arctic Posted September 11, 2006 Report Share Posted September 11, 2006 Looks great. Made those yourself?Who? What?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted September 11, 2006 Report Share Posted September 11, 2006 (edited) Sorry I wasn't very clear on that. But what I ment was, did Reiver_Fluffi made those bootsplash etc. ? Because I've installed FC6 Test2 and I didn't find them. Edited September 11, 2006 by Gul Dukat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 11, 2006 Report Share Posted September 11, 2006 No, they were made by the fedora-art-list admin Mairin from Boston. Here is her (?) blog with many sketches she did for the FC 6 design http://mihmo.livejournal.com/. The icons were mostly made by Diana Fong, designer at Red Hat and Fedora-Art guru. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 The design concept is cool, I'm just not crazy about the way it's been done. Looks like a rough draft that needs cleaning up and stuff. Also, it's not something that all users would like, which, imho, is what a default theme should be... simple and appealing to as many users as possible. Oh c'mon SoulSe, you can't please everyone. Which brings a point, why focus on one? Of course you can't please everyone, that's not what I meant. What I did mean was that you should try to be as neutral in a default theme as possible so you'll please as many people as possible. It has been proven that blue, for example, is aesthetically pleasing to more people than black is. In fact, black is the single worst colour to use in information design, unless you don't really care about the masses, which is why I used it for my blog :P The Ubuntu default theme is very nice, but I would argue that they could have done a better colour selection too. I'm not saying that they shouldn't have used brown, but you can adjust saturation levels to carry traces of other colours that are more pleasing. Arch, Gentoo, the older versions of Fedora and other distros have really nice designs for their enviroment's default themes. Even Mandriva's Galaxy isn't too bad. But this needs work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 No, they were made by the fedora-art-list admin Mairin from Boston. Here is her (?) blog with many sketches she did for the FC 6 design http://mihmo.livejournal.com/. The icons were mostly made by Diana Fong, designer at Red Hat and Fedora-Art guru. Thanks, Arctic. Those sketches really look cool. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 It's great! I'm happy that I'm a happy Fedora user. :D It has a bit of a dark feeling, but so have I. I too might actually keep the default background this time around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 i prefer this set that she did. i think it's more professional, while still being stylish, and IMHO the images are better quality (the ones in the original link have some...blurring in spots). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 Hard to decide IMO, tyme. I actually think the first looks more professional. Why do people think that dark/black desktop are unprofessional? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 can't really say. their look/feel just doesn't seem professional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissy Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 because it's the IT equivalent of a 14 year old painting their walls black ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFoss Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 MMM... I like the "Dark" look very much indeed. How is FC these days ? I haven't tried it since 3. ran to sluggish for me and everything seemed too locked down for my tastes by default. It did not seem to make a good family desktop back then without alot of tweaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 I can't really compare, FC5 is the first RedHat I use. I haven't noticed any lockeddowness any way. Have disabled a few services I don't use and installed Firestarter shorewall GUI, but that's about it. p.s. sorry for offtopic p.p.s. I adore the new look! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 because it's the IT equivalent of a 14 year old painting their walls black ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted September 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 MMM... I like the "Dark" look very much indeed. How is FC these days ? I haven't tried it since 3. ran to sluggish for me and everything seemed too locked down for my tastes by default. It did not seem to make a good family desktop back then without alot of tweaking. It's just the same as mandy to be honest, the only real difference between the two is that the gui tools in Fedora are fragmented, rather than (for the best part) re-written and consolidated under mcc. With regard to lockdown, you just set up repos similar to plf etc, install and bob's your uncle. I have rarely needed to tweak with my Fedora install since I installed FC5 just after release, and that's with most multimedia codecs installed, ati drivers, etc, etc. The fedora desktop on my AMD64 is comparatively faster than my previous Mandy and Suse installs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 Looks very cool, but I'm also morbid :D :P Me too. I like the dark theme. Bright and cheery is just plain annoying. /ignore fissy :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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