FWN/Beats/Design

Artwork

In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team.

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

Fedora 12 Wallpapers

Martin Sourada prepared and initial set of packages with wallpapers for the alpha release "I've just put together initial packages containing the Constantine wallpapers I consider (based on the feedback we received) to be 'worth' putting in for Alpha. There is constantine-backgrounds package which contains tatica's mocaico and Mo's and Nicu's underwater mosaic, both as slide-show (switching between those two once twice per hour) and separately. Next there is constantine-backgrounds-extras package which contains Samuele's 4flowers and 4horses, Jayme's Constantine Statue, Charlie's bird mosaic and tatica's pruebas and freedom" as a base for selecting the best default and after a round of the preliminary feedback, one was moved from extras-proposals to default-proposals "there seems to be non-ignorable amount of people who want it in default so I moved it to default for now."

With the process of evolving the wallpapers being continuous, Máirín Duffy considered the feedback from Paul Frields and proposed an improved version for one of the concepts "As per Paul's suggestion to try to modify the perspective of María's mosaico designs to make it vibrate a little less with icons on the desktop, I did some experimentation today in Inkscape with perspective."

Martin called for a decisional meeting for wallpapers "I suggest that people raise their reasons for and against choosing one or another in this thread and we hold a (hopefully) short IRC session next Monday (2009-08-10) to make the final decision. Would 16:00 UTC be a good time for everyone?"

A Design Spin?

With the uproar about the announcement made by Matthias Clasen on the Desktop list about the removal of GIMP from the Desktop spin, Martin Sourada asked about the status of an old project of the Design Team "What has happened to the Art Studio spin (or whatever it was called) we were trying to make? I've just seen a message on desktop-list proposing dropping gimp from Desktop Spin (the infamous size issues), so it would probably make sense to resurrect the idea of having a spin for (not only) Fedora designers with all the apps we use, like gimp, inkscape, blender, scribus, etc." and Nicu Buculei bitterly replied about the inactivity in that area "As far as I know, the spin is on hold, waiting for someone to take the lead". However, indirect talks on IRC and blog comments indicate a good level of interest for the project.

Constantine Banners

In anticipation of the Alpha release, several banner proposals were advanced: a generic one for the Alpha release by Paolo Leoni, a final release banner proposal from Maria Leandro, another from Charlie Brej and finally Paolo's remade banner.