On Feb 14, 2008, at 3:24 AM, Robert Lihm wrote:

On 14.02.2008, at 05:17, Kevin Dupuy wrote:

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On Feb 13, 2008, at 10:10 PM, Kevin Dupuy wrote:

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Alright, so this was something I'd been meaning to do, but I was under some heavy work load from my non-openSUSE life ;-). I wanted to start discussions on the openSUSE Art mailing list for all of the proposed themes that are on the Pixel Pool page (en.opensuse.org/Artwork/Pixel_Pool).

I also want to take this opportunity to encourage anyone here who has any theme ideas for openSUSE 11.0 to check that page out, and give your idea. Mockups, scanned in paper sketches, even plaintext that gives your idea well will work. 11.0 is coming fast, so start working on your idea!

So, our first (and currently only) theme doesn't actually have a contributor name attached, but I believe it's an internal SUSE/ Novell guy ;-). It's called GreyGreen, and is available here: [http://en.opensuse.org/Artwork:Pixel_Pool/11.0/GreyGreen]

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So let me throw my opinion out there: I really like it! I am a big fan of the darker graphics, but of course this is openSUSE so there has to be green. I think this proposed theme really works well. I especially like the installer look. I'd have to say, I like the 10.3 graphics, but these are really nice and look extremely professional!

That's not to say I don;t have any ideas for improvements. For one, the grey area of the installer has a wavy background to it, and I think that would be a good idea to put though all of the grey areas, especially the one on the login screen.

Other than that, an excellent theme and I'd like to see what others have to say.

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Hej!

The mockups are "made by jimmac" (check out page history). In general I like them. Specially the grey-areas are cool! But I would replace the deep green in the background with the bamboo- green from the "Abord" button (installer). IMHO it would make it more friendly. The bamboo-green is like young grass in the spring. The deep-green is like old strong grass at a ending summer afternoon. I prefer the spring feeling :-) And I thing the dark green make it to "geeky". btw the grey "Help" button grey great! Maybe the rounded corners could be a bit less rounded(?).

Shall we post the YaST theme layouts stuff to http:// en.opensuse.org/Artwork:Pixel_Pool/11.0/ too? Last time I posted my mockup just to http://en.opensuse.org/Pimp_My_Installer.

Good work! :-)

Robert

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Yeah, post the YaST ideas to the Pixel Pool page I imagine. Or you could just do both? -- Kevin "Yo" Dupuy | Public Mail: Hope for America: Ron Paul for President -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org

Am Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 13:29:50 schrieb Andreas Demmer:

I'll now start making some roughly-drawn mockups to show what I mean...

Here are my mockup proposals: http://en.opensuse.org/Artwork:Pixel_Pool/11.0/GreyGreen#GreyGreen_modified Greets, Andreas -- http://www.andreas-demmer.de

On 2/14/08, Andreas Demmer wrote:

Sorry, wrong URL (was the original GreyGreen theme, here is the correct URL: http://en.opensuse.org/Artwork:Pixel_Pool/11.0/GreyGreen_modified

Looks nice too! -- Charles A. Landemaine. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org

Op Thursday 14 February 2008 16:36:59 schreef Dominique Leuenberger:

Hi,

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On 2/14/2008 at 15:17, "Charles A. Landemaine" wrote:

On 2/14/08, Andreas Demmer wrote:

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Sorry, wrong URL (was the original GreyGreen theme, here is the correct URL: http://en.opensuse.org/Artwork:Pixel_Pool/11.0/GreyGreen_modified

Looks nice too!

The graphics look really nice, but they go a certain 'kde way'... of course they are meant perfectly to fit the KDE installation. BUT: we also ship gnome,xfce,<other DE> on the disks and they should not look completely out of place once the installation is completed.

Maybe having a KDE theme, a gnome theme, and depending on what default DE is selected applying? The bad thing is: this would double the effort for having good themes that always fit.

Dominique

Could you specify whey they look KDE-ish? Too me the setupboot looks Gnome-ish but not in a way that does not fit with KDE or XFCE. So please specify for a noob like me :D Bart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org

Op Thursday 14 February 2008 16:58:54 schreef Dominique Leuenberger:

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On 2/14/2008 at 17:51, Bart wrote:

Could you specify whey they look KDE-ish? Too me the setupboot looks Gnome-ish

but not in a way that does not fit with KDE or XFCE. So please specify for a

noob like me :D

Bart

Maybe it's just the way I just associated the gray / dark system...the point is that in the gnome view, you have nowhere any black on the screen... so it looks a bit misplaced.

whereas in kde, you still have the dark on the screen afterwards (the dash bar or however it may be called now ;)

Dominique

So we customise the taskbar of Gnome and XFCE to black and we're done ;-). it's the only black on the screen for KDE (as long as we don't place Widgets on the desktop...however...could be nice) Bart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org

Kevin Dupuy escribió:

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http://en.opensuse.org/Artwork:Pixel_Pool/11.0/GreyGreen_modified

The graphics look really nice, but they go a certain 'kde way'... of course they are meant perfectly to fit the KDE installation. BUT: we also ship gnome,xfce,<other DE> on the disks and they should not look completely out of place once the installation is completed.

How? I think it would fit in with GNOME...

Looks really nice. I agree, it would fit in GNOME as well. Regards. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org

On Feb 14, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Bart wrote:

Op Thursday 14 February 2008 14:12:14 schreef Andreas Demmer:

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Am Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 14:08:45 schrieb Andreas Demmer:

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Here are my mockup proposals: http://en.opensuse.org/Artwork:Pixel_Pool/11.0/ GreyGreen#GreyGreen_modifi ed

Sorry, wrong URL (was the original GreyGreen theme, here is the correct URL: http://en.opensuse.org/Artwork:Pixel_Pool/11.0/ GreyGreen_modified

Greets, Andreas

That's what I meant. But now we need a KDM theme where the user- avatars are shown.....Could you make a mockup of that too?

Think this one is better then the original

Yeah, also I believe that the GNOME team will be using a face browser for GDM this version... -- Kevin "Yo" Dupuy | Public Mail: Hope for America: Ron Paul for President -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org

On Feb 14, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Andres Silva wrote:

Andreas Demmer wrote:

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Am Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2008 12:33:45 schrieb Bart:

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Maybe the login-screen is a little bit 'dark'. It does not look so fresh compared to the other screens. Maybe we can use the boot-screen and dupli it for the login?

I think the bootscreen is absolutely brilliant (except the light- effect on the welcome writings).

I think it would look greet to re-use the black bar (with openSUSE written on it) for most other screens, too. Maybe vertically centered. This would make a good-looking login screen.

I'll now start making some roughly-drawn mockups to show what I mean...

Greets, Andreas

I am also coming up with some more mockups based on the gray one. Maybe we can get more ideas out of more examples. Not only will I make one for the boot and installation process but also some on the desktop.

I am also wondering how customized do you want suse 11.0 to be. Because I was thinking that a good way to brand it even better is by havig a style of it's own. And I don't mean just the green wallpaper and the gekko somewhere on the desktop but I suggest that we take BESPIN style for kde4 and make it better, so that it can be used as default on suse 11. I do know that this particular style has been abandoned for kde4, but I see a lot of potential in it; whereas the oxygen theme, although really good, it is still being worked on and it could see further changes. BESPIN seems to be configurable enough or as slick in its current state.

Tell me what you think

Anditosan

I agree with you. I would like to customize theme so when people look at openSUSE and go... "that's unique" (in a good way). I like the idea of making a darker color GNOME panel. But, I also like the GNOME mockup of the original GreyGreen theme which had a nice looking panel. -- Kevin "Yo" Dupuy | Public Mail: Hope for America: Ron Paul for President -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org