Goals
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The trunk/Identity/Themes/Motifs directory exists to:

  * Organize CentOS themes' artistic motifs.

Description
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The artistic motif of theme is a graphic design component that provides theme's visual style, 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.

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.

Modern
     Modern, squares and circles flowing up.

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 Identity/Themes/Motifs/ using a name coherent with your conceptual idea. That name will be your artistic motif's name. 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 centos-art command line in the Identity/Themes/Motifs/ directory as described below:

     centos-art add --motif=ThemeName

The previous command will create the motif's basic structure for you. The basic structure produced by centos-art command is illustrated in the following figure:

     trunk/Identity/Themes/Motifs/$ThemeName/
     |-- Backgrounds
     |   |-- Img
     |   `-- Tpl
     |-- Info
     |   |-- Img
     |   `-- Tpl
     |-- Palettes
     `-- Screenshots

Usage
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When designing artistic motifs for CentOS, consider the following recommendations:

  * Give a unique (case-sensitive) name to your Motif. This name is used as value wherever theme variable ($THEME) or translation marker (=THEME=) is.  Optionally, you can add a description about inspiration and concepts behind your work.

  * Use the location 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.

  * The CentOS Project is using the blue color (#204c8d) as base for its corporate visual identity. Use the CentOS Project's base corporate color as much as possible in your artistic motif designs.

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

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

  * Add the following information on your art work (both in a visible design area, and inside Inkscape's document metadata section wherever it be possible):

       * The name (or logo) of your artistic motif.

       * The copyright sentence: Copyright (C) YEAR YOURNAME

       * The license under which the work is released. All CentOS Art works are released under Creative Common Share-Alike License 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

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