FWN/Beats/Design

Artwork

In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team.

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

Meeting Summary

After an IRC meeting for selecting the Fedora 12 theme took place, Martin Sourada posted on @design-team the conversation log and a short summary: "We'll move Constantine Statue back to extras, also raised concern about it including a sword * The Constantine theme will be based on (perspective) mosaico with elements added from underwater mosaic * KDE Alpha (if the packages get tagged in time) will have slideshow like we have in GNOME, if it's not working reliably, it will have mosaico * For Friday we target , if it's not ready we'll go with * we haven't decided about alpha release banner design, but narrowed the selection to and .

The Art Studio Spin

With the increased interest for having a customized Fedora geared towards creative people, Kushal Das announced his preliminary work and asked for input "I started working on the spin , the initial size is around 1000MB, still all fonts need to be put in", something Máirín Duffy was also playing with "Coincidentally enough I tried several times to build an art studio spin last night but livecd-creator keeps failing". Kushal followed with a kickstart script and everyone started suggesting application for inclusion or removal. Martin Sourada questioned the spin name "I think it's good idea to rename the spin (in accordance with our move from Fedora Artwork to Fedora Design Team) to Fedora Design Live (or something like that)", something not considered an issue by Máirín Duffy "I don't think the spin needs to be named after our team, it just needs to attract the type of user we are seeking no?", a discussion which brought to attention the need to define the spin's target, with a possible answer from Máirín "We could do something where the whole enchilada is called the 'Fedora Creativity Suite' and then different 'slices' of that could be different studios eg vector gfx studio, 3d studio, audio studio, etc"

Source Control for Fedora Themes

Rex Dieter expressed the need for a source control system "but, it seems there is no source-control currently being used for fedora theming yet. I'd like to propose hosting what's used in stuff like constantine-backgrounds (and future fedora-related theming) in a git (or svn or whatever) repo", a request endorsed also by Martin Sourada "Yup, for my part a git repo would be really helpful. Spinning the source tarball by hand is not an exactly nice experience ;-)" and Jaroslav Reznik "Indeed, it's really much more easier to use some repository, even in one person" so Paul Frields pointed to the existing repository which can/should be used for the task: "There is actually a git repo, it just needs to be renamed to properly match the Trac issue system." An alyas fixing later and everything was solved.