[Mageia-artwork] 2011/week 17 review

Thu Apr 28 12:25:56 CEST 2011

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:01, Donald Stewart <watersnowrock at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On 28 April 2011 10:10, Thorsten van Lil <tvl83 at gmx.de> wrote:
+>
+>> I see the following (fast) solutions:
+>> 1. We use the current one and invert the colors. Would look like this:
+>> https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/cZLcXCTQb0wda752EbuM6cWFIzFZ2BaC21XF10gWwzE?feat=directlink
+>> 2. We use a different available wallpaper of Alex. For example this one:
+>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316230@N06/5410392701/in/photostream
+>>
+>> (yes, the labels have to be modified for the release)
+
+These two are more about Cauldron, given the illustration. But that's
+my impression.
+
+>> 3. Use something different, like this one (very dark):
+>> https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Sh_GexPv2D7YJFqdM3lnZMWFIzFZ2BaC21XF10gWwzE?feat=directlink
+
+Too dark.
+
+>> Further proposals are more than welcome, as a dark theme doesn't fit the
+>> taste of the mass!
+>
+> Considering that gfxboot and plymouth are the same, but kdm, (gdm?),
+> ksplash and backgrounds are different, I feel that some unification is
+> required
+
+Yes. Why not use the unified grid-like background image
+(Wall*-04.jpg)? (with or without the Mageia name on it) - there it
+would be unified with the boot sequence.
+
+> I really like the dark image image and the inverted one, however, I
+> thinks that that is too dark.
+> Was there ever a decision made about the colour scheme that we should
+> base things on?
+
+So far, no. And it's a bit late to design this in a hurry.
+
+Romain
+