FWN/Beats/Design

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In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team.

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

Schedule for Fedora 12

After an IRC conference with the Design Team leader Máirín Duffy and Paul Frields, John Poelstra posted on the mailing list a schedule for Fedora 12 "Some of the key ideas for the planning and schedule for this release are to focus on the importance of the wallpaper and iteratively improve it.... making sure it is in the alpha and then releasing updated packaged versions in rawhide each week."

The debate heated a bit when William Jon McCann arrogantly repeated for a number of items "Not relevant to the desktop spin", prompting a reply from Máirín "This schedule is for the design team, not for the desktop spin. The KDE spin does need this splash, so we help produce it for them. We work on designs for all of Fedora, all spins including KDE and Electronics Lab and EDU, as well as the main website and various web applications."

Wallpapers

Following an IRC session with Máirín Duffy and Nicu Buculei, María Leandro posted a set of *very cute* design proposals for the Education/Kids wallpaper. She also blogged about the designs.

María also advanced a photo-manipulation concept based on the 'Constantine' theme. After a round of inquiries she cleared the license of the source photos. However, as Máirín Duffy observed, a photomanipulation is not preferred as default "We would much prefer a vector-based graphic as the default wallpaper. As María said, her XCF was 69 MB. This would make it very difficult for others to work on the file."

A Gallery in the Works

Máirín Duffy informed on @design-team about a test instance of a gallery software, something being a wishlist item for a long time, and asked about ways to use it "How do you think we should proceed with it?". Martin Sourada suggested using it for a while "perhaps make it accessible to design team members and start filling it with extra wallpapers and see how it works? And hold a session after some time (perhaps a month) to discuss whether the test instance works as we'd like or not" and [[User:luya|Luya Tshimbalanga] proposed some categories "Could it be used to display past Fedora release wallpapers, contributors wallpaper like Martin mentioned similar to what Fedora Forum used to have until vBulletin upgrade, sketches."

New Wallpapers Coming

María Leandro asked for feedback on @design-team about a few wallpaper concepts, which were received positively, as for example by Máirín Duffy "I think these works are a very good start start; I think the shading and coloring on mosaico2 is very suitable for a background. It's not too high-contrast, or stark, or distracting which is good for a wallpaper" along with a number of improvement ideas from various members of the team, on which Maria based a second iteration, also received positively "This one is great. The lighting is perfect."

María also showed a number of wallpaper proposals she did for the Education SIG, which, as Máirín Duffy observed, didn't comply with the logo usage guidelines "I have a concern here with the logo - we're not supposed to change the Fedora logo like that, it's really really against the guidelines". On a tangent, a sub-logo for the education SIG was created by Máirín.

Continual Brainstorming for Constantine

Máirín Duffy reviewed a stalled conversation about creating a theme linked to the Fedora 12 codename, a good opportunity for Paul Frields and Nicu Buculei to chime-in with their (to long for this report) replies on the issue.

On the same 'Constantine' concept Samuele Storari explored a column "maybe we can work on the Roman Art Style and not only havin focus on the mosaic, there're the basrelief or the Monumental sketch or the Bas-relief decoreting the Constantine Column" and Angella Inzinga with a coin "I've been toying with a coin-imagery based idea of the campgate. [...] I'm hoping to have something up to post soon."