Re: [ubuntu-art] How to provide more alternate wallpapers without influencing CD size requirements

2008-07-07 Thread Ashton
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Brian Fleeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The interesting part of my idea is that it would really enhance the user > experience to be able to browse and choose exactly what you want from a > selection where EVERYTHING is guaranteed to look beautiful. It would b

Re: [ubuntu-art] Why Wallpapers? And Let's Get Started!

2008-07-07 Thread Salane Ashcraft
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:06 AM, AA Boy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:06 PM, AA Boy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> There has been creation of themes. Have you seen my last e-mail to here? >> It was on the creation of my new theme for Intrepid (Human Clearlooks 2). I >

Re: [ubuntu-art] Why Wallpapers? And Let's Get Started!

2008-07-07 Thread AA Boy
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:06 PM, AA Boy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There has been creation of themes. Have you seen my last e-mail to here? It > was on the creation of my new theme for Intrepid (Human Clearlooks 2). I > haven't posted it on the wiki yet, but there is still development going on >

Re: [ubuntu-art] Why Wallpapers? And Let's Get Started!

2008-07-07 Thread AA Boy
There has been creation of themes. Have you seen my last e-mail to here? It was on the creation of my new theme for Intrepid (Human Clearlooks 2). I haven't posted it on the wiki yet, but there is still development going on for it. It just isn't going to be done in one big group. Smartboy On Mon,

[ubuntu-art] Why Wallpapers? And Let's Get Started!

2008-07-07 Thread Salane Ashcraft
I have noticed a lot of discussion by this art team about wallpapers. Why? Its not like most people who change wallpapers are going to not be looking for good ones on the internet, its a moot point. Instead we need to focus on fonts, icons, and themes. I have posted 2 wikis, yet limited discussio

Re: [ubuntu-art] How to provide more alternate wallpapers without influencing CD size requirements

2008-07-07 Thread Brian Fleeger
- Original Message From: Cory K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >A add-om package in the repos is the way to go. Trick is, letting people >know about it. Doesn't the "add-on pack" route expect users to have a-priori knowledge of how to use Ubuntu and Linux in general? Further, add-on packs make

Re: [ubuntu-art] How to provide more alternate wallpapers without influencing CD size requirements

2008-07-07 Thread Shadowh511
Sent from my iPod On Jul 7, 2008, at 9:14 PM, "Cory K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shadowh511 wrote: >> Which is why we need a first boot wizard. >> > > haha. There's more chance of Mark giving me all his money than that > happening. > > Search around on this topic. There's alot of info. > >

Re: [ubuntu-art] How to provide more alternate wallpapers without influencing CD size requirements

2008-07-07 Thread Cory K.
Shadowh511 wrote: > Which is why we need a first boot wizard. > haha. There's more chance of Mark giving me all his money than that happening. Search around on this topic. There's alot of info. -Cory -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/lis

Re: [ubuntu-art] How to provide more alternate wallpapers without influencing CD size requirements

2008-07-07 Thread Shadowh511
Sent from my iPod On Jul 7, 2008, at 8:58 PM, "Cory K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Fleeger wrote: >> Actually, since it would be hosted by Canonical as opposed to Gnome, >> this would not be a fork. Gnome gets used by many distros, but only >> Canonical would want to control their uniq

Re: [ubuntu-art] How to provide more alternate wallpapers without influencing CD size requirements

2008-07-07 Thread Cory K.
Brian Fleeger wrote: > Actually, since it would be hosted by Canonical as opposed to Gnome, > this would not be a fork. Gnome gets used by many distros, but only > Canonical would want to control their unique user experience. > Therefore it would only be appropriate for such a feature to be > Ubu

Re: [ubuntu-art] How to provide more alternate wallpapers without influencing CD size requirements

2008-07-07 Thread Salane Ashcraft
> > Actually, since it would be hosted by Canonical as opposed to Gnome, this > would not be a fork. Gnome gets used by many distros, but only Canonical > would want to control their unique user experience. Therefore it would only > be appropriate for such a feature to be Ubuntu-specific, i.e. do

Re: [ubuntu-art] How to provide more alternate wallpapers without influencing CD size requirements

2008-07-07 Thread Brian Fleeger
>- Original Message >From: Cory K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork >Sent: Monday, July 7, 2008 11:27:43 PM >Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] How to provide more alternate wallpapers without >influencing CD size requirements >What everyone doesn't think about is that this

Re: [ubuntu-art] How to provide more alternate wallpapers without influencing CD size requirements

2008-07-07 Thread Cory K.
What everyone doesn't think about is that this is forking app X that you want to put this feature in. Further adding to technical maintenance. Best to change the wallpapers in the current package and/or provide another add-on package that can be grabbed through the repos. -Cory -- ubuntu-art ma

Re: [ubuntu-art] How to provide more alternate wallpapers without influencing CD size requirements

2008-07-07 Thread Shadowh511
Sent from my iPod On Jul 7, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Brian Fleeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, This is an idea I had to provide users with more alternate wallpapers without influencing the install CD's footprint. If this is too off-topic for an art-team posting, please let me know an

Re: [ubuntu-art] How to provide more alternate wallpapers without influencing CD size requirements

2008-07-07 Thread Mark Devet
I LOVE the idea...Awesome!!! On 7/7/08, Brian Fleeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > This is an idea I had to provide users with more alternate wallpapers > without influencing the install CD's footprint. If this is too off-topic > for an art-team posting, please let me know and dire

[ubuntu-art] How to provide more alternate wallpapers without influencing CD size requirements

2008-07-07 Thread Brian Fleeger
Hi all, This is an idea I had to provide users with more alternate wallpapers without influencing the install CD's footprint. If this is too off-topic for an art-team posting, please let me know and direct me to where this idea does belong. At least it is tangentially related to Ubuntu's art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Droid Fonts

2008-07-07 Thread Kido Mariano
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 16:25 +0300, Jimmy Angelakos wrote: > Fixed. Thank you for the tip. Needless to say new users should not have > to do this for Droid to look ok on their screens. > No problem. :) I think it's GNOME not being able to auto-update the font cache, not a problem with the Droid fo

Re: [ubuntu-art] Droid Fonts

2008-07-07 Thread Jimmy Angelakos
Kido Mariano wrote: > Your Droid screenshot is off. Try typing > sudo fc-cache -v > to update your font cache, then try again (and logoff and log on again > or something). It seems the desktop is using DejaVu Sans as fallback > font. I'll try to post another screenshot at the wiki to show how Droid

Re: [ubuntu-art] Droid Fonts

2008-07-07 Thread Kido Mariano
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 01:17 +0300, Jimmy Angelakos wrote: > Salane Ashcraft wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Jimmy Angelakos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Please allow me to speak frankly: > >> > >> I don't really see what all the fuss is about with that Droid font. > > > > Would you m