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| [[IanWeller]] asked[1] on #fedora-art about a better way to handle and package the collection of extra wallpapers gathered from various Fedora contributors: "The current gallery system for the Wallpaper Extras isn't working. It doesn't do us good for keeping track of attributions, especially if we start taking lots of outside contributions from Flickr or the like (which I plan on doing soon)[.]" Ian also proposed that: "[t]he entire wallpaper extras framework for submission and tracking will be on the wiki, through MediaWiki's category system. The main category will be '''Category:Wallpaper extras'''[2], which will contain only other categories and unsorted wallpapers. Subcategories to that will be along the lines of '''Category:Abstract''' wallpaper extras, which can also contain other subcategories if we want to categorize further. Categories have a built-in gallery setup. The image page itself will contain a template (which we'll need to write) that will contain information such as the creator, the URL it was taken from (if applicable), and who added it to the wiki, and what license was originally under." | | [[MartinSourada|Martin Sourada]] announced[1] on @fedora-art a new issue of the Echo Monthly News[2], a publication covering the development for the Echo icon set. This months it feature: new icons, new templates, Echo's withdrawal from Fedora 10 as a default theme, an icon check script and thoughts about the Echo's future |
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| [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00299.html | | [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-November/msg00001.html |
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| [[JohannBGuomundsson|Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]] opted[3] for a contest, possibly held in cooperation with Fedora Magazine[4] "I personally think we should hold a wallpaper contest photo artwork etc with a specific subject/theme in conduction with fedoramagazine each month or so then top 3 picture ( or top in each category ) would be picked added to the wiki and package". [[NicuBuculei|Nicu Buculei]] argued for RSS feeds instead of votes "My tendency is to decouple packaging and contests. Have the images in a proper gallery and the users can use RSS feeds and see 'best rated', 'most viewed', 'last uploaded' images with no effort. And they really need the packaging? They have the photos open in their browser and Firefox has an 'Set As Desktop Background' command (it appears broken if Firefox/GNOME, but that is just a bug which needs a patch). And from this large pile of images, a packager may make a manual selection with the 'most usable' images (or more packagers can to their own selections and packages)."
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| [3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00300.html | | [[MairinDuffy|Mairin Duffy]] shared[1] with the rest of the Art Team her enthusiasm about the GIMP video tutorials[2] created by [[MariaLeandro|Maria Leandro]], another member of the team "Hey, María shared these with us in #fedora-art today and I wanted to post them to the list so everyone could see". |
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| [4] http://fedoramagazine.wordpress.com/ | | [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-November/msg00016.html |
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| [5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00324.html | | [2] http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tatadbb&view=videos |
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| [[JonathanRoberts|Jonathan Roberts]], the editor of 'Fedora Magazine', got into the discussion and opined[6] against a reinvention of the wheel: "Why reinvent the wheel - why not just take advantage of Gnome look? Or set up a Flickr pool - I think one already exists possibly?" and for a manual image selection for the magazine "With respect to the magazine, I'd be more than happy if someone from the art team would be interested in doing a monthly post that would share work that members of the art team were involved with - whether it was Fedora related or just created using tools exclusively in Fedora"
| | === Praises for the Solar Theme === |
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| [6] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00327.html | | [[NicuBuculei|Nicu Buculei]] forwarded[1] to @fedora-art a praising article about the default wallpaper theme in Fedora 10 "Here is what Ryan Paul from Ars Technica says about the Fedora 10 theme in a short article about the Preview Release: 'I was particularly impressed with the high quality of the new desktop wallpaper image, which comes from the Solar artwork theme. The whole user experience felt amazingly polished'", experience shared by [[JaymeAyres|Jayme Ayres]] "I showed Solar Theme and some works that the Artwork team has produced during Latinoware and ALL people were impressed with the high quality of the subject, this is a pride for the Artwork some people ask me 'Were we find that to download!? This is amazing!'" |
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| === Fedora 4 F's buttons ===
| | [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-November/msg00022.html |
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| Following last week's "Four F's" posters made by [[MairinDuffy|Máirín Duffy]] (see our coverage in FWN#149[0]) [[ClintSavage|Clint Savage]] posted[1] on @fedora-art a set of buttons made in the same style, which were received[2] with open arms "SWEET! I really like the pattern in the background of the logo2 file. Logo3 is really strong, well done!"
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| [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00304.html
| | === The desktop beyond F10 === |
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| [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00305.html | | [[MatthiasClasen|Matthias Clasen]] posted[1] on @fedora-desktop a list of ideas[2] regarding the future of the Fedora desktop "Currently this is just a pretty unsorted mixture of wild ideas, implementation details and concrete plans, and a lot of them are missing details, user stories and use cases. Don't misunderstand it as 'the plan for the F11 desktop.'" |
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| From there the discussion went[2] into printing preparation details. Clint was asked "Do you know how to scribus-ify these into print-ready, color-safe PDF artwork?" This was no problem for Clint: "I have done that before many times. I'll look into doing that on sunday. I assume you are referring to the fact that I need to make the images CMYK and making them pdfs so printers won't complain. I'm capable of doing that :)" Scribus's limitations were raised[4]: "However Scribus SVG support is rather flaky and most of the time (except for really simple 'kosher' SVG files) you will get an error stating that some features of the file were not supported. Also it tends to get the size 'wrong', not the actual size of the drawing, but rather it kind of adds an additional 'holding box' to the drawing. My personal recommendation when handling graphics with Scribus would be to export to EPS and then import that into Scribus, or export to bitmap[.]"
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| [3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00308.html
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| [4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00310.html
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| The need to use a recent version of the application was also expressed[5]: "You're probably using mrdocs' svn build for Fedora then right? (My head would have gone thru the monitor glass long ago if I was stuck with 1.3.4) If not, you should give it a try, it makes life so much easier!"
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| === Final Fixes for the Solar Backgrounds ===
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| [[CharlieBrej|Charlie Brej]] spotted[1] an imperfection in the default Fedora 10 wallpaper "In the 3200x1200 dual screen images there is a column at X=1151 which has a slight transparency. It is in fact very difficult to see it in gimp but it does become visible on desktop backgrounds with a contrasting solid colour behind" and also proposed[2] a patch to decrease the overall size of the backgrounds package "Current solar background's consume 33Mb. This a bit on the heavy side, especially on the Live CD which is over its image limit. Currently there are 4 different images (morning, noon, evening, night) sent out in 4 different sizes (4:3, 16:10, 5:4 and 8:3 for dual screen). What we could do is to send out just one 3200:1200 image and patch up gnome-desktop background handling to support cropping to the right aspect."
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| [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00317.html
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| [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00319.html
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| [[MartinSourada|Martin Sourada]] announced[3] a split of the backgrounds in 3 packages, to distribute the file size optimally "I've just built an updated Solar Backgrounds Package with many fixes provided by Mo, and more resolutions/ratios [1]. As per request from
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| Following an earlier request[1] from the website team's [[RickyZhou|Ricky Zhou]] for a count down graphic for the Fedora 10 release, [[PaoloLeoni|Paolo Leoni]] submitted[2] to fedora-art for review a couple of proposals and after a couple of rounds of feedback forwarded the proposals to the @fedora-websites, with an additional round of improvements[3] incorporating feedback[4] from [[MairinDuffy|Máirín Duffy]] "I think 'CAMBRIDGE' is a little hard to read because of a combination of the thin font and the low contrast with the background. I also think the text doesn't have enough breathing space from the right and bottom edges of the
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| [[KarlieRobinson|Karlie Robinson]], from the OLPC team, used[1] the Design Services queue[2] to request an OLPC illustration: "I need an image or series of images illustrating how to insert a SD card into the OLPC XO. This will be used for instructions on how to load F10 onto the XO" The request was taken[3] by [[MikeLanglie|Mike Langlie]] "I can render the process of positioning the XO and inserting an SD card in several steps as technical illustrations. Dan Williams demonstrated for me and it looks like a drawing may also be needed for removing the SD card."
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| With the huge flame war about X and ttys going strong on the main development list, @fedora-art couldn't remain behind, and pursued its own dispute, started with the topic quality of the quality of its works (we reported about it in our previous issue) and continued with the relation between the Red Hat Desktop Team and the Fedora Art Team.
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| [[MaxSpevack|Max Spevack]] stepped in[1], outlined the Fedora objectives, one of the points in debate: "1) The premiere community development platform in the OSS world. 2) An open R&D lab for new technologies that Red Hat is interested in from a RHEL server point of view (witness virtualization's path through Fedora over the years) 3) An open R&D lab for new ideas and technologies that Red Hat's desktop team is interested in", raised a set the question to clarify the team's relations and concluded "I submit to you all that this isn't a problem that the Fedora Marketing team can solve. This Artwork v Desktop squabble is a problem about the fundamental way in which Fedora prioritizes the needs of its different constituencies. Red Hat has asked that Fedora be many things, as I said earlier. One of the things Red Hat asks is that Fedora be the best community development platform in the OSS world, and we strive for that every day. However, Red Hat has also asked that Fedora be the incubator for the Red Hat Desktop Team. If those two requests are so incompatible with each other that only one of those goals can be achieved, that is a RED HAT problem and not a FEDORA problem, and we should take that conversation to our managers internally."
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| The position was reinforced[2] by [[PaulFrields|Paul Frields]] "For what it's worth, I've talked about this with the Desktop team's leader in Red Hat, Jonathan Blandford, on a couple occasions since I came on board. There are indeed multiple masters to serve, and it's vital that Fedora also preserve the ability for the people who work on technologies like virtualization or SELinux to use Fedora for R&D" who proposed the use of the next FUDCON to discuss and clarify the situation "As am I -- there's a good opportunity to do this at FUDCon in January, but certainly I don't want to just let things stew until then. That happens to be a perfect time to communicate this vision to a sizable portion of the community that will be gathered for that event."
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Artwork
In this section, we cover the Fedora Artwork Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
Echo Monthly News
Martin Sourada announced[1] on @fedora-art a new issue of the Echo Monthly News[2], a publication covering the development for the Echo icon set. This months it feature: new icons, new templates, Echo's withdrawal from Fedora 10 as a default theme, an icon check script and thoughts about the Echo's future
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-November/msg00001.html
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/wiki/MonthlyNews/Issue3
Maria's Awesome GIMP Videos
Mairin Duffy shared[1] with the rest of the Art Team her enthusiasm about the GIMP video tutorials[2] created by Maria Leandro, another member of the team "Hey, María shared these with us in #fedora-art today and I wanted to post them to the list so everyone could see".
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-November/msg00016.html
[2] http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=tatadbb&view=videos
Praises for the Solar Theme
Nicu Buculei forwarded[1] to @fedora-art a praising article about the default wallpaper theme in Fedora 10 "Here is what Ryan Paul from Ars Technica says about the Fedora 10 theme in a short article about the Preview Release: 'I was particularly impressed with the high quality of the new desktop wallpaper image, which comes from the Solar artwork theme. The whole user experience felt amazingly polished'", experience shared by Jayme Ayres "I showed Solar Theme and some works that the Artwork team has produced during Latinoware and ALL people were impressed with the high quality of the subject, this is a pride for the Artwork some people ask me 'Were we find that to download!? This is amazing!'"
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-November/msg00022.html
[2] http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/11/06/fedora-10-preview-release-shines-like-a-star
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-November/msg00025.html
The desktop beyond F10
Matthias Clasen posted[1] on @fedora-desktop a list of ideas[2] regarding the future of the Fedora desktop "Currently this is just a pretty unsorted mixture of wild ideas, implementation details and concrete plans, and a lot of them are missing details, user stories and use cases. Don't misunderstand it as 'the plan for the F11 desktop.'"
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2008-November/msg00009.html
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards
