[Mageia-artwork] Summary last meeting

Thu May 19 23:41:01 CEST 2011

On 19 May 2011 09:35, Thorsten van Lil <tvl83 at gmx.de> wrote:
+> Salut!
+>
+> As advertised, yesterday has been a meeting, which I'd like to summarize.
+>
+> Following topics has been discussed:
+> 1. RC has been released
+> -----------------------
+> RC has been released and from the artwork point of view, this has been a
+> good release on the whole. There are just two glitches.
+> * ISOLINUX still has the old background image with "Only for testing" on it.
+> Does somebody know, where to fine the image on SVN?
+> * ksplash has a bad contrast of the logo and the background (but later more
+> on this topic).
+>
+> 2. Things to be done for release
+> --------------------------------
+> Most of our goals for release has been already reached (thank you for all
+> your work). But there are still some smaller tasks to do:
+> * As already said, ISOLINUX need the reworked background (very important!!)
+> * in ksplash the logo has to be slightly modified to match the background. A
+> friend of dtsiamasiotis already did this yesterday but it still needs to be
+> pushed.
+> * In the installer, we need nice icons for kde/gnome/custom install (package
+> selection overview). (would be nice but has a lower priority)
+> * Menu icon (for gnome/kde/... menu) is still needed. As it is a really
+> prominent place, this have to be done.
+> * advertising screens for the installer have also to be redone. The current
+> screens are concentrating on testers ("Thank you for testing", ...) which
+> doesn't fit for a stable release. trishf42 from the marcom team already
+> agreed to address herself to this (thanks for that).
+> * New network status icons for the task bar, as the current ones aren't well
+> readable. Ennael is already working on that. Stay tuned.
+>
+>
+> 3. Other
+> --------
+> As already mentioned, trishf42 from the marcom team has attended as a
+> special guest. Her main goal is to create an overall consistent look of the
+> distribution, the website and other stuff (like poster). For that task, it
+> is essential, that both teams are working closer together for the next
+> release.
+> Trish asked us for the following things:
+> * a poster layout (the one from alex is quite good) @Alex: can you may send
+> me the source-file of your poster proposal, so we can modify it without
+> extra work for you?
+> * Screenshots of installer, boot screen, desktop, ... (I will do this today)
+> * We need some ideas, how we may can bring website and distribution themes a
+> bit together, without big changes. Proposals?
+>
+>
+> Ok, that's it. I think it was a nice and productive meeting yesterday. The
+> full logs can be found here:
+> http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-artwork/2011/mageia-artwork.2011-05-18-17.22.log.html
+>
+> Greetings,
+> Thorsten
+>
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+
+The mageia logo on ksplash was fixed by me on Monday, ennael and
+mikala agreed on the new colour.
+Will check and see what has been done with the new contrast.
+