[Design-team] F13 Release Banner

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 13:57:54 UTC 2010


On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:19:47AM +0200, Fabian A. Scherschel wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro> wrote:
> > On 04/06/2010 12:09 PM, Fabian A. Scherschel wrote:
> > I think your feeling is correct the rocket standing for "1" is too much
> > (you already have one rocket in the image) and hard to understand, I had
> > to think what the "3" standing alone is for.
> 
> Yeah... I had that feeling...
> 
> 
> > Also, I am not sure about the window and fire overlap, it the window
> > transparent and we see the fire behind it?
> 
> Well, I kind of wanted to make it look as if the rocket was in front
> of the window. Might be that it doesn't work since the rocket is
> slightly ephemeral... I can have the window cover part of the fire
> trail, no problem.

Yeah, that seems like a good solution since otherwise it seems like
the rocket is kind of puny! :-D

> > Finally, an empty screen is plain and boring, maybe you can live it up
> > by having some apps/windows open.
> 
> Hmmm.... I wanted to leave it as simple as possible. Some of the
> screens on the other banners seemed too crowded.
> 
> Thanks for your input, Nicu! More, more.... ;)

If you reduce the angle of the window just slightly, that might give
you a bit more real estate to work with.  It's widescreen, right?

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