FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

2009-05-12 Thread William Jon McCann
Some food for thought... http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/05/02/a-little-bit-of-personality.aspx Jon ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list

Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

2009-05-13 Thread Nicu Buculei
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

Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

2009-05-13 Thread 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" - ht

Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

2009-05-13 Thread Máirín Duffy
- 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 s

Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

2009-05-13 Thread Martin Sourada
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 20:48 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > 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 t

Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

2009-05-13 Thread 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

Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

2009-05-13 Thread Martin Sourada
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 14:57 -0700, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Would some gallery software help us out? > Maybe, depends on what exactly we would expect from it, but I suppose it is generally better than wiki for this kind of stuff. > E.g. we could maybe talk to Fedora Infrastructure about having a >

Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

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

Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

2009-05-13 Thread Matthias Clasen
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

Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

2009-05-14 Thread 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

Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

2009-05-14 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 05/14/2009 01:17 AM, Martin Sourada 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 c

Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

2009-05-14 Thread Martin Sourada
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 12:50 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: > I think this is the whole point of personalization: don't care about all > users, make easy the personalization tor each user. > That probably a good point... > > needs to be copied to some directory that is readable by all users and > > w

Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

2009-05-14 Thread Nicu Buculei
On 05/14/2009 03:41 PM, Martin Sourada wrote: On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 12:50 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: needs to be copied to some directory that is readable by all users and we don't like to mess up with the dirs that are usually handled by I like a lot how the default wallpapers are set now in t

Re: FYI: Personalization in Windows 7

2009-05-14 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 14:41 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: > > > I don't know how this works, only that it works for the wallpapers I > have installed, but they are all system ones. If you have wallpaper > image in your $HOME then it probably needs to be copied over > to /usr/share/backgrounds or s