[opensuse-artwork] openSUSE 11.0 Countdown
Hello all! I found out that Ubuntu has nice way to promote their new release - small banner which informs how many days are left before new version is out. See http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown for details. This banner also links to information page about distribution features and _mainly_ to beta releases which can attract more testers. I think it would be nice if openSUSE had something similar. I would created it by myself but unfortunately I don't have time right now. -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o Package Maintainer Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 17:17 +0200, Pavol Rusnak wrote:
Hello all!
I found out that Ubuntu has nice way to promote their new release - small banner which informs how many days are left before new version is out. See http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown for details. This banner also links to information page about distribution features and _mainly_ to beta releases which can attract more testers. I think it would be nice if openSUSE had something similar. I would created it by myself but unfortunately I don't have time right now.
I was thinking about this myself the other day. I love this idea.
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On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 17:17 +0200, Pavol Rusnak wrote:
Hello all!
I found out that Ubuntu has nice way to promote their new release - small banner which informs how many days are left before new version is out. See http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown for details. This banner also links to information page about distribution features and _mainly_ to beta releases which can attract more testers. I think it would be nice if openSUSE had something similar. I would created it by myself but unfortunately I don't have time right now.
-- Best Regards / S pozdravom,
Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o Package Maintainer Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz
Here's my mockup based off of the proposed 11.0 theme
http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/2/2c/SUSE11Countdown.png
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Kevin "Yo" Dupuy | Public Mail
Hay Guys! On 03.04.2008, at 00:28, Kevin Dupuy wrote:
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 17:17 +0200, Pavol Rusnak wrote:
Hello all!
I found out that Ubuntu has nice way to promote their new release - small banner which informs how many days are left before new version is out. See http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown for details. This banner also links to information page about distribution features and _mainly_ to beta releases which can attract more testers. I think it would be nice if openSUSE had something similar. I would created it by myself but unfortunately I don't have time right now.
-- Best Regards / S pozdravom,
Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o Package Maintainer Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz
Here's my mockup based off of the proposed 11.0 theme
http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/2/2c/SUSE11Countdown.png
Great Idea! Kevin: I like you first proposal. The only thing is, that I don't know is, if we can use the Geeko this way, but I check it out if there are any problems. Any wishes/Ideas about the sizes? Ubuntus 217/170px are a good size, but IMHO a microbanner would be cool to! And maybe we could let the JS pull after the releas a normal "Get openSUSE" banner, and reactivate it when the next release-countdoun starts? What do you think? Cheers, Robert --- Robert Lihm, Webdesigner - Build Service Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg Tel: +49-911-74053-0 - rlihm@suse.de ____________________________________________________________ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ____________________________________________________________ SUSE - a Novell business -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org
Robert Lihm wrote:
Any wishes/Ideas about the sizes? Ubuntus 217/170px are a good size, but IMHO a microbanner would be cool to! And maybe we could let the JS pull after the releas a normal "Get openSUSE" banner, and reactivate it when the next release-countdoun starts? What do you think?
See http://en.opensuse.org/Countdown -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o Package Maintainer Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org
Pavol Rusnak sanoi seuraavaa:
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Jan-Olof Eriksson sanoi seuraavaa:
Pavol Rusnak sanoi seuraavaa:
Does anyone know why Konqueror doesnt show those images, FF does http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/1481/valokuva4ei2.png J-O.E -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org
Jan-Olof Eriksson wrote:
Does anyone know why Konqueror doesnt show those images, FF does
Hopefully fixed. Please test again. -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o Package Maintainer Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org
Pavol Rusnak sanoi seuraavaa:
Jan-Olof Eriksson wrote:
Does anyone know why Konqueror doesnt show those images, FF does
Hopefully fixed. Please test again.
Yes, works. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org
Pavol Rusnak sanoi seuraavaa:
Is there way to have localized version? J-O.E -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org
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Jan-Olof Eriksson wrote:
|> See http://en.opensuse.org/Countdown
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| Is there way to have localized version?
It localizes automatically depending on the preferred language as
configured in your browser. So every visitor sees it in his language
(falls back to English when no translation is available).
You can also force a specific locale,
http://v3nus.homelinux.net:13000/c.php?lang=fi
For the small version, it's
http://v3nus.homelinux.net:13000/c.php?small&lang=fi
But typically, you'd want to let the server-side script detect the
browser's language settings ;)
PS: again, please don't refer to that URL, it'll be scrapped in one or
two days, as soon as it's on countdown.opensuse.org
cheers
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Pascal Bleser sanoi seuraavaa:
Jan-Olof Eriksson wrote: |> See http://en.opensuse.org/Countdown | | Is there way to have localized version?
It localizes automatically depending on the preferred language as configured in your browser. So every visitor sees it in his language (falls back to English when no translation is available).
You can also force a specific locale, http://v3nus.homelinux.net:13000/c.php?lang=fi
No i talked about these banners http://en.opensuse.org/Countdown -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org
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Pavol Rusnak wrote:
| I found out that Ubuntu has nice way to promote their new release -
| small banner which informs how many days are left before new version is
| out. See http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown for details. This
| banner also links to information page about distribution features and
| _mainly_ to beta releases which can attract more testers. I think it
| would be nice if openSUSE had something similar. I would created it by
| myself but unfortunately I don't have time right now.
And this one is rendered on server-side (just a small PHP script),
localized (*) depending on the browser locale and doesn't require any
javascript at all:
http://v3nus.homelinux.net:13000/
(thanks to jimmac for the design, translations have been contributed by
many on IRC)
(*) I already have en, de, fr, nl, it, se, pl, ru, el, da, nb, sv, fi,
cs, hr -- if you have another language to contribute... :)
I think that server-side rendering has some advantages:
- - pixel precision: Javascript based ones are screwed as soon as the user
zooms the font
- - doesn't require any Javascript support at all, it's just a plain PNG
- - can be localized from the HTTP headers sent by the browser (as any
website); you can't do that with Javascript, unfortunately
- - can render with the official, non-free openSUSE font (Cholla) as its
drawn on the template on the server and doesn't require that font to be
present on users' hosts (which isn't the case for obvious reasons)
- - less bytes to download (no Javascript, no jquery)
Downsides:
- - doesn't render quite as nicely as a browser does as the gd2 PHP image
functions don't do antialiasing (but I don't think it's that much worse,
judge for yourself)
- - positioning isn't exactly as good as a browser's CSS engine either,
have to compute everything on my own, pixel by pixel on the server-side
(doable though, I'm just a little lazy to code all that)
- - doesn't have the nice fade-in effect jimmac implements in his
Javascript version (top left on the URL above)
Thanks to darix, we could have that stuff up on countdown.opensuse.org
quickly.
Only TODOs remaining:
- - your feedback (yes, you ;))
- - more translations
- - code singular support (which is quite tricky in some languages such as
russian (thanks to Coolo for pointing that out), or even czech)
Comments ?
cheers
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~ -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/
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Pascal Bleser sanoi seuraavaa:
Only TODOs remaining: - your feedback (yes, you ;))
I love those. If i put that in Finnish wiki, do you continue host those? Or do you move those in opensuse.org server? J-O.E -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org
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Jan-Olof Eriksson wrote:
| Pascal Bleser sanoi seuraavaa:
|> http://v3nus.homelinux.net:13000/
|
|> Only TODOs remaining:
|> - your feedback (yes, you ;))
|
| I love those. If i put that in Finnish wiki, do you continue host those?
| Or do you move those in opensuse.org server?
The plan is to host it on countdown.opensuse.org, should be done on
monday or tuesday.
Don't link to the URL above, that's just temporary to show the current
implementation ;)
cheers
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