Making Fedora Default Theme (release independent stuff)

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jul 28 11:26:26 UTC 2007


Martin Sourada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to this list and subscribed mostly because I posted a message
> to art-list recently [1] that contains things that should be discussed
> at desktop-list as well. It's about making default theme for fedora -
> that means making our gtk/qt(4) theme, metacity/kwm/emerald theme,
> notification-daemon theme and maybe more. It should be release
> independent. There are some questions that need to be answered first. I
> attach the original message for more info. I'd like to ask you for your
> opinion about it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Martin
> 
> References:
> [1]
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2007-July/msg00023.html
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Subject:
> Making Fedora Default Theme (release independent stuff)
> From:
> Martin Sourada <martin.sourada at seznam.cz>
> Date:
> Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:29:43 +0200 (CEST)
> To:
> Discussions about the artwork included with Fedora, including icons, 
> themes, and wallpapers. <fedora-art-list at redhat.com>
> 
> To:
> Discussions about the artwork included with Fedora, including icons, 
> themes, and wallpapers. <fedora-art-list at redhat.com>
> 
> 
> Hi all,
>  
> I have a few questions/suggestions about Fedora release independent
> Artwork. Most notably gtk theme, metacity theme, kwm theme, qt(4) theme.
> One of the reasons I started the Nodoka [1] theme was an attempt to fill
> the gap we have - Fedora has not defined it's artwork so far. So there
> are some questions that needs to be answered and I hereby ask your
> opinion about them:
> 
> 1. do we want a default Fedora artwork?
> 2. do we want to look KDE and GNOME artwork same/similar?
> 3. if we do want, who is to decide which one will it be?
> 4. is it good to make an n-round competition or just let something to
> emerge from the wide community combined efforts?
> 5. is the art-list the proper for this discussion or some other lists
> needs to be included as well (e.g. fedora-desktop, fedora-devel)?
> 6. could it be considered as a 'feature'?


This is I guess now a artwork team decision. You might want to talk to 
KDE SIG and see if they like the idea and then find someone willing to 
do a QT/KDE theme.

Rahul




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