Hi Team, Here's the current state of play with the artwork for 12.3 In short, we made it, just a little late.. Everything in the todo list got completed with a consistent colour and design theme, and that latest version of the branding-openSUSE package was accepted yesterday into the 12.3 branch This was too late for Release Candidate 1, but Release Candidate 2 and 12.3 Final should have our work If any of you want to make further changes, it is *highly unlikely* that I'll be able to get them past the Release Manager (coolo) and far more likely that we'll need to instead provide them as online updates. This shouldn't be a problem for any minor tweaks, but it does mean that it's too late for any major changes. (Major changes at this stage would also be a major problem for the Marketing Team, who are producing articles based on the artwork that will be in RC2) I have to say, after such a turbulent time for this team, the final sprint has been a pleasure to be a part of, and I think sets a good foundation for us to do it better going forward Special thanks for the last minute work by Andy (for his Grub2 design), Marcel (for gfxboot), Victor (for xfce), shumski (for KDM/kdelibs), Michal (for an improved Makefile) and tigerfoot (for everything) - we couldn't have made it without you, and it's thanks to your work at the last minute that 12.3 is going to be released with what I think is a pretty damn good look and feel, considering everything I think for 13.1 I am going to suggest a much earlier deadline for a 'design freeze', after which we can't have major changes to the design, so we have much longer to do the various bits and pieces that actually make the design 'work' in the distribution - and get feedback from our users earlier the last release candidate. So, get your thinking caps on, and start your design tools, we need 13.1 concepts now :) Have a lot of fun - Rich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org