design-team October 2012

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Request for multimedia icons? Are they necessary yet?
by CESAR FABIAN ORCCON CHIPANA 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/56#no1 If yes, then I want to do that. -- ------------------------------------ Fabián Orccón (cfoch) http://cfoch.tumblr.com http://cfoch-dev.tumblr.com

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Fedora i18n banner
by CESAR FABIAN ORCCON CHIPANA 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

Hello world. https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/238 I've just added two files: a png and a svg. I hope your feedback or approval o/ -- ------------------------------------ Fabián Orccón (cfoch) http://cfoch.tumblr.com http://cfoch-dev.tumblr.com

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Azul, azul, azul - Wallpaper
by CESAR FABIAN ORCCON CHIPANA 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

"Azul, azul, azul" is a wallpaper made by Fabián Orccón. It's based on "Las tres luces", a digital painting made ("painted") by the same person. In this wallpaper, the author express the loneliness. There are a sofa and a hat, but they are separated; sometimes we feel alone, there are people around us though. The lights represent those distractors in our life, which make us feel happy, but actually they provide us of a fake happiness. Finally, we got a distorted aspect of this aspect, and that's the reason why the color is blue, because what we really got is a blue perspective of the life. Online: http://cfoch-art.tumblr.com/post/33329720593/azul-azul-azul Source: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gdis0a02ajcqouy/Azul%2C%20azul%2C%20azul.tar.bz2 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA. -- ------------------------------------ Fabián Orccón (cfoch) http://cfoch.tumblr.com http://cfoch-dev.tumblr.com

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The boot splash - time to think about it again
by Elad Alfassa 07 Oct '12

07 Oct '12

I really don't want to start this discussion again, but I clearly have no choice, as this is starting to become one of the only areas where we offer sub-optimal UX. We have a problem with the default boot splash. It tries to convey progress but we don't have a good way to tell how far in the boot process we are (eg. if we do fsck or selinux relabel, it will appear stuck for some time, which is a bad user experience). Since we don't have any actual progress data, using a progress indicator there is silly. Few release cycles ago, the Desktop team wanted to change the boot splash to a minimalistic throbber. This does look better, but caused a lot of flamewars and stupid conspiracy theories on this list and the marketing list, and we vetoed the change. The reason we (as a team) vetoed this decision was that the Fedora logo was not exposed anywhere in the OS. but since then, upstream GDM added a way for us to display the fedora logo on the login screen, and the boot process got way faster (and I'm going to try to convince people to optimize it further for Fedora 19 by default, because it is possible). The fedora logo on the boot splash will only be seen for around 0.5 seconds on a modern machine, and before that there is the filling, meaningless and confusing bubble progress thing. In Fedora 18, we added a feature called Offline System Updates, which means certain updates will be installed on reboot to decrease chances of things breaking. Some of them might take a while to install, and the current boot splash is not a good way to convey information about such a long process. I suggest we replace it with a minimalistic throbber, perhaps a text indicating which release you are running (or simple words like "starting", "stopping", "restarting" and so forth). When there is a long process happening in the background, such as selinux relabel, fsck or package install, we should 1) Indicate this with a simple text (reminding the user not to force-off the machine to protect their data might be a good idea too) 2) Show a simple progress bar (which will be less confusing than the bubble) In my opinion, those changes will improve the Fedora user experience. Yes, maybe 0.5 seconds of the logo that we all love so much will be gone, but, well... Fedora users already knows they are using Fedora, and the login screen shows that too. And if you really, really want the logo to be there for those few seconds (despite everything I've said and despite the fact that not flashing a logo everywhere will not make Fedora to be less Fedora, our logo is just a logo - there are more basic things that makes us special and makes our users happy), we could put a small version of it in the top left corner, so it'll be not intrusive. Thanks for reading this. Opinions? -- -Elad Alfassa.

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Fedora audio spin update
by Brendan Jones 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Hi all, We are still looking for ideas and submissions for Fedora Audio wallpapers. We've has some good suggestions but no submissions yet. In the interests of getting something together before release, perhaps we should not concern ourselves too much with the Audio aspect of the theme - but simply head for something minimal that suits the desktop theme we've chosen. We are going for a darker desktop theme - candiates so far are Oxygen or Caledonia. I've packaged the Caledonia KDE themes in my repo here: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/bsjones/audio-bsjones/fedora-audio-bsjo… Look, I'm really no good at this stuff - and my packaging workload to get this spin ready for release is already immense, so I'd love it if someone would like to take this on. I'll also be responsible for packaging the whole fedora-jam-kde-theme in the end, so if anyone wants some help in writing kde themes let me know. Our goal is to have a unique look and feel rather than just a KDE spin with audio packages. Anyway, I've thrown together a simple background where I think the blue contrasts nicely with the darkness of the caledonia theme. Here are whole screenshots to give some context (the first one was me being lazy with colorize giving the rings, but you get the idea). The wave form is just an idea I have been playing around with. It will probably go. Would love it if people could suggest some ideas or even submit some backgrounds! http://bsjones.fedorapeople.org/fedora-jam-desktop.png http://bsjones.fedorapeople.org/fedora-jam-desktop2.png kind regards, Brendan

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Recent Ticket Activity!
by Ryan Lerch 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Here is some the cool stuff people have been doing on the Fedora Design ticket queue lately: * sam08, mizmo, mattdm, and rbergero all contributed ideas and discussion to the creation of the fedora cloud logo (Ticket #224). In the end, the design was finalised my mizmo: https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/attachment/ticket/224/fedora-cloud-2.p… * using the new cloud logo, mizmo also created a banner for the cloud wikipage (Ticket #242) https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/attachment/ticket/242/cloudsig-banner.… * the design for the paris fudcon t-shirt was finalised by shaiton, kesigomu and zoltan on ticket #233 https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/attachment/ticket/233/2012-fudcon-t-sh… * ryanlerch uploaded a few quick ideas for the fedmsg logo (ticket #241): https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/attachment/ticket/241/fedmesg.png If you want to get involved with doing some cool stuff too, here are a few tickets that may interest you: * Create the banner for the fedora i18n wikipage! The fedora i18n team needs a banner (in the same style the cloud one mizmo did above) for their wikipage: https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/238 * Design the logo for the upcoming North America FUDCON in Lawrence: https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/234 * Refresh the design for the Fedora Sticker Sheet: https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/229 cheers, ryanlerch

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Need a quick file to produce a tablecloth
by Kévin Raymond 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Hi there, For the FUDCon in EMEA, I am going to produce a tablecloth, could someone provide me a pdf file at the full size or 1/4? I would like Fedora (and the logo) written on one side (the Front side), and the 4F logo at the middle, (which would be the top side). Do you get the idea ? The Fedora logo could be printed on each side as the price would be the same.. You have better design skills than me :) I would like to send it in production tomorrow to get it shipped next week, but that will probably work by Wednesday too. It would be 3×3m, they ask me the graphics in pdf. Sorry for the short deadline. Thanks so much, -- Kévin Raymond (shaiton) GPG-Key: A5BCB3A2

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