April 2014 - openSUSE Artwork - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-artwork] On Branding
by Andy Silva 06 May '14

06 May '14

Hello friends, Given recent developments in the community about our branding efforts, it is that I write this email. The openSUSE Conference gave time to the SUSE team to present new ideas and guidelines about branding. The idea behind this presentation was to aid designers and contributors who use our brand to promote our community and distribution. Many of them have to produce print materials on their own and need help with the design. Up until now, our branding has decreased in strength and as a result, we might end up looking for ideas every time that we need to create materials for the distribution without having a core that guides our thoughts when creating artwork for events, LUGS, etc. Having to deal with such work is hard and slows down the overall progress of our branding efforts. I wanted to open the discussion about these branding guidelines proposed by the team here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-r_ML-MnMo Let me start by asking some question in sequence so we can answer in proper thread style 1. Ken and his team showed a new color palette, graphic elements such as a lightbulb and a geeko to use for posters and other print materials to be used as guidelines for future artwork that requires openSUSE branding. Are these branding guidelines going to be published in our wiki? Will they replace or add to the current guidelines placed in the wiki? http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Artwork_guidelines#Colors 2. Ken discussed the possibility of changing our current logo to match more closely the work that SUSE did on their logo to build a stronger brand image. Can you explain more about this idea? What conventions, proposals or extensions do you have in mind about the logo changes? 3. Richard asked during the video about possibly integrating this branding design into the distribution and what that would entail. What are the plans of the team about making branding materials available but at a distribution level? I also heard wallpaper proposals mentioned during the presentation and, if possible, would you share those? 4. Ken and the team work to help the openSUSE Community work on branding and create materials that will help further us as a brand. What is the relationship that the SUSE Design team has with the community? Ken explained to the audience that they are part of the community and if you can, would you explain how that goes about? How is their team part of the community and what methods do you use to communicate your work with other team members around the world? 5. Miscellaneous questions. Add questions of your own about the branding presentation here... Andy (anditosan) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] Re: Ready for brainstorming?
by Marcus Moeller 27 Apr '14

27 Apr '14

Dear Kenneth, > It was a lot of work with very little information (that is part of our presentation). Thanks for your presentation. Could you please point out who did the design? Was it you, or another SUSE internal? Has the process been tracked in GIT (meaning not a bundled upload, but the design evolution)? Who has choosen the color set? We already had a color definition for Bento (which did not contain 'swamp green'): http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Artwork_guidelines#Colors Greetings Marcus

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[opensuse-artwork] New LXDM theme
by jcsl 18 Apr '14

18 Apr '14

Hi. I'm working on a new theme for LXDM (LXDE's display manager). Here they are the images of the current prototype: LXDM With users list http://paste.opensuse.org/images/64701809.jpg LXDM Without users list http://paste.opensuse.org/images/417383.jpg Suggestions are welcome. Greetings. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-artwork] Re: Ready for brainstorming?
by Marcos B.R. 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

I have another idea. Change the menu icon (Kickoff) of openSUSE. I think that it's time to change the icon of the menú kickoff. With one of these icons you can see better that it is a chameleon, that it's openSUSE! Do a test! Change the icon of your menu. Select one of these: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9ba5ud7do5exj5f/zDe2QKiSM9 I prefer the "icon number 4 gradient" (is my favorite). Do you like it now? What do you think? Is possible to do this change in the next version? I can do it in other colours... 2014-04-14 18:13 GMT+02:00 Ish Sookun <ish(a)hacklog.in>: > +1 I like it ( : > > Ish Sookun > > - Geek by birth ... Linux by choice. > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > |H|A|C|K|L|O|G|.|i|n| > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Marcos B.R. <markosbr(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, few days ago i did something new, different than the current >> wallpaper. >> >> I published some works in the G+ community and i see that many users like >> it. >> I bet for a new wallpaper, new colours and forms following the current >> design trend. >> >> For do this wallpaper, i used two colours: The green colour of >> openSUSE logo (#91c04e) and the blue-green colour (#3daee9) that which >> is part of the color palette of KDE Visual Design Group. >> >> I did it in two resolutions 16:9 (3840x2160) and 16:10 (3840x2400). >> >> This wallpaper is clean and simple. Very very beautiful. >> >> Hope you like it! >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/hoymit1w9oxx3yi/openSUSE_wall_13-2.png >> >> 2014-04-13 20:46 GMT+02:00 Marcos B.R. <markosbr(a)gmail.com>: >> > Hello to everybody! This is my first time that i use the mailing list. >> > First, excuse me if i'm doing something wrong with this message. >> > >> > Well i'd subscribe at this mailing list to contribute. >> > >> > I'm an amateur designer and i would like to know if the artwork team >> > have plans to change the wallpaper in the next version. >> > I have some ideas and i would like to show some designs of mine. >> > >> > I would like to change the dark trend that we saw in the last two >> > versions and bet for something more clean, pure and colourful. >> > "Plasma next" is coming, and i would like to do something that is up to >> > the job. >> > >> > What do you think? >> > >> > Greetings! >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org >> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] Ready for brainstorming?
by Marcos B.R. 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Hello to everybody! This is my first time that i use the mailing list. First, excuse me if i'm doing something wrong with this message. Well i'd subscribe at this mailing list to contribute. I'm an amateur designer and i would like to know if the artwork team have plans to change the wallpaper in the next version. I have some ideas and i would like to show some designs of mine. I would like to change the dark trend that we saw in the last two versions and bet for something more clean, pure and colourful. "Plasma next" is coming, and i would like to do something that is up to the job. What do you think? Greetings! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] Improve LXDE's artwork.
by jcsl 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Hi. I'd like to see LXDE's default artwork improved. I know that you can change it at any moment, but having a default nice and homogeneous theme is nice. The changes I propose are: - Change the default GTK+ theme: currently it is Clearlooks that is GTK2 only. GTK3 apps have a bare metal look. We could use Adwaita, that is GTK2 and GTK3, and it looks nice. - However, if we choose to do so, there is a problem with some applications that use Adwaita's dark theme as default, causing visual inconsistency (Totem, Cheese). We could create a forked Adwaita package (Adwaita-LXDE?) with /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-3.0/gtk-dark.css removed to fix this. Maybe we could even modify some of the theme colors. For example, we could replace the default selection color from blue to green. - I think that we should not use textures for the panel. If you make the panel taller than the texture height it is repeated and looks ugly. What I do is to choose "Solid color (with opacity)", selecting as background color the background color of windows in Adwaita, and then I add a bit of transparency to distinguish it from the windows background color. - We can change the default Openbox theme. I did one that mimics Adwaita and gives visual consistency. You can see it here http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Adwaita-ob?content=162589. - The default icon theme looks nice, but we could choose another one, maybe Faenza. I've been working on the packages too. They are all built against GTK2 to avoid GTK3 related issues. There was a mix of packages, some of them built with GTK2 and some of them built GTK3, and I think that it is better to build them all using GTK2 or GTK3. Talking with one of the developers we concluded that it is better to stick to GTK2 at the moment. I put here some links for you to see the changes: 1. Default LXDE's look on openSUSE 13.1 http://susepaste.org/view/raw/82551363 2. LXDE's look (Clearlooks) after applying the updated packages from X11:lxde http://susepaste.org/view/raw/34231871 3. LXDE's look with default Adwaita's theme http://susepaste.org/view/raw/4316730 4. LXDE's look after the removal of gtk-dark.css in Adwaita's theme http://susepaste.org/view/raw/53109704 5. LXDE's final look without textures for the panel http://susepaste.org/view/raw/49952626 I'd like to hear comments from you. Greetings. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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