Re: [ubuntu-art] LibreOffice project: request for contributors and mentoring
Hi, On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 17:38 +0800, David Nelson wrote: I'm pretty sure I'm not contradicting TDF intentions if I say that *nothing* is set in stone yet, especially as the first LibreOffice release has not shipped. Let meritocracy and creativity rule would still be the rule of thumb. The very name LibreOffice suggests that the office suite gives a lot more about being free rather than make sure it works. Of course we want a free office suite, but it also has to able to be used to type a letter, or create a expense report. But OTOH, I've tried out the 3.3 Betas of LO, and they sure rock. One thing that is certain is that there is going to be a lot of work upcoming on artwork for the distrib and for branding in the coming months, and contributors are definitely needed for that. David Nelson -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] LibreOffice project: request for contributors and mentoring
Hi David, On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 19:07 +0800, David Nelson wrote: Hi Boudhayan, :-) On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 18:51, Boudhayan Gupta bg13@gmail.com wrote: The very name LibreOffice suggests that the office suite gives a lot more about being free rather than make sure it works. Of course we want a free office suite, but it also has to able to be used to type a letter, or create a expense report. My personal experience is that it is a very high-quality product, and the project is very active. Upcoming 3.3 is likely to be the last version before big enhancements to the user interface. There's a lot of exciting work in progress and planned, with lots of opportunity for creativity and inventiveness... A great time to join the project as a contributor. ;-) What I'm commenting on, is the first impression that a new user gets. Although you can't judge a book by it's cover, most software is judged by the name and packaging artwork. Off the top of my head, a name like, say, PowerOffice makes a powerful impression, ElegantOffice makes an elegant impression, but LibreOffice conveys the image of a bunch of open source ideologists who cares about nothing other than licensing But OTOH, I've tried out the 3.3 Betas of LO, and they sure rock. See what I mean? :-) As I said, I had to make an effort to sideline my scepticism and actually try it out, before seeing the goodness that it is. That apart, the big enhancements to the user interface sounds exciting, and the way that the project, or rather the foundation, has so swiftly done so much make me want to be a part of the TDF community ASAP :-) Yours, Boudhayan Gupta -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase Theme
OT: Is that video advert of Ubuntu shown at UDS and covered by OMG Ubuntu available in HD somewhere? For Topic: Could it be included in the showcase? Or run as a firt-boot intro or something? On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 15:43 +, Iain Farrell wrote: On 05/11/10 01:15, Saleel Velankar wrote: Got suggestions? Off the top of my head? Earth. Let me explain: earth as in that which supports humanity (the planet). But also earth as in the soil into which our roots grow. Anyways this might sound terrible when I get up in the morning but I did want to get the discussion rolling on this. I believe one of the ideas discussed at uds was the concept of an ocean. I am just expanding on that. Hey guys Exciting idea this, thinking of the showcase in terms of a theme. On the desktop development team we've been working to the theme laid out by Mark some time ago, of light. Perhaps light would be a good starting point for these assets too and will make them feel like they're more at home as a part of the Unity 11.04 experience. Iain -- Saleel -- Iain Farrell Project Manager Canonical Design Team m: 0777 3322970 e: iain.farr...@canonical.com This email was sent using Thunderbird on Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase Theme
Hi! On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 16:46 +, Iain Farrell wrote: On 05/11/10 16:25, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: OT: Is that video advert of Ubuntu shown at UDS and covered by OMG Ubuntu available in HD somewhere? It is indeed! I've already added it to the examples section of the design toolkit http://design.canonical.com/brand/Examples/Video/Introducing%20Ubuntu/ Got it, thanks for the heads-up! For Topic: Could it be included in the showcase? Or run as a firt-boot intro or something? Keep in mind that this was made for a corporate audience to attract them to a stand - http://design.canonical.com/2010/10/introducing-ubuntu-the-movie/. Something for the first boot would probably be better done specifically for that purpose. Ah - I jus read the OMG Ubuntu post - didn't do much research on it. Could I know which tool it was done with, so that maybe I could cook up something similar? Yours, Boudhayan Gupta I On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 15:43 +, Iain Farrell wrote: On 05/11/10 01:15, Saleel Velankar wrote: Got suggestions? Off the top of my head? Earth. Let me explain: earth as in that which supports humanity (the planet). But also earth as in the soil into which our roots grow. Anyways this might sound terrible when I get up in the morning but I did want to get the discussion rolling on this. I believe one of the ideas discussed at uds was the concept of an ocean. I am just expanding on that. Hey guys Exciting idea this, thinking of the showcase in terms of a theme. On the desktop development team we've been working to the theme laid out by Mark some time ago, of light. Perhaps light would be a good starting point for these assets too and will make them feel like they're more at home as a part of the Unity 11.04 experience. Iain -- Saleel -- Iain Farrell Project Manager Canonical Design Team m: 0777 3322970 e: iain.farr...@canonical.com This email was sent using Thunderbird on Ubuntu. -- Iain Farrell Project Manager Canonical Design Team m: 0777 3322970 e: iain.farr...@canonical.com This email was sent using Thunderbird on Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] countdown stucked
Haha - I'm using Thorwill's design. 17 days to go. On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 20:53 -0300, André Pereira wrote: I'm afraid that Maverick Meerkat countdown is stuck at 26 days left. I don't know who I must inform that, then I posted here. Regards. desgua. __ Dr. André Desgualdo Pereira - Psiquiatra - CRM/SP: 120218 Email: des...@gmail.com - Celular: (11) 8584-7809 Consultório Lapa: http://www.wix.com/desgua/sm - (11) 3645-1877 Consultório Vila Gustavo: http://www.wix.com/desgua/med - (11) 2201-9456 Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~desgua Ubuntu user number # 31870 - Linux user number # 518256 Open PGP Key: F0AD1E76 __ -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpaper site
Dear Ivanka, That would mean hacking into some GTK+ and libGNOME code. Period. Obviously, its easy, but its not our work. We could approach Cannonical about it. Yours, Boudhayan Gupta +91 97483 78224 Sent from my Nokia(R) 9300i Communicator(TM) _ Original message _ Subject:Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpaper site Author: Ivanka Majic ivanka.ma...@canonical.com Date: 09th October 2009 10:57:19 PM On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 16:13 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: how about some tool that integrates deeply with content from a website but just sits as an additional piece in the wallpaper selector of the desktop ... for example: the content of the scrolling window in the wallpaper selection dialog is split in two halves (just add two headlines to the area), the top has all local wallpapers, if you scroll down there is a section online wallpapers that shows thumbnails of online wallapapers from i.e. wallpapers.ubuntu.com where the top (50/100) community selected wallpapers for a release live. This sounds like a sensible idea. Anyone know if there are technical reasons against? -- 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 site (was: Re: hello)
Dear Thor, Reply is inline. On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 15:34 +0530, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: I can help with the wallpaper website, but I need some hosting space which should be able to run WordPress 2.8. Could you manage some? No, sorry. I think it's a bit early to worry about hosting. Let's think a bit about requirements: - Account management. Would be ideal if people could use existing wiki accounts. Is possible, if the wiki can use LDAP directory services, or OpenIDs - Enforce a minimum size of uploads (only for wallpapers), maybe even one of a list of fixed resolutions/aspect-ratios. Very much possible - Automatic thumbnail generation. - Gallery pages with filtering/search. - Mandatory specification of a license and author(s). - Categories/Tagging: photo vs abstract, tagging for a specific release as the very minimum. All of the above are possible, but will require custom PHP or Python programming (thus I'll need those features in hosting) - Comments per submission, ideally nested. - Notifications (email) on additions, edits, comments. Native features of WordPress. - Manage source files such as SVG and XCF. A Subversion or Git backend can be used. This will also provide versioning support. We can use the Bazaar services provided by Launchpad as well. Very nice to have: - Ability to link with Flickr. Search both on the site and within Flickr at once. I know many such plugins. However, searching is tricky. - Versioning. Allowing to add newer versions of a submission, while keeping the old ones available. Mark comments as referring to a specific version. Again, we can use Launchpad as a backend. Boudhayan Gupta. Sent from my Nokia(R) 9300i Communicator(TM)-- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] hello
Dear Thorsten, I can help with the wallpaper website, but I need some hosting space which should be able to run WordPress 2.8. Could you manage some? Yours, Boudhayan Gupta +91 97483 78224 Sent from my Nokia(R) 9300i Communicator(TM) _ Original message _ Subject:Re: [ubuntu-art] hello Author: Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de Date: 07th October 2009 1:50:25 PM On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 09:18 +0200, Dávid Horváth wrote: We need a coordinator. Anyone? Well, lets start with some information :) You all should have a look at our wiki, if you haven't already: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork The next release is scheduled for the 29th of October, so it doesn't make any sense to start something new for it. It's very early in the game for the next cycle, 10.04: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule It's very important that you understand that the community does not create the default artwork. There have been exceptions regarding the wallpaper, but I wouldn't count on that happening again. There's a design team at Canonical. Friendly and at least in part very approachable people, but it still is a bit like a black box. Often all we get to see are the final decisions at the very end of the process, the reasoning, the strategy remaining somewhat of a mystery. So what do we get to do? Create and package themes. It's best I leave it to those actually involved to tell you more about it. Create wallpapers. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Backgrounds For earlier cycles, everyone who felt like it would add a separate page to the wiki for their wallpapers. This time it was tightly organized, only to run into a nasty issue with wiki engine: If you request too many items in quick succession, the wiki refuses to deliver. It's called a surge protection. That means that on pages with many images, not all will load. If you then try to view additional images, the wiki answers with a warning to slow down. It's a reported issue. Entirely new in this cycle was using Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/pool/ A selection from these went into http://www.flickr.com/groups/1188...@n24/ My recommendation: Do not even allow wallpaper submissions on the wiki for the Lucid Lynx cycle. The wiki just doesn't work for this and it's not fair to contributors to let them add stuff that will be ignored, anyway. Plus any wallpaper showing up there would encourage others to add theirs. Instead point to Flickr (if no one can offer an alternative). So far I got no feedback on this at all. In case some of you would be interested in creating a web-service: having a site where you can upload wallpapers (and similar artwork), with automatic thumbnail generation, nested comments and maybe even versioning would rock ;) The countdown banners have been mentioned. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/KarmicCountdownBanners It will be a while until the call for 10.04 banners ... There's an entirely community driven and well organized project working on an icon theme: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/BreatheIconSet Note that there are many open-source projects that could benefit from some help with artwork, interaction design and obviously programming, if you don't find something here. -- 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 -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] hello
Hello guys! Think about me! I joined way back, just before Jaunty's release. Been lurking since. I guess the way to go is launching your own project, such as an icon set, GTK+ theme etc and then working on it. You can also work on stuff like wallpapers and countdowns for websites. No one yet has posted a replacement sound scheme Yours, Boudhayan Gupta +91 97483 78224 Sent from my Nokia(R) 9300i Communicator(TM) _ Original message _ Subject:Re: [ubuntu-art] hello Author: Hrafn Nordhri hr...@hrafnsvartr.com Date: 07th October 2009 8:30:40 AM Welcome to the list guys! I am kind of in the same boat tho I have been lurking the list about a month. I came to the list a bit late for the Karmic release, so I think the three of us are just in time for April's release. To those who live here on the list... what can we start on now? Is it too early to start asking about the next color palette? Are we working on Ubuntu images or are we working on extras to support the core from Canonical? Eager to start... willing to wait. - Open war is upon you whether you would risk it or not. ~Aragorn LotR -Original Message- From: Nathan Beaumont nathanb...@gmail.com Reply-to: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] hello Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:20:20 -0700 I would also like to help as much as possible. But I really have no idea what to do. On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Raymond O'Brien r...@obakk.com wrote: Hello, I am multimedia designer in Ireland and would be interested in offering any help i can here. Raymond O'Brien -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- Peace -- 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] [Breathe]folder bugs
Its full of Zero-byte files Boudhayan Gupta On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 23:09 +0200, daniel planas armangue wrote: El dom, 26-04-2009 a las 16:38 -0400, James Schriver escribió: On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 22:22 +0200, daniel planas armangue wrote: some folder icons don't run look photo Daniel, Good here. Did you build the package from source or just copy the Breathe folder to /usr/share/icons ? Regards, dashua just copy Try this package. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
[ubuntu-art] Are we ditching Orange/Brown for Karmic?
Hello All! Quoting the Karmic incoming page - Brown has served us well but other options will be considered for Karmic Koala., are we really ditching Brown? If so, what are we doing as a replacement? I was browsing the LongTerm incoming page, and it IMHO Dust is very good. Of course, if it doesn't go with the overall philosophy of Ubuntu, then we cannot have that. I am a new addition, so I may be missing something. What are we doing, what is our color palette, and when do we get started? Yours, Boudhayan Gupta -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Animated logo
On Friday 24 April 2009 03:01:34 Ryan Prior wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Boudhayan Gupta bg13@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'm also a new addition to the list. I'm from India, and 14 years of age, male. Welcome to the list and the community! I look forward to working with you. I checked it up using GNASH plugins for Kubuntu Intrepid. It works. But the actual thing could do with some improvements, as already metioned in the other messages in this thread. Would you like to create a wiki page documenting the procedure for testing flash animations with Gnash on Kubuntu, for those who are not yet familiar with Gnash? Ryan I tested it in the sense I installed the Gnash plugin for Firefox and ran the animation, and it worked fine. If you want me to create a wiki page for it, I'll do it with pleasure. Please give me some basic instructions then, as I have only worked with MediaWiki before. Boudhayan Gupta -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
