Re: [ubuntu-art] FW: User Log In Screen

ets a bit tricky when you can't remember what you have just > typed in, or you have used the wrong credentials! > > Ian > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Henrik Nilsen Omma > Sent: 16 November 2006 10:5

[ubuntu-art] funky keyboard layouts

Hey art list, Please have a look at the new skinnable on-screen keyboard: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Projects/SOK The keyboard layouts can be created and modified in Inkscape. The current one shows the possibility of the flexible use of colour, but is admittedly rather garish. I

[ubuntu-art] Website art request

Hi, I'm just giving the website a bit of a face lift before the release. I'm going to simplify the front page a bit, adding some images and direct links. I've also updated the side menu a bit. On secondary pages like http://www.ubuntu.com/community I've added some grey text to the top of the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

Who wrote: Henrik, would Daniel's workload be able to accomodate 2 extra themes, or even 3 if LegacyHuman is taken as not being an extra theme, but necessary for continuuity, provided they were ready to package tonight? I did actually send him the list of top five and asked him to see what he co

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

Michiel Sikma wrote: Just to make sure there aren't any dramas later: you're sure he's fully aware of the vote results, and that there therefore is a need for the LegacyHuman theme from Breezy to be packaged in addition to these new ones? Yes, he knows about the results. - Henrik -- ubuntu-

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

Who wrote: Give me 6 Hours, who do I email the completed .tar.gz to? I can make a metatheme, but packaging is beyond me. Please send it directly to dholbach, who is doing the packaging. Who (question, not my name) is going to make sure the other themes make it, assembled, to the right people a

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

Michiel Sikma wrote: That's information we should really also just post on the wiki. One major difference that I see between the Ubuntu wiki and Wikipedia, which I'll use to compare with since it's such an incredibly good wiki, It is, but the Wikipedia is also the end-product of their project

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

Who wrote: All thorugh this process it was discussed that we were choosing 5 themes, and there was no discussion of weighting of votes - why was there such a sudden change? OK, So looking back at this post: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2006-April/001216.html we see that there w

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

Michiel Sikma wrote: By the way, I'll update the wiki to mention that voting is closed. I don't, unfortunately, have access to the spreadsheet you just sent since I'm at work at the moment. Maybe you could post that in the wiki as wiki markup? Um, that's not really the best use of my time to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: Spreadsheet attached ... - Henrik Ah, crap, that spreadsheet wasn't complete (I blame OOo constantly crashing when the accessibility features are turned on ...) Anyway, this one is correct, really. - Henrik art-vote-complete.ods Description: applic

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: Thanks to all those who participated in the voting and helped bring this to a conclusion. I asked you to vote for one usplash option and three wallpapers and theme options. To rank the latter two I have used a simple weighting system of 5:3:1, where the top choice

[ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

Thanks to all those who participated in the voting and helped bring this to a conclusion. I asked you to vote for one usplash option and three wallpapers and theme options. To rank the latter two I have used a simple weighting system of 5:3:1, where the top choice gets a weight of 5x, the sec

Re: [ubuntu-art] Voting for Dapper Themes

Who wrote: > But, when should we vote? Should we do it ASAP? Now? Or later today? > You can vote on the addresses listed any time before 0700UTC tomorrow. I really do understand how urgent this is, but I don't think that is enough time for everyone to vote - It isn't fair to stop someone from

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 11, Issue 54

Michiel Sikma wrote: How about the Edubuntu and Xubuntu splash screens (Kubuntu has already been packaged, one by kwwii)? I've made an Edubuntu one and a Xubuntu one (the latter which I can fix up to have a correct palette without any trouble before that deadline). Are we to send propositions t

Re: [ubuntu-art] Voting for Dapper Themes

Viper550 wrote: Let's just make this easy! I'm on IRC right now, we'll vote there! Freenode #ubuntu-artwork You are, but not everyone on the art team has a chance to be on IRC at this very moment. People have different time zones, work, school, etc. But, when should we vote? Should we do

Re: [ubuntu-art] Voting for Dapper Themes

Who wrote: Thanks for doing that, but I think that Billy's forum was a better, more open idea - I doubt anyone would try to cheat the system, but on a forum it is clear who has voted for what. That thread seems to have been locked after 4 people voted though. I'm happy to give art-team members

Re: [ubuntu-art] Voting for Dapper Themes

Viper550 wrote: Question, can we vote for ourselves? I don't have a problem with that. I'll do a rudimentary check for gross ballot stuffing though (IOW that people don't vote more than once). - Henrik -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/

Re: [ubuntu-art] Voting for Dapper Themes

Theme options can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/DapperThemes Wallpapers here: http://art.ubuntu.com/backgrounds/ubuntu/ and Usplash options here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperPropositionsClean May the best entries win! - Henrik Nilsen Omma Ubuntu/Canonical Webmaster -- ubu

[ubuntu-art] Ubuntu webmaster position

Mark says we will be hiring 24 new people in the next few months: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/35 Cool! The future looks bright for Ubuntu :) One position that we have posted already is that of webmaster. I've been in touch with a few people already but I'd like to speak with som

[ubuntu-art] Re: Default themes

Mark Shuttleworth wrote: I just did a virgin Dapper install, and the existing themes are by default pretty weak: - the high contrast ones we need for accessibility (though they could be installed with the accessibility metapackage that is going to be done, Henrik is working on that IIRC) T

Re: [ubuntu-art] Changing GIMP splash for Dapper

Petr Tomeš wrote: Hello, I think this is absolutely great: http://klepas.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/gimp-ubuntu-splash.png I agree. I think we should use that one. - Henrik -- http://www.ubuntu.com http://www.theopencd.org -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://l

Re: [ubuntu-art] Inconsistence of gradients and artwork colors

Mark Shuttleworth wrote: All of these have rounded scrollbar tips AND rounded steppers. I'm looking for a mockup that does not change the steppers, but does change the scrollbar tips. So something like this: http://people.ubuntu.com/~henrik/images/slider-in-action-2.png (left side version)

Re: [ubuntu-art] Inconsistence of gradients and artwork colors

Richard Stellingwerff wrote: I've made a few new mockups: http://stellingwerff.com/ubuntu-art/sb.png (svg: I like the last ones, though I can see that even rounded scroll bar tips against a rounded edge can look odd. Here is a version with square stepper edges and rounded scroll bar tips: h

[ubuntu-art] Re: Expanding logout dialogue

Matthew East wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 11:24 +0100, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: I'm with Matt and Vincent who think that there are simply too many options on the logout dialogue, so I though I would try making an expanding one where you hide some of the less common options. Mock-up:

[ubuntu-art] Expanding logout dialogue

I'm with Matt and Vincent who think that there are simply too many options on the logout dialogue, so I though I would try making an expanding one where you hide some of the less common options. Mock-up: http://people.ubuntu.com/~henrik/images/collapsing-logout.png We are now down to 3+3 optio

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: (Yet another) new logout dialog

Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: IMO it would be best to only show one of these options to the average user. (It would be useful to have some real-world data on which of these people use most often -- sleep I guess -- and how many people regularly use both options. Except

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: (Yet another) new logout dialog

Andy Somerville wrote: I think theres hardly anyone (who doesnt know beforehand) who thinks the hibernate/sleep functionality is clear. Maybe its been suggested before, but should we consider renaming these? (regardless of what other changes are made) IMO it would be best to only show one of th

Re: [ubuntu-art] Inconsistence of gradients and artwork colors

Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: > You said you wanted the scrollbar-tips slightly rounded, but I would actually like to see the tips of the progress bars slightly rounded too. That would make it look like a slightly viscous liquid filling a glass tube. Here is a mock-up to illustrate: h

Re: [ubuntu-art] Inconsistence of gradients and artwork colors

Daniel Borgmann wrote: The problem is, that two rounded widgets glued together look very ugly. We avoid this everywhere else in the theme, like the comboboxes or treeview headers. So if we do rounded scrollbar sliders, I think we should do something different with the steppers. OS X and Vista onl

Re: [ubuntu-art] Inconsistence of gradients and artwork colors

Mark Shuttleworth wrote: I like the glass effect on our current widgets. There's a strange greyness to the top half progressbar currently that I don't like, but I do like the glass effect nonetheless. These new mockups are smoother, rounder, but don't have the same glass effect that we have el

[ubuntu-art] Wallpapers out of example content

Hi ArtTeam, Matthew East filed a bug (https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/37852) suggesting that wallpapers don't really belong there, which is true. They were included before there was really much else content and at a time when the art team didn't have much representation in the default insta

Re: [ubuntu-art] WinFOSS CD browser design

Corey Burger wrote: A quick sanity check: Does the browser take so long to start up that it needs a splash? Yes, because it loads the whole thing from the CD. So if you have slowish drive it can take a while. It's good to let the user know that something is actually happening. - Henrik --

Re: [ubuntu-art] WinFOSS CD browser design

j Mak wrote: Hi Henrik, I've created this splash for the cd browser http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/4932/ubuntulive4qx.png What do you think? Thanks that looks good. A few things: I notice that you have a black region at the bottom where I presume progress icons would normal

[ubuntu-art] WinFOSS CD browser design

I've spent some time tightening up the layout for the WinFOSS CD browser on the Live CD. I used the new clearlooks titlebar at the top and a few odd Ubuntu icons. The icons and screen shots will be updated as the desktop UI settles in. See the new look here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WinFOSS

Re: [ubuntu-art] update-notifier icon

Étienne Bersac wrote: Hello, I'm wondering if it's such a good idea to use exactly the same symbol for the update icon as for the restart icon. Especially when both appear besides each other it looks a bit like "we couldn't think of anything else". :-) You're right. Maybe a up-arrow should fi

Re: [ubuntu-art] update-notifier icon

j Mak wrote: I disagree with Henrik. I think the icon needs a gloss because all the other icons on the panel have some kind of gloss to them; so this feature would make it stylistically blend better with the rest. I also think they should have gloss, but that the arrows should be painted o

Re: [ubuntu-art] update-notifier icon

Julian Turner wrote: Hi! You're absolutely right about the exclamation mark - it's just visual noise. But I found the gloss effect on your version doesn't make it easier to recognise the arrows: it lessens contrast. I did a quick gimp-up based on your work (I'm not a great vector artist, so I im

[ubuntu-art] Is colour useful in high-viz icons?

We are working on the high viz icon theme, trying to make it more complete: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/AccessibilityIcons The original author Jakub Steiner notes in his icon development guide: http://jimmac.musichall.cz/doc/high-contrast/html/index.xhtml that the icons have been made

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ooo splash redesign for dapper

j Mak wrote: Hi, I've redesigned the openoffice splash for dapper. I've created two color versions. http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/2753/openofficesplash5cy.png http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/5461/openofficesplash23jp.png Please tell me what you think. Cool! I like the second one as w

Re: [ubuntu-art] A call for icons: gnome-accessibility-theme

Jakub Steiner wrote: Hi Mark, the archive above contains both the adobe illustrator source files and svgs exported with Adobe Illustrator 9. It uses viewbox parameter for the canvas which causes trouble for some renderers and has weird scaling. For the new "proper" theme I suggest using a 48x48px

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: The example package gimp file

Pascal Klein wrote: Is there a page where I can find a list of what still needs to be done for the example package? I've updated this page to reflect the current status: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/ExampleContent Also if you look at the latest installed example pack you'll see various

Re: [ubuntu-art] A call for icons: gnome-accessibility-theme

Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: It's seems the bz2 file has them. I'll fire up my secret win32 box and see if they can be exported to something more open. Update: so it seems more recent versions of Adobe Illustrator can export to SVG. I couldn't find any batch conversion utils, but

Re: [ubuntu-art] A call for icons: gnome-accessibility-theme

Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Hi Jakub - do you have the original Illustrator vector images? Would it be possible to write them out in SVG format do you think? It's seems the bz2 file has them. I'll fire up my secret win32 box and see if they can be exported to something more open. Jakub: Than

Re: [ubuntu-art] ArtworkTeam - DapperTasks

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: I created the page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/DapperTasks Looks great! This is the time for focus :) Henrik: Should we add the example content package on the page? Yes, that would be good. I've added a page with an overview of those items that IM

[ubuntu-art] Re: The example package gimp file

Pascal Klein wrote: As promised. ;) http://wombat.nuxified.com/tmpfiles/gimp-ubuntu-splash.jpg http://wombat.nuxified.com/tmpfiles/gimp-ubuntu-spash.xcf I've retained a few of the layers so anyone wishing to see how it was layered can get a clearer understanding of the layering in gimp. By the

[ubuntu-art] A call for icons: gnome-accessibility-theme

Hi, There is a set of four high contrast themes for gnome which seem pretty effective, but the icon sets are incomplete which makes everything rather untidy. To see what I mean install the package gnome-accessibility-themes and select one of the high contrast themes. You will see that some me

Re: [ubuntu-art] Licensing issue with Windows application installer on LiveCD

Julian Turner wrote: Hi! Digging through the Flight 5 release notes, i found this: http://www.ubuntu.com/include/testing/flight5/ff_scr.png . An excellent looking screenshot of the Win-FOSS CD Browser, with the "install" icon from my Still Life [1] icon set. I'm happy to see it getting used out

Re: [ubuntu-art] Responsible persons for proposed themes

Pascal Klein wrote: I could whip up a GIMP Ubuntu splash, basically a splash for the GIMP featuring some traditional colours from the palette and 'Ubuntu' somewhere. :) That would be perfect, thanks :) - Henrik -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/

Re: [ubuntu-art] Responsible persons for proposed themes

Pascal Klein wrote: Contracted artists and designers, by Canonical. It's not up to us. Also remember these themed packages might not make it at all onto the CD. Chances are that the top quality one, ready in time might make it, however they can all essentially got straight into universe. :) Ju

Re: [ubuntu-art] New icons

Nick Burman wrote: IE has always been problematic, mainly because it's such an old browser. Hopefully with Vista coming out soon, MS might be updating their browser to be more compliant. You're right tho - it's a CSS issue, usually related to the way it handles margins/borders/padding. The o

Re: [ubuntu-art] Getting this act together

Jerome Gotangco wrote: The example-content package currently has 11 community created wallpapers in 3 formats (SVG, PNG, and JPEG). I believe Henrik is the champion for this effort. I'd say we could easily slip in more artwork team stuff on that package and its already in main. Right. There is

Re: [ubuntu-art] Backie updated

Manu Cornet wrote: Hi ! http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/8904/dapper8ee.png I updated my backie. It looks terrific :) I love it ! ++! Sure, but if you leave it where it is now, only the Art Team will see it. People who actually choose which wallpapers will actually be included

Re: [ubuntu-art] I made a backie

Ville Sokk wrote: I made a background in Blender. If someone thinks it's worth something I can give you .tga's. Those are really nice shades of brown, seriously :) I'd love to see a smooth gradient though. Do you have a 24 or 32 bit version? Also, the circle logo is quite bright comparing t

Re: [ubuntu-art] Gimp files for dapper example content

Pascal Klein wrote: Apologies for taking so long, I've meant to respond to this the day I saw it but things got in the way as usual. NP. I'm glad I sent out a follow-up then :) I like the CD cover, but I'm afraid that at 16mb it's a bit heavy :) The Gimp splas image is perfect though! I'll ad

[ubuntu-art] Gimp files for dapper example content

Hi List, I'm looking for some cool gimp files to include with the dapper example content collection. See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperExampleContent I've already included several wallpapers from the Art Team collection. I thought it might be good to have gimp file from one or more of those

Re: [ubuntu-art] Hello Friends

Michel Souza wrote: Lets work togheter, im a graphical designer and can help anione who needs... Att Hello Michel, Thank you for offering your help, and welcome to the art team :) I recently put up a wiki page here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/Requests that lists a few requests for

[ubuntu-art] Example content slide presentation

Hi, I though I would make a sample content slide presentation in OpenOffice Impress based on the work at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GreatFeaturesOfUbuntu There are some existing presentations at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Presentations but while some are fairly general, they are often targeted at

Re: [ubuntu-art] Graphics request list

ViperSnake wrote: I might just wanna try that, what sizes do they have to be, or can they be SVG? SVG would of course be very handy, but it's not a requirement. High resolution originals should be fine so that it can be resized easily to meet the requirements of the page. The idea is to have

[ubuntu-art] Graphics request list

Hello, I've just set up a wiki page where people can make requests for pieces of artwork for Ubuntu. If someone is looking for a way to start contributing to the project, this might be a good place to start. I've added two requests for the website: Navigation images/icons and bullet points.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Example Content

Matthew Nuzum wrote: I'd like to help with this but am at a little shortage of time. I'm hoping this weekend will yield a few spare minutes, but don't count on it yet. Cool, thanks Matthew I already know from our time designing the website last year that your work is just the sort of high qu

[ubuntu-art] Example Content

The example-content package just landed in the archive, as described here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperExampleContent and in the Flight4 announcement: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperFlight4 . To install it on your system type: apt-get install example-content and look for it in /usr/share/exam

Re: [ubuntu-art] Icons: Yasis vs. Dropline Nuovo

Martin-Éric Racine wrote: Thumbs up for Yassis. Cool. And I'm going to keep pimping it :) Look how lovely the update notifier looks now for example with the Yasis icon set: http://people.ubuntu.com/~henrik/images/update-notifier-yasis.png - Henrik -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists

[ubuntu-art] Icons: Yasis vs. Dropline Nuovo

I've been using the 'Yasis' icon set for about a week now and find that it sits really well with the rest of the default theme. OTOH hand, Dropline Nuovo! also fits nicely. I would encourage people to try each of these for a while and consider how well they might work as defaults. We might need

Re: [ubuntu-art] freshened metacity theme

Martin-Éric Racine wrote: A flat theme like Clearlooks work well, because the window frames are one big flat color zone, so a Human variant based on that would be best. Any time that stripes or similar decorations are added (or at least, stripes based on just a slightly different shade of the sa

Re: [ubuntu-art] freshened metacity theme

Martin-Éric Racine wrote: Unfortunately, all that eyecandy renders very poorly on low-spec graphic cards. There is a good reason why the current Metacity theme we have is very spartan: it renders well in a variety of situations, including on laptops with a small color palette. That's an interes

Re: [ubuntu-art] freshened metacity theme

Young Hahn wrote: Ok folks, I've cleaned up the code and optimized a bit (the theme now renders slightly faster than Clearlooks 2). You can grab the tarballl here: http://lanfiles.williams.edu/~07yfh/DapperStripes.tar.bz2 Pleas

[ubuntu-art] wiki cleanup and agenda items

Hi, I've done some rather heavy handed restructuring of the wiki art pages, but IMO it's a bit more sane now. There are two basic categories: 'Artwork' and 'ArtworkTeam', each with several sub-pages. The first is for the art itself -- icons and wallpaper, etc, and the second is for content re

[ubuntu-art] wiki cleanup and agenda items

Hi, I've done some rather heavy handed restructuring of the wiki art pages, but IMO it's a bit more sane now. There are two basic categories: 'Artwork' and 'ArtworkTeam', each with several sub-pages. The first is for the art itself -- icons and wallpaper, etc, and the second is for content re

Re: [ubuntu-art] art.ubuntu.com (regarding CMSs)

volvoguy wrote: If this is for general artwork that people are doing for themselves and not for release, I don't really see the point. It's easy to set up a free website somewhere and we can have a page on the wiki that points to the various artists work. If this is for artwork destined to beco

Re: [ubuntu-art] art.ubuntu.com (regarding CMSs)

of Ubuntu. I really respect the work of all you guys so far whom have been involved with the art.ubuntu.com process, especially by that of Henrik Nilsen Omma, however I think we, as the Ubuntu art community should decide what CMS we should use, no? I just began helping out at art.ubuntu.com with

[ubuntu-art] submissions policy

We should decide on a specific artwork submission policy for the site and post it on the submissions page. As it is now we have to email the artists with questions sometimes. art.gnome has their own here: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt_2fSubmissionPolicy but we should decide on our own. The f

[ubuntu-art] PHP/MySQL tasks on the art.ubuntu.com website

Hi, You guys expressed an interest is doing some PHP/MySQL work on the new art website. Over the past week I've dug into it a bit and taught myself some basic PHP just to get it up and running, though this is not a viable approach for the long term (ie. I don't really have the PHP skills ATM

[ubuntu-art] art.ubuntu.com administration: please help

Hi list, Currently only volvoguy and I have admin access rights to the art.u.c site, which means we have to log in often and check for new submissions and approve and upload them. As we spread the word about the new site, submissions might pile up. Are there any other established members of

[ubuntu-art] Mock-up question

This Mock-up http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/473/ubuntulogin019io.png for a gdm greeter was just posted to the site with the comment/question: I am just assuming that non-functional mock-ups are allowed? Please let me know if otherwise.. Well, that's a good question. The way the site is

[ubuntu-art] art.ubuntu.com website launched

ug reports for the site on the following wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuArtWebsite Enjoy :) Henrik Nilsen Omma -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] art.ubuntu.com

Benjamin Berg wrote: The art.gnome.org source supports BBcode, so linking, etc. is possible. The possible tags are described in the following e-mail: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/artweb-list/2005-July/msg00028.html The BBcode works for the news items, descriptions and comments. Oh, cool thank

[ubuntu-art] art.ubuntu.com

The ubuntu art website is now functional at http://69.60.114.112/ . Please have a look, try uploading some artwork and give feedback/report bug here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuArtWebsite I'll announce it more widely once the real domain name gets forwarded (art.ubuntu.com). Also good news i

Re: [ubuntu-art] art website wiki page

volvoguy wrote: To reiterate - the UbuntuArtWebsite wiki page is for discussing issues related to the website itself, not a temporary replacement for the art website. If anyone is very keen to follow my progress over the weekend on this I'll be posting questions and suggestions for improveme

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 2, Issue 6

volvoguy wrote: Excellent! I think Henrik joined the mailing list, so we may hear from him directly. Otherwise I'm CC'ing him on this and I'll let him get in touch with you if he still needs a hand. Right, I've now joined! After first having joined the wrong one: http://lists.ubuntu.com/archiv