Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

On 05/14/2009 12:33 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote:

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 22:03 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:

   

Why not file an RFE against the application in the *DE that handle
background settings that will be able to browse and preview those
images
from the online gallery which the end user can then select and set as
his default background?

This would save bandwith and the needed packaging hazzle..
 


How would this be different from the "Set as Desktop Background..." menu
item that firefox already offers you on images ?
   


Same behavior with the added images to preview the background
different application.

We could also just ship our default background to reduce space on the HD
if the end user wants another background he would be previewing online
images instead of images stored on the file system.

If it's to difficult to add this with all the ui friendly manner then just
add a url ( in Gnome ) on the "backgrounds" in gnome-appearance-properties
to the gallery, End user double clicks the link, the gallery page open 
in his default browers
he previews the gallery right clicks a background he likes and chooses 
to set it as his default

background.

It still would be needed to make adjustments so that each user account 
can have his own separated background.


I think starting packaging background-extras-*( animals etc )  would 
just be waste of resource.



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Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

On 05/13/2009 09:57 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> - Original Message 
>
>   
>> From: Martin Sourada 
>> But basically what I thing we need is:
>>   * an easy way to upload images (with info on licensing and various
>> other comments included)
>>   * a place to store the images in
>>   * a place to preview the images
>>   * a system on selecting what goes in/out of the rpm packages
>> (voting?)
>>
>> I think our current setup is suboptimal in most of those points, but I
>> ain't sure how to make it better.
>> 
>
> Would some gallery software help us out?
>
> E.g. we could maybe talk to Fedora Infrastructure about having a gallery 
> install for our usage. The gallery client is kind of a pain to get working in 
> Fedora but once you do it makes it very easy to batch upload photos to the 
> server. We could make albums for different wallpaper themes (eg a nature 
> album, an abstract album, etc) and within each album you can rate individual 
> photos... could be a good way of picking the best 5 for each or however many 
> we want to package for each grouping.
>
>   

Like the gallery Idea but why go through all the trouble of package the
backgrounds and ship a large set of images ( Mb )

Why not file an RFE against the application in the *DE that handle
background settings that will be able to browse and preview those images
from the online gallery which the end user can then select and set as
his default background?

This would save bandwith and the needed packaging hazzle..

The end user would also be able to preview the backgrounds online in his
browser and right click the image and select to set as his default
background...

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Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

On 05/13/2009 12:32 PM, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> On 05/13/2009 12:15 AM, William Jon McCann wrote:
>> Some food for thought...
>>
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/05/02/a-little-bit-of-personality.aspx
>>
>
> I think that is very close to what we are trying to do with "Wallpaper
> Extras" - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/Wallpaper_Extras - the
> plan there is to gather as many as possible images from the larger
> community and figure out a way to select some which we think are both
> good and diverse. But our project is currently in hiatus, needing some
> coordination (and I have my share of guilt, I have a large number of
> photos which can be uploaded but was lazy lately)

Did we ever settle on how and where to store all the images etc ?

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Re: Wallpaper

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

Firstly

it's already to late in the release cycle to start demanding some kind
of vote or voting system.

Secondly

Participate or monitor to this list from the beginning of the release
cycle to be up2date on what's happening
and why things are being done the way they are being done.

If you are unable to do that start reading the mailing lists archives
before posting a topic to prevent reoccurring threads.

If you have something to add added to that thread.

( If the topic reoccurred reply to the thread with a link to the
original thread )

Thirdly This decision has been made and it's final ( at least for this
release cycle )

Fourthly

The background with the lion did not get sent to /dev/null If you want
the lion open up a terminal and run

su -c 'rpm -Uhv
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/leonidas-backgrounds/10.93.0/1.fc11/noarch/leonidas-backgrounds-10.93.0-1.fc11.noarch.rpm
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/leonidas-backgrounds/10.93.0/1.fc11/noarch/leonidas-backgrounds-common-10.93.0-1.fc11.noarch.rpm
--oldpackage && echo "exclude=leonidas-backgrounds
leonidas-backgrounds-common" >> /etc/yum.conf'

If the background with the lion will be provided as an add on then just
open up a terminal window and run

yum -y install $package

Then select that background from the list from available backgrounds.

( Ye might wanna add that to the release-notes for those that want the
lion )

Máirín Duffy you are doing great job and are an excellent leader don't
let the nature of mailing lists
put you off balance just build an immune system :).

And to the whole Art Team as always your arts is spectacular and is the
envy of all the other distros..

JBG

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Re: F11 naming

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Cavendish for the win :-)

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Re: Proposal: Wallpaper extras submission/packaging procedure

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

Ian Weller wrote:

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 05:55:19PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
  
There has to be some kind of review process both for the wiki and or  
contest.




I agree, I thought of this a few seconds after I sent the email (and
then became drastically distracted) -- but I don't think a contest is
the right way to go.

  
Well we either have to go with all submitted that meet the "technical 
requirements" wallpapers then or we dont..



Perhaps a few guidelines can keep submissions (and RPM sizes) down. We'd
need to come up with those. Or, perhaps, some sort of voting scheme or
committee, which would decide each individual image.

  

As nicu pointed out when I discussed it a little bit with him today on irc
that for example, who would be in that committee?

Everyone on this list would want to contribute


Or! a quota for how many images can be in each package. And instead of
categorizing images, why not have the packages by month? For example,
wallpaper extras decided by a certain date in December and on the
mirrors in January.


  
First I would say we need a subject or a theme or something to focus on 
for this months
photo/art project. It would gives something to focus on instead of 
trying our selfs to come up with something.


Second it should be taken ( the photo ) or created during a certain time 
period that again would put art lovers to create

up with create something new( instead of going into archives ).

Third it needs to be categorized for example.

In the photo contest we have at work you are only allowed to enter 
photos that  has not been altered in any way other  than
you may have "enhanced" colouring on the raw output of the photo, no 
photoshop-ing or gimp-ing allowed.


Then we have another category you can alter the original image as you 
see fit through photoshop or gimp or other image editing program.
you can add others like  the people that can create this stuff from 
scratch ( I know I cant ) as in drawings, water paints oil paints 3d and 
so fourth.





JBG

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Re: Proposal: Wallpaper extras submission/packaging procedure

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

Ian Weller wrote:
The current gallery system for the Wallpaper Extras -- 
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/Wallpaper_Extras

isn't working. It doesn't do us good for keeping track of attributions,
especially if we start taking lots of outside contributions from Flickr
or the like (which I plan on doing soon).

I propose the following method for controlling the wallpaper extras:

The entire wallpaper extras framework for submission and tracking
will be on the wiki, through MediaWiki's category system. The main
category will be [[Category:Wallpaper extras]], which will contain only
other categories and unsorted wallpapers.

Subcategories to that will be along the lines of [[Category:Abstract
wallpaper extras]], which can also contain other subcategories if we
want to categorize further. Categories have a built-in gallery setup.

The image page itself (i.e., [[Image:Wallpaper-nicubunu-hay.jpg]]) will
contain a template (which we'll need to write) that will contain
information such as the creator, the URL it was taken from (if
applicable), and who added it to the wiki, and what license was
originally under.

From this, we can produce a Python script that will take all of the
images from the wiki with its metadata and put it in a git repository,
stored on Fedora Hosted. A CREDITS file (or something similar) can be
created to give the necessary attribution to the original author under
the CC-BY-SA license, which would be derived from the image's metadata.

Everyone's thoughts? I think this gives an appropriate balance between
ease of adding new wallpapers while still making it easy to produce a
set of RPMs for Fedora. I can take care of writing the scripts.

  



  

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.


There has to be some kind of review process both for the wiki and or 
contest.


I can flood the wiki with pictures which I would think were good but 
that necessary does not

make it that the majority of the public agrees with me..


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

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

Máirín Duffy wrote:

Ray Strode wrote:
  

Hi guys,

Plymouth recently got a bug report about the progress bar in the Solar
boot plugin.  The styling of the progress bar doesn't really match the
surrounding artwork.

Charlie mentioned on the bug report that this was to match the Nodoka
theme.  I think it doesn't really work because progress bars in Nodoka
are normally on a solid gray background surrounded by other on screen
controls.

Do you guys think that you could do a more stylized one that fits in
with the surrounding artwork?

Charlie had a prototype idea here:

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/progress_bar.jpg


what we have now is this:

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/progress_bar2.jpg



I like Charlie's prototype, can we use that?

~m

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If the planets are rotating around the "sun" then that should be enough.
I say skip the progress bar...

"
Since it is, in general, impossible to know how long service startup
will take, we lie. We record the time it took to boot last time and run
the progress bar against that. There's a detail here which is that you
can't know that until you've mounted /, so we estimate something really
long initially and then once we load the time off the disk we lerp
between the estimate and the recorded time.

We also cheat in that the growth of the progress bar is intentionally
nonlinear, growing faster early and then slowing down towards the end.
This fools your brain into thinking it's going faster than it really is.
Usually the math works out such that you'll see the bar fully complete
for a second or two before switching to gdm or text console. But,
sometimes much longer, if this boot happens to take ten seconds longer
than last one then there's just not much we can do about that.

- ajax"



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Photo backgrounds.

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

Do we have any rules regulations ( size provide raw output can or can 
not be altered etc.)
and competitions about photo backgrounds that can be included in a 
fedora-background packages?


Here are some of my photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/johannbg

Have most of these ( I think everything except the LCA trip ) in raw if 
anyone wants to

play and make a nice background for Fedora out of it..

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Re: Plymouth progress widget

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

Charlie Brej wrote:
I am looking for ideas for the progress widget for the plymouth splash 
screen[1]. I have already tried having the sun being covered by an 
eclipse and showing a corona but that didn't look that good. The 
possibilities are unlimited and I am happy to code up any reasonable 
suggestions into prototypes. If you can supply a pixmap too then that 
would be useful.


[1] https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/3/34/F10-solar-plymouth1.swf

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What about some thing that is orbiting the sun or a comet passing the 
sun  shuttle flowing to or away from the sun?


Just some ideas :)

Best regards..
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Re: gnome splash and screensaver lock dialog

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One of the things that the new gdm architecture should allow us to do
(in theory, at least) is to _use_ the login screen for unlocking a
locked session.
  



Given that theory works, how customizable is that?
As in having separated theme for different state of logged in user.

Different background,
Different color on login box
Different color on the user currently in locked state or switched user 
state.

( few things on top of my head.. )

This theory could be a potential feature for F10.
Instead of have to create  2 separated themes for gdm and "lock"
one could just be created which changes background and or changes just the
color on the user box in the gdm login box depending on the state that 
the user

is inn ( locked or switched ).

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Re: gnome splash and screensaver lock dialog

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Nicu Buculei wrote:

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:


I personally think we should enable lock-screen-dialog theme by 
default but leave the splash screen off.
( with the new gdm look it looks out of place + my laptop is so fast 
loading I just see for very short time :) )


The GNOME splash *is* off by default.


As I thought.

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Re: gnome splash and screensaver lock dialog

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:

Nicu Buculei wrote:

Paul W. Frields wrote:


The lock dialog defaults to the "plain" version for usability reasons
-- that's something that's been decided upstream by GNOME and we
probably won't be changing it any time soon.


While I understand the point about usability (and appreciate you did 
the work and submitted a design - IIRC this in not the first time you 
do that), don't you think the root of the problem has to be addressed?
If we think a feature is that bad for usability reasons, shouldn't we 
just drop it? Or make the themed dialog more usable or the simple 
dialog prettier?
There *must* be a way to have something both usable and pleasant 
looking.



+1
To me, shipping two dialogs, one that is usable and another that is 
pretty is like knowingly ship something broken and just papering over 
it a temporary solution.
And I learned sometime you have to break the temporary solution to 
get the problem solved properly.



+1 true..

I personally think we should enable lock-screen-dialog theme by 
default but leave the splash screen off.
( with the new gdm look it looks out of place + my laptop is so fast 
loading I just see for very short time :) )


Not enabling it puts the lock screen out of place with the overall theme.

I also think the lock screen dialog should look closer to the gdm look.
( as in the frame/look where the user choose his login account )


Hum skip the lock-screen-waves looking more like the gdm login box.

I always end up with conclusion that the gdm login box is out of place.

We could move the password and the buttons beneath the picture and the 
display name. (  having that above the user picture and DN seems out 
of place )
And drop the login name and the hostname I don't see the purpose of 
having that at all.


If what I mention above is done I think lock-screen-waves would look 
even better :).


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Re: gnome splash and screensaver lock dialog

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

Nicu Buculei wrote:

Paul W. Frields wrote:


The lock dialog defaults to the "plain" version for usability reasons
-- that's something that's been decided upstream by GNOME and we
probably won't be changing it any time soon.


While I understand the point about usability (and appreciate you did 
the work and submitted a design - IIRC this in not the first time you 
do that), don't you think the root of the problem has to be addressed?
If we think a feature is that bad for usability reasons, shouldn't we 
just drop it? Or make the themed dialog more usable or the simple 
dialog prettier?

There *must* be a way to have something both usable and pleasant looking.


+1
To me, shipping two dialogs, one that is usable and another that is 
pretty is like knowingly ship something broken and just papering over 
it a temporary solution.
And I learned sometime you have to break the temporary solution to get 
the problem solved properly.



+1 true..

I personally think we should enable lock-screen-dialog theme by default 
but leave the splash screen off.
( with the new gdm look it looks out of place + my laptop is so fast 
loading I just see for very short time :) )


Not enabling it puts the lock screen out of place with the overall theme.

I also think the lock screen dialog should look closer to the gdm look.
( as in the frame/look where the user choose his login account )

We could move the password and the buttons beneath the picture and the 
display name. 
(  having that above the user picture and DN seems out of place )
And drop the login name and the hostname I don't see the purpose of 
having that at all.


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Re: The history of fedora

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

Mola Pahnadayan wrote:

Hi all
Not finished work!
http://molaora.com/index.php?photos/album/8/photo/39.html


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Nice work...

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Re: fp.o home?

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

Jonathan Roberts wrote:

Hey all,

I remembered that there was some talk a while ago about a new design for
the fp.o page whilst I was looking on the websites list at the designs
for the spins' pages.

I got a little inspired and decided to try and make it in html/css, and
you can see the result here:

http://jonrob.fedorapeople.org/fp_home.png

Maybe for the websites list too, but I didn't want to cross-post and
couldn't decide where to post!


A few thoughts:

* Download is more clear since what that is what more people end up 
looking for rather than "get fedora". The actual contents on the page 
it leads do can expand on the possibilities besides download to get 
fedora however.



+1

* We have traditionally avoided the word 'support' since people might 
confuse community help with commercial support contracts. This was 
atleast a concern when differentiating Fedora and RHEL. Not sure that 
is much of a problem anymore.



Community support..
* Even if we run the big banners (which I like btw since we have a lot 
of space), there should be still some space where we would run the 
small banner rotations.



+1
* Why haven't we switched to auto language selection based on the 
system locale?



+1

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Re: A wallpaper material or what..

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

Nicu Buculei wrote:

Frank Murphy wrote:

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:28 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:

Frank Murphy wrote:

At the moment can't see is a a bg\avatar\icon

Well it's not just a plain photo of a horse, but indeed nothing 
spectacular,,
but then again a snowman missing his carrot and stones or these that 
were submitted here

http://www.isity.net/blog/?p=65 aren't that glamorous either...



Personal Opinion Here:
It's not about being glamorous or not, it's about filling a twofold 
need.


1: It's a statement, "This is fedora"


No. We are talking about avatars, the statement told by an avatar is
"this is *me*". Avatars represent people and they should fit a number of
person types.


2: Give  users an artistic experience, with provisos.
   a) It doesn't distract them
   b) They understand it, without the need for a written explanation.


Nope. An avatar is supposed to stand-out, to help you recognize your
personality from a bung of people (your login in the face browser, your
account in the user switcher, etc.)


+1

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Re: A wallpaper material or what..

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

I vote for one..

A contest maybe for each release.
Contester given certain theme to work with ( people, ocean, 
animal,sky,waterfalls, etc ).
Even different category's.  Best photo shot ( unmodified, No tools 
allowed to *better/clean the photo or enhance* ),

Might wanna have one exciting category hidden picture in picture..
For example take a look at the album art on Uriah Heep
Demons and Wizards..

Album artist site is here http://www.rogerdean.com/
Best photo shot modified ( tools allowed to enhance or better the 
photo ). Best wallpaper created using opensource tools.. etc

Top 3 in each category would get included in the default package..
The rest in fedora-wallpapers-extra-contest-release ( 
fedora-wallpapers-contest-fc9 )


Oh and heres the link I apparently forgot to post..

http://www.hi.is/~johannbg/icelandic-horse-avatar.jpg

Best regards.
 Johann B.



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Re: A wallpaper material or what..

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

Frank Murphy wrote:

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:28 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
  

Frank Murphy wrote:
 Feedback: "What is it, a camel?"

  
  

Regardless of your family members believed it was a horse
or a camel did they like it?
Did it bring up an smile?




No, Just Questions.

  

Not the response I was hoping for but a response never the less.

Hum.. maybe I just create an poster out of it
and bring the focusing on the tongue and what it represents by some text
underneath the picture..


At the moment can't see is a a bg\avatar\icon

Frank
  
  
Well it's not just a plain photo of a horse, but indeed nothing 
spectacular,,
but then again a snowman missing his carrot and stones or these that 
were submitted here

http://www.isity.net/blog/?p=65 aren't that glamorous either...




Personal Opinion Here:
It's not about being glamorous or not, 
it's about filling a twofold need.


1: It's a statement, "This is fedora"
  
How does 2 white balls aligned on top of each other, a snowman, a 
keyhole, a pawn
or whatever the default avatar in gdm is suppose to be, say it's fedora 
or what fedora represents.


With the whole avatar thing I feel we should pack bunch of user 
contributed avatars, make a more fedora
specific one for the Default and Automatic login. And let users choose 
avatar in firstboot.


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Re: A wallpaper material or what..

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

Frank Murphy wrote:

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 10:41 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
  

Nicu Buculei wrote:



  

http://www.hi.is/~johannbg/icelandic-horse-avatar.jpg

Best regards.
  Johann B.




Not sure it works a picture\photo, unless abstract, 
or the basis of something else.


I saved it changed the name, asked my audience "the family".

Feedback: "What is it, a camel?"
  

Regardless of your family members believed it was a horse
or a camel did they like it?
Did it bring up an smile?


At the moment can't see is a a bg\avatar\icon

Frank
  
Well it's not just a plain photo of a horse, but indeed nothing 
spectacular,,
but then again a snowman missing his carrot and stones or these that 
were submitted here

http://www.isity.net/blog/?p=65 aren't that glamorous either...

Best regards.
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Re: A wallpaper material or what..

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

Nicu Buculei wrote:

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
I think this picture I took could be great addon to fedora's 
wallpaper set..


Too bad we don't have an infrastructure in place (a gallery or 
something) to allow people to easily submit their contributed 
wallpapers...



It actually goes very well with the nodoka theme..

http://www.hi.is/~johannbg/icelandic-horse.jpg

So what the procedure add it to the wallpaper collection.
and needed/wanted resolutions..
( 800x600, 1024x768,1600x1200,1440x900,1680x1050x 1920x1200,2560x1600 )


Do we have a package like fedora-wallpapers-extra? Do we want such one?
AFAIK, we don't have a written policy about including extra wallpapers.


Yep thats missing..

Here's a potential avatar material ( needs of course be resized )



I vote for one..

A contest maybe for each release.
Contester given certain theme to work with ( people, ocean, 
animal,sky,waterfalls, etc ).
Even different category's.  Best photo shot ( unmodified, No tools 
allowed to *better/clean the photo or enhance* ),
Best photo shot modified ( tools allowed to enhance or better the photo 
). Best wallpaper created using opensource tools.. etc

Top 3 in each category would get included in the default package..
The rest in fedora-wallpapers-extra-contest-release ( 
fedora-wallpapers-contest-fc9 )


Oh and heres the link I apparently forgot to post..

http://www.hi.is/~johannbg/icelandic-horse-avatar.jpg

Best regards.
 Johann B.




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Re: revised f9 wallpaper

[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 look a little bit 
more natural. Here's the mock so far:


And here's this graphic done out for 4 times of day:

http://people.redhat.com/duffy/misc/f9-day-to-night/

(used some simple gimp manipulation - using the levels tool - to 
produce each variation)


What do you think?

~m

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+1 beautiful..

A whole new level of *Depth*...'

Br,
   Johann.


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Re: revised f9 wallpaper

[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... but it works. It's really neat.

-- ian


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I kinda see/sense this more like water has dropped to cause these circle 
and

the rays kinda laying on top of the circles, maybe it's the angel..

But still better then the one we currently have.

Br.
   Johann B.


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A wallpaper material or what..

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

I think this picture I took could be great addon to fedora's wallpaper set..

It actually goes very well with the nodoka theme..

http://www.hi.is/~johannbg/icelandic-horse.jpg

So what the procedure add it to the wallpaper collection.
and needed/wanted resolutions..
( 800x600, 1024x768,1600x1200,1440x900,1680x1050x 1920x1200,2560x1600 )

Here's a potential avatar material ( needs of course be resized )

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[RFE]...

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

RFE for cool user/avatar image to use as default for
"other/guest" accounts in GDM on live spins and with installation

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