Fedora Design Suite
This page is under revamp for the incoming Fedora 19 release
Summary
The Design Suite is a Spin targeted towards professional designers, specifically the Fedora Design Team.
Previous Releases
Owner(s), Maintainer(s) and Co-Maintainer(s)
- Name: Luya Tshimbalanga (Owner)
- E-mail: luya at fedoraproject dot org
- Name: Sebastian Dziallas (Previous owner)
- E-Mail: sdz at fedoraproject dot org
- Name: Pierros Papadeas (Maintainer)
- E-mail: ppapadeas at fedoraproject dot org
Detailed Description
Have you ever wanted to use the tools the Fedora Design Team is using? Or are you probably even looking forward to getting involved in Fedora as a designer? This is your chance.
The Fedora Design Suite includes well-selected applications, fitting a variety of use cases. Whether you decide to work on publishing documents, creating images, pictures, website, or even 3D content, the Design Suite has a fitting tool.
What's new?
- Based on Gnome desktop.
- Removal from thelist of packages no longer available in Fedora repository: agave and jockosher.
- darktable, font-manager replace rawtherapee and fontmatrix as default package.
- Inclusion of audacity, bluefish, cmyktool, entangle, colord-extra (obsoleting shared-color-profiles-extra starting from Fedora 19),filezilla and pdfshuttler.
- More fonts (or typefaces) included those used by Fedora Design team are added: Comfortaa, Lato and Overpass.
- Due to the addition of packages, Design Suite can no longer fit in a CD. For this reason, the spin now require at minimum of 2GB USB drive and a DVD.
Default package
Here is the list of selected packages for the suite. Note that is still possible to install the variant through Software manager.
Graphic group
| Packages | Website | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| blender | [1] | 3D modeling, animation, rendering and post-production |
| cinepaint | packaged | Tool for manipulating HDR images |
| darktable | [[2]] | Utility to organize and develop raw images |
| entangle | [[3]] | Tethered shooting & control of digital cameras |
| fontforge | packaged | *the* editor for font files |
| font-manager | packaged | Font management application |
| gimp | [[4]] | Image manipulation program |
| GREYCstoration-gimp | packaged | small one; user request |
| ImageMagick | packaged | *the* tool for batch-processing images |
| inkscape | [[5]] | Vector-based drawing program using SVG |
| mypaint | [6] | Fast and easy graphic application for digital painters |
| nautilus-image-converter | packaged | Nautilus extension for image conversion |
| optipng | packaged | PNG optimizer and converter |
| pdfshuffler | [7] | initial selection |
| scribus | [8]] | Desktop publishing application |
| shotwell | [9] | Photo organizer |
| synfig | [10] | Vector-based 2D animation studio |
| xournal | packaged | Notetaking, sketching, PDF annotation and general journal |
Office group
| Packages | Website | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| abiword | packaged | openoffice replacement |
| dia | packaged | initial selection |
| gnote | packaged | initial selection |
| gnumeric | packaged | openoffice replacement |
| pdfshuffler | [11] | initial selection |
Internet group
| Packages | Website | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| empathy | packaged | initial selection |
| evolution | packaged | initial selection |
| firefox | packaged | initial selection |
Audio and Video group
| Packages | Website | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| audacity | packaged | audacity replacement |
| pitivi | packaged | initial selection |
| rhythmbox | packaged | initial selection |
| totem | packaged | initial selection |
Benefit to Fedora
This spin is insofar beneficial for Fedora itself, as it helps the Design Team by fitting its needs through selecting often used applications and including them on one spin. Additionally, it helps new users interested in design matters to join Fedora, since they'll be able to download the spin and start directly using the applications - without being required to look into the load of available packages. In a way, it fosters the design community inside Fedora.
Kickstart File
Latest ks file inside git repository as LiveDVD (might renamed it as Live)
Nightly Builds
Nightly builds of the latest .ks file can be found here.
Sometimes the nights are not so good and resulting to fails. We are working on them! :)
ISO Name / FS Label
- fedora-19-Live-design-suite
Dependencies
The current list of packages for inclusion is available. Whereas there's also one for package we consider, none of them should block the release of the spin.
We are also working on an equivalent comps group, which is a non-blocking component, though.
Aside from this, no other dependencies are required.
Scope / Testing
Generally, the spin should boot and popular applications like Gimp and Inkscape should work. The nightly builds will make testing quite easier. So far, no extraordinary changes have been included.
Spins Page
We're aiming for a site for this spin that looks like the ones at http://spins.fedoraproject.org - so this is going to involve (1) figuring out the content and design (use the wiki sections below) - the Spin owner(s) will be helpful for answering questions here, but remember that you are driving the creation if this webpage - and (2) creating the webpage itself, for which the Websites team is also likely to be helpful, though you may need to be creative in terms of finding ways to contact them. They're usually responsive on IRC and on their mailing list, though you may need to use the list to schedule specific times for people to be online if you would like to engage in real-time conversation, due to the many timezones contributors live in. The Websites team can point you towards the HTML template for spins websites so you'll have something to customize, and Mel Chua is happy to teach HTML in person any evening before April 10th if it would be helpful.
Feel free to edit this page; there is an "undo" button, which is the "history" tab at the top of this page; if you click there you'll go to a page where you can roll back any edits you've made). Add new sections. Edit old ones. Take these notes out. Clean it up and make it useful. This page is yours to create - it's everyone's to create.
The latest version of the HTML template with this content is at http://mchua.fedorapeople.org/spins/designsuite_spinpage.html.
Slogan
- Open Creativity.
mythcat proposal : "Imagination is more important than knowledge..." by Albert Einstein
Spin description
Looking for a ready-to-go desktop environment brimming with free and open source multimedia production and publishing tools? Try the Design Suite, a Fedora Spin created by designers, for designers.
The Design Suite includes the favorite tools of the Fedora Design Team. These are the same programs we use to create all the artwork that you see within the Fedora Project, from desktop backgrounds to CD sleeves, web page designs, application interfaces, flyers, posters and more. From document publication to vector and bitmap editing or 3D modeling to photo management, the Design Suite has an application for you — and you can install thousands more from Fedora's universe of packages.
About
The Design Suite features a host of free and open source tools chosen by the Fedora Design Team as their favorites for day-to-day work. It includes:
- blender for 3D modeling, animation, rendering and post-production
- bluefish for website design
- The GIMP, a raster graphics editor
- MyPaint a digital painting editor
- Inkscape, a vector graphics editor
- shotwell for managing photographs
- scribus for professional-quality document layout
- xournal, a sketching and document annotation program for tablet PCs
- dia for creating flowcharts and diagrams
- and more!
Screenshot
- Will be done later in the release cycle
Download tab
- For current downloads, see here http://spins.fedoraproject.org/design/#downloads
Support tab
- IRC channel: #fedora-design on Freenode
- mailing list: design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org
Custom branding
- To be discussed with the design team