R: Re: Solar Round 2 updates

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 15:31 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Samuele Storari wrote:
> > I'm a little hurry right now, but just a quite response about the brushes:
> > 
> > http://hawksmont.com/blog/gimp-brushes-moon/
> > 
> > Here u find the brushes I've used, Totally free and open.
> 
> Actually I think there are a few pieces of the terms of use that may be 
> problematic because it's not a standard license like CC-SA and while it 
> says okay for commercial use, there's a lot of restrictions on 
> commercial use it seems.
> 
> So this sounds like a non-commercial license... honestly though I don't 
> know much about this stuff. We could have someone more knowledgeable 
> (like spot) review the usage agreement to make sure it's okay, or I 
> could easily make a set of moon brushes to use instead. A lot of images 
> of the moon have been made public domain by NASA, so it shouldn't be 
> hard to find high-resolution moon images to do this with and we could 
> even package up the brush files and ship them in Fedora as well.

Personally, I am LOVING the Solar artwork.  Samuele, I would ask that
you consider doing the following:

* Remove the moons - I believe these are distracting to the eye and
possibly might confuse users.  I have seen my children react to desktop
icons like that sometimes.

* Remove the "aura" in the middle - It's very bright and interferes with
desktop icons that are placed in that area.  The solar body does not
have this problem because its bright areas are not as wide.

I agree with Mo that the GRUB screen might need some slight tweaking,
but the other banners are *BEAUTIFUL*.  I hope people will not interpret
this as negativity toward any other theme, because I think we have MANY
great ideas this time.  

Enough, in fact, that we should consider:
  (1) holding a runner-up for Fedora 11 to use then, and/or
  (2) packaging one or more of these as alternates for Fedora 10, like a
"10th release ultra-mega-party pack theme extravaganza!" ;-)

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