Andy (anditosan)
On Nov 23, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Bruno Friedmann
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.
Sans Serif is probably missing more than open sans. However, if there are other similar font families out there with a refined look, like open sans and more complete, we can suggest other alternative collections. I did some testing on KDE and Gnome and open sans responded quite well to clarity and definition. But this does not mean it is the “only” family we can consider.
- 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 ?
The collection is already there, we just did not have the time to make the different resolutions and actually package them.
- 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 ?
Gnome has a shell theme that is already dark, but it does not match the KDE plasma theme. My idea is to either create or edit one to match more closely to what KDE has.
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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