Who are we?
Design Sofware is a Special Interest Group aimed to improves latest free and open tools for designers especially Design Team.
Contributing roles in the Design Software SIG
Mission
- Creating high quality packages of design tools featuring graphics, web, arts and some video editings.
- Documenting the available tools, including wiki documentation and comps.xml
- Promote the Design Suite
- Actively review each other's design-related packages to shorten the time it takes to get them approved and imported into Fedora Package Collection
- Help each other fix bugs that have been filed against design packages
- Alerting each other about orphaned and soon-to-be orphaned design software packages so that we can prevent their removal
Design News websites
Documentation
Design Suite
Design Suite is a Fedora Spin based on Gnome Shell showcasing the design-related tools used by Design Team in addition of audio and video editing. More information is located on Fedora Spin website.
Process
Design Software SIG has three channels for communication:
- The mailing list design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org,
- The current wiki page for suggesting design software, the need of reviewing packages or joining the SIG,
- the IRC channel located on #fedora-design@irc.freenode.net for designers and #fedora-devel@irc.freenode.org for packagers.
Contribution
Members
Packages already in Fedora repository
A-F
blender
- 3D modeling, animation, rendering and post-productionLuxRender-blender
- Blender export plugin to LuxRenderYafaRay-blender
- A free open-source raytracing render engine plugin for Blender
calligra-krita
- A creative sketching and painting applicationcmyktool
-Utility to manage color profiles and convert from RGB to CMYKcolord-extra-profiles
- More color profiles for color management that are less commonly useddarktable
- Utility to organize and develop raw imagesdia
- Diagram drawing programdigikam
- A digital camera accessing & photo management applicationentangle
- Tethered shooting & control of digital camerasfontforge
- *the* editor for font filesfontmatrix
- A fonts managerfont-manager
- Font management applicationfonts-tweak-tool
- Tool for customizing fonts per language
G-O
gimp
- Image manipulation programgimp-dds-plugin
- A plugin for GIMP that provides support for the DDS image formatgimp-elsamuko
- Collection of scripts for the GIMP with various effects as; technicolor, round corners, Obama 'Hope', vintage look, sharpening, etc.gimp-fourier-plugin
- A simple plug-in to do fourier transform on your imagegimp-gap
- The GIMP Animation Packagegimp-high-pass-filter
- High-pass filter script for the GIMPgimp-wavelet-denoise-plugin
- Gimp wavelet denoise plugingimp-lqr-plugin
- Content-aware resizing plug-in for the GIMPgimp-normalmap
- A simple plug-in to do fourier transform on your imagegimp-resynthesizer
- Gimp plug-in for texture synthesisgimp-separate+
- Rudimentary CMYK support for The GIMPgmic-gimp
- GREYC's Magic for Image Computing plugin for gimpgpick
- Advanced Color PickerGREYCstoration-gimp
- GREYCstoration image denoising and interpolation plugin for gimp
Hugin
- Panorama photo stitcherImageMagick
- *the* tool for batch-processing imagesinkscape
- Vector-based drawing program using SVGinkscape-sozi
- Inkscape extension for creating animated presentationsinkscape-table
- Table support for inkscape
LuxRender
- rendering system for physically correct image synthesis.mypaint
- Fast and easy graphic application for digital paintersnautilus-image-converter
- Nautilus extension for image conversionoptipng
- PNG optimizer and converter
P-Z
pdfmod
- A simple application for modifying PDF documentspdfshuffler
- PDF file merging, rearranging, and splittingphatch
- cross-platform Photo Batch Processor and Exif Renamer with a nice graphical user interfacerawtherapee
- Raw image processing softwarescribus
- Desktop publishing applicationshotwell
- Photo organizersparkleshare
- Easy file sharing based on git repositoriessynfigstudio
- Vector-based 2D animation studioxournal
- Notetaking, sketching, PDF annotation and general journalYafaRay
- A free open-source raytracing render engine
Packages in Design Suite
Design
- Name - Description
blender
bluefish
- cmyktool
darktable
- dia
- entangle
- fontforge
- font-manager
- gimp
- gimp-*-plugin
- gimp-data-extras
- gimp-high-pass-filter
- gimp-normalmap
- gimp-resynthesizer
- GREYCstoration-gimp
- gpick
- hugin
- mypaint
inkscape
- nautilus-image-converter
- optipng
- phatch
- screenruler
scribus
- colord-extra-profiles
- synfigstudio
Office
- pdfshuffle
- vym
Internet
- filezilla
Audio and Video
- audacity
- pitivi
Fonts
- aajohan-comfortaa-fonts
- adobe-source-sans-pro-fonts
- campivisivi-titillium-fonts
- lato-fonts
- overpass-fonts
Fedora Design Packages WishList
Proposed packages to include in Fedora repository for Design Team. When future packager picked up the desired software for review, please move it in the review process. If the sofware cannot be included in Fedora repository, move the software in refused packages and list the reason.
Legend
- passed Fedora licensing guideline - warn about issue
- Status - Name and url - Description - Comments
- PSPI (Lets you install Photoshop plugins) - may be problematic because of wine requirement
- Refocus
- Color Match
- Focus Blur
- Contrast Blending
- Image Registration
- Save for Web
- Swatchbooker its a tool for manage swatches, mostly color sets now, its not active developed but it still works and is helpful for e.g. converting color palettes from adobe swatch exchange (*.ase) to *.gpl. Its not packaged yet but thats not a big deal, its python.
- Alchemy , not easy to describe what it does, it helps to create a creative chaos where you can work with. Its not really active developed but it still works, is also not packaged yet. It uses java and netbeans
- Evolvotron its a tool for generate creative patterns. Its not packaged yet should be harder as it uses c++/QT
- NeoTextureEdit it helps you to create seemless textures, for 3D games or blender. Also not packaged yet, it uses java
- jlipsyncor Papagayo , both do the same taking a sound file and try to recognize the phonemes. With help of that tool you can animate 3D/2D speaking characters. jlipsync bases on java and papagayo on python, personally I prefer Papagayo but its tricky on 64bit machines as the development stopped and there are no 64bit versions
- StopMotion its a tool for creating stop motion animations with your camera, it was started once from SkoleLinux but isnt active developed anymore but it still works.
- Tupi is a tool for doing 2d animations, but easier to learn and handle as SynfigStudio, puiterwik tries to package it since a few days
- Alchemy - chaos generation tool, good for artists and sketchers
- Denim - UI sketching tool. BSD license. Created by the University of Washington. Crossplatform TabletPC input.
- GimpShop - GimpShop is a fork of gimp for more compatibility with a commercial image editing program.
- HandBrake - HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder.
- Lightworks - is a non-linear editing system for video.
- Pencil2D - an animation/drawing software
- Dopey - A 2D animation program based on MyPaint
Packages under review
Lists of packaged submitted for review. A good place to learn about the procedure and the common practice. If the package is accepted for inclusion in Fedora repository, add design-sw in InitialCC while submitting a SCM Admin request. please move it to accepted packages, else move it to refused packages and list the reason of refusal.
- Name - Description - rhbug#
knotter
- A free and open source customizable interlace designer - 996209birdfont
- An editor for creating outline vector graphics and exporting fonts - 978177fntsample
- A program for making font samples that show Unicode coverage of the font - 999998
Recently added packages
Orphaned packages needing maintainers
Rejected packages
List of rejected software for inclusion in Fedora repository.
- Name - Description - Comments
Development
This section tracks the latest upstream development packaged in individual Fedora People repository. Using them wil help exposing bug, and exploring new features without disturbing the main Fedora repositories. In addition, the resulting source RPM will teach upstream about the good practice of packaging. To use these repository for testing purpose:
- access to these links below,
- put the repo file in into /etc/yum.repos.d/
- execute the update using either Software Update or input the command in terminal
sudo yum update
.