On Thursday 12 July 2012 15:39:35 Brian Monroe wrote: > > ... > > +! I agree with all of your points, and I think it's important reflect our > community with "all that is possible" Not only will it allow us to include > others, but it will encourage others to branch out into areas they didn't > expect to be able to use the spin. > > > I know there's a general distaste for actually showing people in artwork, > > but I > > wonder how far we can push the limit. > > I think pictures like this would be fine for places like the musician's > guide, wiki, website, ect, but I want to push back on using pictures like > this for things like desktop, and login backgrounds. It's difficult for me > to imagine users seeing Jessica Wu and wanting to keep that as a > background, or pick up a spin case with her pic on it... I say that unless > she's drop-dead-gorgeous, but are we going to sell Fedora with sex? Where > did this girl come from, and where are we getting these pictures?!? Sorry, > I'm getting side tracked, heheheh. This issue is probably why we've avoided people... to be more specific, I was imagining photos mostly without faces, and certainly obfuscated in an artistic way. Now that I think of it, even a pair of hands on a keyboard as a default wallpaper could be disturbing, but we'll see what we come up with. > I think musicians are very much artists and we like things to be a little > less defined, which is why people in the artwork won't be appealing for > most people. However, Sexy photos of gear (Thank you Brandon Jones for > putting it so eloquently) typically is at least appealing to most. We'll > never be able to accommodate every one, which is fine, but maybe instead of > thinking of what we're doing as endorsement, we should rather think of it > as celebratory. Okay, but let's not call it "sexy," because that's a potentially dangerous word. > You'll have to forgive the postmodern in me for wanting a both/and > solution. Then forgive the post-post-modern in me for thinking those are impossible! > What if we did our first theme as something along the lines of > Celebration in collaboration and performance. Like doing collages of a wide > range of gear, with classical instruments, compressors, turntables, sheet > music, and guitars. There would be a lot going on, and some of it may not > always be clear or defined, but that's what happens when you just grab a > bunch of people and tell them to Jam on something. Kinda like there is so > much stuff, it's hard to define what kind of music or genre it represents. > But playing music is a common theme throughout. That's exactly what I had in mind. > We can also package more than one theme, (KDE already does that) so there's > no real reason not to, other than who's going to do it. Why not have > different themes, complete with their own sounds that represent and > celebrate different types of music. There might be an easy way to have a > user change or select a theme that would suit them on the initial boot, or > soon after they log in (like a desktop link). As we release new releases we > can choose or create a new theme to celebrate while keeping all of the > prior ones available. Yeah, I think our biggest obstacle is the question of "who has time to make a theme?" Thankfully we have a GSoC student, whose job it is to coordinate these efforts! Christopher
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