[ubuntu-art] Edgy's current art looks like fecal matter :O
I know I'm being blunt, but it's true. It's dark brown, it's lumpy, and it has red and green streaks running through it. Not a pleasant combination :P.In my opinion, to prevent brown from looking like, well, what brown's usual connotation is, the theme needs to be smooth and clean. This includes the use of smooth textures, matte preferred and Dapper's current light tans also help, but browns and glosses can work just as well. JMak did an excellent job of this in his login screens. He kept the same brown or tan hue throughout and the background was a plain matte circular gradient like Dapper's login. Junel Mujar also made some excellent backgrounds using very muted tones here. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Edgy's current art looks like fecal matter :O
Hello Jasper, Am Dienstag, den 12.09.2006, 17:03 +1000 schrieb Jasper Schalken: I know I'm being blunt, but it's true. It's dark brown, it's lumpy, and it has red and green streaks running through it. Not a pleasant combination :P. In my opinion, to prevent brown from looking like, well, what brown's usual connotation is, the theme needs to be smooth and clean. I'd really wish you'd read the Code of Conduct [1]. I told you in a bug report already to be more respectful. People in here put a lot of work into the current artwork and you're talking to them. Do you honestly except them to answer your concerns, if you're being blunt or making fun of them? Please try to pick your words carefully next time. [1] http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct Have a nice day, Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Edgy's current art looks like fecal matter :O
Jasper Schalken wrote: I know I'm being blunt, but it's true. It's dark brown, it's lumpy, and it has red and green streaks running through it. Not a pleasant combination :P. This is NOT constructive criticism of someone else's work! Please choose your words more carefully in future. In my opinion, to prevent brown from looking like, well, what brown's usual connotation is, the theme needs to be smooth and clean. This includes the use of smooth textures, matte preferred and Dapper's current light tans also help, but browns and glosses can work just as well. JMak did an excellent job of this in his login screens. He kept the same brown or tan hue throughout and the background was a plain matte circular gradient like Dapper's login. Junel Mujar also made some excellent backgrounds using very muted tones here. Both good pointers. Troy Sobotka just called for more comments to help get Edgy's artwork nailed, so your timing is good. Mark -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Edgy's current art looks like fecal matter :O
Op 12-sep-2006, om 10:35 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: Both good pointers. Troy Sobotka just called for more comments to help get Edgy's artwork nailed, so your timing is good. Mark That's true. We need to have more people actively criticizing art. Don't worry about not contributing other than giving criticism, since that is needed as well. I don't think that what you've sent to the list was very useful, though, since you didn't provide any reasoning (except that it looks like feces, which I don't consider to be helpful at all; if you're afraid that this type of art will remain in the distro till the final release, try putting more time and thought into your alarm calls). Troy and I are occasionally coming together on IRC to discuss the artwork while making changes based on each other's input and I think it's working out very well. Maybe I could stress the importance of IRC again: it just works very well when several people have time to spend on Ubuntu. Michiel -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Edgy's current art looks like fecal matter :O
Hi everyone!! I haven't seen the WallpaperProposal page yet, and now I'm very impressed. Junel Mujar wallpapers are simply awesome. Simply, clean and very beautiful. Also I love Michiel Sikma work. It remainds me a lot to MacOS X 10.2 or 10.3 wallpaper style. The tones are quite different to the old ubuntu wallpapers but I think it could fit perfect on ubuntu desktop.Have a nice day!Álvaro. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] FC6' s DNA
Chuck Huber wrote: On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 18:14 -0400, Viper550 wrote: I have found the final artwork for Fedora Core 6 (the next version of my preferred Linux distro), and I will tell you one thing now: It's going to wow you from your eyes to your DNA literally, because instead of widespread bubbles, we have double helixes everywhere now! http://people.redhat.com/dfong/fc6graphics/ snip Viper550 snip Yeah, apparently, not many people liked the Bubbles theme going on in FC5. If anyone wonders: The GTK theme they use is Cairo Clearlooks, and the Clearlooks 0.6 metacity (NOT the Clearlooks 2 metacity from FC5...which just happened to get modded into the Human metacity). Oh yeah one more thing: Fedora Core 5 has a patch in gnome-session that moves the icons up on the splash screen (which I really hate). Then, Bluecurve is getting the boot anyway with the new Echo icons (which look totally awesome (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/EchoDevelopment , you can download them there too!). Also, I think they chose DNA because their new logo kinda looks like DNA, and it shows off the 4 elements of the new logo Infinity - Progress - Technology - Evolution. But still...AWESOME! Viper550 -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Edgy's current art looks like fecal matter :O
On Tue, 2006-12-09 at 17:03 +1000, Jasper Schalken wrote: I know I'm being blunt, but it's true. It's dark brown, it's lumpy, and it has red and green streaks running through it. Not a pleasant combination :P. Yikes. There is another version without the dappling here: wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/EdgyArtworkPlan/Produce/Incoming/CurrentDefault PS: If you have blue and red in there, I would go get that checked out. It generally isn't a good sign. JMak did an excellent job of this in his login screens. He kept the same brown or tan hue throughout and the background was a plain matte circular gradient like Dapper's login. I agree 100%. I think Jmak's top logon is probably the best design I have seen in a long long while. That said, the GDM is unlikely to change if you do a little research into the issue. With a few minor tweaks to unify it with the existing Ubuntu fixed palette items, I believed that it could have been a wonderful GDM. Junel Mujar also made some excellent backgrounds using very muted tones here. Gnome-look has many too. Thanks for your awareness and insight. The best way to achieve results is to keep the participation level high. Sincerely, TJS signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
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Welcome to the list, I guess. Michiel Op 12-sep-2006, om 16:18 heeft Alberto Núñez het volgende geschreven: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] From the Fedora User to the Ubuntu Art Team: Here's your big competition...
I don't like the fedora artwork a lot.Its just polished, that's what makes it so good.Novell has the same, it looks nice because it is polished.If you make every splash, gdm, wallpaper, .. based on ONE image you get a VERY nice result. So .. a grub image, usplash, gdm, gsplash, wallpaper, some app splashes ( OOo, xara, gimp, .. ). For the gtk/metacity, just use contrasted colors and for the icons just make them fit in :)Meaning, if the GDM is glossy, the icons should be too.. IMO this is the worst thing about ubuntu-artwork. It doesn't look bad, its just not polished.( I'm talking about dapper )You have no grub-splash, you have an old looking gdm, with a new shiny gsplash. A very ugly wallpaper, totally not fitting any rest of the theme..If ubuntu-art wants to concuer with Suse or Fedora they _will_ have to polish !!Cheers2006/9/12, Chuck Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED]:On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 18:14 -0400, Viper550 wrote: I have found the final artwork for Fedora Core 6 (the next version of my preferred Linux distro), and I will tell you one thing now: It's going to wow you from your eyes to your DNA literally, because instead of widespread bubbles, we have double helixes everywhere now! http://people.redhat.com/dfong/fc6graphics/snip Viper550 Well from the looks of this art it's pretty clear that Fedora's artworkgoals are different than ours so while it may be perfect for some usersnot everyone will be inspired by it.And by the looks of that I'd say a fair number will be intimidated instead.I installed the fedora wallpaper from the link above and you're rightabout it looking pretty smart.In combination with a glossy black imageon the panel and a dark gtk-metacity combo it would look geeky as heck. The GDM theme fits right in if that's the goal.Looks like you're goingto need a degree in computer science immediately after logging in. Maybethe carntoonish nature of their icons will lessen that some but then it may actually be their intention.The logon splash at the bottom of the page gets kudos for looking a bitmore interesting than the basic round cornered rectangle that it is(byadding the extension around the helix cord on the far right).Good use of the 1 bit transparency there i'd say.I'm happy to see fedora pushing their art a little more!It's going tobe a very technical look but then for free desktops to be takenseriously they have to be competitive on every level. Thanks for keeping us apprised Viper,--Chuck Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED]--ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.comhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Edgy's current art looks like fecal matter :O
On 9/12/06, qingjia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:23:54 +0800, Troy James Sobotka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JMak did an excellent job of this in his login screens. He kept the same brown or tan hue throughout and the background was a plain matte circular gradient like Dapper's login. 100% agree. JMak's design is the best I've ever seen. It's bloody amazing and sexy. It would be perfect if JMak's design could be adopted by Ubuntu. Personally, and though i love the design itself, i don't find the dark brown colors that enjoyable. I mean... the screens look good but i simply can't imagine myself actually using a gdm theme with dark brown colors. My POV is from a simple user and i don't have any art knowledge, but imho many users will agree with this. Still, it's amazing the work that's been done and i'll be extremely happy to see the final results! -- João Inácio http://www.jcinacio.com -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Announcing: Fonty Python - TTF Font manager for Gnu/Linux
Greeting, I am new to the list. I hope to contribute with this little app I just finished. It's Free and under the GPL. Read on. I am a designer and I missed the ability to view fonts, sort them into collections and install/remove those collections. I had to scratch the itch and as I was learning Python and wxPython, I thought what the heck! With Fonty Python you can select ttf fonts and put them into pogs (from the word typography). You can place fonts into pogs from a folder or from another pog. You then install the pog you need. After that, you fire-up Inkscape (or Gimp, or Sodipodi, or Blender etc) and those fonts *should* appear in the font dialogue. Do your design, and when you are done and don't need them anymore, you simply remove the pog! It will be there for next time. It helps to keep fonts organized per project/client/job. It also help keep font clutter out of the various font choosers. If you are interested in trying it out, you can get it from: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython I am still moving into the Savannah website, I hope to have a short manual and so forth in the near future. The tarball (the download file) contains a README that you should consult. I have registered on Launchpad too, but it's hosted at Savannah (FSF) Please let me know your experiences with it. I apologise in advance if it melts your CPU, insults your toaster and then electrocutes you :) Donn. ( South Africa ) https://launchpad.net/people/donn-ingle -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Edgy's current art looks like fecal matter :O
Something to keep in mind for those that haven't actually tried the artwork live: The dappling effect is entirely different on fullscreen than it appears in the thumbnail view. Depending on your monitor size and resolution it can be almost unnoticable at times, so I'd recommend people try it before judging the artwork. After seeing the thumbnail view, I also expected a strong dappling effect and had to downloaded xara to double it after finding it hardly visible on my machine. Chuck On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 06:23 -0700, Troy James Sobotka wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-09 at 17:03 +1000, Jasper Schalken wrote: I know I'm being blunt, but it's true. It's dark brown, it's lumpy, and it has red and green streaks running through it. Not a pleasant combination :P. Yikes. There is another version without the dappling here: wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/EdgyArtworkPlan/Produce/Incoming/CurrentDefault PS: If you have blue and red in there, I would go get that checked out. It generally isn't a good sign. JMak did an excellent job of this in his login screens. He kept the same brown or tan hue throughout and the background was a plain matte circular gradient like Dapper's login. I agree 100%. I think Jmak's top logon is probably the best design I have seen in a long long while. That said, the GDM is unlikely to change if you do a little research into the issue. With a few minor tweaks to unify it with the existing Ubuntu fixed palette items, I believed that it could have been a wonderful GDM. Junel Mujar also made some excellent backgrounds using very muted tones here. Gnome-look has many too. Thanks for your awareness and insight. The best way to achieve results is to keep the participation level high. Sincerely, TJS -- Chuck Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
