design-team February 2011

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Fedora Jingle - main progression
by Tom medhurst 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Hi Guys, We are currently working hard on the lyrics, but here is a chord progression that we thought would fit quite well... http://soundcloud.com/idlewords/fedora-main-progression The idea is that *Section A* describes Fedora as a metaphorical man (the singer will be female) wearing a Fedora. *Section B* (or bridge) we thought would be great as a cheerleader-style chant and could be used on it's own as a shorter version. Something like this: *"F (is for free), E (not enigmatic for me) D (for the débutantes --- crying out Fedora is what they want!)"* Might write a number of these chants with different themes so they can be taken out and used to emphasise a particular area of strength of Fedora? The inspiration for the mention of débutantes came from Mizmo's comic book.. thought it was quite fitting! he he! :D Comments obviously welcome, if you have a Soundcloud account you can comment against any section of the song if you feel that more appropriate. Thanks, Tom

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Time for another bounty?
by Máirín Duffy 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

What do you think, is it time to post another design bounty? If so, what should the task be? Any ideas? ~m

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New F15 Wallpaper and Idea for Easier defaults switching
by Martin Sourada 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Hi all, The default wallpaper for F15 lovelock release is being packaged right now (I'm awaiting adding it to git right now). It is a sort of compromise [1] between what desktop folks wanted (use default gnome wallpaper for desktop spin for f15) and many design folks wanted (default wallpaper on default spin should be created by ourselves). I'll let you know again when all the packages are in rawhide so you can change the defaults. Now I would like to present an idea how to handle the defaults in a more efficient way. Since I'm not an expert in handling these in all the desktops we ship your input would be very much welcome. Let's start with GNOME since that is what I've been using till now: Along with the virtual system-backgrounds-gnome provides also provide a symlink (I propose /usr/share/backgrounds/default.xml) to the intended default and set it to by system wide defaults. This way just updating the wallpaper packages would also update the symlink and thus the default background. Correct me if I'm wrong or need something more. Of course you could override the system defaults for spins if needed. Now for XFCE which I'm using now. I noticed that if I put an image into /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops it will appear in the backgrounds applet, so I created new -xfce subpackage (with system-backgrounds-xfce virtual provides) to provide the wallpapers for xfce users. For easier defaults I propose to create default.png symlink in the same directory which you could then set as default. That way updating the wallpaper packages would also update the default wallpaper. I have no idea how defaults are handled in XFCE so this might not be the correct way to do it, so please correct me if I'm wrong. For KDE I'm thinking about symlinking the whole (currently) Lovelock directory with images and wallpaper description to Default directory at the same place (of course, provided by package with system-backgrounds-kde virtual provides). Not sure if that would be all that's needed or whether different procedure would be desirable. So again, correct me if I'm wrong. For LXDE I have not the slightest idea so any suggestions how to keep handling the defaults limited to [release-name]-backgrounds* packages is welcomed. Thanks, Martin PS: I hope I CCed the right people, if not I apologize and if you know of a better person/interest group suited for this discussion not CCed yet, please forward the mail to them. PPS: And sorry for cross posting it to both desktop design-team mailing list, but I think both groups might have something to add to the discussion. References: [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Mockingbird-stripes-3-mo-jef.png

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F15 Alpha Wallpaper
by Martin Sourada 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Hi all, since yesterday was the deadline and there seemed to be no meeting either, I was wondering what's the state of the alpha wallpaper. What should I package? I see just two concepts on the devel page [1]... Cheers, Martin PS: I switched to rawhide recently and one really annoying thing on the Gnome version is the wallpaper. Initially I just thought the stripes looked nice albeit oldish/retro, but actually seeing them on desktop annoyed me a lot, to my surprise. So I'd like to propose to tone them down a lot in our version. References: [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_Artwork/Development

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