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Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Curtis Napier wrote: |
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>>> Spyderous already has a new logo started that we can build on. We can |
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>>> easily take it and build an entire theme around it. We also have the |
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>>> lila theme and the Gentoo Icon Set we can use as raw material. Both of |
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>>> them could easily be reworked into something we can use if we need to. |
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> That might be pushing things a little bit. What I've got are some |
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> general themes/ideas that need some work and creativity by a good |
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> graphics person to make into reality. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Donnie |
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You think it's to much? IMHO it's high time Gentoo presented a unified |
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professional look and feel to the world. We want to act and be treated |
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as a professional organization yet we have a hodge-podge of themes and |
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styles that makes us look amateurish. I don't care how or why it got |
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this way, I just want to do should something about it NOW. |
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I honestly think we can make it happen if we all pitch in. fox2mike |
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knows that artist who has already contributed artwork and says he is |
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willing to contribute more. I also know an artist who may be willing to |
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do a few things here and there. |
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fox2mike, can you talk to that artist guy and see what he is willing to |
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help out with or if he has any ideas? |
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Really, all we need is a set of color codes, a main logo and an icon |
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base set to start us out. All the rest can be built with that if we use |
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one of the 2 existing icon sets color coded to match. |
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Maybe we should start a list of things that need to be themed so we know |
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what sort of artwork that will take. I'll start a list right now, if you |
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are working on any of these things or have the skill/desire to work on |
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them respond: |
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Gentoo Logo |
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grubsplash |
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framebuffer splash |
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gdm |
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kdm |
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qt |
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gtk |
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gnome/kde startup splash |
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metacity |
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kwin |
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icons |
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wallpapers |
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PR materials (posters, handouts, business cards, etc..) |
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Cafepress store items |
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websites |
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other WM's/desktops can also be done if someone is willing to do it. |
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Like E17 or XFCE, etc... Even if they don't get full custom themes they |
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can still use the icons and wallpapers and the qt/gtk theme will apply |
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to the apps. |
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The lila theme[1] already has *most* of that stuff already. This project |
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is highly configurable as far as color scheme is concerned (it's svg). |
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The icons can easily be colorized to match any scheme and we even have |
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ebuilds for all of it (not in the tree though) that are mostly up to |
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date. Maybe the lila maintainer would be willing to jump in and help us |
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out with this. |
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We also have the Gentoo Icon Set[2] to work with but it's not as easy to |
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customize as lila and some of the icons have questionable copyright. |
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Lila is all original GPL'd artwork that we would be free to use. |
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To be honest I think lila, colorized to match whatever scheme we decide |
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on, is the best way to go. It already has most of what we need and it's |
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relatively easy to customize. Since no artistic skill would be required |
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to customize lila I could do a lot of this stuff. I would be willing to |
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do anything with gnome, updating gtk/metacity/icons etc... That sort of |
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stuff is all fill-in-the-blank scripting for the most part with |
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excellent tutorials already provided. |
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And this theming should extend to all of our artwork. Things like |
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business cards and all the stuff that PR uses at the live shows. All the |
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stuff in the store, etc... Once we have an agreed upon logo and color |
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scheme that stuff will be *relatively* easy to change. |
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Spyderous, what is the Desktop herds stance on this. If we can get this |
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all done (or as much of it as possible) is Desktop willing to make it |
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the default theme? What would it take for this to happen? |
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Wolf31o2, what about you and the other CD maintainers, are you guys |
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willing to use this if we can get it done? |
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PR, are you guys willing (or able) to remake your materials? What would |
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it take? |
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Who runs the store? I can't find any info about it. Can you/will you |
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change the products? |
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Anything else that can be themed that I'm missing? |
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Like I said in that other email, if we start right now we could have it |
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all done in time for 2007.0. |
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Am I being crazy thinking we can do all of this? Does anyone else even |
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want to try or think it's a good idea? Any other questions, comments, |
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suggestions, flames? |
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[1]http://lila-theme.berlios.de/ |
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[2]http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/icons.xml |
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