Fedora 9 themes - Round 1
The deadline for Round 1 of Fedora 9 theme submission was a couple of days ago, on January 8. Round 1 in intended to gather concepts, so do not expect polished graphics, only sketches and ideas.
Here is what we get so far (as required, the proposals with a formal mailing list introduction and wiki page), listed chronologically:
CODE 9TO9, by Jiri Jakub Masek, a theme based on one line drawn 9 pointed star, endless, cyclic, algorithm 9483726159;
Freedom, by Michael Beckwith, following the motto of Infinity Freedom Voice that Fedora uses, and with Fedora 8 using Infinty, it propose Freedom, supplying some other ways that Freedom could be represented;
Waves, by Martin Sourada, "Waves could symbolize infinity, freedom, voice, ..."
Night, by Mola Pahnadayan;
Electric Sphere, by Mola Pahnadayan;
At Last, by Andrew Healey, the image of a person with their arms thrown up in triumph having symbolism that ties directly to the Fedora ideals and also with the feeling that using a human image in the theme helps personalize Fedora;
Shoowa, by Luya Tshimbalanga, a raffia cloth textile from the Kuba, a people from the central Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing the diversity of the Fedora community through the use of art from different cultures.
Thoughts? Comments? Praises? Compllaints? Any kind of feed-back?
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ReplyDeleteAt the moment i think that the best concept for Fedora 9 is "Waves" by Martin Sourada, but it needs more polished and soft artworks.
PS : i also think that it will be very HARD to beat a beautiful theme like Infinity of Fedora 8.
I still think they're all quite weak...but I guess that's normal for round 1.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea behind CODE 9TO9, but the implementation doesn't look good...but that might very well change in future rounds.
Waves has great potential too, but needs more work to be done for sure. It's very similar to the Infinity theme, though (several soft round lines and of course it's blue). I'm not sure if that's a little too small fo a change. some goes for CODE 9TO9, tho.
At Last is a completely different approach. I like that. It looks clean and still has a message. I'm curious what we'll see on that front in later rounds.
Night is a nice image. I like it, but not a a wallpaper. We'll see if this is going to be improved soon.
The others, I wouldn't even consider. apologies to the artists.
Anyway, it's great to see that the artists team is doing a great job again and is not losing its creativity. Thank you for your good work, keep it up.
Oh, btw, Nicu: the link to Electric Sphere has a typo in it (spHere).
like night and electric bolt.
ReplyDeleteI believe that electric bolt would be much better if done in 3D and not in vectors.
I also agree that all seam a bit weak, I haven't before looked at artwork process so I hope this is normal for round 1.
Wawes is best.
ReplyDeletered, thanks for the correction!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, is normal they look weak, do you remember how Infinity looked in Round 1?
Waves for me too, nice idea..... but i agree with red.... they are still to weak
ReplyDeleteI like the electric sphere one.
ReplyDeleteThe others seem to wimpy for a distro as cool as Fedora.
I of course replace the default wallpaper all the time, anyway, as I suspect most folks do.
ATTACK!
None. :(
ReplyDeleteAll but trash. What's wrong with the Gnome's default look and desktop wallpaper? They have improved from the days when you HAD TO change them to prevent yourself from going blind from the ugliness...
ReplyDeleteA distro is much more than a Desktop Environment (Gnome or KDE), it is about integration, a consistent look and feel from the installer (Anaconda), to the boot process (GRUB, RHGB) and desktop (GDM, Gnome wallpaper) and also web and media (CD/DVD covers and such).
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