On Saturday 23 November 2013 08.57:22 Andres Silva wrote:
Hey everyone!
Now that 13.1 is out of the oven, happy release everyone!
I wanted to propose some changes for 13.2. Since the dark theme created by our contributors has gained some good popularity among the community and reviewers, I think it is not too far fetched to propose to “keep” this dark theme for upcoming versions of openSUSE. I would say at least through the 13 series and only make a major change to it from version 14 on. This would give us a really long tome to mature the theme even further, theme other elements of the distribution that need it and keep consistency with our users.
Here is a tentative list of what changes we could help make for version 13.2
- Revamp vine wallpaper (Make a new version but keeping the same vine idea from 12.3 and 13.1) Until the green is a variation of "#FFBFF0" and also we get ride of geeko on a leave of giant beans, I'm okay ;-) One big changes would be to finally get one big wallpaper (think about the 3200x1800 pixels screen coming) and be able to pick a part (crop) of it for each resolution would be perfect compared to the waste we have actually. - Change default font (KDE and Gnome) to Open Sans (a great and very complete font family very readable) Should be a default for all the desktop we have. Questions how behave openSUSE for non regular charset like chinese, and others (nordic etc) If this is the font http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans you can see there's a lot of missing char.
- Add “New” vine wallpaper to alternative desktops Take it at todo, find alternative desktops maintainer, and contact them to join the branding effort. - Finish complementary wallpaper collection package You mean start a new collection right ? - Start the creation (integration if time permits) of a “light” version of the KDE plasma theme What is this one? I don't understand, sorry. - Create a matching dark version of a Gnome Shell theme somewhat matching KDE’s dark plasma theme (will have to investigate this one and learn it) What do you mean by that ?
Reasons
It is always a good question to ask why the changes are being proposed. I would say, these changes push a little forward into making openSUSE extra singular and also look similar, by default, across different desktop flavors.
I invite our group to make suggestions and set ourselves goals for 13.2.
Thank you!
Andy (anditosan) Having booting a 11.4 and a 12.2 recently those design miss me. and 12.3/13.1 look a bit sad compared.
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