Wallpapers included by default in Fedora Workstation
by Ryan Lerch
Hi all,
Quite a while ago, i floated an idea in the Workstation working group to
clean out the older wallpapers that we ship by default in workstation, and
replace them with a new set of Fedora-specific ones that are chosen from
all best of the previous Supplemental wallpapers.
NOTE: this will not change THE default wallpaper, which will still be the
one that the design team works on each release.
THe WG has approved this proposal [1] in the latest WG meeting, and now i
am bringing this up for disussion here.
Basically, the proposal is to ship just the following as the default
wallpapers (i.e. what people will see in the Wallpapers tab in the Settings
GUI) in Fedora Workstation:
1. Provide the default Fedora wallpaper for the release, that is created
for each release by the Fedora Design Team. This will remain the default
wallpaper as it currently is.
2. Provide the default wallpaper & lock screen artwork for the upstream
desktop release (i.e. the default GNOME wallpaper and GNOME Lockscreen for
the release of GNOME being shipped)
3. Remove all the other wallpapers we currently ship and create a new
set of the 15 wallpapers from the previous Fedora supplemental wallpapers.
Note also, that 15 was chosen to keep the wallpaper chooser tidy, as it
displays them in rows of 3.
cheers,
ryanlerch
[1] - https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/12
6 years, 3 months
Fedora 26 Beta Release Readiness Meeting on Thursday, May 25 @ 19:00 UTC
by Jan Kurik
Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-2 for the Fedora 26
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6 years, 4 months
Re: Wallpapers included by default in Fedora Workstation
by Ryan Lerch
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 4:30 PM, S.Kemter <sirko.kemter(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just some notes
>
> @zoltan we definitely need no new wallpaper package, we have to many
> different packages already
>
> @matt there is no problem, you just need to know the package name you can
> install older ones still in newer releases.
>
>
> at both what Ryan has reached with the WG is already a huge step forward.
> We had several attempts to make our supplemental wallpaper better visible.
> Currently they are not shown in the workingstation by default its the old
> ones from GNOME which is always shown there. You might also think that we
> not just deliver GNOME as other DE as well so you have a lot of people
> sitting on the table when you want to reach a change.
>
> So what we not need are new ideas like add older default wallpaper, what
> we need is a consens with all the DE people not thinking to much as KDE,
> XFCE or whatever environment as more thinking, whats the best for Fedora.
>
> The optimum would be that each release the package is shown in the
> wallpaper settings but get the GNOME people agree to that is the hard part,
> so Ryans achievement is already a step forward in the right direction. So I
> am happy with it.
>
> The question is more how we select now the 15, just take the best 3 of
> last 5 releases or make a new election? To make an election and get it
> packaged so we can have that for F26, its just a short time. So working on
> that and not come up with new ideas is more helpful
>
IMHO, the best way would be for the members of the design team to pick the
set. This way we can choose the highest quality images, as well as ensuring
we have a good range of image types, and colors. We don't want to have all
mountain vistas, or ship a set were all the images are primarily the same
color.
cheers,
ryanlerch
>
> br gnokii
>
> Am 27.04.2017 um 07:28 schrieb Ryan Lerch:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 3:08 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:41:05AM +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote:
>> > 3. Remove all the other wallpapers we currently ship and create a new
>> > set of the 15 wallpapers from the previous Fedora supplemental
>> wallpapers.
>>
>>
>> What about also including a few of the non-supplimental wallpapers from
>> previous releases? I personally really like F24 and F21, and the F17
>> fireworks seem almost iconic. Plus, FC5 (although the 3d-button look on
>> the logo seems dated.)
>>
>
> IMHO, these wallpapers are tied to the branding of each individual
> release, so
> I would be worried about including these as the standard wallpapers on a
> default
> install. The supplemental wallpapers don't really have the same connection
> to
> an individual release, and since we have a large back catalog of approved,
> properly
> licenced images, this seemed like a good place to base our search on.
>
> One thing to investigate here, however, is should we look into better ways
> of exposing
> the wallpapers packaged in Fedora to the user? Currently, these wallpapers
> are not shown
> in Software, and the only way to get them is to know the correct package
> name / fedora release
> name to install, and use DNF. They aren't really "software", so not sure
> if they fit in the Software
> app, although we do have Fonts in there, but the experience provided there
> for searching
> for fonts can feel a bit clunky at times too.
>
> cheers,
> ryanlerch
>
>
>>
>>
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>> <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
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6 years, 4 months
Today is Beta Splash Screens and Wallpapers deadline
by Jan Kurik
Hi Design team,
today (2017-May-11) we have reached Splash Screens and Wallpapers
deadline for Fedora 26.
There are now 2 working days till 2017-May-15 for packaging, before
the Fedora 26 release gets into Beta Freeze (on 2017-May-16).
On Tuesday 2017-May-16 is expected to have packed the following deliverables:
* Beta Splash Screens
* Beta Wallpaper
* Supplemental Wallpaper
Please let me know in case of any issue jeopardizing this milestone.
Thanks and Regards,
Jan
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Jan Kuřík
Platform & Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic
6 years, 4 months