Tom,
I can do the resolutions etc. What format do you want, PNG, JPG, GIF or other? Can you animate the dots? If so, how best to do it?
Thanks
Steve
On 5 December 2011 18:51, Tom Gall tom.gall@linaro.org wrote:
Hi Steve,
Thanks for the reply.
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Steve Taylor steve.taylor@linaro.org wrote:
Tom and all,
Thank you all for your input on the desktop background images and thanks especially to Tom for generating the original images. I am trying to copy all the people that may have been involved in the various threads about this.
As many of you know, I have been looking to get images that can be used
as
boot, desktop and presentation backgrounds generated so we can use consistent images. Unfortunately, I cannot achieve that in time for the current release. I had hoped that with some minor adjustments, we could
take
Tom's gimp images and re-purpose them, but after looking at this and
getting
input from others, I don't want us to be sending out completely new
"brand"
images. For this release, I propose we use something based on our current material (th pop up banners an existing presentations). This will be
boring,
but it will only be temporary and won't send us off in a new direction.
The reason why I had created the various new pieces that I had forwarded to you was the existing materials did not work for both design and technical reasons. The engineering goal had been set to get linaro branding into 11.12 time is short.
What I had put together will work for technical side of things however if they don't met the design side of things, I'm all ears to address that. As mentioned in my emails to you, I was and am still looking for any and all feedback as it would be great if we could still meet the 11.12 goal.
We can then aim to launch the "new" direction with 12.01 (and then at
Linaro
Connect). We will get to this new direction in two stages: stage 1 will
be
about gathering ideas - like Tom's gimp image and Zach's porscheeveryday.com. If you have any ideas or examples now, please send
them
to me. Stage 2 will be getting a designer to work up the best couple of ideas. if you'd like to be involved in choosing the "best", let me know.
If I'm to understand the process you're proposing correctly, you'd like to open things up in the 12.01 time frame where people would email some number of submissions and then a design firm would be hired to work on this submissions and the output of that would be what would be used in a future release?
I have created the "boring" proposal and saved it on google docs:
https://docs.google.com/a/linaro.org/?tab=mo#folders/0B86d5fQjXM3zYTQyNWU1NT... . I'd
like to use this for the current release (if possible). There is a GIF
file,
a PPT and a PPS PPT show file. The PPS file animates the dots so that
there
is an activity scale (wiping in from left to right and repeated)... If
you
need this as some other type of file, let me know.
I've looked at what you've suggested for the boot background. It is currently not in the right format nor the correct resolution, nor the correct aspect ratio for use as a boot splash for what is needed. It also does not also fill the other need that we have which is for a wall paper. All of this is fixable.
I'm guessing you had missed the follow graphic that i had submitted to you especially for the purpose of boot splash as I hadn't received any feedback on it. http://people.linaro.org/~tgall/LinaroBootSplash.png
Regardless, and in the interest of 11.12, I can massage what you have as bootsplash if so desired but ideally I think it would be better if you regenerated it to the specs we've discussed so as to keep the feel you're aiming for.
How would you like to proceed?
Thanks!
Tom
Many thanks
Steve
On 5 December 2011 15:37, Dave Martin dave.martin@linaro.org wrote:
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:35:19AM -0600, Andy Doan wrote:
On 12/02/2011 04:55 AM, Alexander Sack wrote:
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Riku Voipio <
riku.voipio@linaro.org
mailto:riku.voipio@linaro.org> wrote:
On 2 December 2011 00:56, Tom Gall <tom.gall@linaro.org <mailto:tom.gall@linaro.org>> wrote: > one of the blueprints we have for 11.12 is to modify theLEB/ALIP > images so they include more linaro branding. A linaro
wallpaper,
maybe > a linaro image as the system is booting, that kind of thing.
And android images as well? > I created it in gimp. > http://people.linaro.org/~tgall/LinaroDesktop-1920x1080-1.png <http://people.linaro.org/%7Etgall/LinaroDesktop-1920x1080-1.png%3E
Cool. Perhaps antialising the Linaro logo would be a niceaddition? Assuming it is not hard to do in gimp.
- Looks good as a start. We can always improve from there.
The people who do the visuals for Linaro Connect seem to produce good stuff -- the the styles are not dissimilar. Maybe they could work something up based on our ideas?
- For android I have this awesome idea to make an active wallpaper
edition out of this ... kind of the green lines pumping a bit or having a
few
flaring dots moving through the background maze. Anyone in the android team knows how to do such an active wallpaper? How much effort is that?
You basically create an Android app. here's a minimal example:
<
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/CubeLiveWallpaper/src/com/exa...
Do we have someone who can do this for Ubuntu/GNOME?
But please, not too much.
Cheers ---Dave
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