Umbria..... Could be shadows? speaking of which I am going to see a solar eclipse in
july...anyone else going to see it?
--- On Wed, 3/6/09, Máirín Duffy <mairin(a)linuxgrrl.com> wrote:
From: Máirín Duffy <mairin(a)linuxgrrl.com>
Subject: Re: [Design-team] F12 names and themeability
To: "Fedora Design Team" <design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Received: Wednesday, 3 June, 2009, 2:35 AM
----- Original Message ----
From: Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora(a)nicubunu.ro>
After a quick read of the list, I don't see anything as unthemeable as
"sulphur", so any of the choices are acceptable IMO.
Yes that one was a real stinker... HAWHAWHAW :)
I will take them one by one and emit some quick ideas:
> Quetzalcoatl
It may be inspired by an asteroid, but I would be tempted to challenge
the cultural taboos and use some pre-Columbian imagery (dragon serpents,
pyramids)
+1 I think the pre-Columbian imagery is a great idea.
> Constantine
Byzantine... 'nuff said :D
> Hubble
Stars, galaxies, we can just stole the wallpaper from the Astronomy spin
+1
> Umbria
I am pretty sure our Italian friends can come with a lot of ideas about
this (I don't think we will feature Star Trek ships).
+1
> Hippokoon
I am no big fan of this, going with (less known[1]) Spartan kings will
be pretty much repeating some motifs tried for F11, but is doable.
[1] even all wikipedia has to say about it is a stub:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocoon
-1 I would definitely like to move on from the Spartan idea...
> Heisenberg
Paul gave already an idea here
+1
> Goliath
Power, might, crushing everything around. But is it a good idea?
Ultimately Goliath was a loser, defeated by David.
+1 I think we could twist this around though, e.g. we could theme the artwork on defeating
the target of Goliath, posing Fedora as the David...
> Rugosa
+1 I LOVE this one. There are so many beautiful natural patterns we could use -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Haeckel_Tetracoralla.jpg
I think it may be interesting to have a floral theme, with roses and
stuff. We can claim the girls temporarily overpowered the geeks at Fedora.
> Adamastor
I have the same concern as for Hippokoon
-1 me too, please let's move on from Spartans!
> Orville
It may be interesting to have a graphic theme about music and shout
"Fedora 12 rocks!"
+1
http://fedorapeople.org/groups/designteam/Fedora%20Collateral/Guitar%20Pi...
:)
> Chilon
Good thing we can shift from Ancient Greek heroes to Swiss castles, I
would try touse this in a theme.
+1
> Wallace
We can try something dark, Sin City style or some Scottish references.
+1
> Elvis
To go with "music" would be to obvious, we can try something like "is
not dead!"
+1 We could do something spooky maybe, Elvis' ghost...
> Cimrman
The Czech character is, IMHO, a bit obscure for an international
audience so we may have to go here with the astronomy thing.
+1
> Alexander
I would liked more to have in the suggestion list some references for
secondary meanings, we know is a common name, was a Greek king...
something else to try than the same old Greek theme.
+1 I think there's a lot of possibilities here tho. Alexander Graham Bell, Alexander
Method, or maybe the movie Moondance Alexander which is about ponies which leads to a
OMG!!!!! PONIES!!@!#!@$!@$ theme!
> Stradivari
Music, classic, fine art.
+1
Those are some ideas I got "on the spot", with some thinking I am sure
we can find some more, so any choice is doable (but I would not be happy
with repeating an "Ancient Greece" theme).
Same here, no repeats!
~m
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