Solar Critique (was Re: Solar Round 3 - Almost ended)
Some feedback on solar thus far: Samuele Storari wrote: Hi all I've almost done all the requirement for Solar Theme, leftin' me only the no-wide Wallpaper. If someone checks other materials leftin me, please, let me know. U can find all here. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/Solar - Where did the icons in the firstboot splash come from? We should be using gnome-icon-theme or Echo icons ideally. However it's not clear to me where this icons came from; we can't be using artwork from elsewhere without making sure the license allows it and is appropriate for Fedora. - the syslinux splash design doesn't seem to feed the feel/mood of the rest of the artwork. I think we could make it more photo realistic even with the color restrictions. - the background of the login window is too busy/distracting. Probably just a nice dark gradient would look nice although I don't even know if this kind of theming is possible with the new gdm. - the design for GRUB is missing. Thanks, ~m ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: Solar Critique (was Re: Solar Round 3 - Almost ended)
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 10:30 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: Some feedback on solar thus far: - Where did the icons in the firstboot splash come from? We should be using gnome-icon-theme or Echo icons ideally. However it's not clear to me where this icons came from; we can't be using artwork from elsewhere without making sure the license allows it and is appropriate for Fedora. I'd guess these are oxygen icons by the look, which should be fine - we use them as default in KDE and they have good license. - the syslinux splash design doesn't seem to feed the feel/mood of the rest of the artwork. I think we could make it more photo realistic even with the color restrictions. - the background of the login window is too busy/distracting. Probably just a nice dark gradient would look nice although I don't even know if this kind of theming is possible with the new gdm. I totally agree with those two, but AFAIK, syslinux does not have the colour restriction GRUB has. The theme is probably for KDM which still allows it and is IIRC on the KDE Spin ;-) - the design for GRUB is missing. I think we could reuse the the syslinux one, only with 16 colours (or how much it supports). Personally I think the problem both with syslinux and login window theme are the dots on background - they are too strong/too contrastive and does not really fit well with the rest of the theme. The simplified sun is also questionable, I think it works nice in the firstboot screen, but nowhere else. BTW. I liked the syslinux image from Round 2 (I think it's listed as Anaconda Prompt Screen). I think it would work (after some simplification) for the colour-limited GRUB as well. Martin ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: Solar Critique (was Re: Solar Round 3 - Almost ended)
Martin Sourada wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 10:30 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: Some feedback on solar thus far: - Where did the icons in the firstboot splash come from? We should be using gnome-icon-theme or Echo icons ideally. However it's not clear to me where this icons came from; we can't be using artwork from elsewhere without making sure the license allows it and is appropriate for Fedora. I'd guess these are oxygen icons by the look, which should be fine - we use them as default in KDE and they have good license. But it would make a lot more sense to use Echo or Mist icons, something the majority of our users will really see after the install ends. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/ Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: Solar Critique (was Re: Solar Round 3 - Almost ended)
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - the background of the login window is too busy/distracting. Probably just a nice dark gradient would look nice although I don't even know if this kind of theming is possible with the new gdm. Technically, it's possible to create such KDM theme, except userlist part. When i was crafting waves theme i couldn't find a way to make userlist widget background transparent, but probably it's fixed already, or maybe i could hack KDM source a little bit -- http://scwlab.com ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
