[Frugalware-devel] 0.8 Kalgan artwork in progress

[Gabriel C]

Daniel Exner wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm no dev but crazy said I should write here :)
> 
> Devil505 wrote:
> 
> [..]
>> http://apu.mabul.org/up/apu/2008/01/23/img-s25cz93dic3.png
>>
>> What do you think about it ?
> I don't like it. I understand how much hard work it is to actually *do* make a 
> nice artwork, but I simply like the old logo more.
> 
> Things I liked on artwork so far:
> * Grub, Splashy, KDM  look similar
> * Its easy to distinguish from one release to the next
> 
> Things I don't like:
> * KDE Splash looks completly different (not bad, just different)

No way to make it look like gnomes or xfces one because they are doing that different.

Also the splash need look somewhat different because you have the KDM Theme with the main wallpaer . ( background , colors etc ) and it would look really bad if you make the splash looking exactly like the KDM theme. You can change the theme to use the normal wallpaper etc and you'll notice what I mean.


> * Splashy themes tend to look not that good on not default resolutions or not 
> 24bit
> * Splashy text seems hardcoded in Image (no Idea if this is possible to 
> change) so not chance for translation

It is hardcoded only on 0.7 because we were in rush with the artwork.

> 
> My ideas:
> * use SVG as much as possible (Background, GDM, KDM, Splashy with small patch)
> * don't use to much color in images, or at least check they look stil good 
> with vga=791
> * define some kind of "Master" Artwork (like e.g the background)
> * define a theming guideline having something todo with the planetary release 
> codename, like "Kalgan is in Aquarius so the Artwork should be aquatic 
> themed"
> (no idea if there is enough info about the planets to do such things)
>

Yepp we need setup some project website and some git repo for artwork and we really need some artist
cares about.
 
> Just my 0,02€
> 
> DeX

crazy