Artwork
In this section, we cover the Fedora Artwork Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
Contributing Writer: NicuBuculei
Continual Echo Icon development
Martin Sourada, the Echo icon theme maintainer, published[1] a new release, 0.3.2: "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"
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00071.html
He also laid some plans for the next release, 0.3.3: "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] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00081.html
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00099.html
[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00106.html
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"
[5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00104.html
Mist icons in high resolution
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: "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
More desktop theme proposals for Fedora 10
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".
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00078.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/