Design Suite Planning

Introduction

The Design Suite is a Fedora Spin targeted towards professional designers, specifically the Fedora Design Team.

Goals

• target 1: showcase of design team work -- wallpapers
• target 2: typesetting -- fonts, inkscape, color profiles
• target 3: general art/design work -- gimp, inkscape, color profiles, brushes
• target 4: video editing -- including screencasting (pitivi and blender)
• target 5: desktop publishing -- LibreOffice + templates, scribus, pdfshuffler
• target 6: website -- with the growing trend toward HTML5, provide a web editor like Bluefish

Download

The latest image is available at nightly compose site in 32 bits (i686) and 64 bits (x86_64).

How to contribute

Current tasks

• #Download the current version and test it (at this point, you may want to do so in a VM (virtual machine)). Send feedback to the design-team mailing list.
• Help us fill in our list of #Packages - what would you like to see on a Design Studio Spin and why?

Upcoming milestones

To be determined

Design concepts

This section needs to be filled out.

What are the design concepts we've agreed on for this? Possible examples include:

• select 'best of breed' apps vs "include as much as possible"
• restrict to graphics vs also go for audio/video
• include data vs not including data

Technical requirements

• Based on: Fedora Desktop
• Size: at least 2GB usb stick or DVD

Packages

To suggest a package we should include, add it to the #Under consideration table.

Questions

• What do we do with brushes?
• Will we get our own spin design?
• Which gimp plugins do we include?
• What about a comps group for the spin?
• What makes it into a bookmarks package?
• Will we get great inkscape tutorials packaged [1]?

List of included packages

No longer constrained by the size of livecd, more unique packages are included in the suite. One notable exception is cinepaint remaining as part of default package due to its support of HDR images for higher color fidelity which is missing in Gimp 2.8 (2.9.x does but it is not part of Fedora repository).

Graphic group

• blender - 3D modeling, animation, rendering and post-production
• cmyktool - Utility to manage color profiles and convert from RGB to CMYK
• colord-extra-profiles - More color profiles for color management that are less commonly used
• darktable - Utility to organize and develop raw images
• entangle - Tethered shooting & control of digital cameras
• fontforge = *the* editor for font files
• font-manager - Font management application
• gimp - Image manipulation program
  • gimp-fourier-plugin - A simple plug-in to do fourier transform on your image
  • gimp-lqr-plugin - Content-aware resizing plug-in for the GIMP
  • gimp-resynthesizer - Gimp plug-in for texture synthesis
  • GREYCstoration-gimp - GREYCstoration image denoising and interpolation plugin for gimp
• Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher
• ImageMagick - *the* tool for batch-processing images
• inkscape - Vector-based drawing program using SVG
• mypaint - Fast and easy graphic application for digital painters
• nautilus-image-converter - Nautilus extension for image conversion
• optipng - PNG optimizer and converter
• pdfshuffler - initial selection
• scribus - Desktop publishing application
• shotwell - Photo organizer
• synfigstudio - Vector-based 2D animation studio
• xournal - Notetaking, sketching, PDF annotation and general journal

Office group

Packages	Website	Summary
LibreOffice Suite	http://www.libreoffice.org	Bundle Writer, Calc, Impress
dia	http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/	Diagram drawing program

Internet group

Packages	Website	Summary
empathy	packaged	initial selection
evolution	packaged	initial selection
firefox	http://www.mozilla.org	Browser

Audio and Video group

Packages	Website	Summary
audacity	packaged	Multitrack audio editor
pitivi	packaged	Non-linear video editor
rhythmbox	packaged	initial selection
totem	packaged	initial selection

Typeface (aka fonts) group

Packages	Website	Summary
aajohan-comfortaa-fonts	http://aajohan.deviantart.com/art/Comfortaa-font-105395949	Modern style true type
adobe-source-sans-pro	http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcesans.adobe/	A set of OpenType fonts designed for user interfaces
lato-fonts	http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Lato	Sans-serif typeface family
openpass-fonts	https://fedorahosted.org/overpass-fonts/	Typeface based on the U.S. interstate highway road signal type system

Rejected

These are packages that were suggested but turned down for this release due to size, code maturity, or other reasons.

Package	Rationale
name of package	Why we're not including it
gthumb	replaced by shotwell
koffice-krita	pulls a lot of kde stuff in
pngcrush	duplicates optipng
gnash	possibly not mature enough
gwibber	pulls in couchdb and erlang
tracker-search-tool	it's a live media
vino	we don't really need a vnc server
vinagre	same goes for a vnc client
openclipart	this is way too big
istanbul	duplicates gtk-recordmydesktop
fyre	had issues adding it to the package set; reconsider at a later date
alchemy	feature set duplicates that of other/better applications already included
nathive	feature set too small. pinta is better suited

Wishtlist of packages

Packages we have not yet made a decision on. If you'd like to suggest something for inclusion in the Design Suite, add it to the table below.

Package	Status	Rationale	Proposer
mw	packaged	makes VCS access to MediaWiki easier	Sebastian Dziallas
phatch	packaged	Easily batch process images and edit metadata	loboorgen
openshot	packaged in rpmfusion	Create and edit videos and movies	loboorgen
screenruler	packaged	Screen Ruler	loboorgen
vym	packaged	Mind-mapping	loboorgen
MathMap	not packaged	image processing application plugin for Gimp	mizmo
Gimp Paint Studio	packaged	collection of brushes and accompanying tool presets for Gimp	mizmo
Batch Processor:	not packaged		mizmo
Refocus	not packaged		mizmo
Elsamuko Scripts	not packaged		mizmo
Color Match	not packaged		mizmo
Focus Blur	not packaged		mizmo
High Pass	packaged		mizmo
Contrast Blending	not packaged		mizmo
Image Registration	not packaged		mizmo
Save for Web	not packaged	Save for web for Gimp	mizmo
Separate+	review pending	(CMYK separation for Gimp	mizmo
add yours here	packaged or not	why should we include it	your name

Resources

Some places to get ideas from:

• Should we be including fonts? Which ones?
• For an older list of packages we may want to consider for the final F13 build, see the (several releases out-of-date) Fedora Art Studio Package Manifest
• Should we include clip art from [openclipart.org, [http://www.wpclipart.com/, or other sources? Also see the old Fedora Art Studio Clipart Selection and Planning Page.
• Potential source of ideas: http://lifehacker.com/software/creative-commons/geek-to-live-6-ways-to-find-reusable-media-197538.php
• File:Artwork ArtTeamProjects FedoraArtStudio artstudio-ks-oct 6 2007.cfg - Old kickstart file from October 2007
• What should the default search be? http://www.iconfinder.net, http://search.creativecommons.org/, and http://www.yotophoto.com all seem like options.
• Do we want to link (perhaps in a default bookmarks selection) to directories/libraries of artistic works created using open source software, or artistic works that are open-licensed?
  • http://commoncontent.org/
  • http://www.artistx.org/site/free-media/free-media.html
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
  • http://www.texturewarehouse.com/gallery/index.php
  • http://www.archive.org
• Do we want to include (via bookmarks, on a webpage, as packages, etc) tutorials for the applications we are shipping?
• How about color profiles?
• Palettes?
• Patterns and textures?
• Brushes?
• Older versions of this page have some ideas and lots of links as well.