Fedora Jingle - main progression
by Tom medhurst
Hi Guys,
We are currently working hard on the lyrics, but here is a chord progression
that we thought would fit quite well...
http://soundcloud.com/idlewords/fedora-main-progression
The idea is that *Section A* describes Fedora as a metaphorical man (the
singer will be female) wearing a Fedora.
*Section B* (or bridge) we thought would be great as a cheerleader-style
chant and could be used on it's own as a shorter version.
Something like this:
*"F (is for free), E (not enigmatic for me) D (for the débutantes --- crying
out Fedora is what they want!)"*
Might write a number of these chants with different themes so they can be
taken out and used to emphasise a particular area of strength of Fedora?
The inspiration for the mention of débutantes came from Mizmo's comic book..
thought it was quite fitting! he he! :D
Comments obviously welcome, if you have a Soundcloud account you can comment
against any section of the song if you feel that more appropriate.
Thanks,
Tom
13 years, 2 months
Time for another bounty?
by Máirín Duffy
What do you think, is it time to post another design bounty? If so, what
should the task be? Any ideas?
~m
13 years, 2 months
New F15 Wallpaper and Idea for Easier defaults switching
by Martin Sourada
Hi all,
The default wallpaper for F15 lovelock release is being packaged right
now (I'm awaiting adding it to git right now). It is a sort of
compromise [1] between what desktop folks wanted (use default gnome
wallpaper for desktop spin for f15) and many design folks wanted
(default wallpaper on default spin should be created by ourselves).
I'll let you know again when all the packages are in rawhide so you can
change the defaults.
Now I would like to present an idea how to handle the defaults in a
more efficient way. Since I'm not an expert in handling these in all
the desktops we ship your input would be very much welcome.
Let's start with GNOME since that is what I've been using till now:
Along with the virtual system-backgrounds-gnome provides also provide
a symlink (I propose /usr/share/backgrounds/default.xml) to the
intended default and set it to by system wide defaults. This way just
updating the wallpaper packages would also update the symlink and thus
the default background. Correct me if I'm wrong or need something more.
Of course you could override the system defaults for spins if needed.
Now for XFCE which I'm using now. I noticed that if I put an image
into /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops it will appear in the backgrounds
applet, so I created new -xfce subpackage (with system-backgrounds-xfce
virtual provides) to provide the wallpapers for xfce users. For easier
defaults I propose to create default.png symlink in the same directory
which you could then set as default. That way updating the wallpaper
packages would also update the default wallpaper. I have no idea how
defaults are handled in XFCE so this might not be the correct way to do
it, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
For KDE I'm thinking about symlinking the whole (currently) Lovelock
directory with images and wallpaper description to Default directory at
the same place (of course, provided by package with
system-backgrounds-kde virtual provides). Not sure if that would be all
that's needed or whether different procedure would be desirable. So
again, correct me if I'm wrong.
For LXDE I have not the slightest idea so any suggestions how to keep
handling the defaults limited to [release-name]-backgrounds* packages
is welcomed.
Thanks,
Martin
PS: I hope I CCed the right people, if not I apologize and if you know
of a better person/interest group suited for this discussion not CCed
yet, please forward the mail to them.
PPS: And sorry for cross posting it to both desktop design-team mailing
list, but I think both groups might have something to add to the
discussion.
References:
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Mockingbird-stripes-3-mo-jef.png
13 years, 2 months
F15 Alpha Wallpaper
by Martin Sourada
Hi all,
since yesterday was the deadline and there seemed to be no meeting
either, I was wondering what's the state of the alpha wallpaper. What
should I package? I see just two concepts on the devel page [1]...
Cheers,
Martin
PS: I switched to rawhide recently and one really annoying thing on the
Gnome version is the wallpaper. Initially I just thought the stripes
looked nice albeit oldish/retro, but actually seeing them on desktop
annoyed me a lot, to my surprise. So I'd like to propose to tone them
down a lot in our version.
References:
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F15_Artwork/Development
13 years, 2 months
