Re: [ubuntu-art] Random Thoughts on Mail Burst

2008-04-29 Thread Bharat Varma
1. Before we get started on serious work, it would be preferable to know if the guidelines and palettes put up at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/HardyDesign https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/HardyDesign were indeed part of what was originally planned for Hardy. If it is so, then

Re: [ubuntu-art] How the first theme is chosen for the user.

2008-04-29 Thread t_w_
shadowh511 wrote: THERE WILL BE AN INSTALL OPTION TO SKIP THE WIZARD No, will not happen. Don't you know that the installer tries hard to ask the _minimum_ of questions? Being told something will not happen and then shouting back like this is very childish. Also, Mr. shadow511, there are

Re: [ubuntu-art] How the first theme is chosen for the user.

2008-04-29 Thread shadowh511
What I meant was a simple checkbox. -- Ubuntu FTW! -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] How the first theme is chosen for the user.

2008-04-29 Thread Klaus Bitto
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:31 AM, shadowh511 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I meant was a simple checkbox. I think, having to customize your installation in order to not have to customize your desktop is too much forced customization already. The only thing that could maybe work would be an

Re: [ubuntu-art] How the first theme is chosen for the user.

2008-04-29 Thread shadowh511
i'm making the idea in kommander right now, and I an making a Cancel button. On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:20 AM, saltedlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 15:57 +0200, Klaus Bitto wrote: But even this would be regarded some kind of first-run app... Honestly, I never liked

[ubuntu-art] How to make a gtk theme

2008-04-29 Thread shadowh511
I would really love a link to a tutorial that explains how to make a gtk theme, so I can get the elements themes drafted. -- shadowh511, Ubuntu FTW! -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Intrepid Panels

2008-04-29 Thread Julian Oliver
..on or around Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 06:42:05PM +0200, Steph said: Hi guys, It seems I had a bug of the list and received ~50 of your message in a single digest. Here's what I think of : * The animated, live wallpaper : it'a good idea, as long as it doesn't use more than 5% of CPU or GPU

Re: [ubuntu-art] Intrepid Panels

2008-04-29 Thread shadowh511
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Julian Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..on or around Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 06:42:05PM +0200, Steph said: Hi guys, It seems I had a bug of the list and received ~50 of your message in a single digest. Here's what I think of : * The animated, live

Re: [ubuntu-art] How to make a gtk theme

2008-04-29 Thread Jan Niklas Hasse
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials/GtkThemes On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:02 PM, shadowh511 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would really love a link to a tutorial that explains how to make a gtk theme, so I can get the elements themes drafted. -- shadowh511, Ubuntu FTW! -- ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] How to make a gtk theme

2008-04-29 Thread shadowh511
thanks! On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Jan Niklas Hasse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials/GtkThemes On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:02 PM, shadowh511 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would really love a link to a tutorial that explains how to make a gtk theme, so I

Re: [ubuntu-art] How to make a gtk theme

2008-04-29 Thread shadowh511
for gtk themes, right? On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shadowh511 wrote: I would really love a link to a tutorial that explains how to make a gtk theme, so I can get the elements themes drafted. It's as complex as programming with no real great

Re: [ubuntu-art] Intrepid Panels

2008-04-29 Thread Sumit Agarwal
On Apr 29, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Cory K. wrote: Julian Oliver wrote: 5% is way too much GPU or CPU consumption for a wallpaper IMO. It's actually *much* higher while its transitioning. On my dual-core setup Nautilus jumped up to like 60% usage using a 20second fade. Any lower then 15 didn't

Re: [ubuntu-art] Intrepid Panels

2008-04-29 Thread Cory K.
Sumit Agarwal wrote: Anyone got any estimates on CPU/GPU usage if we finagled it through Compiz? As I said in a previous post about this, that would require taking away handling of the wallpaper from Nautilus. On the surface this sounds like a much more complex task then we need to take on or

[ubuntu-art] Stop top posting!

2008-04-29 Thread Cory K.
shadowh511, you've been asked *MANY* times in the past 2 days to stop top posting in these long threads. It absolutely *kills* continuity. Set your mail client to reply to the bottom by default if it helps. PLEASE stop. -Cory \m/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop top posting!

2008-04-29 Thread shadowh511
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shadowh511, you've been asked *MANY* times in the past 2 days to stop top posting in these long threads. It absolutely *kills* continuity. Set your mail client to reply to the bottom by default if it helps. PLEASE stop.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop top posting!

2008-04-29 Thread Cory K.
shadowh511 wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shadowh511, you've been asked *MANY* times in the past 2 days to stop top posting in these long threads. It absolutely *kills* continuity. Set your mail client to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop top posting!

2008-04-29 Thread Arie de Jonge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 shadowh511 schreef: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shadowh511, you've been asked *MANY* times in the past 2 days to stop top posting in these long threads. It absolutely

Re: [ubuntu-art] Intrepid Panels

2008-04-29 Thread shadowh511
Hello everyone, Right now I'm testing the first link Dana proposed and I could say It's just brilliant. It works and the CPU is near zero % (it may use the GPU). The transition from the one to the other image goes smoothly like this img1:90%, img2:10% ; img1:80%, img2:20% and so on. Thus

Re: [ubuntu-art] Intrepid Panels

2008-04-29 Thread Dylan McCall
I entirely agree that something other than Nautilus could handle the desktop background. It has always been odd to me how that is the case now, and I bet if we had another, simpler program do it, the background could load in much more happily than it does now. (Furthermore, fancy visual effects

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop top posting!

2008-04-29 Thread Klaus Bitto
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:04 PM, shadowh511 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shadowh511, you've been asked *MANY* times in the past 2 days to stop top posting in these long threads. It absolutely *kills* continuity. Set your

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop top posting!

2008-04-29 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 20:46 +0200, Stéphane Marguet (Stemp) wrote: I'm sorry, I'm using Ubuntu's evolution and I just want to tell you : for ME it's better to top-post ! I don't even understand why someone will ask for bottom-post ! I don't see how Evolution would fget in the way, writing

Re: [ubuntu-art] Intrepid (Animated Background)

2008-04-29 Thread Cory K.
Anton Kerezov wrote: 1.1 Find a way to to easily add slideshow backgrounds from Appearance - Background. Maybe add new tab Animated Background. (this have to be discussed with the developers) It's already easy. You would just point it to the .xml file. Or DD it in. -Cory \m/ -- ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Intrepid Panels

2008-04-29 Thread Álvaro Medina Ballester
I'm not agree with making the panel bigger. Gnome has a problem with upper panel, with large screens becomes unusable (it has a lot of unused space). So in my opinion we should keep ubuntu panel in 24px. 2008/4/29 Dylan McCall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I entirely agree that something other than

Re: [ubuntu-art] Random Thoughts on Mail Burst

2008-04-29 Thread Álvaro Medina Ballester
Sorry I forgot the links: [1]http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/macos90 [2]http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/macosx103 2008/4/29 Álvaro Medina Ballester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2. Canonical would always prefer conservative themes to go out. Conservative themes would be what

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu

2008-04-29 Thread sylvain marc
Have you seen the film The 5th elements... : AIR / WATER / FIRE / EARTH / ... LIFE 2008/4/28 shadowh511 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Dylan McCall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice work trying to get things moving so early in the cycle, Shadow! To feed imagination,

Re: [ubuntu-art] How the first theme is chosen for the user.

2008-04-29 Thread sylvain marc
I agree with you 2008/4/29 Arjuna Navaratna [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just wanted to make a suggestion... I like the idea of letting the user determine which of the 'human element' theme variations is used. But instead of asking the user when they first login, what if the option is available after

Re: [ubuntu-art] Intrepid Panels

2008-04-29 Thread sylvain marc
Dou you want the Bubuntu panel ? 2008/4/29 Sumit Agarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Apr 29, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Steph wrote: * The animated, live wallpaper : it'a good idea, as long as it doesn't use more than 5% of CPU or GPU (better), and if this is realized, we have to check if it's really

Re: [ubuntu-art] How the first theme is chosen for the user.

2008-04-29 Thread shadowh511
i need some help with the coding for it, attaching the file On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:00 PM, sylvain marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with you 2008/4/29 Arjuna Navaratna [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just wanted to make a suggestion... I like the idea of letting the user determine which of

[ubuntu-art] mailling list

2008-04-29 Thread Ashik Khatri
hi guys! -- Please visit www.snufflesden.com (¨`·.·´¨) `·.¸(¨`·.·´¨) Thanks, (¨`·.·´¨)¸.· Keep Smiling! `·.¸.·´Ashik khatri -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop top posting!

2008-04-29 Thread Cory K.
Thanx for sending it 3 times. We need more spam. Hylke Bons wrote: Who cares! Thanx for sending it 3 times. We need more spam. Please. Ubuntu. Art. Let's get something done! Hylke Thanx for sending it 3 times. We need more spam. -Cory \m/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop top posting!

2008-04-29 Thread Julian Oliver
..on or around Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 08:46:45PM +0200, Stéphane Marguet (Stemp) said: I'm sorry, I'm using Ubuntu's evolution and I just want to tell you : for ME it's better to top-post ! I don't even understand why someone will ask for bottom-post ! PS : it's not a troll, I just want to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop top posting!

2008-04-29 Thread Hylke Bons
Sorry, didn't mean to send it 3 times. Something went wrong. Hylke Cory K. wrote: Thanx for sending it 3 times. We need more spam. Hylke Bons wrote: Who cares! Thanx for sending it 3 times. We need more spam. Please. Ubuntu. Art. Let's get something done! Hylke

Re: [ubuntu-art] Random Thoughts on Mail Burst

2008-04-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Matthew Nuzum wrote: If you would have asked me before Hardy if something as exciting as the heron wallpaper would be the default desktop I would have said there's no way. Give Kenneth Wimer _full_ marks here for getting that image in front of the people who use Ubuntu. If he had not put it