As for the release artwork for 12.3, I like the Grow design. I would
have preferred a shade of green or lime in the background rather than
the grey but that's just mho.
With regards to the manner in which all the artwork has been compiled
and selected I think I will keep my personal opinion to myself but to
say this: A plan was set in motion which received support and others
followed yet in the end a decision was made by persons with
"meritocratic" influences to override all other entries. In an earlier
email the statement was made that open source is not a democracy where
subjects are voted on but a meritocracy where those with the
capability to do so can and will if they decide to do so. I believe
it's a reality we all need to understand so we can maintain a
comprehension and acceptability of the state of things as we continue
to be productive throughout the development of each release.
I myself looked back on the artwork that was submitted through the
Flickr page and have to agree that while many of them are truly
excellent submissions, the vast majority are not the type of design
typically used for core design. This is not to say that we should
maintain a "typical" design with each release either. There are a
number of beautiful photographs that would make excellent core art for
8 months until the next release comes out. However, since there is not
truly any one particular person or group with the responsibility to
decide what makes it and what doesn't to be the core artwork for any
given release it will always be the person with the highest level of
merit in the meritocracy very similar to a hierarchy.
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Marcus Moeller
Hi all.
As the 12.3 release date gets closer, we should focus on preparing the artwork, now.
From what I can see, we got proposals from Victor:
http://paste.opensuse.org/44822206
and the one Ivan, Richard and I was working on:
http://marcusmoeller.ch/share/oS/12_3/grow_05.png
The latter has been prepared to work well with the produkt-based Plasma theme that is in testing in K:D:F and Factory right now.
There are already a lot of submissions on the flickr page, but from what I can see, at least the non-photographic designs, does not fullfil our logo guidelines. The photos could of course be bundled to a supplementary wallpaper package. (who will do the work?)
I would like to suggest to push the above two proposals to factory and continue working on it. We would also gain more feedback this way.
Is that okay for you?
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