March 2012 - openSUSE Artwork - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-artwork] Splash Screen Contest
by andi robert 07 May '12

07 May '12

Splash Screens Contest Hello artists and enthusiasts. We have been hard at working with our artwork for 12.2 and now it is the time to style the distribution a little more. Since the most of artwork that we have now is a derivative of the official wallpaper created by Richard Brown and Marcus Moeller there is a big portion of our styling done for the distribution. However, there are a few other elements that need your creative collaboration. Splash screens for a few programs that we use can be greatly enhanced by your artistic inspiration. Libre Office GIMP Scribus Amarok Calligra Krita Blender The idea of this contest is that we can integrate the new chosen wallpaper into these splash screens for the release of 12.2. Guidelines 1. Use the default wallpaper as part of the image. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1363018/test3.jpg 2. Refer to the official artwork guidelines in how to use logos for these different applications. 3. Restrict your creation to the sizes specified. 4. Provide the sources of your work if chosen. 5. Present/submit your artwork to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Splashscreen Sizes (please use a standard resolution of 75 dpi) LibreOffice 440x480 http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design GIMP 320x480 http://www.gimp.org/ Scribus 391x295 http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Promotion_material Amarok 550x412 http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/File:Amarok_logo.svg Calligra 440x286 http://community.kde.org/Calligra/Logos Krita 440x286 http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Krita_Application_Logo.svg Blender 501x282 https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender/release/datafiles/… Only work the area at the bottom. Leave top as is. Please click “Upload” to the left of the wiki page and then select your files. As you finish the upload, please copy the “File:image-title.png” since this is the name of the file to be entered as you showcase your pictures in the wiki. Submission Dealine Thursday, 26 April 2012: openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 4 For more information about the current release roadmap, please visit: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] Improving the default wallpaper
by Eugene Trounev 15 Apr '12

15 Apr '12

Dear OpenSUSE artwork members, At our last IRC gathering we have chosen a new default wallpaper for the next release of the OS, and I took on a task of preparing it for the release. I took a shot at it and I think it's looking a little better. Now there aren't that many changes done, but for what I did here is an account with explanations: a) the overall color tone was adjusted - the original had a nice "old photo" look to it due to slightly washed palette used; very nice touch in itself, but I'm not sure we want a brand new release to look somewhat "washed" b) texture was added to compensate for Inkscape gradient deficiency (Inkscape can not do perfect gradients, using step algorithm instead) c) the shapes were smoothed out - purely cosmetic touch to make them look even more lightray-like There may be a few more tweaks I'll put on this, or Andy may come with an idea to make it even better. Please let me know what you think. Best Regards, Eugene Trounev [it-s]

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[opensuse-artwork] pretty things for oSC
by Jos Poortvliet 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Heya all! We need pretty things for oSC :D That includes a logo and a website... As for inspiration, do a google image search on Prague, look at the venue: http://www.kczahrada.cz/page/pronajmy http://imgur.com/a/MGaLO and on google maps where it is :D We almost have finished/finalized this, it's a matter of signing the contract, then we can announce it. But without a website and a logo a CfP is hard to do. I know you're all tired from the awesome work done on the distro artwork (!), the openSUSE Summit and the materials we're making. But - please? /Jos

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[opensuse-artwork] Transparent corner in in LibreOffice splash screen (bnc#751594)
by Petr Mladek 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Hi, Maciej came up with an interesting idea to make a corner transparent in LibreOffice splash screen. Please, find more details at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751594 What is your opinion? Is there any volunteer who would like to play with it and provide updated picture? Best Regards, Petr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] State of 12.2 Artwork
by Richard Brown 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Hi Team, Sorry I've been quiet for the last few weeks, been busy with work. Catching up with things now, it looks like we've still got plenty of work to do before we're 'ready' for 12.2 Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the below is my understanding of the current state of play We have my poorly implemented draft versions of the wallpaper, bootsplash, and all application splashes done, uploading to the appropriate gitorious repository http://gitorious.org/opensuse/art and implemented in 12.2/Factory as the appropriate branding packages We also have a new design floating around (source here) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32600284/test3.xcf.zip which is being billed as the 'new 12.2 design' in the Splash screen contest. However, this design is not in our gitorious repository, and is not packaged in any way, manner, or form for 12.2/Factory This leaves us with quite a dilemma - Being an xcf file and not our usual svg, it is going to need someone to do a significant amount of work to rework all of our tools currently held in http://gitorious.org/opensuse/art to properly implement this design across the distribution. I hate to be a party pooper, I am not prepared to do that much work alone, and am not aware of any others working on packaging art for 12.2. We've historically used SVG's because it makes things a lot easier when it comes to this implementation stuff (and there's other benefits too but not relevant for this discussion) I believe svg's is the right way we should be doing things and even if I didn't, I don't think approaching milestone 3 is a good time to throw out all of our tooling for the sake of this (rather nice) new design. If that design can be implemented in our usual svg format, I am prepared to do the work for packaging and implementing it, as well as remaking all the splash screens like I already have done for Factory If it can't be, we're going to need people to help get this design working and packaged - please take a look at what we have in the gitorious repo to learn how we're doing currently and all the places this design needs to be used. If you're interested in helping, please dive in, and I'll do everything I can to help you. Alternatively, we can return to the already implemented draft svg design and just tweak and tune that, all of those files are in gitorious, again, feel free to roll up your sleeves and pitch in, I'll help every way I can - I can be found here, or on #opensuse-artwork as usual Regards Richard / Ilmehtar -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-artwork] Transparent corner in in LibreOffice splash screen (bnc#751594)
by Eugene Trounev 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

Aren't we having a contest about now to come up with the best fitting splashes for GIMP, Libre, Other, etc.? I think if we are to go this route we will have to wait until after to contest is over, decide on the winning ideas, and then see if it makes sense to do any changes to the corners. Also I believe it's not up to a designer to decide if the corner is transparent or not. It's the way Libre's spalsh is made - as a solid window. If, for instance, you were to have any transparent areas in your original image, it would limply show the default window background through (light grey, or whatever is the default on your system). Best Regards, Eugene Trounev [it-s] On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Eugene Trounev <eugene.trounev(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Aren't we having a contest about now to come up with the best fitting splashes for GIMP, Libre, Other, etc.? > I think if we are to go this route we will have to wait until after to contest is over, decide on the winning ideas, and then see if it makes sense to do any changes to the corners. > Also I believe it's not up to a designer to decide if the corner is transparent or not. It's the way Libre's spalsh is made - as a solid window. If, for instance, you were to have any transparent areas in your original image, it would limply show the default window background through (light grey, or whatever is the default on your system). > > Best Regards, > > > Eugene Trounev > > [it-s] > > > > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Petr Mladek <pmladek(a)suse.cz> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Maciej came up with an interesting idea to make a corner transparent in >> LibreOffice splash screen. Please, find more details at >> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751594 >> >> What is your opinion? >> >> Is there any volunteer who would like to play with it and provide >> updated picture? >> >> >> Best Regards, >> Petr >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org >> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] photo strip
by jdd 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Hello, A people I know (french) is developing a software that mostly do video conversion, but aim to do much more. http://ekd.tuxfamily.org/index.php/Accueil/AccueilEnglish Right now, the last version allows to make "romans photos" - I don't know the exact English translation, but here is an example: http://www.copinedegeek.com/roman_geek/1.html I think we could do such thing for openSUSE may be I can help, but right now I'm overly busy, but if somebody want.. jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] Artwork Proposal: Standing Geeko
by Bryen M Yunashko 17 Mar '12

17 Mar '12

I have been toying with ordering a stand-up cutout Geeko to use at some events. See for what I mean here: http://www.partystandups.com/ Problem, we don't have any standing Geeko. The only real Geeko we have is a horizontal Geeko. Nice, but doesn't really give much flexibility for a more fun and interactive type Geeko. Anyone interested in coming up with a more 3D action type Geeko that we can use to promote the spirit of our beloved Geeko? Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] GSOC poster for conferences etc
by Jos Poortvliet 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Heya all, You might have read that GSOC 2012 is going to happen again: http://news.opensuse.org/2012/02/29/opensuse-gsoc-2012/ We need to tell students that they need to be HERE, with US! So we need a nice GSOC poster. Now google has made artwork for GSOC 2012: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0Z4BTG1iJDs/TyG9uyApFrI/AAAAAAAAAhY/raFJlaZqdes/s… I slapped a geeko on it but that's of course not good enough :D So, who can design some poster which can be used at conferences and universities to get students into GSOC 2012? I was thinking about taking google's image on the bottom of a poster, adding the blue on top and having some text there, see my crazy drawing here: http://susepaste.org/13964893 Something like that... I've uploaded it to github just so you have something as a starter :D BTW we still need a text for on this poster, too: http://susepaste.org/71297168 ideas? Love, Jos

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[opensuse-artwork] Dream openSUSE Initiative
by andi robert 04 Mar '12

04 Mar '12

Our initiative is now coming to a close! The Dream openSUSE initiative is about to be closed next saturday. We will not accept more submissions. The ones currently there will help in developing a better strategy when working with the default desktop in openSUSE. Thank you for your collaboration and if you have not participated yet, please do so by submitting a screenshot of your favorite desktop environment with comments about what modifications you have made here http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Dreamopensuse Thank you all Andy (anditosan) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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