Re: [ubuntu-art] From the Fedora User to the Ubuntu Art Team: Here's your big competition...

2006-09-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-13-09 at 21:33 +0100, Toby Smithe wrote: > I just don't like the glossy unity in SuSE and Fedora Core. A tad 90's would be a good way to describe it. Vista is well on its way to releasing itself right into that has-been pile. Both Apple and Microsoft have built their market around t

Re: [ubuntu-art] From the Fedora User to the Ubuntu Art Team: Here's your big competition...

2006-09-13 Thread Toby Smithe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Étienne Bersac wrote: >> If ubuntu-art wants to concuer with Suse or Fedora they _will_ have to >> polish !! > > 100% agree. When is the POLISH phase going one ? ;) I don't think it should. I don't like the horrible gloss feel of SuSE and Fedora. I lo

Re: [ubuntu-art] Apologies

2006-09-13 Thread PingunZ
> now let's get this artwork to rock! That's just what I was thinking :)I'm sorry for repeating this but before you guys start, look at this ..What makes distro's like suse or fedora look so good is its polishing :) Use the same basic image for a grub image, usplash, gdm, gsplash, wallpaper, some a

Re: [ubuntu-art] Apologies

2006-09-13 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Jesse Schalken wrote: My deepest apologies to anyone who had interpreted a previous email of mine as offensive to the artist who had created the work in question. Apology accepted - now let's get this artwork to rock! Jmak, you and Troy both have excellent elements in your work. Can we g

Re: [ubuntu-art] Announcing: Fonty Python - TTF Font manager for Gnu/Linux

2006-09-13 Thread Donn
Mark, an honour to get an email from you. > This sounds really interesting! Is it all integrated with FontConfig etc? I am afraid to say that it's far more simple than all that. I found that by making soft links in the ~/.fonts folder to a ttf file, it would "install" a font. So, from that the id

Re: [ubuntu-art] Announcing: Fonty Python - TTF Font manager for Gnu/Linux

2006-09-13 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Donn wrote: With Fonty Python you can select ttf fonts and put them into "pogs" (from the word typography). You can place fonts into pogs from a folder or from another pog. You then install the pog you need. After that, you fire-up Inkscape (or Gimp, or Sodipodi, or Blender etc) and thos

Re: [ubuntu-art] Getting real with glossiness and colors

2006-09-13 Thread Jesse Schalken
'Who', I love the use of smooth rich caramels in the last seven images on that wiki page. The best one would have to be 015_who_lsplash_MaG.png, it has a seemingly 3D border, glossy black text which IS readable against the caramel background, which does has varying luminosities but is balanced nice

Re: [ubuntu-art] Getting real with glossiness and colors

2006-09-13 Thread Alberto Núñez
Hi Who, I'm seeing your artwork and it has good ideas. Someone in ubuntuforums said (as a comment to some splash images I posted there) that light should come from top to get a 3D feel, as it's how it works in landscapes. I would try that. I like the border form the first six images. I suggest yo

Re: [ubuntu-art] Edgy's current art looks like fecal matter :O

2006-09-13 Thread Htay Htay
Hi guys & gals, Overall I think it looks great! The green taint looks really nice. However the login screen appears to be a bit rushed. Hope who ever designed it doesnt take this too personally, but the "cloud like puffs" doesn't look too crisp or fresh. It's easily done by a simple filter / ef

Re: [ubuntu-art] Getting real with glossiness and colors

2006-09-13 Thread Who
Hiya, I really like your work, as evidenced by bringing it to the attention of the list to discuss a while back - hope you don't mind :) I tried to incorporate some of the ideas into the work I did for Produce here - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/EdgyArtworkPlan/Produce/Incoming/WhoLsplas