James Mason wrote:
Now seems to be the time that people are throwing ideas at the wall, seeing what will stick.
My proposal is that we stick with what's already stuck. Despite the rough start, we've gotten *huge praise* for the artwork in 12.3, SO LETS FINISH IT:
1. Keep the core wallpaper design of 12.3. 2. Improve desktop integrations: 1. GNOME: flush out the time-sensitive wallpaper stack 2. KDE: Find/build a beautiful, functional KDM theme (or not...see 3). 3. E17: Wallpaper integration. 3. Unify our desktop experience: 1. Pick a unified desktop manager to use for *all the desktops*: SLiM, CDDM, LightDM, Entrance, etc... or GDM/KDM. Just one, though, that we can theme consistently. 2. Pick/build a unified icon theme to use for *all the desktops*: I don't care if its built on oxygen or gnome-icons, or back to Tango... but it ought to be beautiful, and at least somewhat *green*.
This could be harder to do but more consistent. There are icon themes that can go well with this, for example, faenza, tango, nuvola, elementary, etc. Although, it is also a good idea to select one that can have more support for while in gnome one icon theme can cover all aspects of the interface, it could fall short on KDE and some icons could be missing. I have been looking for a good icon theme replacement, in case oxygen does not fit well as a standard across desktops.
4. Improve supporting materials: since we won't be building everything from scratch we can focus a bit more on banners for social media, printables such as posters or banners in a variety of common sizes (and languages), etc.
This is more a matter of marketing. Generally, release artwork managed by this team involves creating online marketing and not printed materials, other than the dvd jacket and occasionally the openSUSE Box. This also involves setting aside money that can supply printing materials. If the proposal is to produce more printed materials, let's explore that along with our marketing team. That way we can create specific marketing materials.
5. Improve community engagement: Actually run, then collect and package, a selection of backgrounds from the community as supplemental artwork.
This is already being done. There have been a few submissions already and Ilmehtar (Richard) has agreed to set time and package a supplemental set of wallpapers for 13.1. Stay tuned! :D
That's all I've got. Just to iterate: I'm much rather see us put our efforts into refining a success than tossing it and starting over, just because that's what we usually do.
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