@subheading Goals

The @file{trunk/Identity/Themes/Motifs} directory exists to:

@itemize

@item Organize CentOS themes' artistic motifs. 

@end itemize 

@subheading Description

The artistic motif of theme is a graphic design component that

provides the visual style of themes, it is used as pattern to connect

all visual manifestations inside one unique theme.

Artistic motifs are based on conceptual ideas. Conceptual ideas bring

the motivation, they are fuel for the engines of human imagination.

Good conceptual ideas may produce good motivation to produce almost

anything, and art works don't escape from it.

@table @samp

@item TreeFlower 

CentOS like trees, has roots, trunk, branches, leaves and flowers. Day

by day they work together in freedom, ruled by the laws of nature and

open standards, to show the beauty of its existence.

@item Modern 

Modern, squares and circles flowing up.

@end table

If you have new conceptual ideas for CentOS, then you can say that you

want to create a new artistic motif for CentOS. To create a new

artistic motif you need to create a directory under

@file{Identity/Themes/Motifs/} using a name coherent with your

conceptual idea. That name will be the name of your artistic motif. If

possible, when creating new conceptual ideas for CentOS, think about

what CentOS means for you, what does it makes you feel, take your

time, think deep, and share; you can improve the idea as time goes on.

Once you have defined a name for your theme, you need to create the

motif structure of your theme. The motif structure is the basic

direcotry structure you'll use to work your ideas. Here is where you

organize your graphic design projects.

To add a new motif structure to CentOS Artwork Repository, you need to

use the @command{centos-art} command line in the

@file{Identity/Themes/Motifs/} directory as described below:

@example

centos-art add --motif=ThemeName

@end example

The previous command will create the basic structure of themes for

you.  The basic structure produced by @command{centos-art} command is

illustrated in the following figure:

@example

trunk/Identity/Themes/Motifs/$ThemeName/

|-- Backgrounds

|   |-- Img

|   `-- Tpl

|-- Info

|   |-- Img

|   `-- Tpl

|-- Palettes

`-- Screenshots

@end example

@subheading Usage

When designing artistic motifs for CentOS, consider the following

recommendations:

@itemize

@item Give a unique (case-sensitive) name to your Motif. This name is

used as value wherever theme variable (@b{$THEME}) or translation marker

(@b{=THEME=}) is.  Optionally, you can add a description about

inspiration and concepts behind your work.

@item Use the location @file{trunk/Identity/Themes/Motifs/$THEME/} to

store your work. If it doesn't exist create it. Note that this require

you to have previous commit access in CentOS Artwork Repository.

@item The CentOS Project is using the blue color (@b{#204c8d}) as base

color for its corporate visual identity. Use such base corporate color

information as much as possible in your artistic motif designs.

@item Try to make your design fit one of the theme models.

@item Feel free to make your art enterprise-level and beautiful.

@item Add the following information on your artwork (both in a visible

design area and document metadata):

@itemize

@item The name (or logo) of your artistic motif.

@item The copyright sentence: @b{Copyright (C) YEAR YOURNAME}

@item The license under which the work is released. All CentOS Art

works are released under

@url{http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/,Creative Common

Share-Alike License 3.0}

(@url{http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/}).

@end itemize

@end itemize

@subheading See also

@menu

* Directories trunk Identity Themes::

* Directories trunk Identity::

* Directories trunk::

@end menu

The @file{Backgrounds/} directory is used to organize artistic motif

background images and the projects used to build those images.

Background images are linked (using the @b{import} feature of

Inkscape) inside almost all theme art works. This structure let you

make centralized changes on the visual identity and propagate them

quickly to other areas. 

In this configuration you design background images for different

screen resolutions based on the theme artistic motif.

You may create different artistic motifs propositions based

on the same conceptual idea. The conceptual idea is what defines a

theme. Artistic motifs are interpretations of that idea.

Inside this directory artistic motifs are organized by name (e.g.,

TreeFlower, Modern, etc.).

Each artistic motif directory represents just one unique artistic

motif. 

The artistic motif is graphic design used as common pattern to connect

all visual manifestations inside one unique theme.  The artistic motif

is based on a conceptual idea.  Artistic motifs provide visual style

to themes.

Designing artistic motifs is for anyone interested in creating

beautiful themes for CentOS.  When building a theme for CentOS, the

first design you need to define is the artistic motif. 

Inside CentOS Artwork Repository, theme visual styles (a.k.a.,

artistic motifs) and theme visual structures (a.k.a., design models)

are two different working lines.  When you design an artistic motif

for CentOS you concentrate on its visual style, and eventualy, use the

@command{centos-art} command line interface to render the visual

style, you are currently producing, against an already-made theme

model in order to produce the final result.  Final images are stored

under @file{Motifs/} directory using the model name, and the model

directory structure as reference.

The artistic motif base structure is used by @command{centos-art} to

produce images automatically. This section describes each directory of

CentOS artistic motif base structure.

The @file{Backgrounds/} directory is probably the core component,

inside @file{Motifs/} directory structure.  Inside @file{Backgrounds/}

directory you produce background images used by almost all theme

models (e.g., Distribution, Websites, Promotion, etc.).  The

@file{Backgrounds/} directory can contain subdirectories to help you

organize the design process.