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Contributing Writer: [[NicuBuculei]]
Contributing Writer: [[NicuBuculei]]


=== More Echo Icons ===
=== Continual Echo Icon development ===


This week the focus on the Fedora Art list was development for the Echo Icon theme[1] with new icons created by Martin Sourada and Luya Tshimbalanga.
Martin Sourada, the Echo icon theme maintainer, published[1] a new release, 0.3.2:
"as you might know, we've recently published our first release on fedora hosted (0.3.2) and I'll probably mark the update for F8/9 as stable tomorrow or in Monday. Also being it first release of echo using the new git layout + git branches, there are some little issues which I'll address in 0.3.2.1"


[1] https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/
He also laid some plans for the next release, 0.3.3:
"I've decided that one of the most important places to create icons in the menus for now are the System sub-menus, where there are many icons using neither echo nor gnome style and some of them are even blurry."


Martin also started a debate[2] about the best shape for icons for package install and update[3]. The points of discussion included whether or not to use a package visual, to show an optical disc or just an arrow and various kind of colors.
In related icon development, both Martin and Luya Tshimbalanga created a number of new icons, with character map[2], firewall [3] and date preferences[4] being a few examples.


[2] http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2008/07/designing-system-software-updateinstall.html
When creating one of the icons, Martin Sourada witnesses[3] "I used some gimp tricks in order to look more smooth on LCDs for the PNGs", a practice questioned[5] by Nicu Buculei "his way the binary (PNG) can't be built directly from source and would make the life harder for derivatives"


[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00028.html
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00071.html


An interesting touch made by Luya was noticed[4], the inclusion of a sketch of the current release wallpaper in any icons which have a computer display as a design component. However, this would require[5] refreshing a number of icons twice a year and also may not be that useful for other distros shipping the theme.
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00081.html


[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00045.html
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00099.html


[5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00050.html
[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00106.html


Starting with a rude complaint[6] from another contributor, Mark, about some icons which supposedly "have that shit color", Marin proposed[7] a color change in the default palette[8] and after a favourable reaction actually implemented[9] the changes and submitted them for discussion.
[5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00104.html


[6] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00013.html
=== Mist icons in high resolution ===


[7] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00025.html
Andreas Nilsson, the maintainer of the Mist icon set, which is currently used in Fedora 9 and Fedora 8, announces on the art mailing list the introduction of a few icons with really large size, needed by some applications:
"As there are requirements for large size icons in apps like GNOME Do and Elisa, I recently started working on Mist icons with a bigger, 256x256 canvas. With some assistance from Kalle Persson and Hylke Bons, I now I have something that is usable and will try to merge these into gnome-themes trunk next week if everything goes well."


[8] https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/wiki/Guidelines#ColorPalette
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00062.html


[9] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00038.html
=== More desktop theme proposals for Fedora 10 ===
 
Still in the Round 1 stage for creating a new desktop theme for the upcoming Fedora 10[1], two new proposals were added: Klaatu and Gort proposed[2] "LiberaProgramo"[3], "A futuristic / sci-fi theme. The idea here is, literally, computing 'with no strings attached'....or, translated into Esperanto: Libera Programaro" and Guilherme Razgriz proposed[4] "Simetrical Freedom"[5], which "concept is the perfection that simmetry can offer with the freedom power of the possibilities of forms and states that it can take and reborn inside the same thing".
 
Guilherme's proposal was accompanied by an interesting tutorial[6] (written in Portuguese, but easy to understand by anyone grace to its suggestive screenshots) illustrating the implementation in GIMP.
 
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes
 
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00078.html
 
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/liberaProgramaro
 
[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00128.html
 
[5] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/simmetricalfreedom
 
[6] http://razgrizbox.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/line-breakers/

Revision as of 15:15, 11 July 2008

Artwork

In this section, we cover the Fedora Artwork Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork

Contributing Writer: NicuBuculei

Continual Echo Icon development

Martin Sourada, the Echo icon theme maintainer, published[1] a new release, 0.3.2: "as you might know, we've recently published our first release on fedora hosted (0.3.2) and I'll probably mark the update for F8/9 as stable tomorrow or in Monday. Also being it first release of echo using the new git layout + git branches, there are some little issues which I'll address in 0.3.2.1"

He also laid some plans for the next release, 0.3.3: "I've decided that one of the most important places to create icons in the menus for now are the System sub-menus, where there are many icons using neither echo nor gnome style and some of them are even blurry."

In related icon development, both Martin and Luya Tshimbalanga created a number of new icons, with character map[2], firewall [3] and date preferences[4] being a few examples.

When creating one of the icons, Martin Sourada witnesses[3] "I used some gimp tricks in order to look more smooth on LCDs for the PNGs", a practice questioned[5] by Nicu Buculei "his way the binary (PNG) can't be built directly from source and would make the life harder for derivatives"

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00071.html

[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00081.html

[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00099.html

[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00106.html

[5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00104.html

Mist icons in high resolution

Andreas Nilsson, the maintainer of the Mist icon set, which is currently used in Fedora 9 and Fedora 8, announces on the art mailing list the introduction of a few icons with really large size, needed by some applications: "As there are requirements for large size icons in apps like GNOME Do and Elisa, I recently started working on Mist icons with a bigger, 256x256 canvas. With some assistance from Kalle Persson and Hylke Bons, I now I have something that is usable and will try to merge these into gnome-themes trunk next week if everything goes well."

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00062.html

More desktop theme proposals for Fedora 10

Still in the Round 1 stage for creating a new desktop theme for the upcoming Fedora 10[1], two new proposals were added: Klaatu and Gort proposed[2] "LiberaProgramo"[3], "A futuristic / sci-fi theme. The idea here is, literally, computing 'with no strings attached'....or, translated into Esperanto: Libera Programaro" and Guilherme Razgriz proposed[4] "Simetrical Freedom"[5], which "concept is the perfection that simmetry can offer with the freedom power of the possibilities of forms and states that it can take and reborn inside the same thing".

Guilherme's proposal was accompanied by an interesting tutorial[6] (written in Portuguese, but easy to understand by anyone grace to its suggestive screenshots) illustrating the implementation in GIMP.

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes

[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00078.html

[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/liberaProgramaro

[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-July/msg00128.html

[5] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/simmetricalfreedom

[6] http://razgrizbox.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/line-breakers/