SIGs/KDE/Branding

KDE 4 Fedora Branding and Customization

Summary

Brand default KDE 4 to Fedora. There are many places which can be branded - wallpaper, splash screens, logos, links etc. The goal is to offer best KDE Fedora user experience.

Owner

• Names: Lukáš Tinkl, Jaroslav Řezník

Tasks

Wallpaper

• Solar wallpaper by Samuele Storari
  • Shared background between KDE and Gnome
  • Artwork/F10Themes/Solar
• Status: 100%

Splashscreen

• Solar Comet
  • based on Solar background
• Packaging
  • Optimization for PNG files: optipng -o5, advdef -z -4
  • Usage of shared backgrounds
• Missing
  • Widescreen resolutions - we can't set widescreen for KDM & background
  • Alpha blending of logo - can't be run at right time
• Assigned to: Jaroslav Reznik
• Status: 100 %
• Packaging: Rex Dieter, Jaroslav Reznik (solar-kde-theme)

KDM

• Solar Mania
  • Based on Solar background
  • Login box mockup http://jreznik.fedorapeople.org/kde/f10/kdm-theme/loginbox.png
• Missing
  • Colors
  • Icons
  • Position of elements
• Assigned to: Jaroslav Reznik, Kushal Das
• Packaging: Rex Dieter, Jaroslav Reznik (solar-kde-theme)
• Status: 100%

Plasma theme

• Select theme which fits Fedora better or prepare new one Plasma theme

Echo

Echo

Menu (Kickoff)

• Fedora branding logo
  • logo (theme widgets/branding.svg)
  • ask Artwork team for Fedora button in KDE style
• link (launcher.cpp:876 openHomepage())
  • http://fedoraproject.org/
• look at Kickoff
• Status: 50%, deferred - not anymore in 4.2

Browser

• bookmarks (Fedora, KDE community)
• start page
• Status: 100%

Places

• open/save dialog (Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos, Download)
• look at places

OpenOffice

• default Open Office doesn't fit well to KDE desktop
• we have testing KDE build by our Open Office team
  • it's only Qt 3
  • no support for KDE dialogs - note: talk to dtardon
  • initial Qt 4 port commited in GO OO