Re: [ubuntu-art] Whats Up with This?

2008-06-30 Thread Nick Russell
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 11:15 +0200, Kenneth Wimer wrote: On Monday 30 June 2008 06:07:29 Salane Ashcraft wrote: Hey Everyone... What's up with this? This is the dark theme that we have put in for testing. It is in no way finished, ie the testing.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Whats Up with This?

2008-06-30 Thread Nick Russell
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 07:32 -0500, Salane Ashcraft wrote: This is not a progression. It isn't even that different. The problem with Ubuntu isn't the color, which has been made worse with this Alpha. Its the widget style, which is flat and outdated. Its the fonts, which need to be updated and

[ubuntu-art] Design of a complete user interface

2008-05-30 Thread Nick Russell
Just a quick question for discussion sorry if this has been discussed before). Who in Ubuntu is responsible for the overall main user interface? i.e. Placement of gnome panel or panels, placement of menu and icons on the panel and how this fits in with the theme. Because it strikes me that many

Re: [ubuntu-art] Design of a complete user interface

2008-05-30 Thread Nick Russell
On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 14:19 +0200, Klaus Bitto wrote: I'm not necessarily suggesting we should radically change the UI, I'm just suggesting that from a design point of view it seems odd to have an art team which doesn't appear to be able to make

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wave - Proposal

2008-05-20 Thread Nick Russell
However, the proposition for a New Wave mailing list is not bad at all -- but in that case we should try keeping posting sometimes on this one to show we are still alive, and to give interest to other people. Yes, I think if possible we should have a separate list and keep ubuntu art

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wave - Proposal

2008-05-19 Thread Nick Russell
I think its much better like this, especially the white. Btw, is it possible to have a special mailing list (on launchpad?) just for New Wave? I feel we might be clogging up the art mailing list a little? On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 23:50 +0200, Giuseppe Pennisi wrote: While I was working I thought

[ubuntu-art] Newsplash usplash mockup updates

2008-05-16 Thread Nick Russell
I've updated the original mockups on the wiki to address concerns/criticisms and I've added a few new ideas and variations on old ones. I've also started a forum thread to gauge community interest in a new usplash, feel free to add any comments you have there, on the wiki page, or to me personally

Re: [ubuntu-art] Newsplash usplash mockup updates

2008-05-16 Thread Nick Russell
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 08:53 -0700, Troy James Sobotka wrote: Nick Russell wrote: I've updated the original mockups on the wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Newsplash to address concerns/criticisms and I've added a few new ideas and variations on old ones. I've also

Re: [ubuntu-art] Newsflash: Newsplash

2008-05-15 Thread Nick Russell
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Nick Russell thatnickrussell at googlemail.com wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Newsplash Not really my idea, but just wanted to get discussion going about the Intrepid usplash. Let me know what you think! Thanks, Nick

Re: [ubuntu-art] Newsflash: Newsplash

2008-05-15 Thread Nick Russell
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 11:27 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ? 10:49 +0100 ?? 15.05.2008 (??), Nick Russell ??: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Nick Russell thatnickrussell at googlemail.com wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Newsplash Not really my

[ubuntu-art] New Wave bugs

2008-05-15 Thread Nick Russell
You made already know about this... The synaptic package manager and other sudo programs don't seem to be themed correctly. The progress bar is blue and the buttons square rather than nice and rounded. Keep up the good work! Nick -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Newsflash: Newsplash

2008-05-15 Thread Nick Russell
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 22:31 +1000, Nicholas Kraak wrote: In terms of Usplash, someone mentioned a smooth splash screen similar to the Mac OS X startup splash where the loading bar moves smoothly. We may not be able to do that much be our usplash seriously needs changing, its ugly as hell. You

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wave

2008-05-15 Thread Nick Russell
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 18:18 +0300, Anton Kerezov wrote: В 15:57 +0100 на 15.05.2008 (чт), Nick Russell написа: On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 22:31 +1000, Nicholas Kraak wrote: In terms of Usplash, someone mentioned a smooth splash screen similar to the Mac OS X startup splash where the loading

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wave

2008-05-13 Thread Nick Russell
The firefox menubar font colour looks to be ever so slightly different (white?) to the colour of other windows menubars (light grey?). I've attached a screenshot (if attachments come through on this list...?) Nick attachment: Screenshot.png-- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com