| thorwil | vish: how do you feel about humphreybc's request for a alpha release title page? | 10:08 |
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| * vish checks mail | 10:10 | |
| vish | thorwil: hmm? so the name needs to be changed? in the existing title page? | 10:13 |
| thorwil | vish: that would be the quick solution. plus dropping the to right corner, as the version number is in the title now | 10:14 |
| vish | thorwil: we could just leave it as "Getting started with Ubuntu" ;) if we drop the top corner , then the right side would be empty :( | 10:15 |
| thorwil | vish: aside of things already mentioned, another argument against the lynx is that we don't know what will come next. we can't rely on reasonable animals to create a series of covers instead of one-shots | 10:16 |
| vish | thorwil: IMO , the page would need to be redesigned to the new title , which we can take up for later.. for now we just shorten the name | 10:17 |
| thorwil | the jackalope would have been unacceptable given our desired tone and message | 10:17 |
| vish | thorwil: yes , i agree with you about the animal.. i have been saying this from day one , but _they_ insist on using the lynx , this time we have a good lynx , next time another animal are we sure we would be around for that? , then the whole page needs to be redone... workaround can be using the COC if animal isnt ready ;p | 10:18 |
| thorwil | vish: having the lynx for the alpha version might make it harder to argue against keeping it later on | 10:19 |
| vish | i didnt understand ^ ? | 10:20 |
| vish | thorwil: you recommend , we dont use the lynx? , but we cant get away with that ;p | 10:20 |
| thorwil | vish: i'm not sure we can't. proposing something for alpha release without might help with getting people used to the idea | 10:21 |
| vish | thorwil: one thing we can say is we already used the lynx for alpha , we can use a better design for the final release ;) | 10:22 |
| thorwil | vish: ok then, so will you prepare a quick edit of your design with the new title? i will not care about any specifics there, unless you ask me | 10:24 |
| godbyk | Do you want to replace the existing svg or create a new one? | 10:25 |
| godbyk | If it's under a different file name, we can update the Makefile to generate the new cover page in the PDF. | 10:25 |
| vish | hmm , sure | 10:25 |
| vish | godbyk: I'd just , add a new file | 10:25 |
| godbyk | (otherwise, replacing the existing filename will cause the cover page to be automatically regenerated) | 10:25 |
| vish | godbyk: or , how do you prefer it? | 10:25 |
| godbyk | Makes no difference to me. | 10:25 |
| godbyk | It's an easy one-line fix in the Makefile if you want me to point at a new cover page file. | 10:26 |
| vish | godbyk: ok.. I'll rename the current one as -Old and update the new one | 10:26 |
| godbyk | k | 10:26 |
| vish | thorwil: so the first Line would be "Getting Started" and second line "With Ubuntu" ? and there is no need for subtitle , right? | 10:28 |
| godbyk | vish: That sounds right, yeah. | 10:28 |
| vish | k.. | 10:28 |
| godbyk | I think the version number follows "Ubuntu", though. | 10:28 |
| thorwil | yes | 10:28 |
| vish | godbyk: if we do the version number there , then the top corner is a problem... so for the alpha we leave the version number at the top , and for the final release we do it right | 10:29 |
| thorwil | later, for the real design, we should try to get it on one line | 10:29 |
| vish | agreed | 10:29 |
| godbyk | fair enough. | 10:30 |
| thorwil | vish: i really don't think your design needs the corner for balance, but it's your call | 10:30 |
| godbyk | if the corner stays in the final design, we may have to add some more padding around the words to make sure it stays within whatever the standard printer margins are. | 10:30 |
| vish | godbyk: corner will not stay for final :) | 10:30 |
| godbyk | gotcha | 10:30 |
| godbyk | at some point we'll have to figure out how to best handle translations for the cover page, too. | 10:33 |
| vish | thorwil: i'm more inclined to leave it there , since it pisses you off so much :p | 10:33 |
| godbyk | I s'pose that since we've select a title, the text on the cover will be pretty static, and we can manually adjust/create each language's cover page. | 10:33 |
| thorwil | vish: this can't touch me. it's a wart on your design, not mine ;) | 10:35 |
| vish | hehe ; | 10:35 |
| thorwil | godbyk: we will have to | 10:36 |
| thorwil | godbyk: but not for alpha, i hope | 10:36 |
| godbyk | thorwil: I wouldn't worry about it for alpha. | 10:37 |
| godbyk | I've still got some work to do with the translations. | 10:37 |
| godbyk | I'm trying to find good typefaces to cover all the scripts that all these languages use. | 10:37 |
| godbyk | (I'll be honest: I hadn't even heard of some of these languages before I started looking into this translation stuff!) | 10:38 |
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