Feature changed by: Andy Fitzsimon (afitzsimon) Feature #311078, revision 4 Title: Open Source Designers Workstation Hackweek VI: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andy Fitzsimon (afitzsimon) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The aim of this project is to make an appliance with suse studio that caters to the majority needs of visual creative designers. it will look fantastic, contain only what is needed for most design tasks and be ready to use instantly for a wide variety of design tasks the project requires the following * building some packages (marked with * ) * setting up overlay files * small documentation and walkthroughs * testing * a website + artwork Appliance Summary: Software * Docky + theme * Gnome-Do * * gnome-globalmenu * * Nautilus Elementary bzr branch lp:nautilus-elementary/2.28.4 * * Gloobus: bzr branch lp:gloobus * Inkscape * Scribus * pdfmod * * Gimp (single window mode + custom config) http://lh5.ggpht.com/_V59uKesC_4c/TQDAnGesU4I/AAAAAAAABAs/2s6Z1NcXCsI/s800/s... (http://lh5.ggpht.com/_V59uKesC_4c/TQDAnGesU4I/AAAAAAAABAs/2s6Z1NcXCsI/s800/s...) * * darktable * fontforge * simplescan * mypaint * hugin * blender * vlc * sparkleshare * gedit plugins : filesearch, embedded terminal, colorpanes http://lh3.ggpht.com/_V59uKesC_4c/TITvZuhYZTI/AAAAAAAAA74/RnvCgcJs9JA/gedit-... (http://lh3.ggpht.com/_V59uKesC_4c/TITvZuhYZTI/AAAAAAAAA74/RnvCgcJs9JA/gedit-...) * chromium, firefox * transmission * compiz + config * openshot * gtkrecordmydesktop * Libre Office * * gnome-font-manager http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/ (http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/) * * App style http://code.google.com/p/appstyle/ (http://code.google.com/p/appstyle/) * CUPS * gwibber * pidgin (with facebook plugin) Optional Software * sparkleshare * git, bzr, mecurial, svn * boab non-foss software: skype, opera, adobe reader (evince should still have pdf viewer association through nautilus) Resources: * palettes * brushes * templates * Fonts + google fonts + more * svg clipart Configs: * Plugins * Theme * Shortcuts * Good defaults Documentation * introduction * screencast walkthrough * tutorials Use Case: - Desktop Publishing: Bill needs to make a billboard for an upcoming - conference. He has a high quality DSLR camera to capture images. His - photos will require quick sight-editing at time of download and - possibly more advanced editing later. Bill will have to make and edit - various illustrations in a vector format with colors based on a - commonly used palette. Bill wants to use new typography from an easy to - mange font library. He may also need to manually edit his chosen fonts - for the job. Bill will then need to create an advanced PDF with custom - print and cutting instructions for the billboard. He will manually - specify spot colors for his printer to add to the final print run. Bill - needs to share his experiences, chat to his stakeholders and friends - via, aol,msn,yahoo etc bill would like to record a screencast of the - whole process which he will edit and put online. Bill wants to do all - of this for free + Desktop Publishing: + Bill needs to make a billboard for an upcoming conference. + He has a high quality DSLR camera to capture images. His photos will + require quick sight-editing at time of download and possibly more + advanced editing later. + Bill will have to make and edit various illustrations in a vector + format with colors based on a commonly used palette. Bill wants to use + new typography from an easy to mange font library. + He may also need to manually edit his chosen fonts for the job. + Bill will then need to create an advanced PDF with custom print and + cutting instructions for the billboard. He will manually specify spot + colors for his printer to add to the final print run. + Bill needs to share his experiences, chat to his stakeholders and + friends via, aol,msn,yahoo etc bill would like to record a screencast + of the whole process which he will edit and put online. + Bill wants to do all of this for free Bill is a top bloke Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Many designers are unaware that many open source tools can best meet their workflow needs as an integrated solution. Setting up a workstation and then configuring things is already hard enough for the initiated and impossibly time consuming for the curious. We need a designer friendly open source workstation with sane defaults and a useful setup -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311078