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=== Final Wallpaper for Fedora 12 ===


=== Fedora 12 Countdown banner ===
After a final sprint of wallpaper polishing, [[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]] declared<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001281.html</ref> the Fedora 12 wallpaper 'done': "At 82+ (there were more before this) iterations, I'm spent. The wallpapers need to get in today" and the packages were pushed into Rawhide. She also wrote a couple of insightful blog posts: one about the evolution of the wallpaper during this release cycle<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/f12-wallpaper-sprinting/</ref> and another presenting the final results<ref>http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/fedora-12s-default-wallpaper/</ref>.


[[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]] asked<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001191.html</ref> for someone to take care of the countdown banner for the Fedora 12 final release "Does anybody have the cycles to take the beta banner and refactor it into a countdown banner?" and both [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]]<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001195.html</ref> and [[User:inkscaper|Alexander Smirnov]]<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001204.html</ref> provided alternate implementations.
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=== Extra Wallpapers In ===
 
[[User:mso|Martin Sourada]] called<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001243.html</ref> for a final decision before packaging a pack of extra wallpapers and after a round of "votes" from [[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]]<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001244.html</ref><ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001246.html</ref>, [[User:tw2113|Michael Beckwith]]<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001249.html</ref> and [[User:jaymeayres|Jayme Ayres]]<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001275.html</ref> the images were packaged and pushed.


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=== Icon Emblems ===
=== Fedora 12 Countdown Banner ===


[[User:mclasen|Matthias Clasen]] asked for help<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001192.html</ref> with the xdg folder icons " Your challenge, if you accept it, is to take the scalable Mist folder icon and add scalable lookalikes of the emblems to it" and [[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]] completed the task<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001199.html</ref>.
[[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]] pointed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001269.html</ref> few days are left until the release so the countdown banner must start running "When we consider the design 'done', it should be taken to the websites list so we can run it officially (that means any time now [yesterday?], we are less 30 days from release)", [[User:pfrields|Paul W. Frields]] agreed "Let's get a countdown banner finalized and out the door as soon as possible, so people can start using it on their websites", so [[User:inkscaper|Alexander Smirnov]] took it to the websites list<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-websites-list/2009-October/msg00098.html</ref>, along with a number of translations "I've uploaded English, Italian, German, Icelandic, Hungarian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Russian version this banner (translate based on previous ( Fedora 11 countdown banner) to my fedorapeople.org space" and the countdown is already up and running, ready to be propagated on blogs and websites all around the world<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/en/counter</ref>


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=== F12 Final Wallpaper Polish ===
=== Looking Forward to a New Cycle ===


After consulting on IRC with other members of the team [[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]] proposed<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001221.html</ref> a final update for the Fedora 12 wallpaper artwork "I'd love to hear your thoughts. I think we want to stay with the order & chaos concept; Nicu and I brainstormed a bit and I started taking this
With the process done, [[User:mso|Martin Sourada]] opened an analysis<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001288.html</ref> about the process "I think the F12 schedule worked rather well, we slipped a few times a few days or a week and skipped most of the wallpaper refreshes -- I think it's unnecessary to have that many wallpaper refreshes.", looking for ways to improve the next cycle "I believe these six points need to be in bold face in our schedule as they are somehow important milestones." [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]] complained<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001289.html</ref> about disruptive delayed feedback "For the last few releases we have a recurrent motif: some key decision makers stay silent for most of the development cycle and very late in the process complain and require a complete (or at least major) redesign. This is a serious bug in our process", a sentiment shared<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001293.html</ref> by [[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]] "It's really frustrating that folks wait until the very very last minute to voice their opinion", while [[User:jreznik|Jaroslav Reznik]] asked<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001291.html</ref> for more feedback *from* the team "So we need more feedback - probably through more refreshes for alpha, more communication out of design team."
direction where you have close-together/orderly bokeh bursting out onto the left [...] I would love to hear what you think - could this work for F12? How could we push it further?" [[User:notting|Bill Nottingham]] worried<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001222.html</ref> about a need to respin all the release artwork, [[User:jreznik|Jaroslav Reznik]] complained<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001235.html</ref> a late and potentially disruptive change "I was really happy that we have everything ready in time for alpha and now we're starting again from
point zero :(". Máirín pointed <ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001242.html</ref> this is an evolutionary process "This is not restarting from point zero. There is an absolute progression here if you start from the first iteration to these iterations", while others like [[User:brejc8|Charlie Brej]] expressed their support<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001230.html</ref> for the new design "As I said in IRC, I do like very much." At the time of this writing, the development continue, Fedora Weekly News will keep you updated.


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=== Inkscape Course and Jealousy ===


=== Post-Beta Changes for the Desktop Look ===
[[User:duffy|Máirín Duffy]] told<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001303.html</ref> the Design Team about an Inkscape course she will teach "My Red Hat office, the Boston office, is going to be doing a program with a local middle school / jr. high (students are 11-14 I think) and I'm going to be teaching a 9 session (45 minutes a piece) course in Inkscape to the students" while asking the other members for ideas and experience sharing "I know many of you, I am sure, have given Inkscape tutorials to other folks, and I am wondering if any of you would have time to give me advice or even help me develop the lesson plan." [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]]<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001304.html</ref>, [[User:tatica|María Leandro]]<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001305.html</ref>, [[User:pcon|Patrick Connelly]]<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001306.html<ref> and [[User:wonderer|Henrik Heigl]]<ref>http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001311.html</ref> gave their input, while showing their jealousy for the opportunity to work on such a project: "But overall I'm jealous and wish I could be doing it!"
 
[[User:mclasen|Matthias Clasen]] started la large controversy<ref>https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-October/msg00066.html</ref> on @fedora-desktop after announcing a number of post-Beta changes to the desktop look and feel "note has been moved to the left, with the other launchers, the user switcher has been moved to the far right and the show desktop button has been removed. We have added padding between objects on the panel." A lot of people criticised the change so late in the release cycle, after the feature freeze made in a non-transparent way, like [[User:sundaram|Rahul Sundaram]]<ref>https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-October/msg00072.html</ref> "The show desktop button has been in the GNOME panel for years and years. I am not sure why you wait for such changes to be done at the last minute. Where does such changes get discussed?" or [[User:poelstra|John Poelstra]]<ref>https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-October/msg00078.html</ref> "I think removing the hide desktop button is a really bad change too. I also don't understand why these changes continue to pile on when we are way past past alpha and feature freeze. These do not seem like 'bug fixes'. Are more changes planned too?"


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Revision as of 16:03, 30 October 2009

Artwork

In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

  1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork

Final Wallpaper for Fedora 12

After a final sprint of wallpaper polishing, Máirín Duffy declared[1] the Fedora 12 wallpaper 'done': "At 82+ (there were more before this) iterations, I'm spent. The wallpapers need to get in today" and the packages were pushed into Rawhide. She also wrote a couple of insightful blog posts: one about the evolution of the wallpaper during this release cycle[2] and another presenting the final results[3].

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001281.html
  2. ↑ http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/f12-wallpaper-sprinting/
  3. ↑ http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/fedora-12s-default-wallpaper/

Extra Wallpapers In

Martin Sourada called[1] for a final decision before packaging a pack of extra wallpapers and after a round of "votes" from Máirín Duffy[2][3], Michael Beckwith[4] and Jayme Ayres[5] the images were packaged and pushed.

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001243.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001244.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001246.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001249.html
  5. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001275.html

Fedora 12 Countdown Banner

Nicu Buculei pointed[1] few days are left until the release so the countdown banner must start running "When we consider the design 'done', it should be taken to the websites list so we can run it officially (that means any time now [yesterday?], we are less 30 days from release)", Paul W. Frields agreed "Let's get a countdown banner finalized and out the door as soon as possible, so people can start using it on their websites", so Alexander Smirnov took it to the websites list[2], along with a number of translations "I've uploaded English, Italian, German, Icelandic, Hungarian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Russian version this banner (translate based on previous ( Fedora 11 countdown banner) to my fedorapeople.org space" and the countdown is already up and running, ready to be propagated on blogs and websites all around the world[3]

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001269.html
  2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-websites-list/2009-October/msg00098.html
  3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/en/counter

Looking Forward to a New Cycle

With the process done, Martin Sourada opened an analysis[1] about the process "I think the F12 schedule worked rather well, we slipped a few times a few days or a week and skipped most of the wallpaper refreshes -- I think it's unnecessary to have that many wallpaper refreshes.", looking for ways to improve the next cycle "I believe these six points need to be in bold face in our schedule as they are somehow important milestones." Nicu Buculei complained[2] about disruptive delayed feedback "For the last few releases we have a recurrent motif: some key decision makers stay silent for most of the development cycle and very late in the process complain and require a complete (or at least major) redesign. This is a serious bug in our process", a sentiment shared[3] by Máirín Duffy "It's really frustrating that folks wait until the very very last minute to voice their opinion", while Jaroslav Reznik asked[4] for more feedback *from* the team "So we need more feedback - probably through more refreshes for alpha, more communication out of design team."

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001288.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001289.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001293.html
  4. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001291.html

Inkscape Course and Jealousy

Máirín Duffy told[1] the Design Team about an Inkscape course she will teach "My Red Hat office, the Boston office, is going to be doing a program with a local middle school / jr. high (students are 11-14 I think) and I'm going to be teaching a 9 session (45 minutes a piece) course in Inkscape to the students" while asking the other members for ideas and experience sharing "I know many of you, I am sure, have given Inkscape tutorials to other folks, and I am wondering if any of you would have time to give me advice or even help me develop the lesson plan." Nicu Buculei[2], María Leandro[3], Patrick ConnellyCite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag gave their input, while showing their jealousy for the opportunity to work on such a project: "But overall I'm jealous and wish I could be doing it!"

  1. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001303.html
  2. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001304.html
  3. ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-October/001305.html
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