Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpaper
..on Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:30:53PM +0200, Özgür BASKIN wrote: +1 for elephant-skin picture :) jeez, do you really want to be /that/ close to an elephant all day? i think that's what i'd call a specialist aesthetic preoccupation. i'm never been convinced of the earthy theming anyway, let alone the emulation of glass (gloss) or any other material metaphors on the desktop. i think the cleanest themes are those that simply don't a) try to make a strong artistic statement and b) don't try to bring the corporeal world into the digital. in the end is just smells like a bad magic trick. -- julian oliver http://julianoliver.com http://selectparks.net Sal, 2007-12-04 tarihinde 14:15 +0100 saatinde, Steph yazdı: Hi all, I just wanted to set one main goal for Hardy : Change the defaut wallpaper ! It's been two days I installed a fresh Hardy Alpha :), and I can't stand that Vista-silly-copy picture on my desktop. Honestly, I don't want the beautifulest wallpaper ever, but the actual one is not even good for a normal user. At least, please set the elephant wallpaper by default, cause, I repeat, the actual one is ban, ugly, and not adapted for all kind of tasks (isn't a wallpaper, though). Steph. -- 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] looking for feedback on a theme.
I'm not a fan. The colors of the gtk theme are kinda off putting. I don't care for the silk background at all. It looks like bedsheets and I don't want bedsheets as my wallpaper. Reminds me of an advertisement for a lover's mix cd. Also there are too many soft gradients everywhere. It makes the gtk theme look and feel blurry. Corey On Dec 5, 2007 11:11 PM, xl cheese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slight update: http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/6546/screenshotyp4.jpg Still need to fix the upper left and right corners of the metacity theme. Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:29:21 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] looking for feedback on a theme. Keep experimenting. When Ken comes back from his meeting he'll know the direction we're going with artwork. If a dark theme is chosen, your experience using less-than-perfect dark themes will help achieve dark theme bliss when we actually go to the mat. On Nov 26, 2007 10:21 AM, xl cheese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tossed this gtk theme out last week, but did not get a response. http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2537/screenshotpv8.jpg Sure it's a little rough around the edges and the panel font is the wrong color, but in general how do you guys think the gradients work on the toolbar, menubar, and metacity? It's mostly continuous except I added faint lines to seperate the bars. I've also been experimenting with the buttons you can create using the smooth engine. I like the look you can create. They are a little more 3d'ish than the ubuntulooks buttons I currently have pictured above. Here are some examples from gnome art: http://art.gnome.org/preview.php?image=archive/thumbnails/gtk2/GTK2-Smooth-Desert-Shot.png http://art.gnome.org/preview.php?image=archive/thumbnails/gtk2/GTK2-Smooth-LightYellow-Shot.png http://art.gnome.org/preview.php?image=archive/thumbnails/gtk2/GTK2-Smooth-Ivory-Shot.png http://art.gnome.org/preview.php?image=archive/thumbnails/gtk2/GTK2-Smooth-Tangerine-Dream-Shot.png From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:27:09 -0600 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] more hardy mockups More ideas. Merged the menubar and metacity. http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2537/screenshotpv8.jpg Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. Connect now! -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- Matthew Nuzum newz2000 on freenode _ Your smile counts. The more smiles you share, the more we donate. Join in. www.windowslive.com/smile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Wave2_oprsmilewlhmtagline -- 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] Wallpaper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 julian wrote: ..on Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:30:53PM +0200, Özgür BASKIN wrote: +1 for elephant-skin picture :) i think the cleanest themes are those that simply don't a) try to make a strong artistic statement and b) don't try to bring the corporeal world into the digital. in the end is just smells like a bad magic trick. Think again. Your statement tends to put about 1000 years of art and design knowledge into the back seat, lock the door, and throw out the key. It has been proven time and time again that strong deliveries of art / design _will_ have a very obvious impact on both sales(1), adoption, and even perceived 'usability'(2). If you need further proof aside from the general award winning home designs, product design, or pretty much _anything_ else surrounding you in your everyday life, you can always go back to the rather standard comparisons with Apple and Microsoft. Apple's Leopard campaign is a very tight presentation from wallpaper to marketing to website embracing the spacey connotations of their Time Machine software -- extending even into the sound design of their promotional video that features a rather funky back masking cue. Vista, aside from their gaudy plastic packaging and such, uses the simple connections to water godrays and like 'tricks' to try and instill the user with 'awe' and 'wow'. The wallpaper works pretty well in this regard. If you are hoping for more bland monochromatic presentations, you might well get your wish as it is pretty trendy in our limited design capacities out here in Free Software. That said, it doesn't make your opinion correct nor founded on any hard reality. Tepid watered down deliveries are not the path of the future. Sincerely, TJS 1 - You can easily look to the advent of album cover design in the music industry. The 1930's, Alex Steinweiss created the first 'album' cover as we know it today. While working at CBS records he had the 'epiphany' that the plain white album jackets were unattractive and lacked any appeal. With the advent of artistic and designed album art hit the business, sales rocketed. Newsweek reported that sales for the designed albums, including Bruno Walter's Beethoven Eroica Symphony broke _all_ records compared to the same release in a non-illustrated package. The rest is, as they say, history. 2 - Consider the 'Aesthetic Usability Effect' as described in Universal Principles of Design. Loosely, it describes a noted response that designs hitting on the aesthetic sensibilities of a given user will have resultant feedback offered that a design was easier to use and more enjoyed than a design devoid of the attempted aesthetic, despite a similarity of features. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHWLnLar0EasPEHjQRAgTwAKDAYlPtUfbWpI+vIXk56P4k0p75QQCgtaGY 9+zqMVXa0f1rGsCnwdHD/sE= =Mz+0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
