F8 artwork update

[Máirí­n Duffy]

Hey folks,

So a little bit of news on the Fedora 8 artwork front. First, since we 
had the most 'votes' on list for Infinity and since Ben simply ran out 
of time this go-round [1], it seems to make sense to go with Infinity 
especially since we are so short on time (tomorrow, er it's late... 
today is the code freeze for F8 test 2.)

We started working on getting artwork checked in for test 2. Tonight, 
the firstboot banner & splash, the grub splash, and the new RHGB theme 
got checked in. Tomorrow (er... later today lol) I'm going to work on 
getting the wallpaper, syslinux, and anaconda artwork checked in.

The only absolutely essential artwork we do not have checked in or ready 
to check in for F8 test 2 is GDM. I'm not sure what to do about it; Avio 
[2] looks nice - what do you think if we used that with a theme-specific 
background? Does anybody have any other ideas for GDM? As an absolute 
fallback we can go with the current one and simply replace the Flying 
High background as Nicu suggested. It doesn't look bad, but I'd like to 
see something different if we can do it. If anybody has a mockup I can 
implement it so we're not bound to use something that's already been 
implemented.

Other stuff that's not super essential but nice-to-have and hopefully 
we'll have ready for test 3:

- gnome splash
- kde splash
- multi-colored multiple backgrounds for the time-of-day feature mclasen 
mentioned earlier. (actually I have some prepared already so if I have 
some time tomorrow I'll see if I can get any of those in)

Beyond this, there's still a lot of work to do so if anyone is 
interested in working on any of the following (or anything above for 
that matter) please feel free to jump in! :)

- Round 4:
default firefox theme - banner / layout - every time someone opens up 
firefox in Fedora 8 they will see this page!

default httpd 'welcome to your fedora webserver' page - every time 
someone starts up a Fedora httpd webserver for the first time this will 
be the page their system serves up.

- Round 5:
F8 marketing materials discussion with fedora-marketing-list... come up 
with a slogan for our new theme, and promotional graphic ideas, maybe 
brainstorm what's needed for the promotional kit (see round 7)

- Round 6:
finalize artwork/design for F8 DVD/CD labels and sleeves. These will be 
printed up professionally and will be available at conferences likely 
worldwide. They also may be used by magazines that distribute Fedora 8. 
So if you want to learn about designing DVD/CD labels for professional 
screenprinting (I'm thinking this time let's do something cool with 
leaving parts of the design blank for the silver of the disc to show 
through), or if you'd rather come up with a nice logo Fedora users 
everywhere can print out on an inkjet printer, help out with this one :)

- Round 7:
release promo kit with nicely-designed PDF release notes for handing out 
at conferences, etc (good excuse to try out Scribus!!)

- Round 8: finalize www.fedoraproject.org promotional materials for F8 
launch

~m

[1] (Ben, we can resurrect Abstract for F9 if you want to propose it 
again... and feel free to jump in on the other rounds for F8 if/when 
you're less busy!)

[2] http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=37395