Re: F11 visual concept idea - greek

2009-02-01 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Martin Sourada wrote: Either way, my idea is focusing rather on the spiritual part of the image, I'd draw it how it could look if the temple was new and still used by old Greeks, perhaps around the columns could be some grapes or some other plant growing, I can also imagine hot springs (with vapo

Re: F11 visual concept idea - greek

2009-01-28 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Bill Nottingham wrote: Máirí­n Duffy (du...@fedoraproject.org) said: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Artwork_F11-thermopylae-greek-mockup.jpg Maybe too detailed, but I just want to point out the main concept, which is the combination of ancient Greece and nature (water, mountains with a

Re: F11 visual concept idea - greek

2009-01-28 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Konstantinos Antonakoglou wrote: Well, based on what I've read so far, I gave it a try and produced this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Artwork_F11-thermopylae-greek-mockup.jpg Maybe too detailed, but I just want to point out the main concept, which is the combination of ancient Greece

F11 visual concept idea - greek

2009-01-27 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hi folks, This is a really really sloppy mockup but hopefully illustrates the kind of visuals I'm thinking of for F11: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/8/83/Artwork_F11_greek-concept_mockup1_mo.png I'm thinking maybe somewhere more mountainous with some mists, and with some vines/plants g

Re: Updated EDU SIG Artwork Request

2009-01-21 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: María Leandro wrote: Hello again. This afternoon I had some ideas for the Artwork, and this two thing came up... only a sketch. http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/EduSig/thumb_wallpaper2.jpg http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/EduSig/thumb_wallpaper3.jpg Hi and thanks for

Re: F11 Schedule

2009-01-15 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
John Poelstra wrote: Hi Everyone, As Mairin mentioned on the list, several us met at FUDCon to fine tune the release schedules for each of the teams. Our ultimate goals is to make the release process smoother and better coordinated so that the hard work everyone does is recognized and includ

Re: Art ideas for Fedora 11 (grub, boot, splashes, window decorations, button styles etc...)

2009-01-13 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Mark wrote: So, to get back on my initial topic.. How do you guys feel about a full theme in the old fedora (Core 1 till 4) colors? The link with the F11 name is (just making it up now) : Reviving old days. (the name represents something old and the theme represents the beginning years of fedora)

Re: Art ideas for Fedora 11 (grub, boot, splashes, window decorations, button styles etc...)

2009-01-12 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Máirín Duffy wrote: Samuele Storari wrote: I think work on the Golden Ratio will be good. Let's get all these ideas in one place on the wiki. I started a page at FUDcon but with the bad network on the last day wasn't able to send out the link, here it is: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwor

Re: Art ideas for Fedora 11 (grub, boot, splashes, window decorations, button styles etc...)

2009-01-11 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Mark wrote: So a new theme would be welcome. Why not on the FC1 - 4 releases (blue/purple like) which fits the name perfectly. Blue/purple is like the ocean (oke, more blue then purple). Are you talking about just the colors of FC1-FC4 or the actual theme? And are you talking about the *artwor

Re: Art ideas for Fedora 11 (grub, boot, splashes, window decorations, button styles etc...)

2009-01-11 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Mark wrote: The new name is now known: Leonidas but my question for the theme still stands. So here is my initial post on this subject again: I don't think the themes of FC1-4 were particularly notable, and I do think it is worth discussing a new theme for F11. Nased on Leonidas we could do

Re: Fedora 10 Media Art Font / editing SVG

2008-12-31 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Clint Savage wrote: Marland, I'm honestly not sure why this font set isn't included by default. There are a few head scratchers out there and this might be one. However, The font set you want is called mgopen. You can get it by installing it. As root, run: yum install mgopen-fonts In the fu

Re: Art ideas for Fedora 11 (grub, boot, splashes, window decorations, button styles etc...)

2008-12-22 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Mark wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: Hi Mark, Mark wrote: So what do you think about this? Is it worth starting to make mockups? We are going to wait until the F11 codename is decided on (in a couple of weeks or so) until we decide what to do about the theme. A

Re: Art ideas for Fedora 11 (grub, boot, splashes, window decorations, button styles etc...)

2008-12-22 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hi Mark, Mark wrote: So what do you think about this? Is it worth starting to make mockups? We are going to wait until the F11 codename is decided on (in a couple of weeks or so) until we decide what to do about the theme. A few of us discussed this earlier and felt that if we all worked on

Re: T-shirt logo design tool

2008-12-15 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hey Charlie, Charlie Brej wrote: Yeah, I accidentally reduced all fonts by 1 which effects the small fonts the most. (now fixed) I also just one of just the fedora logo http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/try4.png / http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/try4.svg Do you have the xpm files you

FUDCon Boston 2009 tshirt designs

2008-12-15 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hi folks, Here's what I came up with over the weekend. I made the design two-color so hopefully it'll be cheaper to print (we may be able to save a little bit more if the fudcon logo on the front of the shirt is all white. I've attached a thumbnail showing what that would look like as well.)

Re: T-shirt logo design tool

2008-12-11 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hey Charlie, Charlie Brej wrote: Firstly, I am going to be at a meeting up in Edinburgh on Tuesday and Wednesday so depending on their internet connection I will probably be uncontactable till Wednesday evening (GMT). I have scripted the generation of the logo so if you pick up the latest vers

Re: Email

2008-12-11 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hi, dustin wrote: 1512pur...@comcast.net What are you trying to do? Are you trying to subscribe to fedora-art-list? Try: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list ~m ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://

Fedora Design & Creative Team (Art Team reorg?)

2008-12-10 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hi folks, Just an idea: The Fedora Art Team's name and focus is more on artwork than UI design. Folks in Fedora who need help with UI design or potential contributors who want to help out with UI design might not necessarily link those kinds of tasks to an art team so they might be a bit lost

Re: T-shirt logo design tool

2008-12-05 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: Charlie Brej wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: Paul W. Frields wrote: Example: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/try3.png http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/try3.svg Wow, that's pretty cool! Any idea whether this would reproduce faithfully at the T-shirt printer

Re: T-shirt logo design tool

2008-12-05 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Charlie Brej wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: Paul W. Frields wrote: Example: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/try3.png http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/try3.svg Wow, that's pretty cool! Any idea whether this would reproduce faithfully at the T-shirt printer? I guess some of the smalles

Re: F11 - Improved templates?

2008-12-01 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
hi Klaatu! Klaatu wrote: i think this is a cool idea and would like to do a few. does anyone know if there are special requirements in terms of fonts we could actually use and expect upstream to definitely have? or is it permissable to simply use any font within a given family and assume it

F11 - Improved templates?

2008-12-01 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hey folks, I was wondering if anyone else would be interested in finding and developing nice-looking, general-purpose templates we could then package up for programs like OpenOffice.org Writer, OpenOffice.org Impress, Scribus, Inkscape, Gimp, etc. Some of the templates shipped with these and

Re: CD faces

2008-11-21 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Jarod Wen wrote: Thanks to ~m for your time to upload them onto the our wiki. Next time I will know how to do it :) I also recreated them in Scribus in order to provide CMYK pdf files for the printers. If you need help with this for future designs, let me know! ~m __

Re: [Echo Perspective] New folder design concept

2008-11-21 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Martin Sourada wrote: Hi, I've just finished first take of the folder design for Echo Perspective [1]. I do not hide that the design has been inspired by Mac OS X Leopard folder as well as current Echo folder. I've more or less retained the original colour, but adjusted it to better fit with our

Re: CD faces

2008-11-20 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Jayme Ayres wrote: Ok Updated Why Intel? and AMD processors? is the processor in my laptop!! :' -( ... It´s a joke =) Wow! This looks great! It looks like you added another layer of flares? Nice! :) Can you add it to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/MediaArt/F10#Official_Artwork ?

Re: CD faces

2008-11-20 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Paul W. Frields wrote: Well we say "Intel-compatible PCs" on the Get Fedora page. Would it be okay to go with that? Sounds great to me. I can do the final fixes/cleanup work to Jarod's excellent work to switch the text. Cool, thanks! Once you feel good about the results, just shout and I'

Re: CD faces

2008-11-20 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Jayme Ayres wrote: Updated: http://jaymeayres.com/arquivos/fedora/f10/fedora10-CD-DVD-jayme1.png http://jaymeayres.com/arquivos/fedora/f10/fedora10-CD-DVD-jayme2.png Okay one other thing I'm noticing is for the arch, we're standardizing on 'for Intel-Compatible PCs' rather than x86. Can you up

Re: CD faces

2008-11-20 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hi Jayme, Jayme Ayres wrote: Hi folks, I have had some ideas for the DVD label and have done two designs. http://jaymeayres.com/arquivos/fedora/f10/fedora10-CD-DVD-jayme1.png http://jaymeayres.com/arquivos/fedora/f10/fedora10-CD-DVD-jayme2.png These are very nice! I really like how the flares

Re: Fedora 10 release banner

2008-11-18 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hey Jayme! Jayme Ayres wrote: Sorry but I attach the file in the message Based on the ideas of Mo did a background imitating Brushed steel. http://jaymeayres.com/arquivos/fedora/f10/fedora10-0day-banner_jayme_flames.png This looks good! (and way more like metal :) ) The only critique I have

Re: Fedora 10 release banner

2008-11-18 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Paul W. Frields wrote: On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 13:05 +0100, Hylke Bons wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paolo Leoni wrote: This is a possible release banner (big): http://pleoni.altervista.org/fedora10-0day-banner.svg http://pleoni.altervista.org/

Re: Fedora Logo History

2008-11-12 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Paul W. Frields wrote: On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 11:01 -0500, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: It turns out the original pages on the creation of the Fedora logo, once located at http://capstrat.com/development/fedora/index.php, are gone. I took some time to grab what I could from archive.org and reconstruct

Fedora Logo History

2008-11-12 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
It turns out the original pages on the creation of the Fedora logo, once located at http://capstrat.com/development/fedora/index.php, are gone. I took some time to grab what I could from archive.org and reconstruct it here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/History ~m

Re: Early review

2008-11-07 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Paul W. Frields wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 05:18:11PM +0100, Samuele Storari wrote: Yes I saw this post this morning, i'm very proud to see that a lot of people likes Solar. I'm happy that a lot of people collaborate to create solar, in the last week a lot of people tune up Solar very well.

María's Awesome Gimp Videos

2008-11-06 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hey, María shared these with us in #fedora-art today and I wanted to post them to the list so everyone could see: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tatadbb&view=videos ~m ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat

Re: Art Studio Spin?

2007-09-09 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Jeff Spaleta wrote: Is there interest in building a spin which is myopically focused on the art designer? Is the desktop oriented livecd good enough.. or is there room for a yet more focused spin for the designer usage case? And if so, can it be done inside the existing Fedora repository space wi

Re: Icon howto?

2007-09-01 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Jonathan Roberts wrote: Hey, thanks for the reply :D Some answers to your questions: file formats - png for most icons, svg for scalable icons sizes - 16x16, 22x22, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48, the bigger you will probably not need I figure producing them as svg means I can just export to whatever

Re: animated backgrounds

2007-08-28 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Matthias Clasen wrote: Yeah, the man page says: tm_hour The number of hours past midnight, in the range 0 to 23. Oh I didn't know there was one! What's the name of the man page? (It would be good to have some artist-friendly documentation of how to do this in the wiki si

Re: animated backgrounds

2007-08-28 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hi Matthias! Matthias Clasen wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 16:23 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: I put together an xml file for the animation based on the format for gnome-desktop-2.19.90-4: http://people.redhat.com/duffy/artwork/infinity-24/00-fedora-infinity-background.xml Nice. But I think you

F8 artwork update

2007-08-27 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hey folks, So a little bit of news on the Fedora 8 artwork front. First, since we had the most 'votes' on list for Infinity and since Ben simply ran out of time this go-round [1], it seems to make sense to go with Infinity especially since we are so short on time (tomorrow, er it's late... to

Re: Round 3 Default Artwork Decision

2007-08-26 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: This attached mockup (I never did a RHGB screen before) is how I think it should look like: plain and simple but nice and with the same theme. Nicu, I used your mockup to create an image and tried it out in RHGB - it looks *really* slick. The only thing is that I can't chan

Re: Round 3 Default Artwork Decision

2007-08-23 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Please check with the desktop group, I think at least some of those won't be needed by the new F8 boot process I didn't notice you cc'ed another list and missed a large part of the conversation since I am not subscribed to fedora-desktop list. :( ~m __

Fedora Infinity Lighter Touch(was Re: Fedora Infinity Update)

2007-08-15 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Máirí­n Duffy wrote: Hey folks, I've been playing around with the Fedora Infinity wallpaper this weekend trying to get something I felt really comfortable with because I felt that what we had at the end of round 2 just didn't have the level of polish and 'bling' I thin

Re: Fedora Infinity Update

2007-08-13 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Máirí­n Duffy wrote: This sounds like a bit of an urban myth? I've never heard of this and I've a design degree - I would love to know where you've heard this? Purple is the Gentoo color. See http://gentoo.org including their icon theme. Isn't

Re: Fedora Infinity Update

2007-08-13 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: In a previous life I helped organise an event. We organised a competition to choose the picture that would appear on brochures, leaflets, ads, etc The design winner was purplish (with a bluish gradient, just like your mokups). The print shop warned us this was not a popula

Re: Fedora Infinity Update

2007-08-13 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Lun 13 août 2007 08:47, Jiri Jakub Masek a écrit : Hi Máirín, I like them, the fourth is the best, the third looks good but I can't accept the perspective of *pyramid steps*, it needs more work on dimensions to look naturally, I think... I'm afraid I'm going to compla

Re: Fedora Infinity Update

2007-08-13 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Máirí­n Duffy wrote: Hey folks, I've been playing around with the Fedora Infinity wallpaper this weekend trying to get something I felt really comfortable with because I felt that what we had at the end of round 2 just didn't have the level of polish and

Fedora Infinity Update

2007-08-12 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hey folks, I've been playing around with the Fedora Infinity wallpaper this weekend trying to get something I felt really comfortable with because I felt that what we had at the end of round 2 just didn't have the level of polish and 'bling' I think we were hoping for. Anyway this is what I

Re: Generic Logos - was: Re: Round 3

2007-08-09 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: I guess so, but for this we will need to produce graphics which work well with and without the logo (it is not the case with "Abstract"). I don't think Bill or Seth are on this list, so where do we talk with them? Seth is skvidal and Bill is notting on freenode irc, they're

Re: Generic Logos - was: Re: Round 3

2007-08-09 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: Máirí­n Duffy wrote: What does everybody think about round 3? As "Generic Logos" [1] got approved as a feature for F8, how this will influence our work? We will de-brand as much as we can from the graphics? We will two parallel set of graphics? Both? Let'

Re: [Nodoka Theme] Are we going to finally enable it?

2007-08-09 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Martin Sourada wrote: Test 1 is out, feature freeze and Test 2 are approaching, Nodoka theme is visually more or less complete and I noticed it moved to CategoryApprovedFedora8 [1]. So, as the packages are already in rawhide it's now only a matter of enabling it by default. What you think? Who's

Re: Round 3

2007-08-08 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: We are a couple of days after 6 August, the end date for Round 2 for themes. As the feature freeze date and deadline for Round 3 is approaching fast (20 August) and a lot of work will be needed, I'll do my usual thing: step on our team leader toes (hoping she will not mind

Re: Virtual FudCon

2007-07-31 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: I just read about the Virtual FudCon - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JefSpaleta/VirtualFudCon and I think it would be cool for the Art Team to take part in some way. It is somewhat aligned with the end of Round 2 for the wallpaper theme, so maybe someone want to talk about

Round 2 Deadline for F8 Artwork Approaching

2007-07-31 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hey Fedora Artists! So, the original Round 2 deadline was this Wednesday, Aug 1, but I extended it to Monday August 6 (I hope you folks don't mind!) so we could have one more weekend to work on things and get stuff polished. As a reminder, here are the requirements for a theme proposal to pass

Re: Tangofied Fedora Logo Icon

2007-07-30 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hi Peter, Peter Gordon wrote: Art List, Essentially the issue is that there is a Tango-ified Fedora logo [1] that I'd like to include in a downstream package of the Tango icon theme instead of the default pair of feet as the icon for the GNOME main menu; but I am attempting to get it approved le

Re: [F8 Theme Proposal] Fedora Infinity

2007-07-26 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: So here is the experiment I sketched: take the "infinite structure" image, strip it of all details and leave only the metaphor and a few gradients of light and shadow, in the spirit of simplicity we talked about in other designs. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8The

Re: Good News On the Fedora 8 Theme & Decisions

2007-07-26 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Daniel Geiger wrote: Several thoughts: The Echo icon theme doesn't seem to me like it would work as the F8 default icon theme unless used with the Nodoka theme; the Echo icons somehow seem immature otherwise. So, I guess I would see Echo having a dependence on Nodoka, actually. I think Echo

Re: F8 theme: Fire Work and Light Show by Jiri

2007-07-16 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hi Danial, Danial wrote: Indeed. My own submissions were stopped by errors in the wiki/license agreement registration process a single day before deadline. At Rahul's suggestion, both the wiki admin and Mairin were sent emails regarding the problem. To date, neither have replied. I ther

Re: The process is confusing, the red tape frustrating.

2007-07-10 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
John Baer wrote: A topic as important as this may need a wiki page explaining what is desired and examples of how to meet the desired result. I believe most of us want to do the right thing but some need a little additional help. How about we instead talk about it on list as we are now and in t

Re: The process is confusing, the red tape frustrating.

2007-07-10 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
btw John Baer wrote: Ok, fair enough ... However, how would you or I know if the artwork is original? Is it safe to assume it is unless otherwise stated? No, it's not; if you're going to use something that isn't explicitly licensed for your use, you have to do the legwork to make sure i

Re: The process is confusing, the red tape frustrating.

2007-07-10 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
John Baer wrote: I would never blast you the way Nicu blasted me, but I assume the photo's on your submission are yours as you have not made a statement of attribution. Do you need to? ;) I state pretty clearly on my proposal: "Here are some examples from photos I have taken from a number o

Re: The process is confusing, the red tape frustrating.

2007-07-08 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
John Baer wrote: More curious than anything else. If we are Ok with the creative commons license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ , then what does #7 of the CLA need in order to be satisfied? I'm not a lawyer, but the CLA itself seems to suggest: "you may submit it to the

Re: [F8 Theme Proposal] Fedora Feng Shu

2007-07-07 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
John Baer wrote: More curious than anything else. If we are Ok with the creative commons license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ , then what does #7 of the CLA need in order to be satisfied? I'm not a lawyer, but the CLA itself seems to suggest: "you may submit it to the Pro

Re: [F8 Theme Proposal] Fedora Feng Shui

2007-07-07 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
John Baer wrote: To the best of my knowledge the photo's I did not personally take would meet the licensing terms of the wiki and open source. I would never suggest we use someone's effort without their approval. If this is true you didn't have to take them down, but you should link to the pl

round 1 deadline approaching

2007-07-06 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hi folks! The deadline for round 1 is next Wednesday. So if you've got some ideas, set up a wiki page here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes And let us know about it on the list! ~m ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@red

Re: [F8 Theme Proposal] Fedora Feng Shui

2007-07-06 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
John Baer wrote: Thanks for the comments. At this early stage I just wanted to see which style had the most appeal. Even thought this is the early stages, you still need to respect the licenses and the rights of the authors of any works you've borrowed that are not your own. Please attribute

Re: Here are some of my ideas for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9

2007-07-04 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Valent Turkovic wrote: Well I would argue that the people who remove it are a minority, not the other way around. I have seen beagle installed on multiple systems and it is as unobtrusive as an app can be. I have tested it on Fedora Core6, multiple Fedora 7 installations and now I'm testing it on

Re: [F8 Theme Proposal] Fedora Infinity

2007-06-27 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 00:47 -0400, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: See the full proposal at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes/Infinity I like the idea, but you're going to have to be careful with the specific imagery. I looked at that page, and vertigo k

[F8 Theme Proposal] Fedora Infinity

2007-06-27 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hi folks, Here's a theme concept I've been mulling overly for the past few weeks. The slogan for it could be: "Fedora: Infinite Boundaries" Freedom, community, and infinity are the three basic concepts that are represented in the Fedora logo. The basic concept for this theme is that Fedora, a

Re: fedora 8 artwork - deadline reminder

2007-06-27 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: As you may know, we have an open process [1] for submitting artwork proposals for Fedora 8. Thank you Nicu for reminding us about the deadlines and driving this forward! I have been hesitant to start really driving this because I was hoping I could get you all a more fir

Re: Fedora's kde custom rubber band (the selection box)

2007-06-27 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Stefan S. wrote: Here (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=16962) you can find a patch which among other things add a modern semi-transparent rubber band to kde. What I wanted to know is how Fedora does this? I couldn't find any patch in those srpms. Maybe it's a patch to X? The

metacity theme mockup

2007-06-10 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
I was doodling in Inkscape and came up with this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MairinDuffy/Sandbox I made the buttons wide so they would be easy to click on; I gave them narrow margins with the titlebar to give the feeling that they were quite large to make them feel more clickable. I'm not q

Re: Where is the Fedora "3d" logo?

2007-06-08 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Mark wrote: Hey, a while ago someone posted some really nice Fedora logo`s here. with some nice 3d like things in it. i probably have it in my historie somewhere but with a few 1000 threads it`s extremely hard to find. anyone knows where i can find it? I bet you're thinking of Mola's artwor

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-08 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Ben Arnold wrote: On 08/06/07, Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I understand you correctly, the tagline is related to the graphic theme (DNA - Evolved, FlyingHigh - Reach higher) I did, to be honest, miss this idea completely! I think it could be fun to have a caption competition op

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-08 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: If we really, really get stuck and end up with more than one really awesome theme by the round 3 deadline, we can always hold a vote of Fedora contributors similar to the F7 naming vote process. I'm hoping that it won't be necessary, though. If we don't have any completely fin

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-07 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: OK, I quickly kicked a page in the wiki with content mostly copied/adapted from the F7 page and all dates put as TBD: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes Nicu, this is great! Thanks!!! I looked at the F8 release schedule and the calendar and came up with the fol

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 23:55 -0400, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: Oh okay. Would it not be acceptable if a nice GDM theme was proposed that didn't use the plain greeter yet had all the necessary buttons and menu items to make it accessible? I don't necessarily

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 23:45 -0400, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: Matthias Clasen wrote: On the topic of the login screen, I forgot to mention that we are also considering switching to the plain greeter to improve the accessibility situation on the login screen. If we go forward

Re: F8 artwork

2007-06-06 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Matthias Clasen wrote: On the topic of the login screen, I forgot to mention that we are also considering switching to the plain greeter to improve the accessibility situation on the login screen. If we go forward with this idea, it would imply some changes to the themeability of the login screen

Re: Presentation and DVD pictures

2007-05-31 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: https://duffy.108.redhat.com/source/browse/duffy/trunk/fedora/print/disc-design/f7/TIFF/ Rhaa please ask hosting space on fedoraproject.org for F8 artwork, we really really really do not want to mix 108.redhat.com & fedora stuff. +1 I agree totally. All of that was don

Re: Presentation and DVD pictures

2007-05-31 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: pingou wrote: I am actually writting in a magazine for F7 and as they are going to give F7 DVD with it I am trying to find nice DVD pictures for it. Here is another CD label better optimized for print (I am not sure if this is its final version): http://people.redhat.co

[Fwd: Re: Banner for F7 Home Page]

2007-05-30 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
ould post when there are no events to advertise. What do you think? ~m Original Message Subject: Re: Banner for F7 Home Page Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 21:51:47 -0400 From: Máirí­n Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: For maintainers and developers of all formal Fedo

Re: Fedora 7 CD Labels & Covers

2007-05-26 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: [... snip ...] A very crude way to assess a font is to upload it on http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/custom.htm read the glyph count and look at the glyph matrix. A much better indicator would be the language support coverage matrix DejaVu publishes with every

Re: Fedora 7 CD Labels & Covers

2007-05-25 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le vendredi 25 mai 2007 à 13:38 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 17:09 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: FYI the liberation fonts are nice and it's certainly worth showcasing them but they're not Fedora 7 default fonts, since they lack exten

Re: Fedora 7 CD Labels & Covers

2007-05-25 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: So? Are you suggesting it would be a good thing if CD/DVD look diverged significantly from the Fedora desktop ones? We sync the sleeve decorations and colours with the release default background. Why should we not sync the sleeve fonts with the default desktop

Re: Fedora 7 CD Labels & Covers

2007-05-25 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: Ops! I caught you... :p The embedded bitmap is watermarked :D Which the screenshot? Hehehe :) The fonts used (besides the logo of course) are all Liberation Sans with some Inkscape-rounded-stroke trickery. I know I am nitpicking and Bitstream Vera fonts are free, but yo

Re: Fedora 7 CD Labels & Covers

2007-05-24 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Máirín Duffy wrote: I'm going to try to come up with a basic SVG template and send it out tonight, but if you have any ideas / concepts / artwork / mockups please send them! Okay, so here's my first cut at an attempt, using a CD/DVD template from [1]: http://people.redhat.com/duffy/fedora/

Re: How is the Echo Icon development going on?

2007-03-26 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Máirí­n Duffy wrote: Yeh, it seems like this is a big problem for the smaller-sized Echo icons. I recommend everyone working on Echo read this: http://www.firewheeldesign.com/sparkplug/2006/April/icon_design_bitmap_vs_vector.php http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2007/02

Re: How is the Echo Icon development going on?

2007-03-26 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Ben Arnold wrote: One thing you could do if you're not that great is scale down anny icons that are (at the moment) the largest size. The 16 and 24 sizes are very important and there's already an icon there to use! I've found it doesn't take that long to do, either, just remember to make it clear

Wiki Theme

2007-03-25 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Hey everybody, I've been interested in playing around with moin for a good while and I finally got around to getting my own server up again so I had the space and ability to set up my own install to poke around in. So I came up with a Fedora theme for it (I started with cornicen from the moin

Re: Mascot

2007-03-19 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Nicu Buculei wrote: There is a very active thread going on the Marketing list [1] about the need of a Fedora mascot and an important number of Ambassadors and community people are in agreement about this need (see the link for comments, ideas, proposals). I think we, the Art Team, can come *a

Re: Fedora-art-list Digest, Vol 12, Issue 23

2007-03-12 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
John Baer wrote: Mo wrote: Maybe try changing the colors so people don't think Ubuntu when they see it? lol, never connected those dots ... A part of me wanted to place some Fedora branding in the image. The title could change to "fedoraPhone". I wasn't talking about the phone, I

Re: Request: User Image Submissions - Deadline March 15, 2007

2007-03-10 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
John Baer wrote: Diana, I added one more item to the list titled "Gnome Phone". I really like the idea but it seems to struggle at the 96x96 size. :( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JohnBaer I'll wait to upload this one to gnome-look pending your advice on improving the smaller image. John, isn

Re: Including artwork from older releases

2007-03-10 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Luya, Paul or anyone else interested in packaging the older artwork from FC5 and FC6 for F7? I kinda think it'd be a lot nicer to package some of the themes we've put together that never made it, but maybe that's just me. John's new theme on his wiki page looks cool! ~m

Re: Update: Echo's software update icons

2007-03-10 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Paul W. Frields wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 18:54 -0800, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Following the suggesting, here is the modified icon notification. Dramatic improvement! Kudos. +1! It looks like you were able to align the emblems to the pixel grid and the results are fantastic. Grea

Re: Echo's software update icons

2007-03-09 Thread Máirí­n Duffy
Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Here the 24x24 version for Notification area. Those status emblems are really difficult to discern because they are angled. If I hadn't seen the arrow and ! icons in the larger versions I'm not sure I would have been able to make them out at all. I would suggest a h