On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 06:11 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 22:03 -0700, Sherman Boyd wrote:

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Hi,

I'm interested in working on some of the CentOS art. Does anyone have a list of what needs to be done?

-- Best regards,

Sherman Boyd

Sherman,

Thanks for offering to help :)

One thing that I know we need is the several images that are displayed during install.

The pictures are currently in: /usr/share/anaconda/pixmaps/rnotes

The are the files:

01-rhel4-welcome.png 02-rhel4-rhn_mnsrv.png 03-rhel4-training.png 04-rhel4-glob_serv.png 05-rhel4-ent_family.png 06-rhel4-whats_new.png 07-rhel4-activate.png 08-rhel4-thanks.png

Right now, they all look like this: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/graphics/splash.png

I am working on some exact text, but it seems we can name the files 01 thru 99, then anything we want, then .png

I'll post some text (and a title) that we would like for some png files if you think you can help us :).

The specs on the pictures would be:

425 (W) x 225 (H) ... gimp RGB mode, .png files

I'll post some titles and text in an e-mail later.

Ok,

If anyone out there is graphically capable here is what we would like to get to start with:

http://centos.hughesjr.com/build/pixmaps/new_centos_pixmaps.txt

Anyone want to make some pictures :)

Thanks, Johnny Hughes

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 20:37 -0700, Sherman Boyd wrote:

Here is a template:

http://www.mitosys.com/images/Centos-Install-Graphics.png

and here is a mock up of how it would look during install:

http://www.mitosys.com/images/centos-install-mock-up.png

As you can see in the mockup, the text is crammed pretty tight at 12pt sans. Bold is more readable, but takes up more room. I suggest black for the title, charcoal for the main text and blue for the url.

OK ... that looks pretty good. Let's go with it. (Thanks for taking the time :)

I'd also suggest making as many graphics as possible non version specific. That way we don't have to edit 10 of these each release. I don't really think it's worth investing the time, as you only see these splash screens once. It's better to make them generic and professional looking.

Agreed ... none of the them will have CentOS-4.2 or CentOS-3.6, etc.

Only 3 of the ones so far have any version info, and that is the docs, centosplus, and the welcome screen ... they mention CentOS 4 ... which should be OK throughout the lifetime of CentOS-4.x (till 2012). The other 4 are totally generic and could be used by any centos project.

I am going to do some text for a couple more slides, one for CentOS 4 CS/GFS. Then I will modify the text a little for the 4 CentOS-4 specific ones (as new pix) for CentOS-3.

After these are finished, we should not need to make any mods to any of them between releases.

Thank you very much, Johnny Hughes