The Final Zone project

Hard to believe it is already more than six month I maintained Design Suite. Looking at the previous release, I have been encouraged by some Suite users about the successful launch despite a minor issue from some applications notably Cinepaint. I missed the first ever Flock event as I deemed unready to present the suite yet and I had other commitments. However, Máirín's excellent recap allowed me to follow the activities of the project for more inspirations. For the 20th release of Fedora, I looked at similar suite like Ubuntu Studio website for inspiration purpose. Showing the application with pictures are good highlights meaning the Wiki section will have some updates. Design Suite using Gnome Shell as a base will enable the category, customize the dock to highlight the main graphical applications and include some tutorials. New applications and plugins for Gimp and an extension for Inkscape named sozi are added. One of package that will be hopefully available on repositor...

English Fedora 19 is officially released including all available spins. Design Suite, free of Live CD size constraint, can be used through either DVD or USB drive (2GB minimum). Based on latest stable Gnome Shell, the spin now includes several new tools by default like Gpick for colour selection, Hugin for panoramic pictures, pdfShuffler for add/remove pdf files and Bluefish for web design. Unfortunately, Cinepaint failed to start due to bugz #904256 , other packages runs smoothly. You can download it via this channel . Design package in Fedora has been updated to closely match the spin version with additional typefaces like Comfortaa, Adobe Source Sans Pro and Overpass. That package is suitable for those wanting to use a different desktop environment. Français Fedora 19 est officiellement sortie incluant les variants connus sous le nom de spin. La Suite Design, libre des contraintes de la taille du CD, peut être utilisé sur un DVD ou un lecteur USB. Basée sur la dernière version ...

English Initial revamping of Design Suite is completed with approval from Design Team. Nightly compose is currently broken but the local built currently resulted an "Oh no!" message. I took over gpick (much needed)for review but no reviewer yet. gimp-seperate+ is underway but the submitter is currently ill. I guess making Design Suite more professional is still a long way...

After taking maintainer-ship, the challenge is much bigger than expected with outdated information on the wiki and unmaintained ks file for a long time. Worse is the current spin on Fedora 18 has broken login authentication which I did not have a chance to test it. Learning from these lessons, here is some high goals: Rewrite the entire wiki of Design Suite. Select new default packages. Include fonts used by Fedora Design Team. Rework the entire ks file using desktop media(Gnome Shell) as a base. Increase the maximum size of livemedia to 4GB.

English 2012 is over, 2013 has begun.  I recently accepted to take over Design Spin from Fedora Project and immediately worked on packaging overhaul for Fedora 19 Release taking advantage of Gnome Shell features like. The goal is to set Design Spin as a nearly professional free and open source suite. Martin awoke Echo Icon project with some revamped iconset. Task will be challenging but it can be done. Français 2012 est terminé, 2013 a débuté. J'ai récemment accepter de saisir Design Spin du Projet Fedora et immédiatement effectué des changements d'empaquetage en prenant avantage du bureau Gnome Shell pour la sortie Fedora 19. L'objectif est d'établir comme une suite infographique professionelle que possible en utilisant les logiciels libres. Martin a réveillé le projet Echo Icon avec des icones redesinées. La tache sera hardu mais surmontable

English Design team has kicked off concepts for Laughling release theme quoted: Something that can illustrate the emergence concept, like multiple objects combined to create a new one (more complex) . Feedback (refer to this guide ) is needed until the deadline which is July 30, 2010. Current list of concepts (be in mind they are not final for the release) and newest version will be added until July 6, 2010: Background Concept - Kyle Baker Floral Mosaic - María "tatica" Leandro Atomos - María "tatica" Leandro Wires - Jayme Ayres Concept - Mythcat SecConcept 2 - Mythcat Concept Kyle Blender - Kyle Baker Concept01 - H. Height Français L'équipe Design a commencé les modèles sur le thême de sortie Laughling: quelques choses pouvant illustrer l'émergence des concepts, une combinaison des objets multiplies créant un nouvel objet voire complexe . Les critiques sont nécessaires jusqu'à écheance du 30 juillet 2010. La liste des concepts couran...

English Should you use thefinalzone.blogspot.com url, you will be redirected to the new address blog.thefinalzone.net. Major design layout will come soon. Starting now, my blog will be written in both English and French. French Si vous cliquez sur le lien thefinalzone.blogspot.com, vous serez redirigé sur la nouvelle adresse blog.thefinalzone.net. Le graphisme courant subira un changement majeur pour bientôt. Dès aujourd'hui, mon blog sera écrit en Anglais et en Français.