Fedora 6 , Background

[Máirín Duffy]

Diana Fong wrote:
> Demond James wrote:
>> Máirín Duffy wrote:
>>> Diana Fong wrote:
>>>> Done...literally in a day with no sleep...though...maybe two because 
>>>> Mola is ahead by 8 hours. Hope you guys like it.  
>>>> http://people.redhat.com/dfong/fc6graphics/
>>>
>>> http://people.redhat.com/dfong/fc6graphics/06screen.png
>>>
>>> This one is going to be an issue wrt translations.
>>>
>>> I would recommend the following:
>>>
>>> - left align the pam message ('please enter your username' in this 
>>> example)
>>> - align the toolbar buttons alongo the bottom of the screen. 
>>> Depending on various settings there may be more or less of these and 
>>> once they're translated to languages like German they will blow out 
>>> of the box they're in.
>>>
>>> This is really different from the current GDM theme though - how is 
>>> it going to be implemented in time? You might be able to take a 
>>> plainer GDM theme and just make that image the BG though.
>>>
>>> ~m
>>>
>>> _________________________________________
>> How about changing the window borders and panels to be similar or more 
>> complementary to the glassy blue color that is used in the 
>> background.  We can just do a color change since time is short.
>>
>> Demond 
> 
> The mockup for the login was indeed too involved for the limited time to 
> implement.  I looked around and made a variation based off of 
> "BlueSwirl" by DarkKnight9 found at [1].  Also took pieces from the FC5 
> Fedora Bubbles GDM as well as from "Gnome Moment" by jordiablo [2].
> Here's a screenshot [3]...there's an extra piece of text "Linux" which I 
> can't seem to get rid of...if someone could take a look? Here's the 
> greeter theme [4].
> 
> Diana
> 
> [1] http://art.gnome.org/themes/gdm_greeter/1201
> [2] http://art.gnome.org/themes/gdm_greeter/1266
> [3] http://people.redhat.com/dfong/fc6reGraphics/Screenshot1.png
> [4] http://people.redhat.com/dfong/fc6reGraphics/BlueSwirl.zip

I'll take a look at the "Linux" thing if I have time later, but... how 
does that show up if you make the Xnest window widescreen? Or > the 
resolution of the BG image?

~m