Valent Turkovic wrote: > Did you listen to Linux Action Show podcast review in the link that is > provided? They also mention icons and few other issues, but best > listen to it if you can. Sorry, I didn't, I don't have much time these days. A summary of actual issues brought up would be helpful. >> The wallpaper could have been more exciting, yes. The rest of the >> artwork I think is better with a more simple design, though, without too >> much in-your-face branding. We don't want the distro to be akin to an >> overly gaudy person wearing way too much makeup, you know? > > I see your point of view and I understand it. I must tell you that I > don't have anything againgst Fedora design but I honestly don't see > any big difference between Fedora 6 (which I run at work) and Fedora 8 > which I run at home. You don't see a difference between the artwork in Fedora 6 and Fedora 8? You must be in the far minority. Fedora 6 had much darker colored artwork than Fedora 8, and it was much more heavily branded. > If I took screenshots and compared them I would > probably see differences but to an ordinary user and not art team who > works on those changes they are so subtle that we don't see them. Only > real difference we users actually see is the wallpaper. I think maybe you're talking more about GTK+ and metacity themes, while in our discussion about the Fedora 9 artwork we are talking about the artwork - the wallpaper, splash screens, etc. The former hasn't changed very much no, the latter has changed dramatically and I am not sure how you could actually argue that any differently. > I use fedora desktop around 10h per day but I look at firefox, gaim > and openoffice and not widgets. The parts of the Gnome I look the most > are top and bottom panels and of course wallpaper... Okay, that is different than the artwork we are discussing for sure. If you have a GTK+ and metacity theme you would like to propose for consideration in F9 that would be great. Artwork though is a very different process. I am not sure though how you would confuse Martin's sketches of water waves with designs for GTK+ and metacity themes, that seems a bit of a leap. > Could I trouble you for an oppinion? > Did you have an opportunity to run LinuxMint? If not please look at > this screenshot: > http://www.linuxmint.com/img/screenshots/celena/1024/mintmenu.png > > What do you think about the theme on Gnome panels. I believe that > fedora hasn't changer it's... maybe ever, no? What is your opinion on > that? I must admit that the LinuxMint design team really surprised > me... they had some "experiments" with the look of their distro that > didn't came out well in some previous version, but I must admit that I > really love the panels - it is subtle but still looks very nice. That looks like it's the applications menu from SuSE. I don't really like it from a usability POV - it appears to overwhelm the user with choices. It also looks a bit too much like Windows I think. I think the menu we have in Fedora is much easier and less overwhelming to use but I guess I would have to see or run some comparative usability studies to know if the SuSE-style menu has a negative impact on usability. (I am guessing so from a comparison of the number items presented. Less items tend to be easier to work with.) ~m _______________________________________________ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
