June 2011 - openSUSE Artwork - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-artwork] artwork needed for Linux Magazine
by Jos Poortvliet 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Hey all, We need artwork for our media partnership with Linux Magazine, to be send to Florian Koenig (in CC). > - could you please send me your existing print ads (half page and > full page ad) so I can check if we can use them right away and > arrange them in the magazines where still possible? We have an conf add - it just needs to be adopted to fit in LM. We can do that & send it to Florian. Or, possibly - have a slogan on it which might attract people... After all, we aim to go beyond openSUSE, like last year, and we might put a slogan on there which makes that clear. Like 'go beyond one Linux' subtext: "openSUSE Conference 2011 will have developers from many linux distributions and projects to collaborate on the distribution technology of the future" In any case, we need this within 2 weeks, be it our current poster for oSC with or without the slogan, or something else. Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-artwork] Base colour and code-name of release
by Atri Bhattacharya 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

Hi! I don't know if this has already been discussed and therefore is redundant, and I apologise in advance if that is the case, but I wanted to suggest that we base the artwork (esp., the wallpaper) of the release on the colour referred to by the release code-name. For 12.1 the code-name is "Asparagus" referring to the colour #87A96B [1]. Bye -- Atri [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagus_%28color%29#Asparagus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] Strategy voting reminder!
by Jos Poortvliet 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

Hi all! In 3 days, the voting for the openSUSE strategy has to be done. We've had only about 1/5th of our members vote and that's not a lot. Now I know we don't have any way to check if members are still very active so maybe most are not. But if you are, please, vote! Find the last article from news.o.o here: http://bit.ly/iB2Dzh And a direct link to voting: http://bit.ly/kZaAC2 You just have to log in with your connect account and VOTE! For 2 years people have been asking 'what does openSUSE want'. We tried to put that in the strategy. Ok, it is not perfect, but that is because we didn't appoint someone to tell us what we want but because we *asked*. And then, yes, you get compromise. Anything bad in there is there either because you didn't speak up (tssss bad bad) or the majority disagreed with you. And that is how it SHOULD work. It is what sets us apart from the other major distributions - we have no dictator or 'steering group'. But democracy also comes with responsibilities - voting! Now, enact your democratic duty, here: http://bit.ly/kZaAC2 Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-artwork] Strategy voting reminder!
by Jos Poortvliet 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Hi all! In 3 days, the voting for the openSUSE strategy has to be done. We've had only about 1/5th of our members vote and that's not a lot. Now I know we don't have any way to check if members are still very active so maybe most are not. But if you are, please, vote! Find the last article from news.o.o here: http://bit.ly/iB2Dzh And a direct link to voting: http://bit.ly/kZaAC2 You just have to log in with your connect account and VOTE! For 2 years people have been asking 'what does openSUSE want'. We tried to put that in the strategy. Ok, it is not perfect, but that is because we didn't appoint someone to tell us what we want but because we *asked*. And then, yes, you get compromise. Anything bad in there is there either because you didn't speak up (tssss bad bad) or the majority disagreed with you. And that is how it SHOULD work. It is what sets us apart from the other major distributions - we have no dictator or 'steering group'. But democracy also comes with responsibilities - voting! Now, enact your democratic duty, here: http://bit.ly/kZaAC2 Cheers, Jos

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Re: [opensuse-artwork] Base colour and code-name of release
by andi robert 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Jos Poortvliet <jos(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > On Monday 20 June 2011 16:35:25 andi robert wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jos(a)opensuse.org> wrote: >> > On Monday 20 June 2011 02:10:22 andi robert wrote: >> >> That is good input Jos. I mostly think it a good idea moving away from >> >> oxygen because of the lack of customization that you can do on it. >> >> QtCurve has a very detailed interface that lets you change just about >> >> whatever you want. Something that is not available currently on >> >> Oxygen. If you look into kde-look.org you will see that there are >> >> plenty more qtcurve configurations for download than Oxygen tweaks. >> >> This gives me the impression, that at some level, KDE users want to be >> >> able to customize their window styling. But obviously, such is a very >> >> personal preference. People from the community can vote and see >> >> whether they would like to change this. >> > >> > Design by committee - I'm not so sure. I know Oxygen isn't super >> > customizable but why does it have to be? It has the most important >> > options (and have you ever seen oxygen-settings?) and simply looks good >> > by default. >> > >> > If people want QtCurve, they can use it. I'd be all for removing some of >> > the bad default styles from KDE and adding QtCurve instead, with a few >> > nice default configurations shipped by us. It is easy to make that >> > happen - fork the QtCurve package on OBS, add the configurations, submit >> > it back to Factory. >> > >> > But I wouldn't replace Oxygen by default, it's a really good and modern >> > style. I actually know a few professional designers (of course Mac >> > users) which tell me it's the first linux style they like. And quite >> > it's unique, compared to Mac or Windows or Android. >> >> Oxygen works nicely, there is nothing wrong with it except that it is >> a very blend color set. Maybe we can change that and bring extra >> contrast to the Oxygen colors on a window style. > > You could default to another color scheme but it would need extensive testing > on a variety of screens to make sure it doesn't look bad. I've seen older > versions of oxygen (which had more contrast in the background gradient) look > absolutely horrible on cheap LCD screens - which are used a lot at companies > and in cheap laptops. We don't want to ship something which only looks good on > a high-end monitor... > >> >> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jos Poortvliet <jos(a)opensuse.org> wrote: >> >> > On Sunday 19 June 2011 23:03:40 andi robert wrote: >> >> >> I was thinking we could add custom icons, window styles (qtcurve for >> >> >> max compatibility with gtk apps) a new color scheme, and custom >> >> >> widgets for the KDE desktop. >> >> >> >> >> >> This is what I have currently >> >> >> >> >> >> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/823/snapshot68.png/ >> >> >> >> >> >> Although, that image has more. >> >> > >> >> > I wouldn't deviate too much from the standard KDE look. Especially >> >> > Oxygen is very good, well maintained and with oxygen-gtk integrates >> >> > GTK apps perfectly (lots of improvements coming with 4.7). With >> >> > Oxygen you benefit from the hard work of some incredibly good artists >> >> > - they for example optimized the colors to not look crappy on many >> >> > old-and-bad monitors. That was difficult work and something I'd >> >> > rather not have to re-do. And think about graphics performance, >> >> > usability, stuff like that. GNOME 3, meanwhile, also focusses heavily >> >> > on a 'standard' look. And the same there goes for colors etc. >> >> > >> >> > We can and should of course have our own wallpaper, GRUB, boot-, >> >> > login- and app splashes. Moreover, we could do as we did before with >> >> > the Plasma theme - have a subtle variation, replacing the circles >> >> > with something more opensuse-y. >> >> >> >> I like this too. The more clever branding, the better. I was thinking >> >> also that it could be pretty good to try different default widgets, >> >> not just the folder one. But something like Weather, RSS or something >> >> of the sort. Even a small plasma tutorial to start using openSUSE. >> > >> > Agreed, the default panel and applet setup is something we could change. >> > Why not do a proposal? A plasma tutorial thing would be awesome but has >> > to be written by someone :D >> >> As I think of this, plasmoid ideas that can be useful would be: >> >> RSS: (feed, opensuse, and newspapers) >> Folder: (not on the default desktop folder but on the home folder, I >> have seen that the desktop icons for folder view repeat themselves on >> the taskbar) >> Weather: (a small one) >> Tutorial: This could be a link to youtube videos showing how to use >> openSUSE, or a small html writeout on how to get started. >> Desktop Arrows: for easy desktop change. >> (http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2010/07/todays-30-minute-hacks.html) > > Yeah, these might indeed be useful. The tutorial one needs to be created and > that would be quite some work - we'll have to find someone to do it. That > might be something for a hack session at the openSUSE conference. > > We could also add a microblogging widget, btw. > >> > Maybe you can propose a hack session for the openSUSE conference to write >> > such a plasmoid. With QML it is easy, we can get Sebas or others to help >> > us with it, teach it or do it after the Plasma/QML workshop Sebas will >> > surely give and ask people there to join the hack session and help us >> > out with their new skills! If we can have a good proposal beforehand we >> > could write it at oSC. >> > >> > Such a proposal would be nice to make & blog about to get feedback... >> >> Do you think it would be good to create mockups for these? > Sure. > I created a mockup for a simple menu idea. I was thinking creating a few more going from simple to fully featured. Tell me what you think, and you are welcome to edit or ask what these icons mean. https://cacoo.com/diagrams/Qwmnz9CqLnrTya2r -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help(a)opensuse.org

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Fwd: [opensuse-artwork] Base colour and code-name of release
by andi robert 26 Jun '11

26 Jun '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: andi robert <anditosan1000(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse-artwork] Base colour and code-name of release To: Will Stephenson <wstephenson(a)suse.de> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Will Stephenson <wstephenson(a)suse.de> wrote: > On Sunday 19 Jun 2011 12:01:58 Javier Llorente wrote: >> El Lunes, 13 de Junio de 2011 08:43:47 Atri Bhattacharya escribió: >> > Hi! >> > I don't know if this has already been discussed and therefore is >> > redundant, and I apologise in advance if that is the case, but I wanted >> > to suggest that we base the artwork (esp., the wallpaper) of the release >> > on the colour referred to by the release code-name. For 12.1 the >> > code-name is "Asparagus" referring to the colour #87A96B [1]. >> > >> > Bye >> >> That was already done with 11.4 (Celadon) :-P > > And that was just my random suggestion because I liked the celadon shade > better than the bluish green that gnokii had started with - it's not a rule, > and neither does Coolo choose the code names systematically - it just happened > that it was the start of asparagus season here in Nuremberg when the 12.1 > cycle started. > > I discussed green as colour with Nuno Pinheiro, one of the KDE/Oxygen > designers, and he pointed out that green is a problematic colour for screen > branding because out of RGB, green has the narrowest colour gamut and worst > fidelity on most hardware. That means that any new green shade we choose will > probably get shifted to something else on users' monitors (unless they have > the same designer-quality IPS screen as the person who chose it), probably > duller than the intended shade, and accounts for the complaints of 'swamp > water' that we got with the 11.2 KDE background: > http://www.heise.de/imgs/18/4/2/3/7/4/6/opensuse.png-e9e30e93dbaaf58d.jpg > > Anyone else want to be brave and do something different this time round? 12 > is a new major number for us. > > Will My earlier suggestion was to have a mix of a vibrant green as well as mixes of grays and probably browns. I think that they can match pretty well. If not, we could find some good palettes to work with from kuler.adobe.com for example. They have a very big collection of palettes that can even be extracted from pictures and tweaked until one finds a good combination. I actually found a very cool one in Kuler called "Xplana Bright." It has very warm and nice colors. As far as what Nuno says about greens, I agree but not completely. The same visual problems happen to all the colors that you want to work with across different screens. It all depends on what kind of settings are placed on each device. Greens have, however, a chromatic signature that makes them somewhat weak, yet they can be worked out for better contrast. This is especially true once you find good colors to combine it with. > > -- > Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, > HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help(a)opensuse.org > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help(a)opensuse.org

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Fwd: Re: [opensuse-artwork] Base colour and code-name of release
by Javier Llorente 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Forwarding to opensuse-artwork... ---------- Mensaje Reenviado ---------- Asunto: Re: [opensuse-artwork] Base colour and code-name of release Fecha: Domingo, 19 de Junio de 2011 De: andi robert <anditosan1000(a)gmail.com> Para: Javier Llorente <javier(a)opensuse.org> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Javier Llorente <javier(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > El Lunes, 13 de Junio de 2011 08:43:47 Atri Bhattacharya escribió: >> Hi! >> I don't know if this has already been discussed and therefore is >> redundant, and I apologise in advance if that is the case, but I wanted >> to suggest that we base the artwork (esp., the wallpaper) of the release >> on the colour referred to by the release code-name. For 12.1 the >> code-name is "Asparagus" referring to the colour #87A96B [1]. >> >> Bye > > That was already done with 11.4 (Celadon) :-P > > -- > Javier Llorente > That is a good idea. It makes me thing of how much green there will be on this one. Please let's do more than just change the wallpaper please :D Our openSUSE can use more green than a change of shirt. ------------------------------------------------------- Andi, what do you suggest for that? :) -- Javier Llorente

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[opensuse-artwork] Merging requests
by Jos Poortvliet 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Hi all, There's a merge request for the artwork repository. I could try and get it merged but that'll take me half a day... Sorry but I try to keep away from git as much as I can, too complicated for this simple mind. Maybe someone with some git fu can take care of it? Or is it possible to do it from gitorious, I tried to figure that out but couldn't... https://gitorious.org/opensuse-artwork/opensuse-artwork/merge_requests/1

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[opensuse-artwork] 12.1 Mokups
by Raul 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Hello friends, And then, let's start? The 12.1 is with the same appearance of 11.4. It's time we start to produce the wallpapers, skins, andwhat else is needed. cheers, -- Raul Libório http://rauhmaru.blogspot.com/ rauhmarutsªhotmailºcom openSUSE Member | Linux User #4444581 "There are only 10 types of people in the world - Those who understand binary, and those who don't." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] ! k3b do not allow any more burning blu-ray with original cdrecord
by jdd 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

I didn't burn blu-ray for some time, and when trying to do so right now, I couldn't. K3b keep asking for growisofr, which is buggy the original cdrecord installed from obs do not anymore remove this dependency. packman k3b 2.0.2 thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help(a)opensuse.org

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