October 2009 Archives

After the huge success of the previous contest (SHR Logo Contest, http://wiki.shr-project.org/trac/wiki/LogoContest ) we decided to let the community help with the themes as well.
We discovered many talented community members (in the meanwhile we already started using the logo in several places, and Slyon started using it in his amazingly beautiful shr-today theme), that can probably make an amazing theme for SHR.
ATM we work with a default ugly theme and with a couple of community generated themes (gry/niebiee/more...) but each one of them has it's own flaws and none of them was made "in the spirit of our new logo".

We'd really like to see great contributions like we saw in the last contest, and like before your submission/vote will probably shape the new face of SHR.

You have to make themes for elementary and e-wm/illume but adding gtk+ and icon sets will give you a bonus, as it's more likely that people will vote for a theme that makes SHR consistent, than for a partial theme.

Guidelines:

1. The theme should be finger friendly (if the theme you create affects sizing and behavior, like for instance gtk+ themes)
2. The theme should look good :)
3. The theme should be consistent.
4. The theme should not break usability.
5. The theme should not be slow.

NOTICE: many themes previously created for the moko were designed for X11-16bit engine, though since raster said X11-16 is broken and should not be used, you do *not* have to make your theme look nice with that, although that's a bonus.

Like in the logo contest, the submissions will be gathered in the contest's wiki page.
When adding a new submission please provide the following details:
Name of the theme, name of the creator, license (or state you let us choose the license for you), a link to the theme, pictures of the theme and maybe a short description.
Please make sure you leave enough space between your entry and the others, so voters won't get confused.

That's about it, go ahead. We will accept submissions until: 30/11/09 at 19:00pm UTC.
If you have any questions feel free to contact me.

Useful links:
The SHR theme repositories (for templates and examples): http://git.shr-project.org/git/?p=shr-themes.git;a=tree;h=refs/heads/master;hb=master
The contest's wiki page: http://wiki.shr-project.org/trac/wiki/ThemeContest

Have fun.

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Hello everyone,

First of all, I want to say we were amazed by the number and quality of the submissions, we really didn't expect so many entries.
As you probably noticed, we decided to let people choose their favorite 3 (or more), this was only because choosing just one from so many great logos is nearly impossible.

We really want to thank all the participants (voters and especially the logo artists) for helping us make SHR better, and we hope to see this kind of participation in future contests as well.

Without further ado, here are the results:
There was a total of 269 voters and over 60 submissions, but unfortunately we can only have one logo.
The winning logo is: 4, by alphalog design-studio (http://wiki.shr-project.org/trac/raw-attachment/wiki/LogoContest/alphalog-shr-3.png)

We are really anxious to start using this logo in SHR all there's left is receiving the SVG from alphalog (http://alphalog.de).

As for the rest of the contestants: Again, thanks a lot. Actually because we liked some of the entries so much, we'll try to use some of them for making boot splashes or maybe incorporate them in other
parts of SHR.

Thanks a lot, we had fun, if you submitted a logo and want to know how many votes you got, please email TAsn (not everyone would like their "score" published).

P.S, stay in touch, as we might start some more contests soon.

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Hello.
In order to normalize numbers in SHR we use a library called libphone-utils.
This library needs to know the Phone prefixes of the user's country in order to work correctly.
ATM each user sets up his prefixes manually using a config file in /etc/phone_utils.conf (or probably using shr-settings)
We want to make it automatic. Though in order to do that, we need to know, what are your settings? What's working well for you?

So please, add to the following wiki page your country and your settings so we'll be able to use them for automatic settings.

Wiki page: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Phone_Prefixes

Thanks in advance, the SHR team.

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