THEME: CODE-RED

cheesyboofs

Thanks for that Hoba, I have now tweaked the logon page and the wizard and have tried the theme under both v1.2.3 and v2.0A in IE8, Firefox v3.06 and Google chrome (my preferred). There are some tiny browser quirks but its still usable and pleasing to the eye. I use to hate the red colour in pfSense but if you swamp it all over the screen it's not so bad.

I'm still yet to get any real feedback as to whether people actually like it and whether there are any bits they like or dis-like.

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hoba

Great Job! I really like it. We should include it with the official builds to be selectable :)

cheesyboofs

Cheers,

I wasn't as adventurous perhaps as I could have been as I wanted it to be compatible with both 1.2.x and 2.0 when it comes out. Also the muddy red colour has become somewhat of a trademark I think and I quite like it now.

I would like to know what I can delete from the theme folder as I don't want to delete something that may be required in an up and coming feature that I'm not aware of, I'm sure a nice dev will do the honors though.

I did think maybe I'd get the odd post saying "I like it but what if the freebsd icon was red?" for example, Well it looks like this if your interested. But I think I'll keep it gray.

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hoba

I like the one with the grey freebsd logo better. I'll work on a new theme during the hackathon (which will start this saturday). I'm going to clean up the new theme from old files as much as possible. Once this is done you can have a look at this to see which files have been removed and clean up your theme as well then.

hoba

Well, looks like we are not allowed to add your theme to the official distribution due to copyright issues with the used logos. Neither the freebsd logo is freely usable without permission nor the firefox and chrome logo I guess. I have to change my hackathon theme too now. See http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/Guidelines.shtml for further details on the freebsd trademarks. Maybe you can strip them from your theme?

cheesyboofs

That's fine, I kinda guessed that might be the case with the firefox and chrome logo but I can't figure the freebsd one? I mean pfsense is freebsd - If its ok to distribute the whole OS surely one can ship the logo too. I'm not too bothered I mean I know how these things work - I look at it that your promoting their product as well as yours/ours but they look at it like you may imply you are affiliated with them. They don't want the freebsd forums filling up with pfsense users bitchin that this or that doesn't work.

I got the same response from Intel in my other case badge thread;

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,14783.0.html

Thank you for your enquiry.

Intel will not approve the use of a logo that bears a resemblance to any of its intellectual property, if it is designed to ‘not look out of place’ next to our badge then it will cause confusion that a product is owned or affiliated with Intel. We would request that you amend your proposed logo to one which would compliment our badge as opposed to bearing a resemblance to it.

Once again, thank you for asking.

Best regards

Victoria

I can easily remove the contentious bits, I'll just have to be more creative with their replacements :P

Update:

I'm gunna ask - you never know!

trademark@FreeBSDFoundation.org

dotdash

I'm not a lawyer, and the usage terms make my head hurt, but this:
@http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/Guidelines.shtml:

Any individual, organization, or company may use the Marks to show support for the Project or as part of a notice to users that your product incorporates the FreeBSD operating system.

Seems to cover the usage in a pfSense theme.
The numbered requirements seem to be only if you use the logo on packaging or for product promotion-
@http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/Guidelines.shtml:

The Marks may not be used on product packaging or to promote products and services, or to create the impression of an endorsement or certification unless you comply with all of the following:

1. Anyone who uses any of our Marks is required to comply with these use guidelines, as well as the requirements in your license, if you are a licensee. For special or unusual projects, we may ask you to comply with requirements specific to your use.

2. You must request our permission to use the Marks at trademark@FreeBSDFoundation.org prior to any use of the Marks, and we may grant or withhold permission to use the Marks in our sole discretion.

etc…

cheesyboofs

Well I have a reply from The FreeBSD Foundation and I think its quite a fair responce!

The problem I see with your request, is that you tied the logo with the pfSense logo.

Our trademark usage terms and conditions states:

"If we grant you permission to use the Marks, your use of the Marks must always be fully and clearly reproduced, and you may not incorporate any of our Marks into the trademarks, service mark, logos, or name of your business, project, or organization, unless you have the express prior written permission of the Foundation."

You need to separate our logo from yours. That way your logo identifies your organization/project and our logo represents FreeBSD separately.

Please submit new artwork for us to consider.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

The FreeBSD Foundation

Like I said I'll just have to be a little more creative and I can and will still use the freebsd logo as long as I don't change/mask/mix it in any way plus seek approval which I will do.

cheesyboofs

Well I've replaced the FreeBSD logo with a globe, now I can't decide on - lens flare or not lens flare!

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jimp

I'd have to vote for "no lens flare" :)

Seth

I would vote for the lens flare

hoba

+1 for the lenseflare :-)

ColdFusion

yep, lensflare.

Cry Havok

flare ;)

cheesyboofs

I'm pretty much done here - I've kept the flare but just at 80% :P

One last niggle Hoba, can I move "Username and password incorrect" via loggin.css?

I've had a hunt around but can't move it, I'm no coder as I've said before so I have to change many values until I affect the one I want, its a slow process as you can imagine.

Cheers to all.

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hoba

Afaik this object doesn't use a css container and therefor is not movable or themeable. I'm no coder either. I'm just playing around with CSS and moving pixels. Would be nice to have this element themeable too though. I'll have a look and bring this up in the devchannel so we hopefully can theme it soon.

cheesyboofs

Hey, I wouldn't worry too much, I mean if you cant remember your username and password you've got more problems than the word "incorrect" covering up a bit of the sea!

My theme is pretty much done, I'll fire off one more mail to freeBSD to get approval for the two instances of their logo and I'm good to go, subject to any last minute OS changes.

cheesyboofs

Found it!

That really is it now or I'm gunna send myself crazy tweaking it.

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hoba

Hey, nice work! :D

So which part of the css needed to be tweaked to move this text around? ;)

cheesyboofs

The very last line of login.css - the trick was to refresh index.php for the changes to take affect. The inspect element feature of google chrome has been a god send in helping confirm I'm in the right place.

Have mailed freebsd today to request permission to use the two logo's so once they reply it can be shipped with pfsense if the dev's want.