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Introduction

The Design Suite is a (project in progress) Fedora Spin targeted towards professional designers, specifically the Fedora Design Team.

Goals

  • target 1: showcase of design team work (perhaps customise the looks of the spin, add more wallpapers)
  • target 2: typesetting -- featuring font-manager and Inkscape
  • target 3: general art/design work -- featuring Gimp, Inkscape, color profiles and brushes
  • target 4: media editing -- featuring PiTiVi for video editing, Audacity for sound editing, Blender for 3D modeling software and Darktable for photographer
  • target 5: desktop publishing -- featuring LibreOffice + templates and Scribus

Download

Current stable release Latest nightly image

How to contribute

Current tasks

  • #Download the current version and test it (at this point, you may want to do so in a VM (virtual machine)). Send feedback to the design-team mailing list.
  • Help us fill in our list of #Packages - what would you like to see on a Design Studio Spin and why?

Upcoming milestones

The list below is taken directly from the Fedora 13 schedule - milestones specific to this project should be added in.

  • 2010-02-09 - Fedora 13 is branched from Rawhide
  • 2010-03-02 - Alpha public availability
  • 2010-04-06 - Beta public availability
  • 2010-04-28 - Bug Complete (No More Changes)
  • 2010-05-11 - Fedora 13 GA release

Design concepts

This section needs to be filled out.

What are the design concepts we've agreed on for this? Possible examples include:

  • select 'best of breed' apps vs "include as much as possible"
  • restrict to graphics vs also go for audio/video
  • include data vs not including data

Technical requirements

  • Based on: Fedora 19
  • Size: 2GB USB sticks or DVD

Packages

To suggest a package we should include, add it to the #Under consideration table.

Questions

  • What do we do with brushes?
  • Will we get our own spin design?
  • Which gimp plugins do we include?
  • What about a comps group for the spin?
  • What makes it into a bookmarks package?
  • Will we get great inkscape tutorials packaged [1]?

Included

These are packages that have been chosen for inclusion in this release. They may still need packaging help.

Package Status Rationale
graphics group
blender packaged initial selection
bluefish packaged initial selection
cinepaint packaged initial selection
darktable packaged initial selection
entangle packaged initial selection
fontforge packaged *the* editor for font files
font-manager packaged initial selection
gimp packaged initial selection
GREYCstoration-gimp packaged small one; user request
ImageMagick packaged *the* tool for batch-processing images
inkscape packaged initial selection
mypaint packaged initial selection
nautilus-image-converter packaged initial selection
optipng packaged initial selection
scribus packaged initial selection
shotwell packaged initial selection
synfig packaged (#479527) initial selection
xournal packaged initial selection
office group
abiword packaged openoffice replacement
dia packaged initial selection
evince packaged pdf files - part of Gnome Desktop
gnote packaged initial selection
gnumeric packaged openoffice replacement
pdfshuffle packaged initial selection
internet group
empathy packaged initial selection
evolution packaged initial selection
firefox packaged initial selection
audio & video group
audacity packaged jockosher upstream is dead
pitivi packaged initial selection
rhythmbox packaged initial selection
totem packaged initial selection
system group

Rejected

These are packages that were suggested but turned down for this release due to size, code maturity, or other reasons.

Package Rationale
name of package Why we're not including it
gthumb replaced by shotwell
koffice-krita pulls a lot of kde stuff in
pngcrush duplicates optipng
openoffice.org-impress simply too big
openoffice.org-extendedPDF simply too big
gnash possibly not mature enough
gwibber pulls in couchdb and erlang
tracker-search-tool it's a live media
vino we don't really need a vnc server
vinagre same goes for a vnc client
openclipart this is way too big
istanbul duplicates gtk-recordmydesktop
hugin pulls in too many deps right now; reconsider at a later date
fyre had issues adding it to the package set; reconsider at a later date
alchemy feature set duplicates that of other/better applications already included
nathive feature set too small. pinta is better suited

Under consideration

Packages we have not yet made a decision on. If you'd like to suggest something for inclusion in the Design Studio, add it to the table below.

Package Status Rationale Proposer
mw not packaged makes VCS access to MediaWiki easier Sebastian Dziallas
phatch not packaged Easily batch process images and edit metadata loboorgen
openshot not packaged Create and edit videos and movies loboorgen
screenruler not packaged Screen Ruler loboorgen
cellwriter already packaged Handwriting Recognition for TabletPCs rjt
vym not packaged Mind-mapping loboorgen
add yours here packaged or not why should we include it your name

Resources

Some places to get ideas from: