Design Suite Planning
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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
Under discussion - please discuss/edit! First round of targets comes from Martin Sourada.
- target 1: showcase of design team work (perhaps customise the looks of the spin, add more wallpapers, include echo icons?)
- target 2: typesetting -- fonts, inkscape, TeX, color profiles
- target 3: general art/design work -- gimp, inkscape, color profiles, brushes, perhaps our echo-artist helper scripts...
- target 4: video editing -- something for screencasting, something to grab raw video from video camera, pitivi or kino or something like that for cutting, perhaps an app for sound editing/recording, include dirac/schrodinger codec (I think theora, vorbis, flac, etc. are already in), perhaps some app (subtitleeditor, etc) for subtitling
- target 5: desktop publishing -- OpenOffice.org + templates, scribus
Download
The latest image is available at: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/design-suite/
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 13
- Size: CD size? 2GB USB sticks?
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 | |
| agave | packaged | initial selection |
| blender | packaged | initial selection |
| cinepaint | packaged | initial selection |
| entangle | review required | remote acquisition from dSLR cameras |
| fontforge | packaged | *the* editor for font files |
| fontmatrix | 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 |
| pinta | review required (#569038) | nice painting tool |
| postr | packaged | initial selection |
| rawtherapee | packaged (#569204) | sweet tool, recent addition |
| scribus | packaged | initial selection |
| shotwell | packaged | initial selection |
| synfig | packaged (#479527) | initial selection |
| ufraw | packaged | initial selection |
| xournal | packaged | initial selection |
| office | group | |
| abiword | packaged | openoffice replacement |
| dia | packaged | initial selection |
| evince | packaged | pdf files - yay |
| gnote | packaged | initial selection |
| gnumeric | packaged | openoffice replacement |
| hamster-applet | packaged | initial selection |
| pdfmod | review required (#537640) | initial selection |
| internet | group | |
| empathy | packaged | initial selection |
| evolution | packaged | initial selection |
| firefox | packaged | initial selection |
| audio & video | group | |
| jokosher | packaged | audacity replacement |
| pitivi | packaged | initial selection |
| rhythmbox | packaged | initial selection |
| totem | packaged | initial selection |
| system | group | |
| gnome-utils | packaged | initial selection |
| gtk-recordmydesktop | packaged | recording tools are good to have |
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 |
| audacity | duplicates jokosher |
| 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:
- Should we be including fonts? Which ones?
- For an older list of packages we may want to consider for the final F13 build, see the (several releases out-of-date) Fedora Art Studio Package Manifest
- Should we include clip art from [openclipart.org, [http://www.wpclipart.com/, or other sources? Also see the old Fedora Art Studio Clipart Selection and Planning Page.
- Potential source of ideas: http://lifehacker.com/software/creative-commons/geek-to-live-6-ways-to-find-reusable-media-197538.php
- File:Artwork ArtTeamProjects FedoraArtStudio artstudio-ks-oct 6 2007.cfg - Old kickstart file from October 2007
- What should the default search be? http://www.iconfinder.net, http://search.creativecommons.org/, and http://www.yotophoto.com all seem like options.
- Do we want to link (perhaps in a default bookmarks selection) to directories/libraries of artistic works created using open source software, or artistic works that are open-licensed?
- Do we want to include (via bookmarks, on a webpage, as packages, etc) tutorials for the applications we are shipping?
- How about color profiles?
- Palettes?
- Patterns and textures?
- Brushes?
- Older versions of this page have some ideas and lots of links as well.
