Re: [Design-team] The theme

2010-01-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 01/15/2010 10:33 PM, Lukáš Vlček wrote: This brings up the most important question: What is the purpose of the background in Fedora? Users can find tons of neutral backgrounds on the net and switch if they like (and I believe they do it) but I believe that for background in Fedora the

Re: [Design-team] The theme

2010-01-15 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 01/14/2010 10:34 PM, Hristo Petkov wrote: Hi, Hi Hristo, In my view it should be something digital to show the power of the computer (and of the operation system). Have you played with the little app called Fyre? It can produce images similar with that. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro ::

Re: [Design-team] f13 rockets simple sketch

2010-01-15 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 01/15/2010 04:27 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 09:32 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: To be honest, it made me think more at anime I saw recently where they had such colored trails drawn by some ships (or they were mechas? I guess so) preparing for some intergalactic fight

Re: [Design-team] Fwd: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-01-14

2010-01-15 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 01/15/2010 05:40 PM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: FYI :) Thank you Sebastian for your *great* work! Original-Nachricht Betreff: Fedora Board Meeting Recap 2010-01-14 Datum: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:40:39 -0800 Von: John Poelstra Antwort an: advisory-board@ An: advisory-board@

Re: [Design-team] f13 rockets simple sketch

2010-01-14 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 01/15/2010 12:09 AM, Camilo Mesias wrote: Are there any notes on how to hack Plymouth animations, it would be interesting to try to put something together. Charlie, our expert in the field, wrote some articles about this: http://brej.org/blog/?cat=16 -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro ::

Re: [Design-team] Fedora 13 Design Schedule

2010-01-11 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 01/10/2010 09:34 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: * What would need to happen to have wallpaper finalized by Alpha (or just after), to make more time to create the derivatives like splashes? To have this happening we would have to have faith in the process and follow it, not have

Re: [Design-team] F13 Wallpaper questions

2010-01-11 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 01/11/2010 10:54 AM, Lukáš Vlček wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote: AFAIK the plan didn't change, so those still hold for F13. You are correct, we sill need also a version for dual screen, also version for normal and wide screens. As colors, we feel

Re: [Design-team] F13 Goddard Rocket concept

2010-01-10 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 01/09/2010 03:46 PM, brian hurren wrote: I like that. What about an astronaut with two thumbs up. I can give you some stary backrounds if you like. Usually is wise to stay away from images with hand gestures, any gesture you can think about may be positive in one culture, but certainly it

Re: [Design-team] the fedora galaxy

2010-01-08 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 01/07/2010 10:48 PM, Ryan Rix wrote: On Thu 7 January 2010 10:38:18 am Fabio Orsi wrote: I found some images of something called Cat's Eye Nebula, I believe it's almost the infinity logo! =D http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/images/content/142193main_cats_eye_nebu la_lgweb.jpg

Re: [Design-team] Pending Questions for the Design Suite

2010-01-06 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 01/06/2010 02:59 PM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Remaining questions are for example how to deal with brushes - whether we want them included and whether there's a reasonable way to package them. In an ideal world, we would have to deploy brushes in a shared location, as defined by the

Re: [Design-team] the fedora galaxy

2009-12-31 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/31/2009 09:22 AM, Brad Fanella wrote: I like it. Do you want to do a collab or something to make a wallpaper? Like you make parts and I make parts. I encourage you to do this the open source way: Brian publish his sources (It looks like GIMP considering the flares, so an .xcf) and you

Re: [Design-team] Synfig Studio now available on repository

2009-12-23 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/22/2009 10:27 PM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Thanks to Lubomir Rintel alias lkundrak effort, Synfig Studio is now officially part of Fedora repository. Installation can be done with either Add/Remove Software with search name synfigstudio or yum. Unfortunately it did not make it for

Re: [Design-team] First Design Suite Build

2009-12-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/22/2009 01:01 AM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: as I said some time ago on list I'll be doing the Design Suite for Fedora 13. Having had some pretty cool discussion with Diana, Mel and Mo in the hackroo... hospitality suite at FUDCon, I've created and uploaded a first build. Nice... are

Re: [Design-team] First Design Suite Build

2009-12-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/22/2009 11:22 AM, Mel Chua wrote: I'd promised to help out a bit with marketing for this, so the first step was to create a page that we can build into this project's home. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design_Suite You did a nice and useful work in there. I'm not entirely sure what

Re: [Design-team] First Design Suite Build

2009-12-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/22/2009 11:22 AM, Mel Chua wrote: I'd promised to help out a bit with marketing for this, so the first step was to create a page that we can build into this project's home. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design_Suite It's not ready for widespread USE THIS! PR yet, and won't be for

Re: [Design-team] First Design Suite Build

2009-12-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/22/2009 12:29 PM, Mel Chua wrote: Looking again at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design_Suite#Upcoming_milestones, we should probably set a date by which everything that wants to be considered for inclusion in the kickstart file to be packaged, and then another to freeze the

Re: [Design-team] First Design Suite Build

2009-12-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/22/2009 01:15 PM, Martin Sourada wrote: To throw something in: * target 1: showcase of design team work (perhaps customise the looks of the spin, add more wallpapers, include echo icons?) I don't like this target, I think we should go beyond showing of into something we

Re: [Design-team] First Design Suite Build

2009-12-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/22/2009 03:12 PM, Martin Sourada wrote: On 12/22/2009 01:15 PM, Martin Sourada wrote: To throw something in: * target 1: showcase of design team work (perhaps customise the looks of the spin, add more wallpapers, include echo icons?) Good points. Actually the target 1

Re: [Design-team] Opinion on Logo usage?

2009-12-21 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/22/2009 08:40 AM, Ian Weller wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 09:51:10PM -0700, Ryan Rix wrote: I need some advice on how to use the Fedora logo. According to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/UsageGuidelines it's okay to use change the typeface of the Fedora text to white if the color

Re: [Design-team] [F-13] Setting up wiki for Goddard

2009-12-08 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/08/2009 11:51 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Fedora 13 Artwork wiki[1] has been created based on template used for Fedora 12 Constantine. Concepts suggested by Nicu are: - fedora: for your inner rocket scientist - fedora: is not rocket science You can have another concepts as long they

Re: [Design-team] [Echo Project] We have new mailing list

2009-12-06 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/05/2009 11:23 PM, Martin Sourada wrote: On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 17:04 +0100, wonderer wrote: may I ask why there is a mailinglist for a theme? maybe I'm wrong but I think it could be better to discuss all design things on ONE Mailinglist ... why is there a dedicated one for a single theme?

Re: [Design-team] [OT] GIMP becoming too profi and thus will be excluded from Ubuntu distro

2009-12-04 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/03/2009 08:52 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: Actually, we're running stakeholder interviews [2] right now to help inform our target audience and how we tackle issues like these - and we don't have anyone identified from the Ambassadors group to interview yet. Would you be willing to be

Re: [Design-team] [OT] GIMP becoming too profi and thus will be excluded from Ubuntu distro

2009-12-04 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/03/2009 08:52 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: E.g., to analogize (which you know I love to do :) ) - imagine I'm setting out to open up a cute little neighborhood bakery that sells pies, cakes, and cookies. I told my friends I am opening up a shop that deals with food, but I wasn't specific in

Re: [Design-team] [OT] GIMP becoming too profi and thus will be excluded from Ubuntu distro

2009-12-03 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/03/2009 04:29 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: The GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, and other art and design applications in Linux are superb. There's no doubt about that -- they're very useful for people who know, or want to know, how to create great art. But they also have learning curves that

Re: [Design-team] [OT] GIMP becoming too profi and thus will be excluded from Ubuntu distro

2009-12-03 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/03/2009 06:19 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: To be fair, Matthias has been asking for a lot of input on the fedora-desktop list (E.g., the recent post about default content) and trying to be good about announcing changes. Of course the communication could be better but to be fair Matthias and

[Design-team] updated wiki banner

2009-12-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
Speaking today with Kaio on IRC I understood we were giving a bad example with our own banner using a bad logo, a bad complementary font and an old name for the team (...well, it was old, made before we had logo usage guidelines) so I updated it:

Re: [Design-team] updated wiki banner

2009-12-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/02/2009 05:48 PM, Caius 'kaio' Chance wrote: This is what I currently have now: http://kaio.fedorapeople.org/pic/fzug_banner.png http://bbs.fedora-zh.org/ Mo just sent me the logo, but I am extremely busy until end of next week. I might integrate the logo and refine that banner

Re: [Design-team] [OT] GIMP becoming too profi and thus will be excluded from Ubuntu distro

2009-12-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/02/2009 06:03 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Out of the box, the Desktop spin offers: - a web browser - a mail/calendar/etc client - a VoIP/video chat program - a media/movie player - a music library player - a word processor - a document viewer - a photo viewr with simple editing

Re: [Design-team] [OT] GIMP becoming too profi and thus will be excluded from Ubuntu distro

2009-12-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/02/2009 07:02 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 09:21 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: I am worried about this tendency, from both Fedora and Ubuntu, of dumbing-down the desktop spins: if Windows does not offer any useful application out-of-the-box,our key to success

Re: [Design-team] [OT] GIMP becoming too profi and thus will be excluded from Ubuntu distro

2009-12-01 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/01/2009 01:24 AM, Brad wrote: I don't understand why it is getting any attention. You don't even have to compile the package from source! You have to check GNU Image Manipulation Software in their little synaptic package manager and they're done. People are getting lazy... Because news

Re: [Design-team] [OT] GIMP becoming too profi and thus will be, excluded from Ubuntu distro

2009-12-01 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 12/01/2009 03:14 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: From: Máirín Duffy On a trend that seems neverending, Fedora did it first with far less fanfare from the media. It is about the trade-off of Gimp with Mono packages like F-Spot on Ubuntu Live CD. That was the line of reasoning

Re: [Design-team] Finished first wallpaper...now what?

2009-11-30 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 11/28/2009 08:58 AM, Brad wrote: Ok guys. I've been working hard and finally finished my first wallpaper for Fedora. Because I am new to this team, I don't know where to post it! It most likely is a simple answer, but I don't want to post it to photobucket and have it stolen or something

Re: [Design-team] Still need help on the Games Spin Screenshots :)

2009-11-27 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 11/27/2009 06:54 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: Oh, this is a good idea - I didn't even know about it! So I just tried it out; here it what it provides: Action Games Adventures Arcade Blocks Games Board Games Card Games Emulators Games for Kids Logic Puzzles Role Playing Games

Re: [Design-team] joining the team

2009-11-26 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 11/26/2009 09:50 AM, Brad Fanella wrote: Hello. I have recently started using Fedora 12, and I thought to myself, Hi! Welcome! WOW!. This distro really impressed me. I have used linux for a long time, and this is one of the best distros i've seen in a long time. I really have thought

Re: [Design-team] joining the team

2009-11-26 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 11/27/2009 09:24 AM, Caius 'kaio' Chance wrote: (2009年11月27日 15:59), Brad wrote: Thanks! I'm trying to decide where to start :D I even havent started. I need to get many things done by this end of year before doing some kindergarten design for Fedora. ;) ROTFLMAO kaio! I am glad you

Re: [Design-team] Ticket 76

2009-11-20 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 11/18/2009 04:29 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: You should never feel no hope when looking for something to work on for the design team. I feel no hope in ever getting everything done, so I don't think there's any end of things you could help out with! :) Not everyone uses the ticket system to

Re: [Design-team] Ticket 76

2009-11-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 11/18/2009 02:57 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 13:09 +0200, Cata wrote: I want to make this logo : #76 Can we get a vegetarian generic logo? Like a tofu guy or a vegetable? That ticket is closed. Was I too much of a nazi for closing the ticket? There's also already a

Re: [Design-team] Wallpaper - request for publication permission

2009-11-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 11/19/2009 01:08 AM, Jayme Ayres wrote: Hi Folks, Yesterday I received this email and share information with you. -- Forwarded message -- From: *Jayme Ayres* Subject: Re: Fedora-wall-jayme-VII.jpg - request for publication permission 2009/11/17 Jörg Luther I'm the

Re: [Design-team] Track limit upload

2009-11-12 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 11/12/2009 11:54 PM, Cata wrote: I think is a problem with this : Maximum attachment size: 262144 bytes I don't think we (design people) can touch this setting, if you want to attach larger files, upload them to your fedorapeople account and put a link in trac. One file with this

Re: [Design-team] Final Fedora 12 Schedule Tasks

2009-11-11 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 11/11/2009 07:52 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:36:24AM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 15:26 +1000, Paul W. Frields wrote: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f12%20banner/f12-release-banner.png http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/f12%

Re: [Design-team] CD/DVD cover design question

2009-11-11 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 11/11/2009 10:52 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Luya Tshimbalanga (l...@fedoraproject.org) said: Could you verify the specification I listed on CD/DVD covers[1]? Suggestion welcome. Ref: [1] http://luya.fedorapeople.org/media/ 200 Mhz Pentium-class or better is wrong. Pentium will *not*

Re: [Design-team] freedom.

2009-11-09 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 11/09/2009 08:23 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: Oh woops. I'll embed the bitmaps and upload them somewhere. Although these are just sketches, I don't know if they really are the message we want to send. I was just feeling a little annoyed so these were my way of getting that feeling out :) But

Re: [Design-team] freedom.

2009-11-09 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 11/09/2009 10:21 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: I definitely sympathize that getting things out of one's system can help deal with frustration! But I also agree we don't want this ad to be the way we send our message of freedom, which should be more positive. Can we have something like

Re: [Design-team] Inkscape Course for Jr. High Students

2009-10-29 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/29/2009 04:23 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: Ah that's a great idea. I can keep the 8 9 exercises, but make them all bonus exercises 'for when you get home and want to keep developing your skills with this stuff.' Oh, I wanted to talk about this but I forgot: probably is useful do have a

Re: [Design-team] Freedom-Bird poster template

2009-10-28 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/27/2009 11:19 PM, Charlie Brej wrote: I have put up a poster template that people can use for F12 events and the such. Do be careful when manipulating the svg as it can make inkscape stall while processing for ages due to the huge number of tiles.

Re: [Design-team] F12 Countdown Banner

2009-10-27 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/27/2009 02:06 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 03:00:23PM +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: When we consider the design done, it should be taken to the websites list so we can run it officially (that means any time now [yesterday?], we are less 30 days from release). Agreed

Re: [Design-team] AmateurRadio Wiki Banner, Logo, and default icon

2009-10-26 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/24/2009 09:32 AM, Anuj Aggarwal wrote: Hello frankly3d, Can I have this project ? AmateurRadio Wiki Banner, Logo, and default icon ! Anuj, frankly3d is inactive for a *long* time, I think is safe to take over the ticket. You may want to get in touch with the requester (Bob Jensen)

Re: [Design-team] Last call for wallpaper extras selection

2009-10-26 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/24/2009 12:18 AM, Martin Sourada wrote: If tatica could provide higher resolution, I would also consider this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tatadbb/3723964218/ The source is here: http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/EduSig/fedora-familia-4f.svg -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro ::

Re: [Design-team] Last call for wallpaper extras selection

2009-10-26 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/24/2009 12:44 AM, Martin Sourada wrote: If I understand correctly you mean these? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Pruebas-f12-1.png Would be nice to have a higher resolution though. Unfortunately all we can get is an XCF at the same resolution, it was made using some stock (free)

Re: [Design-team] Hello New Member

2009-10-23 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/22/2009 10:22 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: On 10/22/2009 03:17 PM, James Mulroy wrote: I have had a look at the ticket system, I see that there is a job to do a simple banner for the typographic/font sig, I am working on it now. We grant you membership in the team group in the account system

Re: [Design-team] F12 Final wallpaper polish

2009-10-23 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/22/2009 07:57 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: You can see some of the work-in-progress here: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/art/f12/oct%2020/ I'd love to hear your thoughts. I think we want to stay with the order chaos concept; Nicu and I brainstormed a bit and I started taking this direction

Re: [Design-team] Hello New Member

2009-10-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/21/2009 09:09 PM, James Mulroy wrote: Hello there, Hi, My name is James, I am a new subscriber to the Fedora Design Team. My recent transition from a Illustrator CS and Photoshop CS enviroment to the Linux / Inkscape / Gimp / Open source world has been an eye opener. I really like the

Re: [Design-team] Hello New Member

2009-10-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/22/2009 11:49 AM, Cata wrote: First rule : Read the Wiki page. Second one : Any color of TM Logo is not allow . Huh? I think you intended to say the logo can be used only according to its usage guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/UsageGuidelines But a lot of graphics can be

Re: [Design-team] Hello New Member

2009-10-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/22/2009 03:58 PM, James Mulroy wrote: Thank you everyone you have made me feel very welcome :) I have scanned over the wiki pages for your group. I have also checked out the design team group and the logo policy page which are both incredibly useful. Cool I will create some

Re: [Design-team] Upcoming Schedule

2009-10-21 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/20/2009 08:08 PM, John Poelstra wrote: Start End Name Tue 29-Sep Tue 20-Oct Create Count Down Graphic https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_Artwork#Release_Countdown_Banner Tue 20-Oct Tue 20-Oct Beta Release Public Availability Tue 20-Oct Tue 03-Nov Create DVD/CD label

Re: [Design-team] Constantine Wallpaper Extras

2009-10-12 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/09/2009 06:52 PM, Martin Sourada wrote: Well, originally the idea was to aim for 4, I think best would be to hear people's (from the design team) opinion on which ones would they include (aiming for 4 +/- 2) and base the final number on the discussion. Setting up a vote (at fas) open for

Re: [Design-team] Constantine Wallpaper Extras

2009-10-09 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/03/2009 03:38 PM, Martin Sourada wrote: I believe it's about time we select the four designs that will make it to Constantine Final as wallpaper extras. First, we have the designs that are already submitted specifically [1] for Constantine, next I've went through the wallpaper-extras

Re: [Design-team] Remaining F12 design tasks - need your help!

2009-10-08 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/01/2009 08:54 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: - Create Beta Website Banner: due Fri 2009-10-09 Here is it, just a simple text replace from Alpha: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_Artwork#Beta_Release_Banner -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/

Re: [Design-team] Fedora Remix logos

2009-10-08 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/08/2009 11:35 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: I'm wondering who is the maintainer of the Fedora Remix logos? And whether someone can package them up into a fedora-remix-logos package to make them easier to use for things like plymouth boot screens (to replace that horrid hotdog thing). I

Re: [Design-team] Fedora Remix logos

2009-10-08 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/08/2009 11:48 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote: On 10/08/2009 11:35 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: I'm wondering who is the maintainer of the Fedora Remix logos? You have to talk with Paul and/or Mo about it. I believe you will be allowed to package the PNGs, but not the SVG source. BTW Mo, can you

Re: [Design-team] Fedora Remix logos

2009-10-08 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/08/2009 03:47 PM, Ian Weller wrote: On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:54:32AM +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: BTW Mo, can you change the guidelines and replace the mailing list address from art to design? (I could do it, but the SVG I salvaged is unofficial) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki

Re: [Design-team] Remaining F12 design tasks - need your help!

2009-10-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/01/2009 08:54 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: - Create Beta Website Banner: due Fri 2009-10-09 - Create Count Down Graphic: due Tue 2009-10-13 - Beta Release Public Availability Tue 2009-10-13 (would be nice to have release party poster templates for this, but not necessary) - Create DVD/CD

Re: [Design-team] f12 beta splashes

2009-10-01 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/01/2009 09:43 AM, Cata wrote: @Duffy: You use copy paste on syslinux and your image is name Syslinux1 by Mythcat . Where? Please corect this . Those are temporary file names used for versioning inside the wiki, inside the distro they will get the standard names. I think is not

Re: [Design-team] f12 beta splashes

2009-10-01 Thread Nicu Buculei
://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F12_Artwork/Beta 2009/10/1 Nicu Buculei : On 10/01/2009 09:43 AM, Cata wrote: @Duffy: You use copy paste on syslinux and your image is name Syslinux1 by Mythcat . Where? Please corect this . -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ photography

Re: [Design-team] (no subject)

2009-10-01 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 10/01/2009 02:44 PM, kanza aman wrote: hey is there any work related to wallpapers. where should i look for it. If you followed the recent on-list conversation, you noticed now the focus is on packaging the wallpapers for Beta and after that is expected a bit of more polishing of the same

[Design-team] graphicsmagick vs. imagemagick (usage question)

2009-09-29 Thread Nicu Buculei
This is a basic usage question, about using graphic applications in Fedora, not about designing Fedora graphics, but I think here is the best place to ask it: when working with graphics I use ImageMagick *a lot* (mostly for batch-editing photography, but not only), I know we also use it for

Re: [Design-team] Fedora Wallpaper Extra

2009-09-29 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/29/2009 03:06 PM, Martin Sourada wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 12:41 +0200, Samuele Storari wrote: How we can package this stuff? The additional package solution sounds good to me. Well, I'm not sure about KDE side, but for gnome it's one xml in /usr/share/gnome-background-properties

Re: [Design-team] mosaic polish

2009-09-28 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/26/2009 06:59 PM, mai...@linuxgrrl.com wrote: I'll redo it more carefully at a higher res, and pull out some of the dust particles (they aren't lens flares, there's a Japanese word people use for them and I can't remember it!! :( ). Bokeh is the word, and is not exactly dust, is light

Re: [Design-team] Fedora Wallpaper Extra

2009-09-28 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/28/2009 05:42 PM, Samuele Storari wrote: Hi guys That would be hi girls :p We talk a lot time ago to work on some extra tematic themes. It's from before the summer's holidays that I can't post anything on this list, but I was so busy with my work, I hope you can understand. So,

Re: [Design-team] Where are the images?

2009-09-25 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/24/2009 06:22 PM, Thomas Kole wrote: The images on the fedora site Please refresh my memory with a link. I remember from the previos fedora design, that we had a couple of images already. (a boat, a ruin and a mountain i remember) Are these images available now too? I have no

Re: [Design-team] Where are the images?

2009-09-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/24/2009 05:48 PM, Thomas Kole wrote: Where are the images we can use for sure? I want the dove. Thank you! Sorry, I don't understand, which images are you asking for? -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ ___

Re: [Design-team] Fedora Live USB Creator poster for F12

2009-09-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/22/2009 12:14 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Archive:Artwork/ PrintDesignService#Request_list I updated the request from Fedora 10 to Fedora 12. Can somebody please pickup on this request. The wiki was obsoleted by a proper tracking system for such

Re: [Design-team] Development of DIY Folding Media Sleeve

2009-09-22 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/22/2009 05:54 PM, twoho...@fastmail.fm wrote: I have repeated the design using Inkscape. I tried opening it with Scribus and got undesirable results, so beware. I have uploaded the SVG Yeah, Scribus can be like this when the imported SVG is using some unsupported features like

Re: [Design-team] Fedora sticker for Keyboard

2009-09-21 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/20/2009 11:32 PM, Charles Sutton wrote: I suspect it's that little flag-looking one down by ALT. I have one on each side of the space bar just past ALT. Indeed, this seems to be the case and I am unsure what the original requester want beside a small (5x5mm?) version of the Fedora logo.

Re: [Design-team] Development of DIY Folding Media Sleeve

2009-09-21 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/21/2009 09:25 AM, Kris Thomsen wrote: Could anybody make a version that is for Fedora 12-only? With Fedora 12 art? :-) The best way is, I think, to make a generic template and switch in the Fedora 12 artwork (or whatever other version) after we have the final artwork in place -

Re: [Design-team] Development of DIY Folding Media Sleeve

2009-09-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/17/2009 09:50 PM, twoho...@fastmail.fm wrote: I can handle this, Grant. However, providing the text/content will ease the task ... that way, I concentrate on design. I'll post one or two mock-up designs tomorrow for comments. Yikes! Where and how do I send the designs? Are

Re: [Design-team] Introduction

2009-09-18 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/18/2009 05:10 PM, Manu Mannattil wrote: Hello, Hi, I can help in creating Wallpapers and Web Artwork, and a lill' of Icon Designs... He have a queue with incoming requests, have a look and see if there is something open interesting you: https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/report/1 --

Re: [Design-team] Fedora 12 Design Schedule Reminder

2009-09-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/16/2009 08:02 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: On 09/14/2009 07:56 PM, John Poelstra wrote: Name Start End Finalize Splash ScreensThu 2009-09-17 Thu 2009-09-17 Package: Final Splash Screens

Re: [Design-team] f12 wallpaper

2009-09-14 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/11/2009 08:00 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: Ahh I forgot to mention Tatica's work (we really need to link it to the f12 artwork wiki page) which I think we should develop further instead - http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Themes/Fedora12_mosaic-glow-6.svg It's more of a real mosaic rather

Re: [Design-team] f12 wallpaper

2009-09-11 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/11/2009 04:27 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: Hi folks, Hi, We can't be totally satisfied with the current default can we? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Constantine_Perspective_Mosaico.svg Any ideas on how to improve it? Has anyone heard any feedback, good or bad? (I've heard

Re: [Design-team] f12 wallpaper

2009-09-11 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/11/2009 04:59 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: On 09/11/2009 09:57 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote: And a crazy idea I am not sure will work: how about simulating a shallow depth of field? Make the tiles progressively blurry as they near the top. I think this is an awesome idea and I had a similar

Re: [Design-team] wallpaper for ticket#20

2009-09-09 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/08/2009 10:29 PM, kanza aman wrote: i have created a wallpaper for ticket#20 i.e Fedora Security Spin wallpaper. check it out if it fulfills the needs of fedora.thanks First understand how the those requests work: a certain entity inside the community makes a request and someone tries to

Re: [Design-team] (no subject)

2009-09-09 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/09/2009 05:01 PM, twoho...@fastmail.fm wrote: Greetings everyone. I'm new and ready to create icons. Where do I Hello, start? Are there standards I need to know and pixel sizes, colours and any other rules I need to be aware of? Thanks for your assistance. Your interest if for the

Re: [Design-team] Want to do something.

2009-09-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/05/2009 10:09 PM, Thomas Kole wrote: Hey Guys! Hi Thomas, I would like to do something for fedora. Is there something to do? We have a list of open requests at https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/report/1 - see if you find something interesting in there. Especially a wallpaper. I'd

Re: [Design-team] [SPAM] hello

2009-09-07 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/07/2009 09:03 AM, kanza aman wrote: hello. Hi, i have submitted my wallpaper for ticket#25 of fedora educationa wallpaper,logo,wikibanner but couldn't received any reply yet...awaiting 4 its approval. thanks. Do not be in such a hurry, it was over the week-end :p Regarding your

Re: [Design-team] Fedora print magazine proposal from Linux Pro Magazine

2009-09-04 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/04/2009 08:45 AM, Mel Chua wrote: Marketing! Logistics! Documentation! News! Design! Ambassadors! (If I've missed a group that should know about this, please forward it on and let me know.) Linux Pro Magazine (LPM) has proposed to make a special Fedora print issue for F12 -

Re: [Design-team] Fedora Linux Day - Santiago, Chile

2009-09-03 Thread Nicu Buculei
I suggest you the simplest way of going with a translation of one of our current posters: http://fedorapeople.org/groups/designteam/Fedora%20Collateral/Posters/Four%20Foundations%20Posters/ We used the 4 foundations theme at a few events this year and it was successful. Sources are available

Re: [Design-team] Fedora Linux Day - Santiago, Chile

2009-09-03 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/03/2009 09:12 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote: I suggest you the simplest way of going with a translation of one of our current posters: http://fedorapeople.org/groups/designteam/Fedora%20Collateral/Posters/Four%20Foundations%20Posters/ We used the 4 foundations theme at a few events

Re: [Design-team] Fedora Linux Day - Santiago, Chile

2009-09-02 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 09/02/2009 03:02 AM, Charles Sutton wrote: OK. I understand from my reading of the usage guidelines of the Fedora Logo and symbol that I cannot present the symbol in the manner of the Chilean Flag I made yesterday. This current attached version leaves at least the minimum clear space

Re: [Design-team] Screensaver building : help

2009-08-31 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 08/30/2009 06:36 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: As a result, I intend to make one. (I've read through the srpm to spot's frog screen saver. Making one doesn't look very complex). I need your help in selecting the images that it will feature. Please reply to this mail with links to any images :).

Re: [Design-team] Alpha Banner [was: Upcoming scheduled tasks]

2009-08-25 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 08/25/2009 02:31 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:F12-alpha-banner-duffy.png https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Duffy-f12-banner.svgz i wasn't happy with the typography in Charlie's otherwise excellent graphic so I made a revision, I hope it's ok I pushed

Re: [Design-team] Alpha Banner [was: Upcoming scheduled tasks]

2009-08-25 Thread Nicu Buculei
is more readable. On top of that, it has conflict (modern text over a classic background) which usually is better for a work of art: conflict is good, it draws attention and make people think about the subject. On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 14:53 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: I pushed Charlie into using

Re: [Design-team] Alpha Banner [was: Upcoming scheduled tasks]

2009-08-24 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 08/22/2009 06:35 PM, Martin Sourada wrote: I've just quickly updated them for Alpha release [1]. Feel free to improve/comment on them. Charlie's version was sort of harder to fit the text into, so I had to omit the 'now' word and arrow. Both are good but my personal preference is for

Re: [Design-team] introductory email

2009-08-20 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 08/20/2009 02:39 AM, Charles Sutton wrote: Well, here is the good, the bad, and the ugly for the last three years. (sort of an art blog) I am Arttorney on Conceptart.org. http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72901 Nice! I think some of the stuff you have in there is really

Re: [Design-team] introductory email

2009-08-20 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 08/20/2009 06:54 PM, Charles Sutton wrote: Thank you. I had expected that work where I take care to execute with good draftsmanship would be more valuable to this project than some of the experimental stuff or general messing around drawings. From what I've seen in the wiki about

Re: [Design-team] introductory email

2009-08-19 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 08/18/2009 10:43 PM, Charles Sutton wrote: My name is Charles Sutton. Hello and welcome! By day I am a mild mannered intellectual property attorney. I have been making art for about 12 years, and out of that I have been learning digital media for about three. I have mostly been

Re: [Design-team] Schedule items

2009-08-19 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 08/19/2009 08:53 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 09:30 -0700, John Poelstra wrote: We've had a couple of tasks to blog about the new wallpapers... I don't think I've seen any on planet.fedoraproject.org. Is this still something we want to do? Martin blogged the first

Re: [Design-team] About the Fedora Art Studio Spin

2009-08-12 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 08/11/2009 05:37 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: Well, I think maybe it's more to cater to different artist types, e.g., I am primarily a 2D artist, I don't use 3D apps and I hardly ever use video and audio editing tools. So if I could get a 2D art spin that fit on a disc, took up less hdd space,

Re: [Design-team] About the Fedora Art Studio Spin

2009-08-11 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 08/11/2009 01:03 PM, Kushal Das wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Kushal Daskushal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:57 AM, sankarshanfoss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: Initial version is here [1] Updated with the latest .ks file. Added few fonts. Latest size is

Re: [Design-team] About the Fedora Art Studio Spin

2009-08-11 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 08/11/2009 01:49 PM, Gireesh wrote: Updated with the latest .ks file. Added few fonts. Latest size is 1018 MB In general, gnote is a better alternative to tomboy since it has far fewer dependencies (~30MB download, ~80MB installed). Look at the kickstart file, gnote is already included.

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