Hey folks We need a banner for the countdown to 12.1. So I had a look at what's there so far, specifically Marcus' great work on the 12.1 wallpaper ... and it's a bitmap :( Look, I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings but, really, use Inkscape or let it be :\ There are many problems with using bitmapped files (PNG, JPEG, ...): * they don't scale properly, it becomes blurred and unreadable, or pixelated * they are not reusable, at all, it's a one-shot: - nobody can make any modifications - it cannot be reused in parts or adapted (e.g. for the countdown banners) Especially since we're working in a team, in an open source project, creating work that cannot be reused or adapted by others is defeating the whole point. PNGs are exactly the same as binary RPM packages: better than nothing, but not open source, as they cannot be adapted for technical reasons. So please please please, pretty please, get used to doing stuff with Inkscape and SVG files. I mean *actual* SVG files, not SVG files that just have a bitmap in it. So we're back at square one: we don't have anything that I can use for the countdown banner. And the same will apply for any marketing material we are going to need in a very near future: * presentation backgrounds * posters * flyers etc... A bitmap will be useless for that kind of stuff too, as it cannot be re-rendered in the appropriate resolution, not be modified or used in parts, etc... The issue for the countdown banner, specifically, is that it has to be SVG and include placeholders for the localized text and amount of remaining days in it. It is processed by a script and then rendered as PNGs using inkscape's batch mode. Furthermore, I can't just use the wallpaper as the background because it needs to be reworked to have the key design elements of it fit into 400x400, 256x256 and 130x130 pixels :\ The only artwork submission for 12.1 that is actual SVG is Richard's: https://spideroak.com/browse/share/Ilmehtar/openSUSEArtwork (whom, at least as he told me, will commit his work to the art repo today ;)) cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf