design-team September 2010

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Re: [Design-team] Welcome to the "design-team" mailing list (Digest mode)
by John Biebel 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hello Fedora Designers. I'm a (relatively) new employee at Red Hat and would like to become more involved in the Fedora community. I'd like to introduce myself: I'm an interaction designer and artist originally from suburban Connecticut, USA, who has lived and worked in New York, London and now Boston. I'm a graduate of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in Manhattan, where I majored in Painting and Photography. I've worked as an illustrator, visual designer, copywriter, and many other jobs during college. I was once employed by an artist to create 10,000 skulls out of plaster during one of the hottest summers New York City ever witnessed. So indeed, the work background has been diverse. In the arts now, I work primarily in painting and music, my music project being named Ichigatsu (hence the username), which is Japanese for January. I'm excited by the possibilities that are offered by Fedora and a completely free-software experience. I also think it's important as a Red Hat employee to be as familiar with our products as possible and contribute where and when I can. Thanks for the opportunity to introduce myself and I hope I may serve in some capacity. John

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Supplemental Wallpapers Package
by Martin Sourada 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hi all, I've finaly found some time to work on the supplemental wallpapers pacakge. Here's the result for early testing: http://mso.fedorapeople.org/packages/F14/RPMS/ The git commit it's based on is here: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=design-team.git;a=commit;h=d6bbd7a72f6e5… What I'd like from you to review before I push it to fedora is: 1. The Attribution file. It gets installed with the -single package which is required by both -gnome and -kde 2. The .desktop files -- there's some attribution as well, I might have make an error here and there 3. The desktop-backgrounds-lauglin-extras.xml -- the attribution info I tried to add does not show in background properties and I don't know whether it's my fault or whether it isn't supported. Plus, again, I might have made a mistake when filling it out. 4. Two images were left out from Marc's slideshow XML [1] -- Oh Tomorrow I’m Alone and Thou Apocalypse by Hamed Saber so I left them out as well. Was that because they're licensing wasn't verified yet? Plus, I went ahead and sanitized the filenames a bit... Thanks, Martin References: [1] http://marcstewart.fedorapeople.org/f14/supplemental/F14_Supplemental.xml

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GRUB background preview overlay
by Marc Stewart 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

GRUB background screen creators, To save time when testing out new designs, I've added this overlay file to the wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Grub_background_preview_overlay.png You can use it check for positioning, legibility, etc, without having to reboot (or start a VM) each time. Just add it as a new layer for an instant preview. Marc

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Reminder: Design Team meeting today (2010 Sep 14)
by Máirín Duffy 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hi folks, We're on for a meeting today. Here's a rough agenda: - F14 Wallpaper for Beta - F14 splashes - review at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork - Open floor It'll be in #fedora-design on freenode, 1900 UTC. Luya: 12 PM Tatica: 3 PM Martha: 3 PM Máirín: 3 PM Onyeibo: 8 PM fabsh: 9 PM wonderer: 9 PM Martin: 9 PM Nicu: 10 PM Pierros: 10 PM ~m

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Release criteria proposal: fedora release artwork
by James Laska 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Greetings gang, From the last 2 F14 blocker bug meetings [1], it became apparent that we need release criteria to describe how best to prioritize issues related to Fedora release artwork. I took an action item to draft up 2 criteria to describe the expectations around release artwork before Final, and for the Final release. I'd like to propose the following criteria. As always, comments welcome and encouraged. = Fedora 14 Alpha = * The default Fedora artwork used must either refer to the current Fedora release under development (Fedora 14), or reference an interim release milestone (e.g. Alpha or Beta). If a release version number is used, it must match the current Fedora release under development. This includes artwork used in the installer, firstboot, graphical boot, graphical login and desktop background. = Fedora 14 Final = * The proposed final Fedora artwork is included and enabled by default for the installer, graphical boot, firstboot, graphical login and desktop background. All Fedora artwork must be consistent with the proposed final theme, and if any artwork contains a graphical version number, the version number used must match the Fedora release number. Generic release artwork (e.g. Alpha, Beta, Development) must not be used for the installer, graphical boot, firstboot, graphical login or the desktop background. Thanks, James [1] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2010-09-03/fedora-bugzap…

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Supplemental Wallpapers
by Nicu Buculei 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Based on the team's vote, Emily created a page with the "winners": https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Supplemental_Wallpapers_Winners The next step is to re-check the licenses to ensure we are all OK with the usage: - 5 images were submitted by known Fedora contributors, who signed the CLA: icon, fabsh, bruce89 and nicubunu, they should be OK; - me and Emily split the remaining ones and are contacting the authors, the images are taken from Flickr and they have Creative Commons licenses but we want to check they are OK with the attribution. I started with my own part: - mailed and awaiting replies from Hamed Saber, Unhindered by Talent, Eneas, Ivan Zuber; - identified "Lavender Kiss" as having an inappropriate license, CC-BY-ND, which is considered non-Free so not usable in Fedora. We will also need the help of a packager to push them in the distro, Martin or someone else, can you lend a hand? -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/

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Installation experience
by Misha Shnurapet 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

I decided to upgrade to F13 last weekend and I can say the Design Team has done a great job on the installer! I loved seeing the logo twice, an «empty» grayed-out version before the installation and the colored one at end. I think this should stay for the future release, because it (1) made my installation process seem much shorter (though I planned to spend an extra hour or two downloading the updates and personalizing the installed system, I felt an ease like I was all done right there), (2) made me remember the last screen of the installer with the logo and think of the Project a couple of times after. Of course, the artwork is also great. -- Best regards, Misha Shnurapet, Fedora Project Contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Shnurapet shnurapet AT fedoraproject.org, GPG: 00217306

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A doubt about F14 wallpapers
by Victor Hugo Borges 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

Excuse me, my friends,But as Im new to this mailling group thing and even to a design-team discussion, I have some doubts. About Fedora 14, the wallpapers where already choosen? There is any chance that I could submit one to review? Sorry if I still noobing here, but in wiki I read something about "Concept submissions ended 6 July, 2010", but i keep seeing people submiting new wallpapers, so it makes me wonder, could I submit one? Thanks for your attention. Sincerally, V.H.Borges. -- Atenciosamente, V.H.Borges. http://vhborges.tk

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Supplemental Wallpaper XML Slideshow
by Marc Stewart 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Emily and Máirín, I've created a slideshow file for the supplemental wallpapers. http://marcstewart.fedorapeople.org/f14/supplemental/F14_Supplemental.xml For now, I'm assuming: /usr/share/backgrounds/f14-supplemental/ for the directory and: Autumn_colors.jpg Mricon-f14-backgrounds-submission-red.jpg Denali_from_mckinley_princess_lodge.jpg Mricon-f14-backgrounds-submission-cart.jpg Jean-marie_hullot_(imhullot_on_flickr).jpg P1040377.jpg The_sound_of_decadence.jpg Dutch_skies.jpg Kuranda_Butterfly_Sanctuary.jpg Seneca_lake.jpg Nicubunu-f14-backgrounds-submission-Magic-forest.jpg Geese_at_Sunset.jpg Turning_and_turning_in_the_widening_gyre.jpg for the filenames. That's excluding the two problematic ones mentioned in the meeting. Obviously, if you hear back from their creator, I can add them in too. The details are easy enough to change, aswell, if, for example, Nicubunu-f14-backgrounds-submission-Magic-forest.jpg ends up being renamed as just Magic_forest.jpg, or another installation directory/directories is/are used. Just let me know. I've set them to change after 30 minutes, and since different aspect images have a tendency to cause a resizing glitch during the transition, I've opted not to use a fade between the images. If all the images end up sharing the 4:3 ratio, then I could add in, say, a two second transition time. Marc

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Dutch_skies.jpg de-watermarked
by Marc Stewart 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

I've had a go at removing the watermark from "Dutch Skies" and scaled it to the standard sizes. All at: http://marcstewart.fedorapeople.org/f14/supplemental/ If everyone's happy with it, it can be uploaded to the wiki. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Dutch_skies.jpg Marc

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