FWN/Beats/Design

Artwork

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."