Preparation for liveCD 1.4

[Harald Sitter]

On Saturday 20 May 2006 14:32, Christie Harris wrote:
> Sounds like Greg has managed to get his hands on a build machine for the
> liveCD...
> now it's up to roKymotion to make it look good.
>
> ARTISTS:  You need to coordinate yourselves on this. Get together either on
> IRC or via email, and decide who's strengths are best suited to which
> tasks.
>
> The list of artwork needed, in the order it will be displayed:
>
> 1. isolinux boot screen

Should look the same as the bootsplash - because a _usual_ user just should 
differ between ::booting -> using -> shuting down::

> 2. bootsplash

Talk to kwwii in #kde-artists - he is the god of bootsplashes, so he might 
have some nifty tips

> 3. kde splash
> 4. wallpaper
> 5. kde logout

shardz already had some ideas, well he is a pixel artist ;-) - BUT all images 
should be branded, from start till shut down, the user has to know that he is 
using _the_ amaroK Live CD featuring _the_ amaroK media player
So using konqui on the images only makes sense if it goes well with either the 
amaroK icon or the logo.

For wallpaper I'd personally like to see a photo of untouched nature ;-), so 
something calming down (releaxing stuff, you know) with just a very very very 
transparent amaroK logo somewhere in the corner.

Something I hate about the artwork of aLive 1.3 is that it so crowded, with 
sponsering notes to anyone who provided anything - just gcc was missing for 
providing the compiler to build the pclos distro.
So maybe create an html page loading at start with information about amaroK 
Live 1.4 and the "sponsers" who helped us to make 1.4 be really awesome.

> At least one of you needs to familiarise yourself with the way the liveCD
> boots, how long the various screens tend to be displayed, and what type of
> image suits. See the artwork on the old liveCD for examples.
>
> If you need any clarification, ask Greg Meyer (oggb4mp3 on IRC).
>
> The rest of us need to find some music for the CD!

I still vote for parts of the LinuxTag openmusic sampler ;-)
Anyway, I think we should rely on separate artists. So no "label" like 
magnatune - just search some good artists and ask them whether they would 
like to sponser a song or two. Probably more work, but the result will be 
better imo.

We should also think about how much sense it makes to have a lot of tracks but 
some are BS - I just remember a metal and a rock song on 1.3 which were the 
suck (and I usually like good music of any genre ...)

-- 
Harald Sitter      roKymotion team         harald.sitter at kdemail.net
amarok.kde.org     rokymotion.pwsp.net     apachelogger at kdetalk.net
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