On Sunday 24 August 2014 13.39:19 Richard Brown wrote:
Apologies for the top post but I'm very short on time this weekend
I have a very strong objection to deciding the default wallpaper of the distribution by voting
We have tried that repeatedly, and each time that has happened, the design chosen by popular vote was absolutely unusable as a default wallpaper/base for distribution branding, which just resulted in an amplified mess - there's one thing worse than an ad-hoc decision making process, and that's a rushed ad-hoc decision making process because the primary one failed, raised peoples expectations, and dashed them because of technical realities.
When it comes to 13.2, this is how I see things - note, this is my personal OPINION, I know I'm probably missing stuff and that my opinion it's not universally shared, but I'm sharing it now succinctly for clarity.
1. We have a new YaST branding from Kenneth which everyone seems to accept 2. We have 2 leading designs for a default wallpaper - one from Marcus, one from Zvesdana 3. The one from Marcus compliments the current KDE theme 4. The one from Zvesdana compliments Kenneths YaST theme 5. There's lots of other nice designs from other people that I feel are more suitable for a supplementary wallpapers package.
Now, as a maintainer of the branding package, at this point I see it as my responsibility to tidy up this mess, make decisions, and get stuff implemented.
I, personally, intend to choose Zvesdanas design. The factors which led me to this decision are as follows:
A - It compliments the new YaST design with is a major change for the distro which everyone, not just KDE users, will see B - Zvesdana's design hits the suggested criteria that I proposed for the 13.2 branding, no Geeko, clear, clean, fresh C - I feel that, while I like Marcus' design, it borrows too much from the previous designs, when I really wanted to do something very fresh. D - Marcus design has a very striking Gradient and soft focus, while beautiful, also poses HUGE problems for me to implement complimentary works in Grub, Plymouth, where such things are much harder to get to look right. Marcus overstated my abilities when he threw the design up and said that "Richard could handle the gradient" - it's just too fine and too much work for me to do. E - Zvesdana's design has provided me some inspirational ideas for how to brand things like Grub/Plymouth/etc, where as I've drawn a blank on how to effectively brand those parts of the distro in a way that compliments Marcus' design. F - Zvesdana is a new contributor to the Project who's never had a wallpaper in the distribution before, where as Marcus is a rugged veteran who hopefully will understand where I'm coming from with this and understand there is nothing personal in my opinion.
So that's what I think, but for the record, this isn't a dictatorial decision.
If people want to put together an alternative branding package, or really think they can make another design work, great, and I will honestly, openly, and fairly consider any SR's to the branding-openSUSE package - especially if they get submitted before I have time to do the work myself
But this is my statement of where I intend to put my efforts over the next week to get 13.2 branded.
I'm sorry this isn't going to be to everyone's pleasure, but I have to put my time into working with the option I feel is best/easiest/etc
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