Design Suite Planning: Difference between revisions

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Introduction

The Design Suite is a project in progress to make a Remix (eventually a Spin) targeted towards professional designers, specifically the Fedora Design Team.

Goals

Under discussion - please discuss/edit! First round of targets comes from Martin Sourada.

target 1: showcase of design team work (perhaps customise the looks of the spin, add more wallpapers, include echo icons?)
target 2: typesetting -- fonts, inkscape, TeX, color profiles
target 3: general art/design work -- gimp, inkscape, color profiles, brushes, perhaps our echo-artist helper scripts...
target 4: video editing -- something for screencasting, something to grab raw video from video camera, pitivi or kino or something like that for cutting, perhaps an app for sound editing/recording, include dirac/schrodinger codec (I think theora, vorbis, flac, etc. are already in), perhaps some app (subtitleeditor, etc) for subtitling
target 5: desktop publishing -- OpenOffice.org + templates, scribus

Download

The latest image is available at http://www.wuala.com/sdziallas/fedora. (This is a very temporary hosting solution.) This is a work in progress - although it has worked in a VM, it is not finished and may break.

How to contribute

Current tasks

#Download the current version and test it (at this point, you may want to do so in a VM (virtual machine)). Send feedback to the design-team mailing list.
Help us fill in our list of #Packages - what would you like to see on a Design Studio Spin and why?

Upcoming milestones

The list below is taken directly from the Fedora 13 schedule - milestones specific to this project should be added in.

2010-02-09 - Fedora 13 is branched from Rawhide
2010-03-02 - Alpha public availability
2010-04-06 - Beta public availability
2010-04-28 - Bug Complete (No More Changes)
2010-05-11 - Fedora 13 GA release

Design concepts

This section needs to be filled out.

What are the design concepts we've agreed on for this? Possible examples include:

select 'best of breed' apps vs "include as much as possible"
restrict to graphics vs also go for audio/video
include data vs not including data

Technical requirements

Based on: Fedora 13
Size: CD size? 2GB USB sticks?

Packages

To suggest a package we should include, add it to the #Under consideration table.

Questions

What do we do with brushes?
Will we get our own spin design?
Which gimp plugins do we include?
What about a comps group for the spin?
What makes it into a bookmarks package?
Will we get great inkscape tutorials packaged [1]?

Included

These are packages that have been chosen for inclusion in this release. They may still need packaging help.

Package	Status	Rationale
graphics	group
agave	packaged	initial selection
blender	packaged	initial selection
capa	not packaged yet	remote acquisition from dSLR cameras
cinepaint	packaged	initial selection
fontforge	packaged	the editor for font files
fontmatrix	packaged	initial selection
fyre	packaged	small and nice, create abstract art
gimp	packaged	initial selection
GREYCstoration-gimp	packaged	small one; user request
hugin	packaged	tool to assemble panorama photos
ImageMagick	packaged	the tool for batch-processing images
inkscape	packaged	initial selection
mypaint	packaged	initial selection
nautilus-image-converter	packaged	initial selection
optipng	packaged	initial selection
pinta	review required (#569038)	nice painting tool
postr	packaged	initial selection
rawtherapee	packaged (#569204)	sweet tool, recent addition
scribus	packaged	initial selection
shotwell	packaged	initial selection
synfig	packaged (#479527)	initial selection
ufraw	packaged	initial selection
xournal	packaged	initial selection
office	group
dia	packaged	initial selection
gnote	packaged	initial selection
hamster-applet	packaged	initial selection
pdfmod	review required (#537640)	initial selection
internet	group
empathy	packaged	initial selection
evolution	packaged	initial selection
firefox	packaged	initial selection
audio & video	group
pitivi	packaged	initial selection
rhythmbox	packaged	initial selection
totem	packaged	initial selection
system	group
gnome-utils	packaged	initial selection
gtk-recordmydesktop	packaged	recording tools are good to have

Rejected

These are packages that were suggested but turned down for this release due to size, code maturity, or other reasons.

Package	Rationale
name of package	Why we're not including it
gthumb	replaced by shotwell
koffice-krita	pulls a lot of kde stuff in
pngcrush	duplicates optipng
openoffice.org-impress	simply too big
openoffice.org-extendedPDF	simply too big
gnash	possibly not mature enough
gwibber	pulls in couchdb and erlang
audacity	duplicates jokosher
tracker-search-tool	it's a live media
vino	we don't really need a vnc server
vinagre	same goes for a vnc client
openclipart	this is way too big
istanbul	duplicates gtk-recordmydesktop

Under consideration

Packages we have not yet made a decision on. If you'd like to suggest something for inclusion in the Design Studio, add it to the table below.

Package	Status	Rationale	Proposer
mw	not packaged	makes VCS access to MediaWiki easier	Sebastian Dziallas
alchemy	not packaged yet	open drawing project with dynamism	Victor Quinault
add yours here	packaged or not	why should we include it	your name

Resources

Some places to get ideas from:

Should we be including fonts? Which ones?
For an older list of packages we may want to consider for the final F13 build, see the (several releases out-of-date) Fedora Art Studio Package Manifest
Should we include clip art from [openclipart.org, [http://www.wpclipart.com/, or other sources? Also see the old Fedora Art Studio Clipart Selection and Planning Page.
Potential source of ideas: http://lifehacker.com/software/creative-commons/geek-to-live-6-ways-to-find-reusable-media-197538.php
File:Artwork ArtTeamProjects FedoraArtStudio artstudio-ks-oct 6 2007.cfg - Old kickstart file from October 2007
What should the default search be? http://www.iconfinder.net, http://search.creativecommons.org/, and http://www.yotophoto.com all seem like options.
Do we want to link (perhaps in a default bookmarks selection) to directories/libraries of artistic works created using open source software, or artistic works that are open-licensed?
Do we want to include (via bookmarks, on a webpage, as packages, etc) tutorials for the applications we are shipping?
How about color profiles?
Palettes?
Patterns and textures?
Brushes?
Older versions of this page have some ideas and lots of links as well.

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 |-
 | blender || packaged || initial selection
+|-
+| [http://capa-project.org/ capa] || not packaged yet || remote acquisition from dSLR cameras
 |-
 | cinepaint || packaged || initial selection
+|-
+| fontforge || packaged || *the* editor for font files
 |-
 | fontmatrix || packaged || initial selection
+|-
+| fyre || packaged || small and nice, create abstract art
 |-
 | gimp || packaged || initial selection
 |-
-| gthumb || packaged || initial selection
+| GREYCstoration-gimp || packaged || small one; user request
+|-
+| hugin || packaged || tool to assemble panorama photos
+|-
+| ImageMagick || packaged || *the* tool for batch-processing images
 |-
 | inkscape || packaged || initial selection
-|-
-| koffice-krita || packaged || initial selection
 |-
 | mypaint || packaged || initial selection
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 | optipng || packaged || initial selection
 |-
-| pngcrush || packaged || initial selection
+| pinta || review required ([https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569038 #569038]) || nice painting tool
 |-
 | postr || packaged || initial selection
+|-
+| rawtherapee || packaged ([https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569204 #569204]) || sweet tool, recent addition
 |-
 | scribus || packaged || initial selection
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 | hamster-applet || packaged || initial selection
-|-
-| openoffice.org-impress || packaged || initial selection
-|-
-| openoffice.org-extendedPDF || packaged || initial selection
 |-
 | pdfmod || review required ([https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537640 #537640]) || initial selection
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 | firefox || packaged || initial selection
-|-
-| gnash || packaged || initial selection
-|-
-| gwibber || packaged || initial selection
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 | ''audio & video'' || ''group'' ||
-|-
-| audacity || packaged || initial selection
 |-
 | pitivi || packaged || initial selection
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 | gnome-utils || packaged || initial selection
 |-
-| tracker-search-tool || packaged || initial selection
+| gtk-recordmydesktop || packaged || recording tools are good to have
-|-
-| vinagre || packaged || initial selection
-|-
-| vino || packaged || initial selection
 |-
 |}
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 These are packages that were suggested but turned down for this release due to size, code maturity, or other reasons.
 {|
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 | name of package || Why we're not including it
 |-
-|}
+| gthumb || replaced by shotwell
+|-
-=== Under consideration ===
+| koffice-krita || pulls a lot of kde stuff in
+|-
-Packages we have not yet made a decision on. If you'd like to suggest something for inclusion in the Design Studio, add it to the table below.
+| pngcrush || duplicates optipng
+|-
-{|
+| openoffice.org-impress || simply too big
-! Package !! Status !! Rationale !! Proposer
 |-
-| [http://ianweller.org/2009/12/07/new-awesomeness-mw/ mw] || not packaged || makes VCS access to MediaWiki easier || [[SebastianDziallas|Sebastian Dziallas]]
+| openoffice.org-extendedPDF || simply too big
 |-
-| openclipart || packaged || sample content || [[SebastianDziallas|Sebastian Dziallas]]
+| gnash || possibly not mature enough
 |-
-| fyre || packaged || small and nice, create abstract art || [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]]
+| gwibber || pulls in couchdb and erlang
 |-
-| hugin || packaged || tool to assemble panorama photos || [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]]
+| audacity || duplicates jokosher
 |-
-| fontforge || packaged || *the* editor for font files || [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]]
+| tracker-search-tool || it's a live media
 |-
-| [http://capa-project.org/ capa] || not packaged yet || remote acquisition from dSLR cameras  || [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]]
+| vino || we don't really need a vnc server
 |-
-| gtk-RecordMyDesktop || packaged || tool for recording screencasts  || [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]]
+| vinagre || same goes for a vnc client
 |-
-| istanbul || packaged || tool for recording screencasts, compare to gtk-RecordMyDesktop, [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543278 bug] ([[User:Nicubunu|NicuBuculei]] 08:01, 8 January 2010 (UTC) it seems both istanbul and recordmydesktop are broken in F12, however istanbul has a low quality setting hardcoded, resulting in very poor looking videos)|| [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]]
+| openclipart || this is way too big
 |-
-| ImageMagick || packaged || *the* tool for batch-processing images  || [[User:nicubunu|Nicu Buculei]]
+| istanbul || duplicates gtk-recordmydesktop
 |-
-| [http://www.rawtherapee.com/ rawtherapee] || not packaged yet || looks interesting. [http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-January/129202.html ml thread]|| [[SebastianDziallas|Sebastian Dziallas]]
+|}
+=== Under consideration ===
+Packages we have not yet made a decision on. If you'd like to suggest something for inclusion in the Design Studio, add it to the table below.
+{|
+! Package !! Status !! Rationale !! Proposer
 |-
-| GREYCstoration-gimp || packaged || added due to request || [[SebastianDziallas|Sebastian Dziallas]]
+| [http://ianweller.org/2009/12/07/new-awesomeness-mw/ mw] || not packaged || makes VCS access to MediaWiki easier || [[SebastianDziallas|Sebastian Dziallas]]
 |-
 | [http://al.chemy.org/ alchemy] || not packaged yet || open drawing project with dynamism || [[User:sylis|Victor Quinault]]

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