Re: [ubuntu-art] artwork for the Ubuntu idea brainstorming website
On Dec 28, 2007 5:16 PM, Troy James Sobotka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 - I have long promoted the ditching of the Ubuntu title font in everything outside of the word Ubuntu. Are you against changing the 'logo' to a font outside of the Ubuntu title font family? It is a sub-optimal font for anything other than the Ubuntu name. You'll probably have to take that one up with Canonical / Mark Shuttleworth himself. They paid for that logo design and unless things have changed a lot in my absence, logo modification isn't an option. The Ubuntu title font also really isn't a general use, full featured typeface. I think Andrew completed the additional letters (besides ubuntu) for Ubuntu-related uses (although the license allows other uses) like adding other text to Ubuntu themed graphics that would fit with the official logo. (Andrew, correct me if I'm wrong!) I'm not trying to burst anybody's bubble - anyone can create graphic elements for the UI or otherwise that don't use the typographic logo or do employ fonts other than the Ubuntu title font, but as far as getting the actual distro logo changed - I don't think it's gonna happen. That's just my $.02 (+/- $.02). :-) -- Aaron Ubuntu SVG Artwork - http://www.volvoguy.net/ubuntu --- Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. ~ G.K. Chesterton -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Just stirring, my desktop
Hi! Been following your discussion silently now some moments, and wanted to throw something new to see, if you may find something you might like from it and use it in your brainstorming... yaddayadda, the actual screenshot of my desktop: http://www.tm-travolta.net/shots/001.png Have fun etc. Tm_T -- Jussi Kekkonen tm_travolta(at)kapsi.fi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] artwork for the Ubuntu idea brainstorming website
BeOS? How come some of the window bars are on the left and some are on the right of the window? Can the bar things be dragged around? Nice starwars font by the way ;-) On 29/12/2007, at 8:12 PM, volvoguy wrote: On Dec 28, 2007 5:16 PM, Troy James Sobotka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 - I have long promoted the ditching of the Ubuntu title font in everything outside of the word Ubuntu. Are you against changing the 'logo' to a font outside of the Ubuntu title font family? It is a sub-optimal font for anything other than the Ubuntu name. You'll probably have to take that one up with Canonical / Mark Shuttleworth himself. They paid for that logo design and unless things have changed a lot in my absence, logo modification isn't an option. The Ubuntu title font also really isn't a general use, full featured typeface. I think Andrew completed the additional letters (besides ubuntu) for Ubuntu-related uses (although the license allows other uses) like adding other text to Ubuntu themed graphics that would fit with the official logo. (Andrew, correct me if I'm wrong!) I'm not trying to burst anybody's bubble - anyone can create graphic elements for the UI or otherwise that don't use the typographic logo or do employ fonts other than the Ubuntu title font, but as far as getting the actual distro logo changed - I don't think it's gonna happen. That's just my $.02 (+/- $.02). :-) -- Aaron Ubuntu SVG Artwork - http://www.volvoguy.net/ubuntu -- - Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. ~ G.K. Chesterton -- 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] artwork for the Ubuntu idea brainstorming website
Daniel Moore kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 29. joulukuu 2007 1405.45): BeOS? How come some of the window bars are on the left and some are on the right of the window? Can the bar things be dragged around? Nice starwars font by the way ;-) well it's KDE, and yes, they can be dragged, or set to move to empty space when overlapped. Font is and readable and make things fun :) I don't know if I'm the only one but my eyes likes more dark background than light, my settings arent for everyone for sure. -- Jussi Kekkonen tm_travolta(at)kapsi.fi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] artwork for the Ubuntu idea brainstorming website
On Dec 28, 2007 11:16 PM, Troy James Sobotka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 - I have long promoted the ditching of the Ubuntu title font in everything outside of the word Ubuntu. Are you against changing the 'logo' to a font outside of the Ubuntu title font family? It is a sub-optimal font for anything other than the Ubuntu name. As long as the font for the word Ubuntu remains the official one, I've no problem with font changes. 2 - I assume you are providing a quick mechanism to link in with Launchpad services? Bugs / Blueprints / etc? The copy / paste links are a very smart inclusion. Yes, you can link an idea/bug to a LP bug number or/and a spec url and/or a ubuntuforums.org thread. Then the links are displayed at the right of the title, as icons. 3 - Are you going to include categories? I would imagine a big slush is sub-optimal. Yes, when you submit a idea/bug, you must select a category. We just have to fill the list with category like games, office, multimedia, and so on... But unfortunately my artistic skills are not as good as my programming ones! We will need to work on the following artwork: - Two banners, one for the Ubuntu idea brainstorming part, and one for the Ubuntu most hated bug tracker. 4 - Having created that little ISO testing icon image, I don't mind trying my hand at the banners, but you forgot to mention destination format needs. Size? Where will it be integrated in the samples you provided? Thanks for your offer! The test website has three modules, which act as three (almost) independant websites. The links are located in the top bar (ISO tracker, Hardy bugs, Hardy ideas). Right now, the same logo ISO testing tracker is displayed for each module. We would like to display one different logo per module, to clearly identify the different modules. The logo for the Hardy bugs module (top bar names are not definitive at all) would display the text Ubuntu most hated bugs, and the one for the Hardy ideas would display Ubuntu ideas. The text can be discussed, if you see a better one. Please note that the bug and idea module will be pointed by the vote-bug.ubuntu.com and vote-idea.ubuntu.com subdomains. Concerning the size, the height should remain the same, 64px, and could be expanded a bit if necessary. For the width, you can go as far as 690px (to be viewable in 800x600). - Some images links. An image link is a image template, in which we add some text with GD. Their purpose is to be published on external website and forums to promote an idea or a hated bug. See for example [3] and [4], with some concept images. What I had in mind ATM was one small image link, static, and one bigger, containing the title of the idea/bug and the number of votes. But size and number can be discussed. 4 - Can you provide some details on the dynamic nature of the font? In particular how big is a worst case scenario in terms of letters? What other information is going to be in there in terms of letters or numbers? I assume you are using Imagemagick as a back end, and as such, are there limitations in the font selection? We are currently using GD, and according to [1], any Freetype 1 and 2 font can be used. The font and size we choose for the dynamic text parts is up to you! The worst case scenario for a idea/bug title is 80 letters. The rest of available information (votes, bug/idea number,..) will have a close-to-static size. If necessary we can increase the font size as the title lenght decrease, and I can handle double-line title. [1] http://fr.php.net/gd 5 - Is this to be supplied via a Canonical server or a third party server location? A Canonical one. Once again, this is a wonderful idea... TJS Thanks, and thanks for your help! We hope it will have the success we expect. Nicolas -- 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] Just stirring, my desktop
Way too dark from my point of view. Looks...interesting...but doesn't seem to have any user- or noob-friendlyness. Personally, I don't like it. 2007/12/29, Jussi Kekkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! Been following your discussion silently now some moments, and wanted to throw something new to see, if you may find something you might like from it and use it in your brainstorming... yaddayadda, the actual screenshot of my desktop: http://www.tm-travolta.net/shots/001.png Have fun etc. Tm_T -- Jussi Kekkonen tm_travolta(at)kapsi.fi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] artwork for the Ubuntu idea brainstorming website
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 22:32 +0100, Nicolas Deschildre wrote: The QA team and I have been developing the future Ubuntu idea brainstorming website, codenamed tokamak (cf blueprint [1]). Another separate module will also track the most hated bug by allowing to vote for them. The website is beginning to mature, and we have a test server here [2]. So I would be very glad and thankful if someone could help me with that! Just a collection of sketches for a start: http://thorwil.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/brainstorm_bugs_sketches_01_si.png I'd be fine with others taking any of the ideas to run with it. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] artwork for the Ubuntu idea brainstorming website
Nicolas Deschildre wrote: - Two banners, one for the Ubuntu idea brainstorming part, and one for the Ubuntu most hated bug tracker. Here is a really quick knock off for the 'yet-to-be-named' idea site. Sincerely, TJS inline: idea-arena.png signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Just stirring, my desktop
Can K. kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 29. joulukuu 2007 1749.11): Way too dark from my point of view. Looks...interesting...but doesn't seem to have any user- or noob-friendlyness. Personally, I don't like it. Heh, I fully agree with you from others point of view, but as I said, someone might find something as spark, not copying but inspiring after seeing something new and different perhaps. My desktop is meant to be good for me and me only :) Anyway, appreciate your honest resonse. More fat and sugar to make my engine running - -- Jussi Kekkonen tm_travolta(at)kapsi.fi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
