On 08/11/2009 03:04 PM, Martin Sourada wrote: > Well, and would be the target of the spin? > > Yep, it does not need to be named after our team, but 'design' covers > wider audience are than just 'art', although it's still probably a > little limited. Really, depending on the audience we'll target it at, we > might want to have > * good support for devices like scanners, printers, cameras, wacom > tablets, ... I think this is expected as a default for a desktop spin > * graphics editors (gimp, inkscape, ...) sure > * photo management tools Well, for design is very likely you must acquire a photo somehow and use it as a starting element in the design process (be it photo manipulation or vectorization). > * decent audio software (recording, editing) > * decent video software ( --||-- , screen-casting) Also can go hand-in-hand with the design process: for example you create a screencast showing the process to create some graphics. > * burning software (to burn your audio CDs, videos, photos) A given in a decent desktop spin. > * desktop publishing/typesetting software (inkscape, scribus, OOo, > TeX, ...) > * web-design related software (partly overlaps with graphics > editors) Closely related to the design part: you don't create/edit graphics only for the sake of working with them, but to use further on print or web. > * other multimedia management > * various utilities like ImageMagick For me ImageMagick is a valuable tool for photo management. > * content (brushes, wallpapers, showcase window/widget themes, > templates, showcase icon themes, palettes, clip-art, ...) ...fonts, maybe stock photos, etc. Indeed, useful to have handy > If we included most of this list, the best name would probably be > something like Fedora Creativity Spin XD Which does sound like a legit name/target. "Design" sounds a bit restrictive, but probably "Creativity" or "Art Studio" are more encompassing. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ photography: http://photoblog.nicubunu.ro/ my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/ _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
