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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">About the background image, how about cycling through a set of images, say the previous LiveDVD images in order to end at the latest version.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">The process could be accomplished something like this: </font><i><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" color="#0000ff"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S35wNiihDM"><u>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S35wNiihDM</u></a></font></i><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3"></font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">I'm all about the user experience, so may not sit nicely with some more stoic personalities.</font> </p>
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>>> Brian Hamlin <maplabs@light42.com> wrote:<br> </p>
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Hi Angelos -<br><br> I also have made a background image. More choices !!<br><br> gisvm/desktop-conf/osgeo_ldvd_55_1F.png<br><br> best regards from California<br> -Brian<br><br><br>On Feb 6, 2012, at 3:59 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:<br><br>> Hi,<br>><br>> Any chance we can get this background image for beta3 later today?<br>><br>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Astrid Emde <br>> <astrid.emde@wheregroup.com> wrote:<br>> Hello Hamish,<br>><br>> Am 06.02.2012 03:38, schrieb Hamish:<br>><br>> Astrid Emde wrote:<br>> ..<br>> and have a question about the background image and sleeves.<br>><br>> We have the FOSSGIS conference in march and are going to use<br>> OSGeo-Live in the workshops and we will give the DVD to the<br>> participants of the conference.<br>> excellent, that's its purpose in life!<br>><br>> People from the orga team created a desktop image and are<br>> going to create an image for the dvd cover too.<br>><br>> I commited the first draft of the background image to the<br>> svn [2].<br>> note that the graphic there says "5.0" not "5.5"<br>> Thanks for the info. I did not notice that.<br>><br>> My suggestion was to make the image a bit more pale to see<br>> the desktop links better.<br>> in the artwork/ dir you will see background.xcf.bz2.<br>><br>> If you open that in GIMP and look at the layer list you'll see<br>> a white and black overlay layer. Make one or the other visible<br>> and adjust the opacity level to suit. (GIMP can open .gz or .bz2<br>> directly without having to un-zip it first)<br>><br>> n.b.: please run 'optipng -o5 filename.png' before uploading.<br>> For really huge .psd and .xcf image data (eg there's a 60mb image<br>> file in there) /please/ bzip2 them before upload, or consider<br>> another place (like flickr) and commit a text file with the link.<br>> huge binary files clog up the Subversion DB backups!<br>> ok, I try that out.<br>><br>> And sorry for blowing up the svn with the image. I will keep an eye <br>> on this in the future.<br>><br>><br>><br>> We could take a version without the FOSSGIS logo and the<br>> building for the official version. What do you think?<br>> I'm mostly fine with whatever choice is made, as long as it is<br>> not too day-glow fluorescent and the left side is not too busy<br>> so the icons gets lost in the clutter.<br>><br>><br>> Cameron:<br>> One thing I'm going to strongly push for is that we have one<br>> generic background image for each release, rather create a<br>> different image for each conference.<br>> personally I feel that each conference committee should make<br>> it be whatever they like it to be, and a conference-themed<br>> backdrop is a very nice touch to remember it by. If they're<br>> paying the bill for the print run = their choice to do as they<br>> please, not ours.. (but if 3rd parties want something custom<br>> they'll have to contribute that work themselves of course)<br>><br>> I think it would be highly odd for "FOSS4G 2012 Beijing" not<br>> to have its own backdrop image if they wanted one. Ideally<br>> the conference committee should supply it, and we should give<br>> them good lead time to decide on a design and prepare it (or<br>> have it prepared).<br>><br>><br>> This is because in the past, the effort required to change the<br>> background image, rebuild the ISO, then retest everything,<br>> turned out to be much more work that you would expect for such<br>> a small change.<br>> over-copying the one file:<br>> /usr/share/xfce4/backdrops/osgeo-desktop.png<br>> is a very simple task and does not require recertifying the<br>> entire build from scratch. AFAIU if nothing else has changed,<br>> the final ISO build either works or it doesn't. (with a suitable<br>> number of fingers and toes crossed for good luck)<br>><br>> Would be nice to have our own background image for the FOSSGIS and <br>> also would be great to use this image without the FOSSGIS stuff for <br>> the official OSGeo-Live design. We could save work.<br>><br>> Astrid<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Live-demo mailing list<br>> Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org<br>> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo</a><br>> <a href="http://live.osgeo.org">http://live.osgeo.org</a><br>> <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc</a><br>><br>><br>><br>> --<br>> Angelos Tzotsos<br>> Remote Sensing Laboratory<br>> National Technical University of Athens<br>> <a href="http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos">http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos</a><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Live-demo mailing list<br>> Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org<br>> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo</a><br>> <a href="http://live.osgeo.org">http://live.osgeo.org</a><br>> <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Live-demo mailing list<br>Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org<br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo</a><br><a href="http://live.osgeo.org">http://live.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc</a><br>
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