Bug 1319893

Created attachment 1138720 [details]
A screenshot of current Anaconda banners

Description of problem:
The Anaconda banners are almost the first thing a new user sees when he decides to try Fedora. Currently the banners don't look very welcoming, but rather ugly compared to the rest of Fedora's beautiful artwork (and compared to banners from other distributions). No offence against their creator(s), but the following things should really be improved:
- No overuse of the Fedora logo font, Comfortaa. Comfortaa may look good for headings, but it's used for *all* the text on the banners, which looks unprofessional and simply ugly.
- No sudden colour change in the middle of the text, like on the make-fedora-better banner. Either add outline or shadows to the text, or don't allow text to overlap with pictures.
- No inconsistent distances between lines of text (present on all banners).
- No inconsistent placing of images (compare the LibreOffice logo and the Rhythmbox loudspeaker).
- No URLs starting with a capital letter.
- Replace Beefy with something (the current release's logo?).
- (Maybe generate the banners programmatically depending on locale? Currently the text is embedded into the images, which makes it a bit difficult to edit it for inexperienced contributors).

Ever since these banners appeared in Anaconda in Fedora 19, I was hoping they'd be changed soon, but see no progress yet. Other distributions make good use of the banners in their installation, informing the user about new features in the release, what software is being installed onto the new system, how to navigate the desktop environment (the banners appear at the very end of the installation process, when we already know what desktop environment was selected for installation), where to get help (this we have already) and other little tips regarding the distribution. I will be attaching installer banners from Ubuntu and Xubuntu.

We should agree on a design pattern that is used in all banners. It includes a fixed font, font size, line distance and margins. I will attach my proposal, but keep in mind that I am not a designer. Please suggest your own proposals.

Another consideration would be to make the banners larger. There is a lot of wasted space on the installation progress screen. Larger banners (similar to *buntu) would allow us to put more information into them, for example screenshots of some popular software that is bundled with the Fedora image that is currently being installed.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start the Fedora installation process
2. Complete all required steps and hit "Begin installation"
3. The banners start to appear at the bottom of the screen


Benefit for Fedora:
Improve aesthetics of Fedora, pleasing the eyes of all users. Newcomers are more likely to like Fedora when they are greeted with beautiful banners in the first few minutes they spend with Fedora.


Additional info:
The sources for the banners can be found here on https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/fedora-logos.git/tree/rnotes/en.