Re: [ubuntu-art] Community Themes Too Hard To Find
On Thursday 04 March 2010 03:04:22 am Merk wrote: What if the community themes showed up in appearance, but faded and when clicked the user was prompted to install? In the future we intend to improve upon the get more themes online link in the appearance capplet. Currently it just points to a webpage but it could do oh so much more ;) -- Ken Andrew SB wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:20 PM, John Baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: As I installed community themes and I found the only way to locate the package was through Syntapic search. As Software Center becomes the desired software installation tool is there a way to add this package? In Karmic software-center only presented GUI applications (with a few special exceptions). This is no longer the case in Lucid. Searching for community themes in software-center will now show the desired package. Though if you just search for themes, it is buried deeply and applications are still featured more prominently. See this blueprint for reference: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-lucid-non- applications-in-software-center I'm not sure how we can make it more findable. One idea would be to ask the desktop-team to consider placing it in the featured section. Although, the current criteria states that featured packages should be applications. You might want to send an email asking about this to the desktop list. - Andrew SB -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Community Themes Too Hard To Find
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:20 PM, John Baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: I am willing to create a screen shot or other required artwork. I forgot to add that screenshots in software-center come from http://screenshots.debian.net/ Even though it is it is on debian.net, you can add screenshots for packages, like community-themes, that are only in Ubuntu. As themes didn't show up in software-center in the past, most theme packages don't have screenshots yet. Anyone can upload screenshots. Guidelines for taking screenshots (from: http://screenshots.debian.net/upload): Screenshots are published under the terms of the packaged software itself. Your screenshots must be in PNG format. Due to legal reasons screenshots for non-free packages aren't accecpted. Images larger than 800x600 pixels will automatically be reduced to that size (retaining the aspect ratio of course). So if you like to control the exact result of what you upload then make sure your image size is no larger than that. Your screenshot should contain a typical scene when working with it. When snapshotting a browser load the debian.org home page. A screenshot of a graphics program should have a drawing loaded. Of a game please make a screenshot while you are playing and not of the start screen. Nice tools for taking screenshots are shutter, ksnapshot (KDE), gimp, xwd or scrot. You need not artificially switch off your window decorations. Please set your language to english so that everybody understands it. If you don't use english by default please start your application from a shell using after setting export LANG=C. Please only take a screenshot of the respective application and not of your whole desktop (unless the screenshot is meant for a window manager). Interlaced PNG files cannot be processed currently. Please use non-interlaced images. - Andrew -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Community Themes Too Hard To Find
Kenneth Wimer-5 wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2010 03:04:22 am Merk wrote: What if the community themes showed up in appearance, but faded and when clicked the user was prompted to install? In the future we intend to improve upon the get more themes online link in the appearance capplet. Currently it just points to a webpage but it could do oh so much more ;) -- Ken Andrew SB wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:20 PM, John Baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: As I installed community themes and I found the only way to locate the package was through Syntapic search. As Software Center becomes the desired software installation tool is there a way to add this package? In Karmic software-center only presented GUI applications (with a few special exceptions). This is no longer the case in Lucid. Searching for community themes in software-center will now show the desired package. Though if you just search for themes, it is buried deeply and applications are still featured more prominently. See this blueprint for reference: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-lucid-non- applications-in-software-center I'm not sure how we can make it more findable. One idea would be to ask the desktop-team to consider placing it in the featured section. Although, the current criteria states that featured packages should be applications. You might want to send an email asking about this to the desktop list. - Andrew SB -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art Just a thought ... If the get more themes online link pointed to a wiki page the wiki page could refer folks to many appropriate destinations/solutions. John :) -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Community-Themes-Too-Hard-To-Find-tp27776003p27840953.html Sent from the ubuntu-art mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Community Themes Too Hard To Find
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:20 PM, John Baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: As I installed community themes and I found the only way to locate the package was through Syntapic search. As Software Center becomes the desired software installation tool is there a way to add this package? In Karmic software-center only presented GUI applications (with a few special exceptions). This is no longer the case in Lucid. Searching for community themes in software-center will now show the desired package. Though if you just search for themes, it is buried deeply and applications are still featured more prominently. See this blueprint for reference: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-lucid-non-applications-in-software-center I'm not sure how we can make it more findable. One idea would be to ask the desktop-team to consider placing it in the featured section. Although, the current criteria states that featured packages should be applications. You might want to send an email asking about this to the desktop list. - Andrew SB -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Community Themes Too Hard To Find
What if the community themes showed up in appearance, but faded and when clicked the user was prompted to install? Andrew SB wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:20 PM, John Baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: As I installed community themes and I found the only way to locate the package was through Syntapic search. As Software Center becomes the desired software installation tool is there a way to add this package? In Karmic software-center only presented GUI applications (with a few special exceptions). This is no longer the case in Lucid. Searching for community themes in software-center will now show the desired package. Though if you just search for themes, it is buried deeply and applications are still featured more prominently. See this blueprint for reference: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-lucid-non-applications-in-software-center I'm not sure how we can make it more findable. One idea would be to ask the desktop-team to consider placing it in the featured section. Although, the current criteria states that featured packages should be applications. You might want to send an email asking about this to the desktop list. - Andrew SB -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Community-Themes-Too-Hard-To-Find-tp27776003p27776242.html Sent from the ubuntu-art mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
