Re: [ubuntu-art] New member/ Gutsy wallpaper observation.
xl cheese wrote: I joined because I was not sure if the ubuntu art team was aware of the commotion regarding the gutsy default wallpaper. The main complaints are: -It's too dark -Grainy -Looks too much like Vista http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=555477 http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHMloc=us Hi! As a background pictures are so simple to make, I'm afraid you will never reach a consensus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_the_bikeshed Parkinson shows how you can go into the board of directors and get approval for building a multi-million or even billion dollar atomic power plant, but if you want to build a bike shed you will be tangled up in endless discussions. Parkinson explains that this is because an atomic plant is so vast, so expensive and so complicated that people cannot grasp it, and rather than try, they fall back on the assumption that somebody else checked all the details before it got this far. Richard P. Feynmann gives a couple of interesting, and very much to the point, examples relating to Los Alamos in his books. A bike shed on the other hand. Anyone can build one of those over a weekend, and still have time to watch the game on TV. So no matter how well prepared, no matter how reasonable you are with your proposal, somebody will seize the chance to show that he is doing his job, that he is paying attention, that he is /here/. (from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING) I would prefer to trust Kenneth on his decision. - Andreas -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] New member/ Gutsy wallpaper observation.
I don't like that wallpaper either. It's way too dark and depressive. Who made the choice anyway? I thought the community decides which wallpaper will make its step into final release. Many people submitted their proposal artwork and they weren't even asked which one they like... The question is: should I submit any Artwork in the future?! But now it's too late anyway, September the 20th was the deadline for submitting Artwork. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] New member/ Gutsy wallpaper observation.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Nilsson wrote: A bike shed on the other hand. Anyone can build one of those over a weekend, and still have time to watch the game on TV. So no matter how well prepared, no matter how reasonable you are with your proposal, somebody will seize the chance to show that he is doing his job, that he is paying attention, that he is /here/. (from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING) Actually, if you have a clearly outlined audience and design goal, it is quite easy to take the broad subjective murmurings out of the mixture. - From that point forwards, you evaluate the work based on whether or not it is communicating with the audience and delivering on the goal. Still estimation, but well away from the It's ugly etc. discussion. Rather art and design 101. That said, of the following points: -It's too dark -Grainy -Looks too much like Vista It's too dark falls into the completely relative world of bikeshedding. Grainy could possibly be quantified. I am sure the dithering issue can be adjusted, although the percentage of zoom on the source image is probably adversely affecting this. Looks too much like Vista is probably touching on the larger statement that it is of the 'sweepy / swoopy / curve' genre, which it most certainly is seated within. So of the three, two are relatively useful commentaries. Sincerely, TJS -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG9SbSar0EasPEHjQRAnhVAJ9IaueceWwDJmzhFY39KdSFwUjnaQCfaSGL 3cXznMHz+ATTDsEIiK/RucM= =3/Iz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Gutsy wallpaper observation
are with your proposal, somebody will seize the chance to show that he is doing his job, that he is paying attention, that he is /here/. (from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING) I would prefer to trust Kenneth on his decision. - Andreas -- Message: 3 Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:52:13 +0200 From: Valentyn Kukushkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] New member/ Gutsy wallpaper observation. To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 I don't like that wallpaper either. It's way too dark and depressive. Who made the choice anyway? I thought the community decides which wallpaper will make its step into final release. Many people submitted their proposal artwork and they weren't even asked which one they like... The question is: should I submit any Artwork in the future?! But now it's too late anyway, September the 20th was the deadline for submitting Artwork. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/attachments/20070922/2821bac2/attachment-0001.htm -- -- Get a free email account with anti spam protection. http://www.bluebottle.com/tag/2 -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Artwork / packagefreeze exception request
In the spirit of eye candy and the Consistent and Easy to Use Login Screen and Unlock Screensaver[1] specification, I've made a human gnome-screensaver lock dialog theme. Currently, this is what the screensaver unlock dialog looks like: http://www.digitalprognosis.com/opensource/ubuntu/gnome-screensaver-default.png And with the new human theme for users with and without faces: http://www.digitalprognosis.com/opensource/ubuntu/01-human-gnome-screensaver.png http://www.digitalprognosis.com/opensource/ubuntu/02-human-gnome-screensaver.png http://www.digitalprognosis.com/opensource/ubuntu/03-human-gnome-screensaver.png http://www.digitalprognosis.com/opensource/ubuntu/04-human-gnome-screensaver.png You can download it here: http://www.digitalprognosis.com/opensource/ubuntu/gnome-screensaver-human.tar.bz2 This makes the screensaver unlock use the same images as the gdm login albeit scaled down. Doing this increases the overall desktop experience and wow factor of Ubuntu slightly by adding consistency. No strings are changed that require translation, no package is seriously modifed, and nothing risky happens. It is a glade file, a dialog specific gtkrc, and 2 images that need to be added to the gnome-screensaver package. The glade file is just a modified version of the current default. I'm asking for a freeze break for this simply because it is a non-intrusive change that makes Ubuntu look better. Besides my being an idiot and missing the artwork / betafreeze, are there any good reasons to _not_ ship this with gutsy? Perhaps it could be included after the beta freeze? Installation: - Extract the contents of gnome-screensaver-human.tar.bz2 into /usr/share/gnome-screensaver. - Run 'gconftool-2 -s --type=string /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_dialog_theme human' Reverting back to the default: - Run 'gconftool-2 -s --type=string /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_dialog_theme default' [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnifiedLoginUnlock -- Jeff Schroeder Don't drink and derive, alcohol and analysis don't mix. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
