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Artwork

In this section, we cover the Fedora Artwork Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

Wallpaper Extras

IanWeller asked[1] on #fedora-art about a better way to handle and package the collection of extra wallpapers gathered from various Fedora contributors "The current gallery system for the Wallpaper Extras isn't working. It doesn't do us good for keeping track of attributions, especially if we start taking lots of outside contributions from Flickr or the like (which I plan on doing soon)" along with his proposal "The entire wallpaper extras framework for submission and tracking will be on the wiki, through MediaWiki's category system. The main category will be, which will contain only other categories and unsorted wallpapers.

Subcategories to that will be along the lines of, which can also contain other subcategories if we want to categorize further. Categories have a built-in gallery setup.

The image page itself (i.e., Wallpaper-nicubunu-hay.jpg) will contain a template (which we'll need to write) that will contain information such as the creator, the URL it was taken from (if applicable), and who added it to the wiki, and what license was originally under."

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00299.html

[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/Wallpaper_Extras

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson opted[3] for a contest, possibly held in cooperation with Fedora Magazine[4] "I personally think we should hold a wallpaper contest photo artwork etc with a specific subject/theme in conduction with fedoramagazine each month or so then top 3 picture ( or top in each category ) would be picked added to the wiki and package" while Nicu Buculei argued for RSS feeds instead of votes "My tendency is to decouple packaging and contests. Have the images in a proper gallery and the users can use RSS feeds and see 'best rated', 'most viewed', 'last uploaded' images with no effort. And they really need the packaging? They have the photos open in their browser and Firefox has an 'Set As Desktop Background' command (it appears broken if Firefox/GNOME, but that is just a bug which needs a patch). And from this large pile of images, a packager may make a manual selection with the 'most usable' images (or more packagers can to their own selections and packages)."

[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00300.html

[4] http://fedoramagazine.wordpress.com/

[5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00324.html

Jonathan Roberts, the editor of the Fedora Magazine got into the discussion[6] and opined against a reinvention of the wheel "Why reinvent the wheel - why not just take advantage of Gnome look? Or set up a Flickr pool - I think one already exists possibly?" and for a manual image selection for the magazine "With respect to the magazine, I'd be more than happy if someone from the art team would be interested in doing a monthly post that would share work that members of the art team were involved with - whether it was Fedora related or just created using tools exclusively in Fedora"

[6] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00327.html

Fedora 4 F's buttons

Following last week's "Four F's" posters made by Mairin Duffy (we covered them in the last issue), Clint Savage posted[1] on @fedora-art a set of buttons made in the same style, which were received[2] with open arms "SWEET! I really like the pattern in the background of the logo2 file. Logo3 is really strong, well done!"

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00304.html

[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00305.html

From there the discussion went[2] into printing preparation details "Do you know how to scribus-ify these into print-ready, color-safe PDF artwork?", which are no problem for Clint "I have done that before many times. I'll look into doing that on sunday. I assume you are referring to the fact that I need to make the images CMYK and making them pdfs so printers won't complain. I'm capable of doing that :)", the Scribus limitations[4] "However Scribus SVG support is rather flaky and most of the time (except for really simple 'kosher' SVG files) you will get an error stating that some features of the file were not supported. Also it tends to get the size 'wrong', not the actual size of the drawing, but rather it kind of adds an additional 'holding box' to the drawing. My personal recommendation when handling graphics with Scribus would be to export to EPS and then import that into Scribus, or export to bitmap" and the need to use a recent version of the application[5] "You're probably using mrdocs' svn build for Fedora then right? (My head would have gone thru the monitor glass long ago if I was stuck with 1.3.4) If not, you should give it a try, it makes life so much easier!"

[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00308.html

[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00310.html

[5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00314.html

Final Fixes for the Solar Backgrounds

Charlie Brej spotted[1] an imperfection in the default Fedora 10 wallpaper "In the 3200x1200 dual screen images there is a column at X=1151 which has a slight transparency. It is in fact very difficult to see it in gimp but it does become visible on desktop backgrounds with a contrasting solid colour behind" and also proposed[2] a patch to decrease the overall size of the backgrounds package "Current solar background's consume 33Mb. This a bit on the heavy side, especially on the Live CD which is over its image limit. Currently there are 4 different images (morning, noon, evening, night) sent out in 4 different sizes (4:3, 16:10, 5:4 and 8:3 for dual screen). What we could do is to send out just one 3200:1200 image and patch up gnome-desktop background handling to support cropping to the right aspect."

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00317.html

[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00319.html

Martin Sourada announced[3] a split of the backgrounds in 3 packages, to distribute the file size optimally "I've just built an updated Solar Backgrounds Package with many fixes provided by Mo, and more resolutions/ratios [1]. As per request from both gnome and kde folks the package has been split into solar-backgrounds (for Desktop Live Spin) solar-backgrounds-common (for KDE) and solar-backgrounds-extras (containing everything not included in the previous two)" and at the last minute Kevin Kofler noticed[4] and fixed[5] a bug "the 1280x1024 image is only 1280x1014".

[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00364.html

[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00373.html

[5] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00379.html

Fedora 10 Countdown

Following an earlier request[1] from the website team Ricky Zhou for a count down graphic for the Fedora 10 release, Paolo Leoni submitted[2] to fedora-art for review a couple of proposals and after a couple of rounds of feedback forwarded the proposals to the @fedora-websites, with an additional round of improvements[3] incorporating feedback[4] from Mairin Duffy "I think 'CAMBRIDGE' is a little hard to read because of a combination of the thin font and the low contrast with the background. I also think the text doesn't have enough breathing space from the right and bottom edges of the banner."

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00233.html

[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2008-October/msg00328.html

[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-websites-list/2008-October/msg00148.html

[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-websites-list/2008-October/msg00147.html