With a bit of impulse from Martin, here is the formal proposal for a F10
theme: Gears


http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/Gears

The focus of this theme is technology: technology advancement is one of
Fedora's main goals and gears are a classic metaphor for technology.
A secondary message of the theme is "the golden era of Fedora": we are
so confident in our distro that we think Fedora 10 is (will be) the
distro marking the start of the golden age of Linux (and, of course, the
best Fedora yet.


The current implementation uses a steampunk look and feel, it is a good
technology symbol, a large playing field for our imagination and also
something quite original for a Linux desktop (for for any desktop).


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Nicu Buculei wrote:
With a bit of impulse from Martin, here is the formal proposal for a F10
theme: Gears


http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/Gears

The focus of this theme is technology: technology advancement is one of
Fedora's main goals and gears are a classic metaphor for technology.
A secondary message of the theme is "the golden era of Fedora": we are
so confident in our distro that we think Fedora 10 is (will be) the
distro marking the start of the golden age of Linux (and, of course, the
best Fedora yet.


The current implementation uses a steampunk look and feel, it is a good
technology symbol, a large playing field for our imagination and also
something quite original for a Linux desktop (for for any desktop).


Well Enlightenment as a desktop environment has been using gears as a
symbol for a long time now.


http://www.enlightenment.org/

Rahul

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Rahul Sundaram wrote:

Nicu Buculei wrote:
The current implementation uses a steampunk look and feel, it is a
good technology symbol, a large playing field for our imagination and
also something quite original for a Linux desktop (for for any desktop).


Well Enlightenment as a desktop environment has been using gears as a
symbol for a long time now.


OK, we may not be the firs, maybe exclude the "original" wird from the talk.

BTW, those are gears or a sun? (sun -> light - > enlightenment) Do they
use gears in desktop art?


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Nicu Buculei wrote:

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

Nicu Buculei wrote:
The current implementation uses a steampunk look and feel, it is a
good technology symbol, a large playing field for our imagination and
also something quite original for a Linux desktop (for for any desktop).


Well Enlightenment as a desktop environment has been using gears as a
symbol for a long time now.


OK, we may not be the firs, maybe exclude the "original" wird from the
talk.


BTW, those are gears or a sun? (sun -> light - > enlightenment) Do they
use gears in desktop art?


That seems to be right. They look somewhat similar but they probably
denote sun rather than gears.


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Rahul Sundaram <sundaram <at> fedoraproject.org> writes:
> Well Enlightenment as a desktop environment has been using gears as a
> symbol for a long time now.
>
> http://www.enlightenment.org/

KDE too.

I think the KDE project won't be too happy about seeing a gear-themed GNOME in
Fedora 10. ;-)

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We would be happy to have any piece of artwork that can be used to
theme KDE. Right now we have problem with KDM, which needs proper
backrgound image, and svgs posted in wiki can't be rendered properly
by kdm's svg engine

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@chello.at> wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram <sundaram <at> fedoraproject.org> writes:
> > Well Enlightenment as a desktop environment has been using gears as a
> > symbol for a long time now.
> >
> > http://www.enlightenment.org/
>
> KDE too.
>
> I think the KDE project won't be too happy about seeing a gear-themed GNOME in
> Fedora 10. ;-)
>
> Kevin Kofler
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Pavel Shevchuk wrote:

We would be happy to have any piece of artwork that can be used to
theme KDE. Right now we have problem with KDM, which needs proper
backrgound image, and svgs posted in wiki can't be rendered properly
by kdm's svg engine


But neither GDM/GNOME does not use those SVGs, PNGs exported at various
resolutions with Inkscape are used instead (technically, SVG could be
used, but for performance reason and to manually fine tune all the
details, PNG is preferred).


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Nicu Buculei wrote:
> With a bit of impulse from Martin, here is the formal proposal for a F10
> theme: Gears
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/Gears

You dismissed the "blue paper" version as "not that realistic". I disagree. It
looks just like a blueprint, which is much more realistic than blue ink on
old yellowed paper. Blueprints fit perfectly in the old technology concept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueprint

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Björn Persson wrote:

Nicu Buculei wrote:

With a bit of impulse from Martin, here is the formal proposal for a F10
theme: Gears

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/Gears


You dismissed the "blue paper" version as "not that realistic". I disagree. It
looks just like a blueprint, which is much more realistic than blue ink on
old yellowed paper. Blueprints fit perfectly in the old technology concept.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueprint


I eased the wording, indeed, it fir the blueprint definition but I think
it is a departure for the original "steampunk" target. And I don't want
to dismiss it, I want more of a confirmation/infirmation about it being
on the right track.


For everybody - I tried to put some blue back in the Gears concept:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/Gears#head-7ac71eb00a599f5ef6eb0f252c2bf35d01a228d5

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