----- Original Message -----From: "Nicu Buculei" <nicu_fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: "Fedora Design Team" <design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Sent: Thursday, 18 June, 2009 08:42:02 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / ViennaSubject: Re: [Design-team] The Theme On 06/17/2009 08:39 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:> I wonder if we could take an approach instead of creating the base image> from scratch this time, to go out and search the best of openly-licensed> content and try to provide a thematic selection? That way there is much And have no default? What we will do, run a wizard at the first login so the user can chose his theme? > less pressure on us I think.... because the creative process is not> always so consistent in terms of time/effort involved, if we make a> selection of things already available perhaps we can deliver on a more> predictable schedule? (and get some publicity/exposure to artists who> aren't already on the team but already 'get' open licensing - maybe it> will help us convince them to join our effort :) ) Honestly, I am not a big fan of this approach, is like us dropping the ball and acknowledging we are not able to create ourselves something good enough. +1 I hope we will not stop create, and, I think we may work again in the contest mode, I know we have some trouble last time, but the positive side was there were a lot of themes presented and not only one, I think the monotheme process was a big fail; in my opinion a lot of designer don't see the opportunity to express themselves so they didn't partecipate in the community work... me first ;) making it a work of few, when we can have a work of a lot :D > The theme that unifies the selected images could be derived from the> codename. It would be great to have a whole cohesive set of images for> users to choose from too instead of just one like we've always done. Let's see the codename, but I am skeptical we will be able to find enough quality, Free images for an entire set with different personas. > This would still involve some effort from us too, to convert/crop photos> to the ratios we support and whatnot.>> We could have a competitive element to determine which one of the> selections is the wallpaper by default?>> It might be cool too, to work up a list of personas, each of which we> should try to aim a wallpaper at. For example, the Windows XP base set> of wallpapers has the flower and the pink wallpaper for girls... I hope we will do something with wallpaper extras for F12. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/photography: http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/_______________________________________________design-team mailing listdesign-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team -- Samuele StorariArt DirectorByte-Code srlmobile: +39 347 50 798 32office: +39 02 9840047http://www.byte-code.com_______________________________________________design-team mailing listdesign-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
