Re: ubuntustudio contributors meeting
Just a note to this, Scott and I will be getting together ~12:00 UTC (5hrs before the meeting) to do some hacking, chatting and generally hanging out. Not sure how long it will go but there should be some activity. I'm sure we'll touch on art, the website, packaging, what will be in the new -desktop seeds etc. Hopefully it will be a productive day. We *have* to get some things settled before we can start to build proper disks again. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 Oneiric artwork brainstorming/discussion
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Scott Lavender scottalaven...@gmail.com wrote: If that was 5:00 am CST time then I'm afraid I missed it already :( I'm used to seeing UTC rather than GMT and assumed that it was close to EST, CST, or PCT. Naa... Should be like 4pm our time Scott. 9pm for you Izo? -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 Oneiric artwork brainstorming/discussion
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Izo designby...@gmail.com wrote: Right, think I'm about done with this now. This is how I, potentially at least, see the Ubuntu Studio Oneiric desktop. PLEASE NOTE: this isn't prescriptive, I'm not saying, This is DEFINITELY how the desktop should look, GET ON IT, I'm saying, in terms of an overarching look and feel, perhaps something like this is the way forward. By all means, give me your opinions and whatnot. Maybe you missed some details I laid out in previous emails. Generally, I wouldn't ship a wallpaper with branding. Especially one with it so central. Something subtle would possibly work. The UI is set. Working toward using only AWN at the bottom, or it doesn't work out, a single panel across the top copying our GNOME layout. I do still need to add some details to the wiki but between that and emails I thought things were clearer. I am open to the GTK theme ideas. Do you do any tinkering there Izo? In terms of over-arching look and feel, the plymouth, LightDM and wallpaper images are the things I'm looking to tie into the website really. I'm hoping for various revisions/ideas for the wallpaper. From that, many ideas can come. For instance: We could use the same base image for the LightDM and wallpaper, but the LightDM has branding and the desktop does not. So it appears to fade away. Based on this etched idea, I'll come up with some concepts. I'm off for the next 4 days. ;) Izo: Can you send me the source for the wallpaper? How's 20:00GMT for that meeting on Sunday? Scott? -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 Oneiric artwork brainstorming/discussion
So without any alternative thematic ideas, Izo, let's move forward with developing this etched concept. @Izo: Do you want to set up a time to do some real-time chat on IRC? Along with website and wallpaper, images for LightDM will have to be developed. Would you like me to do the research into what's needed or would you like to look into it and design something? I did have a thought. Studio is planning to ship AWN by default. I was thinking that it would be cool to develop a dock bg/theme that makes the icons look as if their in a convex recess scalloped into the wallpaper. Yea/nay? -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 Oneiric artwork brainstorming/discussion
Or, take that etched out look you did to the logo, and use it for the AWN bg. http://imageshack.us/m/683/6924/ubuntustudiowallpaperdr.jpg Instead of our logo sitting there, it would be icons. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Future Ubuntu Studio website
While the art discussion is ongoing I feel that the website structure needs some more development. Features, hosting and all that. Art can be dropped in any time. @Scott: Maybe start a wiki page for the website development? Might be one already and I missed it. If there is or you create one, just make it the last line in your posts to this thread or something. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: UbuStu Art
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:58 AM, red honki pdi...@gmail.com wrote: hi thank you. because ubuntu studio is to long, it is hard to design logo. can we have short name? /Officially/ Ubuntu Studio is the approved form and the current logos are all that will be supported. /Unofficially/ folks can do what they like. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: UbuStu Themes
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Seattle Chaz seattlec...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings All: Might I request/suggest that the final UbuStu theme provide a choice between dark and light similar to the Ambiance and Radiance themes available in plain vanilla Ubuntu? If there's time that's the plan. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 Oneiric artwork brainstorming/discussion
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Ralf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Less is more, but also for supposed simplicity. I'm sure that most people like today's common desktop vogue. And as I've written before, the layout is good, but OTOH, why not doing something that isn't the current whim of trend? Not for Oneiric, but e.g. for the release that will follow. I've always had plans to do something very out there. Thing is, far out ideas tend to appeal to a very narrow audience. The current plan, while Mac-like in that it uses AWN will tend to be even more minimal. But still very productive. I have been testing the proposed layout on 3 other family members and they adapted very quickly. I detest the idea of moving the menu items away from the focused window. To me, it doesn't make sense as it tends to make for more mouse travel instead of moving within the currently focused window. All that aside, Ralf, after this release I think Scott would welcome anyone who could plan and implement (-this being key) something far out yet productive. :) So does anyone have a counter idea to this etched look? Should we just let Izo loose? :) -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Artwork FYI
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Jorge G. Mare jorge.g.m...@gmail.com wrote: I appreciate your candidness. In the same spirit of candidness, I will have to say that if this is the case, then my interest and with it my motivation dwindles. I know that my approach to this is opaque at the moment. It isn't meant as a snub. It's to simply cut down on the signal to noise. I want to take us from having no direction, to a general heading. I'm hoping to get a couple of options from Izo then bring in a few others to get opinions then. There's 1 art director, me. I take many steps to build consensus but ultimately I'll make the call. Here's what I'll do. Right now our list is pretty low-traffic and art focused anyway so I'll ask Izo to join. It's a 50/50 shot. If he joins I'll start a new thread for intros and to bring everyone up to speed. If not, I'll be CC'ing Jorge and Scott once there's something to look at. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Artwork FYI
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Jorge G. Mare jorge.g.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Cory, On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:42 PM, C K coryis...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Jorge G. Mare jorge.g.m...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:25 PM, C K coryis...@gmail.com wrote: I am currently working with guys at The Shimmer project (http://shimmerproject.org) and Izo (www.design-by-izo.com) for our new art. I will CC the relevant folks once more info/ideas start to com into focus. (it will most likely be for website stuff as the GTK theme work will be more of a refresh/update of the current theme) It is great to see creative and apparently very talented people involved in this. But, can you please make this process more open and inclusive, so that those of us who will be affected by this initiative (i.e., myself with regards to the new website) can have a chance to provide input and influence the outcome before the fact? Hmm... Well, that's what I felt I said by sending this email in the 1st place. :( Your message indicates that you are already working on the new art elsewhere with this other people, and that the rest of us will be informed at some point in the future. But if I misread your email, my apologies. :) I am currently in the very early stages (like 2 or 3 emails worth) of working out thematic ideas. Once there's something to show, I'll CC some folks. (as said in my 1st email) I would ask them to join our list but the past has shown me that it's never as useful as hoped and they never want our other email. Most folks I've asked don't want to be bothered. The GTK and XFWM/Metacity themes I will be taking care of with the Shimmer folks without input from others. The wallpaper, LightDM, Plymouth and images for the website will all have a consistent message and will come from Izo. Once he and I have some sort of a direction I'll CC Scott and Jorge. @Jorge: Honestly, I'm not looking for many opinions as to the thematic elements that will represent Ubuntu Studio so my plan is to bring you in once we have some images. I know you'll need particular sizes for things, as well as come up with ideas after seeing some early images. Things won't be set in stone but somewhat of a path will be chosen by Scott and I once Izo has had some time to be creative. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
New icon set to use?
So with the new UI we'll be using a new icon set. Suggestions? It must already be packaged. I'm leaning toward Forenza (sp?) if its packaged. It's nice and orderly. Once a base set is picked, we'll develop our own add-on icons. (folders and such) -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: New icon set to use?
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Ronan Jouchet ro...@jouchet.fr wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Ronan Jouchet ro...@jouchet.fr wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:26 AM, C K coryis...@gmail.com wrote: So with the new UI we'll be using a new icon set. Suggestions? It must already be packaged. I'm leaning toward Forenza (sp?) if its packaged. It's nice and orderly. Once a base set is picked, we'll develop our own add-on icons. (folders and such) -- -Cory K. Hi Cory. I guess you meant Faenza. Love it too. For those who haven't heard of it, it is a very complete and, indeed, orderly icon set, see http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Faenza?content=128143 Cheers, Ronan Regard packaging of Faenza, tiheum maintains a PPA. I included him in the discussion, maybe he can give us some help/hints. Address of his PPA is https://launchpad.net/~tiheum/+archive/equinox Regards, and sorry everybody for the double-mail Ronan It will have to either be a packaged set, or get into the official repos ASAP to use it. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: New icon set to use?
Very much a work in progress. (look near the bottom) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Artwork/OfficialOneiric -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: New icon set to use?
I realize this is all very subjective and can't please everyone. Plan is, Faenza if packaged and most likely Elementary as a backup. We will develop our own folders and whatnot as they come in. That set will inherit whatever becomes our new base set. The current Tango-based set will made available. In what for will be determined later. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
PulseAudio and Ubuntu Studio 11.10
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 4:16 PM, David Henningsson david.hennings...@canonical.com wrote: Will PulseAudio still be a part of Ubuntu Studio? As it is so tightly woven into Ubuntu, I suspect it will. We are however looking to better integrate JACK with PA. (seems like we've been trying this forever) -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Social Media Team Website development
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Louie Queral louiethecu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi friends, My name is Luis Queral and I'm a 20 year old social-media consultant at Webconnection, a baltimore-based web design/development firm. I'm curious as to if Ubuntu Studio currently has a social-media strategy, and if not, how we could plan and initiate one. I have a fairly good idea of a marketing concept for us (as an open-source team), and really think it would benefit Ubuntu Studio especially with the new web-site redesign. Also, if you would be interested (assuming there isn't a specific set of social-media goals), please feel free to respond with your input and ideas. -Luis Yo! I'm from P.G. County. :) But I live in Raleigh now and miss D.C./Baltimore alot. Anyway, this is exactly the subject that I wanted to touch on later tonight. (im about to go to work) It's what Scott and i feel is the next step for Studio. Getting the distro together is really pretty straight-forward. WHat to do with the website besides a refresh is more, up-in-the-air and needs some brainstorming. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: US website theme RFC request for screenshots
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Jorge G. Mare jorge.g.m...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, Although this is still very much work in progress, I thought I would put the new website in it's current state on a staging URL so that you guys can play with it: http://www.myhaiku.org There is still quite a bit left to wrap up the theme, so I will continue to work on my local copy as it is much faster. Feel free to use the staging site online and provide feedback on this thread, but please do not expect changes to it right away; instead, I will upload updated iterations of the site periodically so that you can see the progress. Long story short, this is still very much work in progress, so be nice. ;) @Jorge. Thank you very much for this stellar work. It will surely make the 11.10 release that much stronger. A few questions. On the logo text, are you using the ubuntu font or our SVG logo? Reason I ask is because the kerning is different between the two, Its tighter on the SVG. Also, the tagline under the logo is not our official Let Your Creativity Fly or ... damn there was another. :P Anyway, a new tagline is totally up for discussion. :) Good on you man. :) -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Re: Ubuntu Studio Developer Meeting
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 7:59 AM, scottalaven...@gmail.com wrote: *** IMPORTANT *** Due to various conflicting schedule for many people we will be pushing the meeting until the following weekend. Therefore the meeting will be on Sunday, May 15th @ 14:00 UTC for the meeting. Again, the time convertor [1] is included for your convenience. The location remains the same, i.e. #ubuntustudio-devel on freenode.net IRC. Gotcha. You and I should still get together on Sunday. I think the archive is open so I can upload. We can also brainstorm about the XFCE change announcement. Anyone else who wants to hang out is welcome. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: US website theme RFC request for screenshots
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Jorge G. Mare jorge.g.m...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, Just wanted to let you know that I have not vanished from the map. :) Real life (mostly work) has been hectic lately, but I hope to have some time to resume work on the new website theme towards the end of this coming week. Keep you guys posted. Thanx Jorge. I think we all know you have other things to do as well. :) I personally feel that things will be slow until the 11.10 repo opens up. I'm doing mostly investigative work 'till then. My plan is slowly taking shape. :) -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Studio's 11.10 Roadmap
So, nobody can get something together? We have no new person on this list who wants to jump on this? Such a low entry barrier. It's just a wiki page and maybe some basic formatting. Just copy some other page layouts. I came back to help for this release but can't nor won't do it all. (note im looking for someone new to step upon this) -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Design concepts for Ubuntu Studio 11.10
So in tinkering a bit this weekend it looks as though AWN brings ALOT of depends. I'll look into what is actually needed. (ie if i can just pull actual depends and not recommends and file any depends that actually aren't needed) Also, there's no currently functioning/packaged network manager applet. Docky doesn't accomplish as much of the panel replacement requirements as AWN. So, going forward in the coming weeks I will simply try to copy our GNOME UI using XFCE. This will get me more familiar with how XFCE packaging settings work. We will still look toward a new custom UI. I intend on calling for artwork and reaching out toward the Xubuntu-devs in the next week or so. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Studio's 11.10 Roadmap
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Scott Lavender scottalaven...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 10:04 AM, C K coryis...@gmail.com wrote: I feel we need to set some development milestones. While I could start a wiki page with some basic structure I'd like to get some others involved. Any takers? Coincidentally I was just talking with holstein on IRC about this. Now that we have established XFCE as the new DE, I would like to have the new UI defined during the next month if possible. Other than that I don't have any specifics at this point on other milestone. Have art done by... Testing for...Launch website... Just think of everything we'd need for this next release. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: US website theme RFC request for screenshots
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Benjamin Turner b.g.tur...@gmail.comwrote: News post https://picasaweb.google.com/jorge.g.mare/UbuntuStudioArtwork#5595278554459506242 User profile https://picasaweb.google.com/jorge.g.mare/UbuntuStudioArtwork#5595278554875022562 Blog post https://picasaweb.google.com/jorge.g.mare/UbuntuStudioArtwork#5595284881897234786 Jorge Jorge - I think that this theme is coming along wonderfully. There are a few things that you may still be working on, but I thought I would give my 2 cents. The main elements of page adhere to a pretty good grid system (the green lines in the link below). There are some things that don't really follow the grid that you are beginning to establish (red lines). It seems that perhaps these elements are part of the 'main content' or something like that, and that they are structured more like a directory tree - great for viewing files - but somewhat breaking from your design grid. Overall, I think that your font choices are doing their jobs - I can tell that 'UbuntuStudio Live Recording' is the title of the article, and that the 'view edit unpublish' are navigational. However the 'Home' from the main menu and the 'home' in the content area feels a little redundant, or perhaps unclear as to what each instance does. Perhaps if you are trying to establish where the user is, you could hi-light the 'home' in the menu area? I've uploaded a screenshot with a few annotations to hopefully clarify what I mean: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/9k0EVSEZ-UoHpjegBBjN-iHR1PMKhI6HfAFTAPr0k3A?feat=directlink Thanks for all the great work you're doing! - Benjamin I wanted to point out that this is a perfect example of critique. Very clear and well thought out. We need more of this. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.
So since no competing proposals against using XFCE have been put forth I'll consider it a done deal. We're going with XFCE. Over the next few weeks I'll be studying the technical aspects of making this happen. Setting themes, working on a default UI, (I'll just use Xubuntu's for now) making new packages and testing upgrade paths. I worry this will break existing Studio users setups. Or at least add alot of cruft. I'll also be reaching out to the Xubuntu folks. I hope to set up a PPA that can be added on top of a base CLI install for testing. Any interesting ideas from other XFCE distros are welcome. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Scott Lavender scottalaven...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:52 AM, C K coryis...@gmail.com wrote: So since no competing proposals against using XFCE have been put forth I'll consider it a done deal. We're going with XFCE. Over the next few weeks I'll be studying the technical aspects of making this happen. Setting themes, working on a default UI, (I'll just use Xubuntu's for now) making new packages and testing upgrade paths. I worry this will break existing Studio users setups. Or at least add alot of cruft. I'll also be reaching out to the Xubuntu folks. I hope to set up a PPA that can be added on top of a base CLI install for testing. Any interesting ideas from other XFCE distros are welcome. Cory, Do have an idea of which dock you are considering. I would really like to talk to the developer (whomever it is) about my idea of a context area for work flows. My idea is pretty simple but slightly hard to explain. The dock would be divide into a left static section and a right dynamic or contextual work flow section. The left side would contain all non-work flow launchers that would remain there always visible. For example, these might include Firefox, Gedit, Terminal, Nautilus. The first launcher on the right side would contain a context or work flow selection launcher..more of a pick list really. You pick which work flow you want and this controls what other launchers on the right side are visible. For example, if you wanted to record audio then you pick the record audio work flow from the selector and qjackctl, Ardour, Hydrogen, Rakarrack, and guitarix launchers might be visible. If you were to pick mastering then perhaps qjackctl, ardour, and jamin would be visible. We could ship a sane default of both work flow selections and applications for each selection. However, users should be able to easily modify them and add new ones. The upshot to all of this is that you will not need to drill down menus, nor even need menus. Well, conventional menus. Additionally, you will not load up your dock with a bagillion launchers and have to try to sort through them. When you wish to perform a certain task, you adjust the selection on the right side of the dock and only those launchers that support your workflow are visible. Add to that that users can modify or add or remove both selections and applications and I think this is a win. Whew. Not that I said all that, Cory do you have a feeling which dock you are considering? AWN (avant-window-navigator) is the only one I mentioned. Though really, whatever best replaces a panel, actually, whatever is the best balance for us is what we should use. I use AWN and Docky on different systems. AWN works nicer without compositing IMO. I also wanted to look into stacking applets. (awn has one: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tSxyVygKnu0/TT-8DRg0wlI/AUQ/PEsFN3eVdDQ/s320/stack_applet.png) See if its something we can populate with task focused apps. Like we do with the Studio menus. Anyone else have ideas here? -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studiousers workflow.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:45 PM, louiethecu...@gmail.com wrote: rocket dock is also very nice. also really light I'm sorry but you do realize Rocket Dock is for windows. Unless they have some release I haven't seen? -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Design concepts for Ubuntu Studio 11.10
As we're now talking about design/UI elements I'm splitting this chat off. Examples of my AWN idea and the stack app. http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/3413/56996319.jpg http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/7092/59658841.jpg I would want to be able to set a static icon and maybe some other tweeks. I encourage others to tinker and post screenshots. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: US website theme RFC request for screenshots
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Louie Queral louiethecu...@gmail.com wrote: This is fabulous, great job! Curious though, what are your plans for the header? I feel like we've had some Ubuntu Studio logo work done before, and we could possibly resurrect that unless you have the logo under control. Again, this is awesome. -luis Yes. The new logo will be used. I'm sure the website will change a bit once we flesh the art direction. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Ubuntu Studio Advertisement
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:13 AM, ricardo lafuente boll...@sollec.org wrote: We're lurking and reading, trying to figure out where we can begin work without clashing with existing aesthetic perspectives. As I mentioned to Scott, we'd probably like to start by customising the UI of Inkscape and Gimp to begin with, in order to make them look smooth inside the UbS general UI direction. I'm unsure that we want to start messing with application UI's. Packaging-wise, it can be a real pain. Also, I'm unsure how upstream would feel about it. Personally, the way I read things was there might be a possibility of you guys helping with art. US11.10 will need a concept and artist to execute said vision. This is where I would like help. Getting together a cohesive look to the desktop and website. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Eric Hedekar aftertheb...@gmail.com wrote: XFCE does not seem like it has anything to offer other than old/reliable code. That's a pretty strong reason for choosing it actually. That, and the fact that it uses GTK will make it a less jarring switch than GNOME shell or Canonical's Unity. It's resource intensiveness is not a factor as it's equal to or less than current GNOME2. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Ubuntu Studio Advertisement
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Jorge G. Mare jorge.g.m...@gmail.com wrote: Once you confirm the actual deadline I will let you know if I can produce something or not. Dude, I love that you use the word howdy. :) Anyway, I think the deadline would be quite a ways off. Say, a month or so before 11.10's release. But don't make it live 'till release. Along with a deadline, you'll need to be in on the theming chat that we hopefully get together w/the Libre graphics guys as per Ricardo's suggestion. We'll need to have a overarching concept/direction that is cohesive. @Scott - Can you head up scheduling a meeting with these guys on IRC? Just something to brainstorm on concepts. Hell, we still need to find out if they are even interested. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Ubuntu Studio Advertisement
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Scott Lavender scottalaven...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, Recently, I have been having some talks with the editors of Libre Graphics Magazine [1] about helping Ubuntu Studio developing a more comprehensive and documented graphical applications set. A side result was that we were generously offered a full-page (A4) advertisement for Ubuntu Studio :) I would expect that Mr. MacInnis would be involved in this, but is anyone interested in helping develop an ad? We will need to develop a concept for the ad and also create the graphics for it. I don't know any requirements from the Libre Graphics folks at this time, I am aware that they work with .svg files so I would expect Inkscape to be a perfectly acceptable medium to create the artwork. I would ask about size and DPI requirements. Proper dimensions even when working with SVGs is important. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: The audio group
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Brian David beej...@gmail.com wrote: The RT kernel tends to be unpredictable (which is why it is no longer the standard Ubuntu Studio kernel) -- -Brian David Incorrect. It has to do with our inability to maintain the RT kernel to Ubuntu propers liking. A lot of it stems from miscommunication along with upstream RT not patching for a current upstream (or what ever Ubuntu uses) kernel. Resulting in us shipping a slightly older kernel. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Fwd: (re)Developing the Ubuntu Studio Site
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Chris Jones chrisjo...@comcen.com.au wrote: Well like I said. Your request was very vague and could have been read many different ways. It was not. I even linked to the requests. Hire someone... lol. Sorry mate, but I think you're forgetting this is volunteer work. And if you think you can push your weight around with people who are clearly trying to help out, you have another think coming. Like I said, I am offering my services for free. If it's not wanted, speak up because I have enough paid work to keep me busy. If you're not happy with the current mockups Scott and myself have proposed, how about you throw some input in yourself on your own ideas. I am yet to hear your thoughts!... Trust me, out of *anyone*, *anyone* here I know this is volunteer. Asking for examples of your work is completely justified. If you think that simply volunteering for something means that the resulting output of the effort should be accepted, then no. This is not the project for you. There's standards even in Free Software. And note: *You* have shown no _graphical_ mockups. Only general positioning ones. Scott is the only one who has and he's said that wouldn't cut it. Here's a direct question Chris: Is your artistic/design skills as good or better than what the site currently is? If they are, it's not unreasonable to be asked to prove it. I'm sorry, but this has become just a mess over a simple question. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: (re)Developing the Ubuntu Studio Site
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Chris Jones chrisjo...@comcen.com.au wrote: For the record, I run my own photographic imaging business which covers photo, graphic and web work. I wouldn't be doing it if I was not worthy of it, that's not how the digital imaging and design sector works, which clearly you have no understanding of, to make the assumption you have/do. You're the one clearly making assumptions. I could assume that your graphic skills are nill but no. I asked a *simple* question. You have no clue about me, or what I do, sport. ;) I /can/ however demonstrate that I have a /somewhat/ artistic bone in my body since, hell, all my stuff is actually /in/ Ubuntu Studio. You're worthy? (your words) Fine. Prove it. Post some links to art. Digital or otherwise. Is that so unreasonable a question? (one you still haven't even attempted to answer and looks like you're just evading) You gonna get a tattoo without knowing what the artists style it? Volunteer or not, you should prove you can do a task just like you were hired to do it. You're also working without defining an audience. How the hell can you design for people you don't know? (judging by the layout examples they have problems seeing) And after that, what are the thematic elements or style you're going for? The answers of course are up to Scott. So, continue to evade all you like. I'm sure there's someone else that can answer a simple question. This has worn thin become a waste of my time. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Nightly testing PPA
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Andrew Hunter and...@aehunter.net wrote: Hey Everyone, I just want to announce that I've set up a ppa for nightly builds of FFmpeg, x264 and (soon) blender. Currently it supports Lucid, but if there are any maverick testers out there, it is simple to add support for that too. The url is ppa:rexbron/rexbron-nightly Please test it out and let me know how it works! Hey Andrew. You wanna do this as part of Studio? make a sub-team under *-dev maybe? *-testing or *-nightly or something? -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: (re)Developing the Ubuntu Studio Site
I'm sorry if I missed it Chris, (i looked back but musta missed it) but can you send links of sites you've done? I wanna see what you can do graphically. -Cory K -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Ubuntu Studio artwork proposal
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Brian David beej...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I know, the new Ubuntu font is not yet available. Here's my contribution. I tried my best to imitate the Lucid font, and even added a bit of the Lucid purple in there. There are three pics: a fancy color version; a simple color version; and a gray one similar to the Mac image linked above. I've also added a link to the tar.gz file that has the Inkscape svgs, in case anyone cares to mess around around with them: http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/made_with_ubuntu_studio_fancy.png http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/made_with_ubuntu_studio_simple.png http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/made_with_ubuntu_studio_gray.png http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/made_with_ubuntu_studio.tar.gz -- -Brian David I've been trying to stay away from putting my 2 cents so things can just develop. I gotta say a little bit now. ;) I can most likely get the letters to make our logo text from the guys @ Canonical. The font is still under development. *If* it is decided that the new font is used for our text as well, I believe our COF will need a more angular revamp to fit this new type style. The effort around the Made with Ubuntu idea is cool, but I wanna say it would be nice to see someone step up and revamp the studio art. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Ubuntu Studio artwork proposal
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Brian David beej...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a another one, with reflections, since people seem to like those: http://www.sunmachine.coop/ubuntu/made_with_ubuntu_studio_reflect.png Good to hear from you again, Cory. I would love to revamp the studio artwork. Do you have any links to some documentation on creating a theme, particularly with Plymouth? I can Google it, and probably will, but it might save me some time if you point me in the right direction. Honestly, Plymouth is something I'd have to dig into myself as well. IIRC, there's a good bit of info out there though. It would be awesome to get a hold of the current Lucid font, because I think it looks good. I'd disagree with changing the COF to fit the font, though. I'm fond of the Ubuntu Studio COF. Of course, if people prefer that it'd be changed, then so be it. For me, the angularity of the new font vs. the COF is very striking. Might work better if we do something like the Ubuntu COF where it's a negative/cutout/whatever. Using out blue. I'm new to this type of thing, so how would be the best way to go about it? Should I start by submitting some sketches/mock-ups and see if the community approves? I'm sure you can make a page with ideas under out artwork section on the wiki. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Plymouth Splash for Lucid
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Fritz Meissner meissner.fr...@gmail.comwrote: On 7 March 2010 03:15, Louie Queral louiethecu...@gmail.com wrote: What do you guys think of the gnome theme we have currently? Do you think it deserves a make over? One thing I notice in Studio 9.04 (not sure if this is still the same in 9.10) is that the maximise/minimise/close title bar buttons are almost anonymous (I think that the ^ and x markings are there inside them but they're all but invisible). I can navigate them quite happily by instinct, but I see that in some of the recent builds the title bar buttons have been moved around ( see Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/03/hands-on-a-close-look-at-ubuntus-new-non-brown-theme.ars ); if this happens, then their functions are going to have to be very clearly visible. I'll test this tomorrow. I'd bet Studio was effected by this change. If so, we need to fix it in our -settings package. Should be simple enough. -- -Cory K. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
