Hi folks, I wanted to tell you about a good opportunity for both artists and interested non-artists to help make Fedora beautiful for F13. Many releases since we switched from the Bluecurve icon theme now, and we still have Bluecurve icons in Fedora! And we have some non-standard non-Bluecurve icons as well. I think we should to update these crufty old icons so we have a nice, clean, modern, an consistent desktop! In the past couple of weeks folks from the GNOME art team (rockstars like Lapo Calamandrei, Hylke Bons, and Jakub Steiner) have been helping fill in the gaps, pointing me to icons that we should use, bugs in our icon packages, and creating new icons as we have gaps. If you would like to help in the crufty icon purge, I've added my working to-do file for purging the cruft onto the design team wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design/F13_Icon_Purge Here are specific things you can do to help: 1) Hunt down the crufty icons Grab an F13 nightly build (from here, http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/) create a liveusb or live CD, boot it up, and go through it as thoroughly as possible, and identify any icons in the menus or even in applications or on the desktop that are bluecurve [1] or generally crufty and don't fit our current icon standard - the gnome-icon-theme. [2] The highest priority icons for the Purge (can you tell I've been playing Final Fantasy 13? :) ) are those that are in the default Fedora 13 Desktop spin install. That being said, if you use other spins or install apps that are not in the default package set, it is still helpful to identify icons that need help for those as well. In some cases we will be able to help upstream apps update and modernize their icons which is very cool and very much part of the Fedora philosophy. Whenever you identify an icon that needs replacing, file a ticket on the design team trac: https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ You will need a Fedora account to do this, and you'll need to log in in the upper right corner before the 'new tickets' link shows up on the nav bar. Then, add the ticket link to the Icon Purge wiki page, in the TO-DO section: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design/F13_Icon_Purge#TO_DO If you need any help with this let me know. If you're hung up on the ticket-filing part, please don't be - just note all the crufty icons in a flat text file or in the wiki and we can work through getting them filed together. 2) Help eliminate the crufty icons! Look through the list of TO-DOs on the Icon Purge wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design/F13_Icon_Purge In some cases, we have notes attached to the a to-do item about what kind of metaphor we need for an icon, etc. In these cases, we need a new icon design. Pop into #gnome-art and let us know you're interested in working on a new icon. In some cases, we have a note attached to an icon saying, 'talk to so-and-so to get the icon'. In those cases, it would be most helpful for you to go ahead and talk to so-and-so, get the icon, and move the to-do to in-progress with some notes on what you did, possibly filing a bug in bugzilla attaching the icons and asking the maintainer to update their package. I should be on IRC (my nick is mizmo) tomorrow and Friday as well as next week actively working on this purge, so if you have any questions on any particular items here please feel free to hit me up in #fedora-design on freenode, or #gnome-art on gimpnet and I'll be happy to guide you! Thanks, ~m [1] If you're not sure what Bluecurve looks like, check out: https://fedorahosted.org/bluecurve/wiki/BluecurveIconGuidelines [2] If you're not sure what gnome-icon-theme looks like, check out Jakub's page on it: http://people.freedesktop.org/~jimmac/icons/ p.s. We have been working out of a Dropbox.com share - I know it's not open source and that makes me a really sad panda, but it really helps get the job done, and I've been using it to learn more about how it works to get ideas for how we could do an open source collaboration tool. If any of you would like an invite to the share I would be more than happy to hook you up. But there's no need to use Dropbox to help out if you don't want to, don't worry. If you see a referral to a dropbox share, though, that is what it is referring to. _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
