[Design-team] Pending Questions for the Design Suite

[Nicu Buculei]

On 01/06/2010 02:59 PM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
>
> I've taken a second to move the wiki pages around. [1] is now what will
> be used for the spin application, whereas planning should happen here [2].

That is a good move, the pages are less cluttered now.

> I think it would be reasonable to work on getting the spin approved soon
> and to make modifications as needed then, since feature freeze is also
> the deadlines for spins and we'd get the daily builds then rather
> earlier than later.

+1

> Thanks to Nicu for adding some more applications to the list here [3].
> If there's anything else that you feel should be in there, just list it.

I just added a few apps I have currently installed and use from more or 
less often. Also, there are a number of apps in the initial list which 
may or may not have a place there, according with the spin philosophy:
- there are gimp, cinepaint and krita, which have a huge overlap and 
some particular niches, like using cinepaint for HDR and krita for 
painting, but for the rest they are quite interchangeable. So they are 
fit if we go for an "everything" approach but may be not for "best of 
breed";
- the same for things like pngcrush and optipng or gthumb and shotwell;
- do we need to list apps like totem, rhythmbox, firefox or empahty, 
which are *expected* for *any* desktop system?

> 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. And if we want a special design for the spin (which I think would
> be interesting, but I'm not a designer, heh) who'd take on that one.

Since is less likely we will have a conclusion about brushes in the near 
future, I think we should go for the spin approval without them and 
figure it later.

As said before, I am opposed to customized graphics/different look and 
feel for the spin.

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