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Contributing Writer: [[NicuBuculei]]
Contributing Writer: [[NicuBuculei]]


=== Continual Echo Icon development ===
=== The end of Round 1 for F10 themes is near ===


Martin Sourada, the Echo icon theme maintainer, published[1] a new release, 0.3.2:
On the Fedora Art list, [[MairinDuffy]] propose[1] the end for the first round in the theme "battle"[2] for Fedora 10:
"as you might know, we've recently published our first release on fedora hosted (0.3.2) and I'll probably mark the update for F8/9 as stable tomorrow or in Monday. Also being it first release of echo using the new git layout + git branches, there are some little issues which I'll address in 0.3.2.1"
"We've an overwhelming number of proposals for F10 now. Should we close new proposals for F10 so we don't have our focus spread across too many ideas?
Also, we should probably go through the proposals missing the requirements and remind the proposers to fully fill them out or pull them."


[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00071.html
And an Ian Weller's proposal[3], a deadline is set for July 21st, enough time for people to prepare their proposals.


He also laid some plans for the next release, 0.3.3:
[1] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00182.html
"I've decided that one of the most important places to create icons in the menus for now are the System sub-menus, where there are many icons using neither echo nor gnome style and some of them are even blurry."


In related icon development, both Martin and Luya Tshimbalanga created a number of new icons, with character map[2], firewall[3] and date preferences[4] being a few examples.
[2] - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes#List_of_Submissions


[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00081.html
[3] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00183.html


[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00099.html
=== Icons for applications and a web application ===


[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00106.html
[[RobinNorwood]] introduces[1] an amazing web application[2] allow users to search for, browse, comment on, and rate software applications available for Fedora and asks a series of questions about application icons:
"So I've been looking at importing the icons for applications for the Fedora Applications web site [2]. We'd like to show an icon next to a given application, preferably the one the user would see in the menus after installing said app. This is, of course, complicated.  I can currently look for icons inside each rpm in Fedora, specifically the rpm providing the application we're interested in, and the various *-icon-theme rpms."


When creating one of the icons, Martin Sourada commented[5] "I used some gimp tricks in order to look more smooth on LCDs for the PNGs", a practice questioned[5] by Nicu Buculei "[...] his way the binary (PNG) can't be built directly from source and would make the life harder for derivatives"
And a little later he come back[3] with more details about how it will work, identifying the user's icon theme and using matching icons:
"To do the actual package install, we'll be using a browser plugin (probably) which will probably send us some limited information - like what version of Fedora the user is running, for instance.  It might be possible to include the current theme in this info."


[5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00104.html


=== Mist icons in high resolution ===
[1] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00171.html


Andreas Nilsson, the maintainer of the Mist icon set, which is currently used in Fedora 9 and Fedora 8, announced on the art mailing list the introduction of a few icons with really large size, needed by some applications:
[2] - https://fedorahosted.org/amber/
"As there are requirements for large size icons in apps like GNOME Do and Elisa, I recently started working on Mist icons with a bigger, 256x256 canvas. With some assistance from Kalle Persson and Hylke Bons, I now I have something that is usable and will try to merge these into gnome-themes trunk next week if everything goes well."


[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00062.html
[3] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00198.html


=== More desktop theme proposals for Fedora 10 ===
=== Plans for an improved Nodoka in F10 ===


Still in the Round 1 stage for creating a new desktop theme for the upcoming Fedora 10[1] two new proposals were added: Klaatu and Gort proposed[2] "LiberaProgramo"[3], "A futuristic / sci-fi theme. The idea here is, literally, computing 'with no strings attached'....or, translated into Esperanto: Libera Programaro" and Guilherme Razgriz proposed[4] "Simetrical Freedom"[5], which "concept is the perfection that simmetry can offer with the freedom power of the possibilities of forms and states that it can take and reborn inside the same thing".
[[MartinSourada]] reveals[1] his plan for an improved Nodoka GTK2 theme engine in Fedora 10:
"I am thinking about improving the nodoka gtk engine looks in the next release and adding some configuration options. Therefore I am asking here, if you have ideas, requests, ... what I might implement. Today I started sketching new nodoka gradient (used in e.g. buttons), which is basically an evolvement of the current one which will be available as a
configuration option."


[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes
He asks for ideas and outlines the hard work needed, with the caveat of the job having a slight probability of not making F10:
"As you can see it's rather a lot of work, and thus there is a possibility it will not be in Fedora 10, though certainly I make it in time for Fedora 11 (I promise :-p)."


[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00078.html
[1] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00211.html
 
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/liberaProgramaro
 
[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00128.html
 
[5] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/simmetricalfreedom
 
Guilherme's proposal was accompanied by an interesting tutorial[6] (written in Portuguese, but easy to understand by anyone thanks to its suggestive screenshots) illustrating the implementation in GIMP.
 
[6] http://razgrizbox.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/line-breakers/

Revision as of 14:12, 18 July 2008

Artwork

In this section, we cover the Fedora Artwork Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork

Contributing Writer: NicuBuculei

The end of Round 1 for F10 themes is near

On the Fedora Art list, MairinDuffy propose[1] the end for the first round in the theme "battle"[2] for Fedora 10: "We've an overwhelming number of proposals for F10 now. Should we close new proposals for F10 so we don't have our focus spread across too many ideas? Also, we should probably go through the proposals missing the requirements and remind the proposers to fully fill them out or pull them."

And an Ian Weller's proposal[3], a deadline is set for July 21st, enough time for people to prepare their proposals.

[1] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00182.html

[2] - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes#List_of_Submissions

[3] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00183.html

Icons for applications and a web application

RobinNorwood introduces[1] an amazing web application[2] allow users to search for, browse, comment on, and rate software applications available for Fedora and asks a series of questions about application icons: "So I've been looking at importing the icons for applications for the Fedora Applications web site [2]. We'd like to show an icon next to a given application, preferably the one the user would see in the menus after installing said app. This is, of course, complicated. I can currently look for icons inside each rpm in Fedora, specifically the rpm providing the application we're interested in, and the various *-icon-theme rpms."

And a little later he come back[3] with more details about how it will work, identifying the user's icon theme and using matching icons: "To do the actual package install, we'll be using a browser plugin (probably) which will probably send us some limited information - like what version of Fedora the user is running, for instance. It might be possible to include the current theme in this info."


[1] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00171.html

[2] - https://fedorahosted.org/amber/

[3] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00198.html

Plans for an improved Nodoka in F10

MartinSourada reveals[1] his plan for an improved Nodoka GTK2 theme engine in Fedora 10: "I am thinking about improving the nodoka gtk engine looks in the next release and adding some configuration options. Therefore I am asking here, if you have ideas, requests, ... what I might implement. Today I started sketching new nodoka gradient (used in e.g. buttons), which is basically an evolvement of the current one which will be available as a configuration option."

He asks for ideas and outlines the hard work needed, with the caveat of the job having a slight probability of not making F10: "As you can see it's rather a lot of work, and thus there is a possibility it will not be in Fedora 10, though certainly I make it in time for Fedora 11 (I promise :-p)."

[1] - https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00211.html

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