Hi Nenad, As Richard mentioned, I would avoid too much work which will very possibly require more work every release. If you were part of the upstream work and will be working on things anyway, I get the point but for now, without a promise from someone to keep this work up to date I wonder if changes things now only makes things harder in the future. In any case, I think that as far a branding is concerned it would be better for us to have a long(er)-term goal and a good plan to reach that goal. I'm not sure if making the folders green (on top of a green background with so many other green parts) is really good for the branding over-all. Both of the above are open questions, not final statements so please understand that I am trying to take part in the conversation, not end it :-) Anyway, in the end, what work you do it up to you...I just wanted to express my opinion. -- Kenneth On 05/04/15 08:36, Nenad Latinović wrote:
Hi Richard!
First of all, thanks for your response!
Yes, there was a time when I was offering the gtk theme editing, but as I have seen, deviating away from upstream too much can result in you having to do what realistically should be done by more people. As far as the screenshot goes, it's basically only the folders that have been edited from the original. The other (app) icons come in many different colours by default. As far as the oxygen theme recoloring goes, in plasma 5, someone has done it already, and it's only a matter of setting up the colour palette in a few clicks (I know you're a GNOME user, so I don't know how well do you know theme color editing in KDE, but it's *much* easier than in gnome. Just a few clicks and hex codes in the settings and you're good to go). But, as I've said in the original mail, in plasma 5, much has already been done by the kde team (I could notice a nice geeko KDE splash animation, and colors to be properly set up system-wide), and the only thing that bothered me and that broke up the uniformity of the look, were the breeze (new KDE default team by the Nitrux developers, who, btw, also originally created the icon set i modified in these screenshots) folders, or to be specific, places icon. Inkscaping them into our new selected color palette was a matter of minutes. Where would we benefit: - We wouldn't have the whole oxygen theme in our blue-green 'official' color, and places icons in plain breeze blue. - By changing *only* the places icons, and potential openSUSE 'start here' icons, we'd not deviate from the upstream too much (As i can't see them changing the folder icons that rapidly, certainly not more often than once in every few years. Look how long the oxygen icons existed as default). But this one hour job could help with icons not stepping out of bounds of the new brand guidelines. - If you'd like, I could do the whole breeze places recoloring and send it to you guys, to replace the blue folders in plasma five, and see how it looks with the rest of your theme. I bet it would be kickass. If not, I'll recolor them only for my use for 13.3, and upload it to the forum later, no biggie (I've been uploading modded icon and desktop themes to the forums for a year or so now, trying to make a resource for other geeko users who wanted more openSUSEish themes :) ) - To sum it up, yes, I could maintain the folders, because once done, it would not require much maintaining per se. But I would need someone with technical expertise to include them in the iso builds.
As far as branding guidelines go, I'd like to edit the wiki article about guidelines to be in accordance with our current branding guidelines, as provided by Ken and Zvezdana. Is that a go, or do we need someone to deliberate on that matter?
Kindest regards, and if you're celebrating, happy Easter!
--- Nenad Latinović holden87@opensuse.org
On 04.04.2015 23:38, Richard Brown wrote:
Nenad, this looks awesome - but the biggest question I have is how available/likely/dedicated will you be to keeping this maintained in the future?
KDE5 is an excitingly fast moving target, but that means its likely an effort like this will need ongoing care and attention going forward
Experience shows me that 'one shot' polish jobs like this don't last long, and I think it would be sad if we adopt it just to have to flip back to upstreams if we cant keep up with the demands on maintaining it :)
On 4 April 2015 at 14:57, Nenad Latinović <holden87@opensuse.org> wrote:
Hi there. A couple of days ago I've sent you an example of a breeze icon set folder recolored to match the new openSUSE colorscheme. Now, I've done the same with Nitrux icons + I've changed the oxygen colorscheme also. Here's a few screens for you to see how it looks in practice. Ken and Zvezdana, what do you think about it? As far as I could notice, the plasma 5 colorscheme and themes have been already done, but the breeze folders are default. I could recolor them to fit our colorscheme. Do get back people, so I don't have a feeling i'm doing all this in vain. :) Kind regards, -- Nenad Latinović holden87@opensuse.org
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