[Mageia-artwork] [Mageia-marketing] Splash screens ready

Fri Mar 9 23:04:46 CET 2012

+> I think Esteban's texts are just fine, so it's a matter of choosing the
+> right images; and we're going to need another set of images for Mageia
+> 3, so having a second set ready to go is not a bad thing!
+>
+
+Well yes that's one idea to have something already for Mageia 3, but 
+earlier in IRC, Tumberlina, Gaula, and myself, had a chat about making 
+images that are a cross between Gaula's and Estebans images, have things 
+from both types of image.
+
+Tumberlina made this image whilst we had our chat to give an idea of 
+what she meant: 
+http://www.flickr.com/photos/43658233@N06/6821008494/in/photostream
+
+This is what I tried to get Gaula to make as an example for the idea:
+
+1. Esteban's blue border with the Mageia logo on the right, going across 
+at the bottom of the image.
+2. Guala's CD image on the left, with the normal original Mageia logo 
+that says Mageia and has the logo, or maybe the transparent logo 
+instead,  in the CD itself at the top.
+3. Esteban's information graphic with the installer text, in the centre 
+of the image or where it looks correct, taking up quite a bit of space
+4.  Gaula's Cauldron image on the right or where it looks correct.
+
+I also had the idea for the CD to use an official Mageia 2 CD, but we 
+don't seem to have one at the moment so hmm.
+
+The artwork freeze is meant to be tomorrow, but it seems going by 
+Wednesday's packaging meeting that it may be ok to delay it a little bit 
+if necessary. It would be good to have these installer slideshow images 
+in Beta 2 which is meant to be released on March 15th, but I would 
+rather have the images delayed until the release candidate for example, 
+than have a rush job.
+
+Good artwork in my opinion is very important to have in a Linux 
+distribution, one reason I don't like Ubuntu that much anymore since 
+10.04 (or when it was in development sometime), because I really dislike 
+the newer branding, with the exception of the newer logo, but there was 
+much more to it than just that, Gnome 2 patching and so on.
+
+Also I really like the Mandriva 2010 series branding for example, and 
+the 2010 distro versions themselves. The branding alone was enough to 
+make me install Mandriva and be happy with it compared to many other 
+distros.
+
+For me default looks are very important when it comes to Linux 
+distributions.
+
+For Esteban's text I think it could do with some improving, not sure 
+about saying that it's made by a community of free spirits, but that's 
+probably ok really.
+
+Also some of it sounds way to company like, by for example saying that 
+something is the best well kind of for example: Included in Mageia are 
+the most powerful tools to create raster and vector graphics and 3D 
+animations.
+
+The most powerful tools that's an opinion not a fact, and companies do 
+this, try and make people think their product is the most powerful or 
+the best, when that is an opinion.  So for that text this would be 
+better instead: Included in Mageia are powerful tools to create raster 
+and vector graphics, and 3D animations such as The Gimp and Inkscape.  
+Well The Gimp comes by default I think, but not Inkscape? Altough to get 
+round the what comes by default, can say what's available instead.
+
+All the tools are available in Mageia for working with documents, and 
+spreadsheets, that's not really true, So this would be better text 
+instead for that image:  Working with documents, spreadsheets or 
+presentations in Mageia can be done using tools such as LibreOffice.
+
+Websites, e-mail, feeds, chat or ftp;  Mageia includes....
+
+Need some changes for that text as well, ftp should be in capitals, and 
+what kind of feeds? Also again like with the documents Mageia does not 
+include all the applications for this. Like with the other images should 
+provide some names of the software available.
+
+Personally I would like to have correct and 100% truly honest installer 
+text in the slide show :).
+
+ From Sebastian sebsebseb
+