson on this page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/DocIllustrationService

The zipped files (SVG, AI, EPS, PNG) are found on this page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:XO_SD_card.zip

A PNG preview is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:XO_SD_card.png

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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
http://yipyop.tripod.com/blog/XO/XO_SD_card.png


Now that I can see the files, I agree, they are wonderful.


Oh yeah, I meant to ask where people recommend these files go on the wiki. I 
was spacing out after a long day. Anywhere in particular I should put them?


Just upload using the normal upload form 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Upload and then add a link, maybe 
also a thumbnail, to Karlie's request 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/DocIllustrationService#Request_list 
(also change the status and add your name as designer)


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Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Paul W. Frields ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: 
> "User Experience. Fedora offers a user experience unsurpassed by other
> fully free software distributions."

Which means what exactly? 'Unsurpassed' implies a great quantity or
level of something, and I'm not sure 'user experience' is quantified
in that way.

(Sorry, being nitpicky.)

Bill

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Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-30 Thread Bill Nottingham
Nicu Buculei ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: 
>> 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 latter has never been clearly defined.
>
> The thing is that we want to make easier for people to "get" Fedora,  
> with a simplified download page and such, offering as default a single  
> option and this option is the Desktop spin, effectively making it the  
> main spin.

OK. But even in that case, I'm sure you could see how if the
artwork is designed for 'the main spin' for one set of users (such as
enthusiasts, whatever that means) and the code is designed for
a different set of users (such as general desktop users, whatever
that means) that there is inevitably going to be conflicts.

> 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 with a different look and feel (or the purpose of  
> still calling it Fedora)

... ? Part of the whole purpose is to have different spins for what
people want to do with Fedora software, whether it's the Games spin,
the Education spin, the XO/Sugar spin. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you.

Bill

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Re: F10 on OLPC XO illustration request

2008-10-30 Thread Michael Langlie
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
http://yipyop.tripod.com/blog/XO/XO_SD_card.png

Oh yeah, I meant to ask where people recommend these files go on the wiki. I 
was spacing out after a long day. Anywhere in particular I should put them?

Mike


- Original Message -
From: "Nicu Buculei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fedora Art List" 
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 2:57:56 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: F10 on OLPC XO illustration request

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 model Dan Williams!)
> 
> PNG preview:
> http://yipyop.com/XO/XO_SD_card.png
> 
> SVG, EPS, AI and PNG files:
> http://yipyop.com/XO/XO_SD_card.zip

Next time can you host such files in a place where they will be up for 
more than a few hours? I get "404 Not Found"... fedorapeople.org is a 
great place for this.
Also I advise you post the work in the wiki, to properly close Karlie's 
request and as a reference for future works.


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Re: Updated Solar Backgrounds Package

2008-10-30 Thread Máirín Duffy
Hi Kevin,

Martin Sourada wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 22:47 -0400, Mairin Duffy wrote:
>> Hi Martin,
>>
> Hi Máirín,
> 
>> Martin Sourada wrote:
>>> If no serious problems/regressions are reported, I'll request a freeze
>>> break at Friday.
>> Jesse said he really needs this ASAP, so I think we should get it to him 
>> tomorrow morning. He's on West Coast US time so that will give us a few 
>> more hours for folks to review but then I think we should just push it 
>> out. Hopefully we will have an opportunity to fix any other bugs as a 
>> result of preview release feedback.
>>
>> Thanks so much for getting this done so quickly, it's a real lifesaver!
>>
> Kevin already found a error there (1280x1024 having only 1014 height)
> and built a fixed package [1]. I'll request the freeze break then.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! :)

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Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-30 Thread Máirín Duffy
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. 

Actually, I would have to say that it was not participating
in the process, at least not until two weeks ago. You see,
if I didn't read planet GNOME, I never would have seen that
document before he posted it to this list two weeks ago. It
was posted to his blog months ago and was never shared with
this group and the blog never hit planet Fedora.

> I don't agree with this at all. Conversation should not end. What must
> end is the divisive 'us' vs. 'them' mentality. The conversion about the
> goals and visions for the desktop and its art should continue. And I
> will defend the freedom of anybody in my team to criticize the art, just
> as everybody else is free to criticize what vt we choose to run X on.

I don't think anyone takes issue with criticism so let's
shelve that point right here. (Although it would be nice if
in the cases where it unprofessional, that it could instead
be polite and professional.)

I think people take issue with the fact that essentially we
are hearing, "this doesn't fit with our vision" when there
is no way anyone can know of or what that vision is since
it's never been articulated anywhere. Also, "I don't like
it" (or worse) without any explanation of why. It's nice to
know you do not like it but there is not much that can be
done to improve it based on "I don't like it." I've taken
studio art classes before where the professor laid down
ground rules to forbid anyone from saying "I don't like it"
without giving at least two specific points of critique to
help the person improve their work or at least understand
where the critiquer was coming from.

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Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-30 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 10:03 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> 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*.
> Jon wrote that piece half year ago (in May) and published it on his blog 
> which is aggregated *only* on Planet Gnome. He didn't brought it on 
> either fedora-desktop or fedora-art. So I qualify it as outside of the 
> process.
> The talked here about it for the first time only a few days ago, roughly 
> 6 months after publishing it.

I explicitly said it was not part of your process. 
But I have pointed to it out repeatedly back in May on this very list.


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Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-30 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:25:44PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 08:19 +, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > >  PRIMARY TARGET
> > >  * Free and open source software enthusiasts, developers, and
> > >remixers.
> > >
> > > I haven't polled the entire team about it, but I can pretty much
> > > guarantee you that this description is _not_ what we see as the target
> > > audience for the Fedora Desktop.
> > 
> > Matthias,
> > 
> > I guess the best I can do is invite you to come and discuss this issue
> > with us on the marketing list. The reason, I think, we decided to go
> > with this as our primary audience, is that the pace of development in
> > Fedora, the amount of breakage, and our inability to ship restricted
> > software by default means that in reality, we're not going to be a
> > distribution for your average desktop user.
> > 
> 
> Yet, the very same document has the following statement, which seems to
> be at odds with this assessment:
> 
>  User Experience. Fedora offers a user experience that is unsurpassed.

Perhaps that should be amended:

"User Experience. Fedora offers a user experience unsurpassed by other
fully free software distributions."

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Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-30 Thread Max Spevack

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Matthias Clasen 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 
those teams all agree with the starting points.  Then you can have 
one conversation, as opposed to 7 or 8 individual ones.


You mean we need to pick our sides, elect speakers and clamp down on 
dissenters ?


No, that's not what I meant.  Just that it's useful for individual teams 
to have a relatively agreed-upon vision of what they want when they 
start talking to other teams, so that all of the individual 
conversations that do happen are more or less starting from the same 
place.  There's nothing sinister or anti-community in that, it's just 
basic common sense and teamwork, IMHO.


(5) What needs to be done to finally end this cycle of conversations 
in a way that everyone can live with?  We've been having the same 
instance of this talk since Fedora 6/7 timeframe, and one way or 
another, it has to end.


I don't agree with this at all. Conversation should not end. What must 
end is the divisive 'us' vs. 'them' mentality. The conversion about 
the goals and visions for the desktop and its art should continue. And 
I will defend the freedom of anybody in my team to criticize the art, 
just as everybody else is free to criticize what vt we choose to run X 
on.


I agree with that.  I'd like the conversation to move on to a new topic 
after 4 releases or arguing about the background.  :)


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Re: Updated Solar Backgrounds Package

2008-10-30 Thread Martin Sourada
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 22:47 -0400, Mairin Duffy wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
Hi Máirín,

> Martin Sourada wrote:
> > If no serious problems/regressions are reported, I'll request a freeze
> > break at Friday.
> 
> Jesse said he really needs this ASAP, so I think we should get it to him 
> tomorrow morning. He's on West Coast US time so that will give us a few 
> more hours for folks to review but then I think we should just push it 
> out. Hopefully we will have an opportunity to fix any other bugs as a 
> result of preview release feedback.
> 
> Thanks so much for getting this done so quickly, it's a real lifesaver!
> 
Kevin already found a error there (1280x1024 having only 1014 height)
and built a fixed package [1]. I'll request the freeze break then.

Martin

References:
[1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=68083


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Re: Updated Solar Backgrounds Package

2008-10-30 Thread Martin Sourada
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 08:13 +, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Kevin Kofler  chello.at> writes:
> > of the normalish.dual images (or, equivalently, copying (1280,0) to 
> > (2559,9) 
> > (the 1280x10 pixel rectangle at the top right) from the normalish.dual 
> > images 
> > and adding that on top of the 1280x1024 images).
> 
> That's what I did (can't be too careful - with that process, I can guarantee 
> that not a single of your pixels was changed, just the missing ones added), I 
> uploaded the result here (I already ran optipng -o7 on it):
> http://repo.calcforge.org/f10/solar-normalish-fixed.tar
> 
> Can I commit and build this into solar-backgrounds?
> 
> Kevin Kofler
> 
Aah, thanks Kevin, good catch! To me it seems your fix is all right.

Martin


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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 
those teams all agree with the starting points.  Then you can have one 
conversation, as opposed to 7 or 8 individual ones.


We at the Art Team have a documented leadership structure and while we 
are not exactly one single voice, from my experience, we usually agree 
on the main points.


Bus as we are literally spread all around the world (North America, 
South America, Europe, India, Asia) is impossible for the team to 
participate in face to face meetings in other way than using 
representatives.


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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 latter has never been clearly defined.


The thing is that we want to make easier for people to "get" Fedora, 
with a simplified download page and such, offering as default a single 
option and this option is the Desktop spin, effectively making it the 
main spin.


Since every Fedora  inherits from the same package set (which 
includes artwork), this becomes a sticky wicket - we end up with continual

conflict one way or another whenever anyone actually attempts to make a
change that is for a particular audience. One example is artwork. Another
might be the tty that X starts on, just to pick something out of a hat.

I'm not sure what the solution is. Having the art group create different
artwork for all the different targets we may serve with our spins?
I suspect there's a resource problem there. Moreover, it's not like
we fork initscripts for different spins, or desktop packages, etc.


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 with a different look and feel (or the purpose of 
still calling it Fedora) and sometime they get followed with some 
artwork. But usually in such cases the artwork is... how I can say in 
not-offending words? ...less than perfect, since it is developed on a 
shortcut, not a full process. It may have not the best usability or

violate the guidelines (logo usage).

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Re: Updated Solar Backgrounds Package

2008-10-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Kofler  chello.at> writes:
> of the normalish.dual images (or, equivalently, copying (1280,0) to (2559,9) 
> (the 1280x10 pixel rectangle at the top right) from the normalish.dual images 
> and adding that on top of the 1280x1024 images).

That's what I did (can't be too careful - with that process, I can guarantee 
that not a single of your pixels was changed, just the missing ones added), I 
uploaded the result here (I already ran optipng -o7 on it):
http://repo.calcforge.org/f10/solar-normalish-fixed.tar

Can I commit and build this into solar-backgrounds?

Kevin Kofler

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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*.
Jon wrote that piece half year ago (in May) and published it on his blog 
which is aggregated *only* on Planet Gnome. He didn't brought it on 
either fedora-desktop or fedora-art. So I qualify it as outside of the 
process.
The talked here about it for the first time only a few days ago, roughly 
6 months after publishing.


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