On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 10:40 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote: > > "Better Face Images" is one of the features. Diana worked on that before > she left (http://www.isity.net/blog/?p=65), maybe we can leverage > somehow her work, do a better selection from the collected images or > star to collect a new batch. Leave us know it the Art Team can help with > that. We used to ship those images in a gdm-extra-faces subpackage. I need to investigate what happened to that... > > There are also two related features, "Wallpaper" and "Backgrounds > channel", for which I think the best way forward is to link them > together, why struggle with an sub-optimal selection process (which, any > way you make, will get some un-pleased) when we can offer everything > with one click using RSS feeds. > I don't like the part about randomly assigning an initial background, > one think I learned from GNOME is that good defaults matter. The basic premise here is that we think it may be better to treat backgrounds as a 'personalization feature', not as a branding vehicle. Since, after all, changing the background is one of the first things many people do on a new device. To make randomly assigning work, it is of course important that we have a small set of equal-quality backgrounds to choose from (basically, each of them needs to be a good default...) > For the "Better Fonts" feature, it may not be what you envisioned, but > we at the Art Team are actively asking for "artsy" fonts, things like > Rufscript or Beteckna. We don't want those in the default install, but > is handy to have them easy available. Expanding the supply of available fonts is certainly great, artsy or not... -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
