New background

[Jiri Jakub Masek]

Good work, Diana.

JJM

On 9/20/06, Diana Fong <dfong at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> John Baer wrote:
> > 1. When I view the new background on my Dell laptop the brighter image
> > did not display as well the original. On this computer I believe
> > something brighter than the original but darker than the current would
> > be the best solution. I must add this wasn't as big of an issue on my
> > desktop. The 810 video chip on the Dell may be the reason.
> >
>
> Eks...How bad is it? is not well = bad or just not as good when
> switching between the original and new wallpaper?  I've been testing it
> on my mac laptop, Dell CRT (can't remember the model), hp pavilion f1903
> flatscreen and VeiwSonic PT813 CRT...they all look slightly different.
> The first three being bright and the last one being pretty dark.  =(
> I've come up with a method for testing which  is to just see how the
> icons (along with it's text) and windows look on top of it.  Given the
> context of icons and windows, I think each (bright or dark) looked ok.
> Please let me know...I can try to tweak it some more.
>
> > 2. This is just me but I really liked the crystal/glass look of the ball
> > on the first design. I would encourage you to go back to that concept.
> >
>
> I did/do like the glass sphere as well but in the brighter version it
> looked less convincing.  It looked ok in the smaller pieces but to be
> consistent I've also changed those to the newer sphere.  It was a bit of
> a hard decision to make and Mola explored quite a few different
> materials in his renderings for a better fit.  We went with this one
> because it sat well within the existing environment, was fairly clean
> and still interesting.  There had also been a couple of other comments
> against the glass look because you could see through it and the lack of
> detail behind it was confusing some people, causing them to have see the
> helix as disconnected from the strands. I really did like the glass
> sphere and was a little sad to see that it wasn't really working as
> well.  But I think the new sphere is pretty good. =)
>
> > Given the amount of time and the number of graphics to be finalized I
> > believe you and Mola are probably the best choice in wrapping this up.
> > If you keep your status page updated I will be happy to test and provide
> > feedback on how they look.
> >
>
> Excellent.  I've been updating http://people.redhat.com/dfong/fc6graphics/
> with new improvements.  If you could take a look, test, and make
> comments on the wiki it would be super.  Since as you've noticed, time
> is running out and the new bits could really benefit from testing. =)
>
> > If you have a specific need and if you believe inkscape or gimp will
> > craft it, always willing to help.
>
> =) I've looked at your splash screen approaches. The ideas were good,
> though I think a few of them did not match the current theme. We should
> keep those and bring them up in the next release as possible themes.  I
> really like the fedora tag one.  However, your experiments did prompt me
> to try creating .svg ribbons for the 16 color limitations.
>
> Please take a look at the variations.  Let me know 1) if it is too
> dark/light 2) if the pixelation is tolerable.
> http://people.redhat.com/dfong/fc6reGraphics/syslinux-splash01.png
> http://people.redhat.com/dfong/fc6reGraphics/syslinux-splash02.png
> http://people.redhat.com/dfong/fc6reGraphics/grub.png
> note: I had to make the grub lighter because the highlight for text is
> black.
>
> Thanks!
> Diana
>
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Jiří Jakub Mašek - Jiri Jakub Masek
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