I think a lot of these are good ideas. I believe Kenneth said it well that to do this effectively will require significant, well explained definition, of a "how to" pull this off for those artistic users who wish to design brand specific.
i) Develop openSUSE specific styling guidelines; iI) Develop openSUSE specific look and feel including - icons, desktop theme, window theme; iii) Restyle the website to follow the guidelines and the desktop theme conventions; iv) [Possibly] redesign the logo itself None of those changes however are going to happen tomorrow, or even in the next release. If any of these does happen it's only upon the grater community consent and involvement. So, consider this to be an [active] proposal, and start the discussion.
I do think the website could use some "glitter" if you will as compared to the websites of other distributions (IMHO) it lacks a real advertising value to it. We are after all selling a product even though we don't charge any money for it. Redesigning Geeko and the logo are an interesting idea. I think we should not stray "too far" from being still similar yet separate from SUSE and I think Bryan has a good idea with adding "project" in there. I think it gives a nice community feel to it "openSUSE Project" sounds nice, I like that. As for icons and widows and such, I think we should stay with shades of green or whatever specific icons would be appropriate for their usage, but focused on green. Ubuntu has their orange and Fedora has their blue and we have our green and I think that should stay congruent throughout whatever "eye candy" we change. Will mentioned something that makes a lot of sense and that was that many people (myself inclusive) customize their desktops, icon themes and such from the liveries so in that respect a set of default icons that change can be a project people can submit for possible adaptation to any future distribution, but there are also a lot of people who like to get comfortable recognizing certain icons to specific applications without much change. We might be best to leave this one alone?
Now to the near future (next release). I would like to propose a few changes to the current artwork and styling process. i) To separate the boot-loader image from the desktop wallpaper and make those into two totally separate efforts ii) The boot-loader (including GRUB, boot-splash, and login) will be styled by the artwork team internally and should be as simple as possible and vector based iii) The wallpaper will be decided upon via contest (just like the last time), but this time around we do it entirely with the collection from Flickr, and demand specific copyright license for each picture submitted
I think this all sounds fine. We can use Flickr if that works for everyone else. Whatever we decide on should be easily accessible and easy for people to see and use so more people can participate, vote, add and be a part of the whole process. The guidelines we have are pretty good in the wiki, but could use a little polish so they don't sound so "techy" or boxed in with a ton of rules and guidelines that will scare people off from even making an attempt to produce images we can use in releases. As I've said before, I'm all for change and doing whatever it takes to help make openSUSE a fun project where people will want to use our product, hang out and be a part of the process in any big or small way that they want to help. I think as long as we don't lose focus on that aspect of it, whatever we decide will probably turn out ok. : ) On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Eugene Trounev <eugene.trounev@gmail.com> wrote:
openSUSE Summit has come and gone, and now it's time to draw the line. Many people has been spoken to, many discussions took place and the end result of all those discussions is the following proposal. [Please Note: the proposal is from ME personally, and is targeted at the artwork team AND the developmental team, as I strongly believe in community involvement]
A) It has been discussed on-and-off for some time that openSUSE is in dare need of re-branding, or to be even more precise - of branding, as there currently is practically none. Changing a default wallpaper from one release to another does not constitute a strong, recognizable brand name. As a part of the branding precess (should we agree on one at all) we will attempt to: i) Develop openSUSE specific styling guidelines; iI) Develop openSUSE specific look and feel including - icons, desktop theme, window theme; iii) Restyle the website to follow the guidelines and the desktop theme conventions; iv) [Possibly] redesign the logo itself None of those changes however are going to happen tomorrow, or even in the next release. If any of these does happen it's only upon the grater community consent and involvement. So, consider this to be an [active] proposal, and start the discussion.
B) Now to the near future (next release). I would like to propose a few changes to the current artwork and styling process. i) To separate the boot-loader image from the desktop wallpaper and make those into two totally separate efforts ii) The boot-loader (including GRUB, boot-splash, and login) will be styled by the artwork team internally and should be as simple as possible and vector based iii) The wallpaper will be decided upon via contest (just like the last time), but this time around we do it entirely with the collection from Flickr, and demand specific copyright license for each picture submitted
This is all for now. Please let me know what are your thoughts/comments on A) & B)
Best Regards,
Eugene Trounev
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