Hi all,
as already stated in IRC I am going to start pre-preparation of a new artwork for v6. This will include a custom Plymouth theme as well as wallpaper and icon packages.
If one wants to complain, do it now, please. Otherwise I will just go ahead.
Best Regards Marcus
Marcus Moeller wrote:
Hi all,
as already stated in IRC I am going to start pre-preparation of a new artwork for v6. This will include a custom Plymouth theme as well as wallpaper and icon packages.
If one wants to complain, do it now, please. Otherwise I will just go ahead.
AFAIR since working on the translatins slides, there are already some images in the cvs.
2010/4/28 Manuel Wolfshant wolfy@nobugconsulting.ro:
Marcus Moeller wrote:
Hi all,
as already stated in IRC I am going to start pre-preparation of a new artwork for v6. This will include a custom Plymouth theme as well as wallpaper and icon packages.
If one wants to complain, do it now, please. Otherwise I will just go ahead.
AFAIR since working on the translatins slides, there are already some images in the cvs.
Yup. Not sure if I am going to use these or push something new. Let you know if I have new stuff to show.
Besides that Alain's plan was to create one design for all releases. I am not going to follow this track as imho every release should be visually unique (which is also good for promotion)
Best Regards Marcus
On 4/28/10, Marcus Moeller mail@marcus-moeller.de wrote: ...
Besides that Alain's plan was to create one design for all releases. I am not going to follow this track as imho every release should be visually unique (which is also good for promotion)
good for promotion ? what about corporate visual identity ? what is your idea exactly ?
I'm planning, or at least try, to put more than one year of work today night. I've been offline for a long long time, and today I see some possibilities to share with you all what I've been doing.
Best regards, al.
Hi Alain,
Great to have you back. Hope everything is fine so far.
Besides that Alain's plan was to create one design for all releases. I am not going to follow this track as imho every release should be visually unique (which is also good for promotion)
good for promotion ? what about corporate visual identity ? what is your idea exactly ?
My idea is to make every major release visually unique. There should be something like motto which should be kept on minor releases. Maybe even NO artwork change on minor releases could be an option.
For RHEL 6 we have to create some additional stuff as rhgb has been replaced with plymouth.
I'm planning, or at least try, to put more than one year of work today night. I've been offline for a long long time, and today I see some possibilities to share with you all what I've been doing.
Hey, we are CentOS. Everything is moving slow , so you haven’t missed that much :)
Greets Marcus
On 6/16/10, Marcus Moeller mail@marcus-moeller.de wrote:
Hi Alain,
Great to have you back. Hope everything is fine so far.
This connection ends tomorrow. I'm glad to to communicate myself with you all at this time. Don't know what will happen tomorrow so I'll try to upload as much as possible for you all to check.
Besides that Alain's plan was to create one design for all releases. I am not going to follow this track as imho every release should be visually unique (which is also good for promotion)
good for promotion ? what about corporate visual identity ? what is your idea exactly ?
My idea is to make every major release visually unique. There should be something like motto which should be kept on minor releases. Maybe even NO artwork change on minor releases could be an option.
I'm just worried about maintainance issues of one visually unique schema per major release. The CentOS projects maintain near to 4 major releases at the same time. Let's see what happen after uploading the centos-artwork-repo-0.0.1.tar.bz2 file. Keep monitoring http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork page. I will upload an 8MB file to it, and if connection is still active I will try to start uploading things up to https://projects.centos.org/svn/artwork structure.
For RHEL 6 we have to create some additional stuff as rhgb has been replaced with plymouth.
Yes, plymouth is something we need to introduce inside artwork repository rendering structure.
Best Regards, al
Hi Alain.
Great to have you back. Hope everything is fine so far.
This connection ends tomorrow. I'm glad to to communicate myself with you all at this time. Don't know what will happen tomorrow so I'll try to upload as much as possible for you all to check.
Besides that Alain's plan was to create one design for all releases. I am not going to follow this track as imho every release should be visually unique (which is also good for promotion)
good for promotion ? what about corporate visual identity ? what is your idea exactly ?
My idea is to make every major release visually unique. There should be something like motto which should be kept on minor releases. Maybe even NO artwork change on minor releases could be an option.
I'm just worried about maintainance issues of one visually unique schema per major release. The CentOS projects maintain near to 4 major releases at the same time. Let's see what happen after uploading the centos-artwork-repo-0.0.1.tar.bz2 file. Keep monitoring http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork page. I will upload an 8MB file to it, and if connection is still active I will try to start uploading things up to https://projects.centos.org/svn/artwork structure.
Maintenance of dedicated artworks per major release is much easier than updating artwork of !every! release on a change of the 'unique' artwork.
But I agree, in general we should not change artwork in minor releases.
For RHEL 6 we have to create some additional stuff as rhgb has been replaced with plymouth.
Yes, plymouth is something we need to introduce inside artwork repository rendering structure.
I have already taken a look at plymouth. From my observation bg color is set during compile time so we need to check the code, too (similar to rhgb).
Best Regards Marcus
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Marcus Moeller mail@marcus-moeller.de wrote:
I have already taken a look at plymouth. From my observation bg color is set during compile time so we need to check the code, too (similar to rhgb).
It's compiled into the plugin (or theme, if you want to call it that), isn't it? So we should be able - errm, I haven't looked at the code, I'm just assuming someone is able to - add a CentOS plugin to plymouth and make that one default. Or am I completely wrong there?
Cheers,
Ralph
Hi Ralph.
I have already taken a look at plymouth. From my observation bg color is set during compile time so we need to check the code, too (similar to rhgb).
It's compiled into the plugin (or theme, if you want to call it that), isn't it? So we should be able - errm, I haven't looked at the code, I'm just assuming someone is able to - add a CentOS plugin to plymouth and make that one default. Or am I completely wrong there?
I am still not sure about. It seems that plymouth on RHE works a bit different as e.g. on Ubuntu (which is plugin based there). Maybe it's just an older version. Going to dig deeper and keep you updated.
Best Regards Marcus
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Marcus Moeller mail@marcus-moeller.de wrote:
Hi all,
as already stated in IRC I am going to start pre-preparation of a new artwork for v6. This will include a custom Plymouth theme as well as wallpaper and icon packages.
Do so :)
Cheers and thanks,
Ralph
Hi all.
If one wants to complain, do it now, please. Otherwise I will just go ahead.
Is it possible to do some mockups before the artwork is rendered ? That would be the stage where most people will complain :)
No complains, please :) - Remember that I am the only one doing artwork stuff atm.
...just kidding. A while back I have requested an artwork ML especially for that purpose, and to have an open place for discussions.
Best Regards Marcus
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