[ubuntu-art] PROGRAM: XaraLX
Thanks to Ken for pointing this app out to me! If you haven't already found this program, you should probably do yourself a favour and check it out. It has recently migrated to open source, so it deserves some attention. http://www.xaraxtreme.org/ If you download the precompiled binaries, you should be good to go out of the gate with Dapper on i386 distros. It is a very good vector drawing tool. Unfortunately, as of now, it doesn't support native SVG exporting / importing, but it is headed that way. I believe you should still be able to accomplish this by exporting to a format that Inkscape can read, then import via Inkscape. Roundabout, but it will work until native SVG is supported when 1.0 is officially released. They are making _rapid_ development on it, and it is a very good program. Now for the sad news. Even though this application is open source, getting it to compile on your lovely amd64 machine won't happen because of a wxWidgets issue. To this end, I have (quickly) typed up a howto if you still want to work with this program: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/XaraLXHowTo_amd64 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
Re: [ubuntu-art] PROGRAM: XaraLX
Note that the core of Xara is not yet open source. -- Verso l'Alto ! -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper
On Jun 30, 2006, at 5:52 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 30-jun-2006, om 17:47 heeft Troy James Sobotka het volgende geschreven: Huge can of worms. We talked about this in Paris, and this is why I brought it up. I can tell you that 5:4 is pretty common as is 16:9. Yeah, you're right. Sorry. 5:4 (1280x1024) is commonly used as well. I completely forgot that 5:4 is that resolution for a second. 16:9, however, is only generally used for TV screens. There's just one resolution that uses it, Wide XGA (1366×768), which is an extremely uncommon resolution. 16:10 is the typical widescreen resolution for computer monitors. Still, I think that up- or downscaling a wallpaper (made for 4:3) without stretching or squishing it or changing the proportions in any way will be fine in most cases. If we make sure that there's nothing interesting at the borders of the image, we might as well cut them off occasionally in order to support some resolutions nicely. Michiel -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art I've also been working on a wallpaper. It's coming along nicely, but the colors are too saturated to suit the theme for now. Here's a downscaled (50%) version of the work-in-progress: http:// thingmajig.org/tmp/wall4(1juli06).jpg Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Kubuntu.org look - really not a feast for the eyes
Hello everyone,I am not very happy with the appearance of http://www.kubuntu.org/ , especially comparing it to ubuntu.com. The main page is filled (flooded) with recent news (that aren't any good for new users), other pages are mostly text-heavy and without images. The page is very amateur-looking and confusing, especially for newcomers. (all IMO) I almost envy the nice and comprehensible appearance of ubuntu.com (and even those pages were discussed here, AFAIK). I think a lot more images and explaining screenshots should be put in kubuntu.org + more information for newcomers on the main page.What do you think? Is the pag good- or bad-looking? What improvements do you suggest?And who is responsible for the kubuntu.org look?Martin Böhm -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Kubuntu.org look - really not a feast for the eyes
Hi Martin, On Jul 2, 2006, at 10:02 PM, Martin B. wrote:Hello everyone,I am not very happy with the appearance of http://www.kubuntu.org/ , especially comparing it to ubuntu.com. The main page is filled (flooded) with recent news (that aren't any good for new users), other pages are mostly text-heavy and without images. The page is very amateur-looking and confusing, especially for newcomers. (all IMO) I almost envy the nice and comprehensible appearance of ubuntu.com (and even those pages were discussed here, AFAIK). I think a lot more images and explaining screenshots should be put in kubuntu.org + more information for newcomers on the main page.What do you think? Is the pag good- or bad-looking? What improvements do you suggest?And who is responsible for the kubuntu.org look?That would be me. The current design is something that I started and went into community hands...a few artists changed it and it was included. Note that the HTML behind the design cannot be changed. It is, afaik based exactly on the Ubuntu design so changing it is not a possibility, on the pics it uses now can be altered to fit the HTML implementation.I agree that there is room for improvement. While this is a side-track to edgy (ie. not concerned with the release...yet) if anyone has any nice design improvements, post them on this list and we can discuss them.As for the articles contained therein: I think that the content is not really in our hands, nor should it be (or we'd call this list something other than -artwork) :-)The important message that the artwork should imply is "KDE for Ubuntu" (as compared to "Ubuntu with KDE"). It is a small matter of semantics, but can mean a world of difference artistically.Bye,Ken-- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] PROGRAM: XaraLX
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I like this program alot very simple, and powerfull. Thanks for the heads up! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEqD46K7OphKsmwmMRAhytAKCYRoPOrnAKSa2K1eajYSOAVg/EqgCfTOvh Jl4NIOuaAN+3+wZG9KwKxQA= =JQJN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Kubuntu.org look - really not a feast for the eyes
Hi Martin, We are talking around each other and actually agree, let me explain what I meant. On Jul 2, 2006, at 11:22 PM, Martin B. wrote: As for the articles contained therein: I think that the content is not really in our hands, nor should it be (or we'd call this list something other than -artwork) :-) I think the articles should be made by the doc team hand in hand with the artwork team. Web pages are not documentation, the visual appearance is as important as the content (IMO). Furthermore, the visual style and content cannot be made separately, because it complements one another (at least here, in a visual presentation of a product). The text in the articles, and the selection of articles is up to a different team. The design and layout of those articles is certainly our business. Specific things that come to my mind when I look at the page: If I compare ubuntu,kubuntu,edubuntu and xubuntu web pages, xu,edu and ubuntu pages have a main page fully for the introduction to the distribution. Xu, edu and ubuntu do all have a Related projects box. Kubuntu does not. (OK, that's more about the content of the page.) Actually, I think that if anyone made it to this website, they have at least some inkling of what to expect. Having current items displayed shows, in my eyes, that things are moving right along. I do agree that a related projects box would be good though. The konqis image is in my opinion completely redundant. It looks more like an image from a fairy tale, not from a professional Linux distribution. Maybe a screenshot on the main page would be more informative? 100% I think the titles and all font sizes could be adjusted to make the page more structrured. The number of visual elements is very small ( no coloured wrappers for content, titles as images etc.) , the white space looks more empty to me. Definitely. Martin Sorry for the misunderstanding. Bye, Ken -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
