Newbie

2012-02-22 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi collegues, I just signed up because I read on the main Debian web page, that there is a call for designs for Wheezy. I would love to add something to it. I'm a fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe and in the quite active fellowship group in Vienna/Austria/Europe. Nearly all of you se

Re: Newbie

2012-02-23 Thread Franz Gratzer
that on the debian.net board nobody seems to know that Gnome 3 is the expected default desktop. But maybe I just found a very old thread... Best, Franz On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 09:49 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Hi Franz, and welcome! > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:43:22PM +0100,

Re: usage of "debian" name and logo for the theme submissions

2012-02-23 Thread Franz Gratzer
Yes, it is a good explanation. Thank you very much, Stefano. Best Franz On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 13:19 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:15:13PM +0100, Franz Gratzer wrote: > > If I get it right because of licensing issues with derivations we > > shouldn

Re: Introduction of Roj artwork

2012-02-25 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi Eshat, it's a great layout. I want to do something similar. The only thing that could be improved from my perspective is to use a fresher green. The one used at the moment is not as bright and friendly as it could be... Your layout is my favourite so far. Best Franz On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 13:

proposal green7 and cropping wallpapers

2012-02-25 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi collegues, I can understand, that our wallpaper layouts should fit into all usual proportions (4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9). Am I right, that different resolutions aren't a problem because they will be (hopefully proportionally) scaled? Yesterday I made my first drafts for a green theme based on

Re: thinking together artwork to 'Wheezy'

2012-03-02 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi Victor, I like this dark swirl layout very much as well. I'm especially fond of the simple glossy-effect you put on the swirl. I would just skip the 3d-part of it in the background. In my opinion it doesn't help the great effect but contradicts the interwoven background. In my view it would be

proposal green7 and cropping wallpapers

2012-03-02 Thread Franz Gratzer
Did this email ever reach the list? I'm wondering because nobody has shown any reaction so far... Best, Franz On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 18:34 +0100, Franz Gratzer wrote: > Hi collegues, > > I can understand, that our wallpaper layouts should fit into all usual > proportions (4:3,

Re: New artwork proposal for Wheezy

2012-03-11 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi Ulrich, no need to apologize. It's your design and you are very capable of doing a great job obviously. I like your new suggestion as well. :) Best Franz > Hi Ben (again), > > > I have experimented a bit with it and could come up with something > like this (sorry Onsemeliot): > > > http

Re: New artwork proposal for Wheezy

2012-03-13 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi folks, I as well did a new proposal for a Wheezy theme and used some of Ulrichs files for his excellent proposal "The Journey" as starting point: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/growing If I can find the time I want to do something closer to the traditional colour range of Debian as w

Re: New artwork proposal for Wheezy

2012-03-13 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi Firas, thank you for your constructive feedback. (I value honesty even if it's not always pleasant.) I get your point. On the other hand Gnome 3 made a huge step away from it's old style against serious resistance. So I'm not entirely convinced if Debian will stick with the traditional style f

Re: [REQ] Presentation templates for background themes for Debian presentations in Debian artwork

2012-03-15 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi Shirish, I'm not sure how to participate in designing Libre Office backgrounds since I'm not firm with the technical demands. Can you recommend a link with guide for doing so? Bast Franz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-desktop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: theme proposal - LightSpotsOnBlueIce

2012-03-24 Thread Franz Gratzer
I like those soft shapes. If you hadn't told something about ice I would have guessed those lights are spots on a stage. And I think this would work very well because you highlight the debian logo with it... Best Franz On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 16:23 +0100, Andreas Berger wrote: > Hi everyone, > >

Re: Packages of prospective artworks and configuring more than one package

2012-04-05 Thread Franz Gratzer
Unfortunately I'm having no plan how to deal with those technical requests. I would look into this if I would have the time to learn it from scratch, but it's already to much for me to even understand what exactly is needed for a full GRUB layout instead of just a background image... I wanted to d

Re: New artwork proposal for Wheezy - Joy

2012-05-04 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi Adrien, my fafourites are: 1, 7 and 10 because they are minimalistic and nevertheless just beautiful this way. There is nothing fancy distracting the calm clean look. Franz On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 14:56 +0200, Adrien Aubourg wrote: > Hello there ! > > I just updated the Themes page as I added

Re: New artwork proposal: Wheezy7

2012-06-08 Thread Franz Gratzer
Welcome Samuele, thank you for your work. I clearly prefer the bright ice theme, but would use the same footprints you used as outline in the other proposals. The ice theme footprints are far less lovely since they are not iconic for penguin steps - even if they are possibly closer to real pengui

New Desktop Theme Proposal: penguinSpirit

2012-06-10 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi collegues, I did an other Desktop proposal for wheezy. This time I kept the traditional Debian colour scheme and made it very clear to what character the name is referring to. Debian in the spirit of wheezy, the Toy Story penguin... http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/penguinSpirit I wou

Re: New Desktop Theme Proposal: penguinSpirit

2012-06-12 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi Ulrich. On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 00:03 +0200, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > But the Toy Story penguin Wheezy is a Disney cartoon character. The whole > concept of Free Software is based on the respect of copyright. So I am afraid > you cannot put a penguin into your artwork that perfectly looks like th

Re: The status of desktop-base in wheezy

2012-06-21 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi Paul, I understand, that there are deadlines, but I'm not very happy with how this went: Firstly, I feel completely misled by all the different media asked from proposals for the new desktop environment. The Design you picked up was one with just a bunch of screens in just one proportion witho

Re: The status of desktop-base in wheezy

2012-06-22 Thread Franz Gratzer
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 22:29 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Again, if you want to take this over, please do. If you don't please > let me do my work without being harassed as if I'm some dictator. Hi Paul, I just want to add, that I didn't intend to make you personally responsible for the way it

Re: The status of desktop-base in wheezy

2012-06-22 Thread Franz Gratzer
On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 09:36 +0200, Eshat Cakar wrote: > I understand your disappointment but there is nothing we can do. A shame, but at least we can try to put something like a short list of suggestions together which would enable the next desktop team do do it better. We could publish it as a fi

Howto for packaging a desktop theme?

2012-06-23 Thread Franz Gratzer
I guess it shouldn't be too hard to do package a desktop theme, but I'm too busy with other things to investigate it myself. Do I understand correctly, that themes easily can be implemented afterwards via the GUI - even if the default theme is chosen already? Maybe we could provide some additional

Late new theme: onFire

2012-06-24 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi collegues, I know this might seem insane because of the recent events, but I couldn't resist adding a further proposal. (Mainly because my penguinSpirit proposal can't be taken into account because of copyright problems.) So I don't know if it makes any sense, but I like this new proposal very

Re: Late new theme: onFire

2012-06-24 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi Leandro, why didn't you add it to the proposals? You could have finished it later - if necessary... Franz On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 11:44 -0600, Leandro Gómez wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Franz Gratzer > wrote: > Hi collegues, > > > >

Re: The status of desktop-base in wheezy

2012-07-03 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi Stefano, thank you for the explanation. In my opinion it was important an helps a lot to limit frustration. Unfortionally it looks like I joined the desktop list just to late. I didn't learn that there was nobody caring for the voting process until Paul stepped in. I joined the desktop-list b

Re: Why official font of Debian logo has been no more used?

2012-08-01 Thread Franz Gratzer
As far as I know, there are legal issues with the typo design and the publishing mechanisms of the distribution. Since a long time this is known and people try to fix it somehow, but that seems to be complicated. You can read more on this here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2012/02/msg00

Re: [wishlist] Add more icons, themes, style to the Xfce (Wheezy)?

2012-11-19 Thread Franz Gratzer
Actually there where loads of proposals for the desktop theme.[1] Because of a unfortunate tight timeframe there was no formal voting and the editor just picked "Joy". As far as I understand, it might be hard to get additional icon sets to the wheezy default release since the freeze for the deskt

Re: Release Team Sprint Results

2014-12-04 Thread Franz Gratzer
On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 13:19 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:22 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > Your help is really welcome for Stretch, I think. A lot of people seem > > to want that feature, but so far none of them actually implemented it. > > There is an implementation by

Re: Release Team Sprint Results

2014-12-04 Thread Franz Gratzer
On Thu, 2014-12-04 at 13:19 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > Your help is really welcome for Stretch, I think. A lot of people seem > > to want that feature, but so far none of them actually implemented it. > > There is an implementation by Ulrich Hansen called desktop-theme-kit > but it isn't in Debia

Re: Poll: GNOME/GDM lock screen

2014-12-11 Thread Franz Gratzer
Ok, here comes my vote: A > D > C > B I prefer A since it fits to all other layouts and doesn't really get in the way of the debian spiral. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-desktop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Release Team Sprint Results

2015-02-17 Thread Franz Gratzer
On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 16:21 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Have you considered packaging it and getting it into Debian? Since it's nothing I did, I didn't consider this an an option. This is something Ulrich might want to do. I have no idea about what is involved technologically. I guess it's much to

Re: some adjustments are needed for theme

2016-08-31 Thread Franz Gratzer
On Wed, 2016-08-31 at 17:41 +, Niels Thykier wrote: > I admit I am in fact a bit puzzled by > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Artwork/Stretch?action=diff&rev1=20&rev2=21. > Valessio, did you talk to the artists behind these or are you intending > to create a derivative art work based on

Re: some adjustments are needed for theme

2016-09-12 Thread Franz Gratzer
I updated my proposal "onFire" for stretch today: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/onFire As I understand it, the official Debian logo including the text can be used now in layouts since - after many years of struggling - this issue has been resolved finally. Therefore, I replaced the fon

Re: [Artwork] Survey for the default artwork for Stretch

2016-10-06 Thread Franz Gratzer
On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 13:50 +0200, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: > Huh? I moved it from left to right as per the instructions and > prioritized them by my preference. It looked fine so perhaps either one > of us dit it wrong? I guess there is something wrong on the system of Wouter Verhelst

Re: Artwork

2018-05-28 Thread Franz Gratzer
On Mon, 2018-05-28 at 19:58 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > Did something catch your eye that needs updating? No, I wouldn't know. That's the reason why I asked. Your email sounded more or less like you just copied the old content without much ado. So I just wanted to be sure before I start making

Re: Artwork

2018-05-28 Thread Franz Gratzer
Jonathan, thank you for starting this. > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Artwork/Buster > > I copied and pasted them from the previous cycle, which has similar > dates for the current cycle. If everything is ready for announcing by > the end of this week, than that should leave just about t

Re: [Artwork] Survey for the default artwork for Buster

2018-12-23 Thread Franz Gratzer
On Sun, 2018-12-23 at 14:23 +0100, Piotr Jurkiewicz wrote: > The survey seems to be broken. See screenshot:  > https://i.imgur.com/vqPtM9M.png I had the same Problem with Firefox on Debian. But I could work around this issue by disabling Javascript.

Re: Debian 11 Bullseye Theme Proposal | Change

2020-09-23 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi Wilton, > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Change > > Please feel free to let me know your thoughts, suggestions, or any > changes you think should be made before the October 15th deadline. I quite like it. I only would love the orbit lines to be much thinner. For my taste they should

Re: Debian 11 Bullseye Theme Proposal | Change

2020-09-24 Thread Franz Gratzer
Hi Wilton, > I made a version with lines that are half the weight of the original: > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Change?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=wallpaper-4096x2160-thin.png yes, I think that looks much better. I would even go further again halving the width. But that is of

Re: [Artwork] question for next release of Debian

2021-02-07 Thread Franz Gratzer
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 3:55 PM Jc wrote: > For next release, it would be a good idea to add in the artwork > requirements that we must use free software available in Debian > repositories to do the job. I argued something along these lines last time (or was it the time before that?) but this see