F8 artwork update

Michael Beckwith tw2113 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 15:15:05 UTC 2007


I want the default Firefox theme. I should have it done before the due date
for Test 3.

On 8/28/07, Máirí­n Duffy <duffy at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hey folks,
>
> So a little bit of news on the Fedora 8 artwork front. First, since we
> had the most 'votes' on list for Infinity and since Ben simply ran out
> of time this go-round [1], it seems to make sense to go with Infinity
> especially since we are so short on time (tomorrow, er it's late...
> today is the code freeze for F8 test 2.)
>
> We started working on getting artwork checked in for test 2. Tonight,
> the firstboot banner & splash, the grub splash, and the new RHGB theme
> got checked in. Tomorrow (er... later today lol) I'm going to work on
> getting the wallpaper, syslinux, and anaconda artwork checked in.
>
> The only absolutely essential artwork we do not have checked in or ready
> to check in for F8 test 2 is GDM. I'm not sure what to do about it; Avio
> [2] looks nice - what do you think if we used that with a theme-specific
> background? Does anybody have any other ideas for GDM? As an absolute
> fallback we can go with the current one and simply replace the Flying
> High background as Nicu suggested. It doesn't look bad, but I'd like to
> see something different if we can do it. If anybody has a mockup I can
> implement it so we're not bound to use something that's already been
> implemented.
>
> Other stuff that's not super essential but nice-to-have and hopefully
> we'll have ready for test 3:
>
> - gnome splash
> - kde splash
> - multi-colored multiple backgrounds for the time-of-day feature mclasen
> mentioned earlier. (actually I have some prepared already so if I have
> some time tomorrow I'll see if I can get any of those in)
>
> Beyond this, there's still a lot of work to do so if anyone is
> interested in working on any of the following (or anything above for
> that matter) please feel free to jump in! :)
>
> - Round 4:
> default firefox theme - banner / layout - every time someone opens up
> firefox in Fedora 8 they will see this page!
>
> default httpd 'welcome to your fedora webserver' page - every time
> someone starts up a Fedora httpd webserver for the first time this will
> be the page their system serves up.
>
> - Round 5:
> F8 marketing materials discussion with fedora-marketing-list... come up
> with a slogan for our new theme, and promotional graphic ideas, maybe
> brainstorm what's needed for the promotional kit (see round 7)
>
> - Round 6:
> finalize artwork/design for F8 DVD/CD labels and sleeves. These will be
> printed up professionally and will be available at conferences likely
> worldwide. They also may be used by magazines that distribute Fedora 8.
> So if you want to learn about designing DVD/CD labels for professional
> screenprinting (I'm thinking this time let's do something cool with
> leaving parts of the design blank for the silver of the disc to show
> through), or if you'd rather come up with a nice logo Fedora users
> everywhere can print out on an inkjet printer, help out with this one :)
>
> - Round 7:
> release promo kit with nicely-designed PDF release notes for handing out
> at conferences, etc (good excuse to try out Scribus!!)
>
> - Round 8: finalize www.fedoraproject.org promotional materials for F8
> launch
>
> ~m
>
> [1] (Ben, we can resurrect Abstract for F9 if you want to propose it
> again... and feel free to jump in on the other rounds for F8 if/when
> you're less busy!)
>
> [2] http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=37395
>
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