#360: Fedora LiveUSB Creator artwork
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Reporter: mbriza | Owner: gnokii
Type: Digital Artwork | Status: new
Priority: medium | Severity: Quick & Easy
Resolution: | Keywords: triaged
Blocked By: | Blocking:
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Comment (by duffy):
mbriza and i had a long chat in #fedora-design today and he cleared up a
lot of confusion about this request for me:
1) This app is partly for downloading ISO images you do not already have
on your hard drive. I was making the assumption (I think based on how
GNOME Boxes works, and how the old LiveUSB creator works) that it was
being primarily driven by images on the user's hard drive. This has a more
visual / browsable directory of images to download. So my thinking that a
typical user wouldn't have that many Fedora images on their drive is
flawed - they're going to see as many Fedora images as we make visible on
the download websites.
2) This app is a Fedora specific app in that it is branded Fedora (the
titlebar says "Fedora LiveUSB Creator" as does the application name) and
the catalog of images is Fedora-only. You can liveusb create whatever
images you have on your drive but you have to manually enter them into the
system rather than use the nice catalog provided.
The realization of these two things has changed my position on how to
proceed here:
1) Since we're browsing a full catalog, not just what is on a typical
user's drive, we have to be able to make it possible to easily and quickly
differentiate between the many combinations of Fedora we make available.
2) The overarching brand of this app is "Fedora," so we don't have to
worry quite so much about ensuring the Fedora branding on every single
image. It should be okay to have just the upstream desktop project icon
for a given desktop image, for example, because the primary / top brand
has already been established.
3) We have a bit of a problem with the Fedora labs images - we've
explicitly chosen to not create individual special marks for these images
because we didn't want to create the burden of an addition set of marks to
manage, and also the labs spins in particular tend to be a bit unstable
from release to release, some disappearing entirely and new ones cropping
up. So it's a bit of a headache to keep up every release... but it also
would really help to have *something* to help differentiate between them
in this UI. So I'm coming around to the idea of making marks for them for
use only in this application, marks that would look 'Fedora' like but be
very simple and clean.
Here's the list of ideas we came up with for the marks:
paint brush for design suite
robot for robotics
gamepad for games
guitar for jam
test tube / beaker / earl meyer flask for scientific
lock for security
Since I know gnokii has a lot on his plate right now, we'll proceed with
this ticket as follows - I'll make some sketches for each of these icons
and work with gnokii to develop them and come up with final artwork.
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