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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

Desktop

Desktop User Guide

Wallpaper

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

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())
  • 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