[Mageia-artwork] Quick review today

Mon May 2 10:23:36 CEST 2011

Hi guys,
+
+I saw several mails going through this week-end (was offline) about
+this background thing and I would like to make a summary.
+
+There have been some nice ideas, but I believe I have not been clear
+enough that time is real short and that small, consistent changes are
+needed now.
+
+So far, all backgrounds are ok but the one for the desktop/login
+screen. So that will be this one we will change. And only this one.
+
+To keep consistence with others, the background base is going to be
+what I used to call the dark blue "grid" - maybe there's a better
+name. Nothing else. No white gray block as in other backgrounds. Only
+one addition: a small Mageia logo should be on the right bottom
+corner, properly spaced from borders.
+
+This logo should either be in the same style as in the grub menu (cut
+in the gray block), either in the original, final style - but then the
+contrast won't be good, unless there's a clear, white shadow below to
+detach it from the background.
+
+I am perfectly aware that this may not fit some of your expectations
+but I'm stating this because:
+ - we're short on time; final artwork should be pushed by next Monday,
+to allow a few days of checks; artwork freeze is due on May 10th (see
+http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=iso_1_specifications ) after that,
+it's done.
+ - we have a single, consistent background to build (not change everything);
+ - consistence with other backgrounds prevails here.
+
+
+
+On a different note, here's a list of open bugs where artwork list is cc'ed:
+https://bugs.mageia.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamed&namedcmd=%40artwork%20bugs
+- that is, at this time:
+ * https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1002
+ * https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270
+ * https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472
+ * https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=976
+ * https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1090
+ * https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1010
+
+If one bug is closed every day, that's it.
+
+Thank you for your feedback.
+
+Cheers,
+
+Romain
+