Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67

2008-09-26 Thread Michael Garate
I'm really disappointed if the new theme has been postponed again. This is exactly what happened for the hardy release :( -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Kyūdō: Audience and Message

2008-09-26 Thread Giuseppe Pennisi
Il giorno gio, 25/09/2008 alle 16.14 +0100, José Luis ha scritto: So we need: -Vid editor -Third party office support(PS, After Effects, AutoCad..) I agree totally. This items are more important to compete with closed source OS. For the rest, I think is more important make something that is

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67

2008-09-26 Thread Gary Stanley
I feel much the same way. I've been watching the art discussion list for quite some time and the one thing that comes across more than anything (or it appears like it to me) is that the art side of development is almost like an afterthought. Don't get me wrong, I applaud the effort in killing

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67

2008-09-26 Thread Vadim Peretokin
A lot of people on social networking sites are expecting a new theme also... everybody got scared when the horrid completely brown theme was being tested, but others comforted them that it was just testing. But with no themes improving (the little bits really don't count in the whole scope of the

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67

2008-09-26 Thread Adam
On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 12:43 +0100, Gary Stanley wrote: I feel much the same way. I’ve been watching the art discussion list for quite some time and the one thing that comes across more than anything (or it appears like it to me) is that the art side of development is almost like an

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67

2008-09-26 Thread Michael Stephenson
On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 20:16 +0800, symon cadwallender wrote: Lol. What do you expect from Ubuntu. They will never have a good theme, either will Gnome. Gnome havn't got the balls to do it, Go Kde. Im so sick of Ubuntu and Gnome and their 1980's mentality that i just switched to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Kyūdō: Audience and Message

2008-09-26 Thread Adam
So we need: -Vid editor -Third party office support(PS, After Effects, AutoCad..) And a pretty interface, of course! i agree we need a good video editor, like imovie, and openoffice is great but they have so dumb mistakes (for example if you would use a lot of shortcuts like

Re: [ubuntu-art] Application support

2008-09-26 Thread Cory K.
Adam wrote: So we need: -Vid editor -Third party office support(PS, After Effects, AutoCad..) And a pretty interface, of course! i agree we need a good video editor, like imovie, and openoffice is great but they have so dumb mistakes (for example if you would use a lot of shortcuts

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67

2008-09-26 Thread symon cadwallender
Lol. What do you expect from Ubuntu. They will never have a good theme, either will Gnome. Gnome havn't got the balls to do it, Go Kde. Im so sick of Ubuntu and Gnome and their 1980's mentality that i just switched to Opensuse/Mandriva Kde. Atleast Kde are more in touch with today's standard. 'F

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67

2008-09-26 Thread symon cadwallender
My gosh. that is one of the first opinions from an ubuntu fan that admits something needs to be seriously done about the ubuntu/gnome theme. A complete OverHaul actually :o I appreciate the fact that YOU recognise that Ubuntu/gnome has to keep up with whats out there Now, and how can we compete

Re: [ubuntu-art] Confirmation that Canonical is making a new default theme

2008-09-26 Thread Matthew Nuzum
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:41 PM, AA Boy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, there seems to be some discussion over at the forums about there not being a default theme, and the references used are the Kyudo Guidelines Mindset page and that the art deadline that just passed today. So, Canonical is

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67

2008-09-26 Thread Vadim Peretokin
GUI's didn't exist in the 80's in this form, there's a reason why Gnome is the leading DE, there's a reason why Ubuntu is winning every distro usage poll, and there's a reason this art team is here. You seem to be completely clueless, so please read first before posting. Thank you. --

Re: [ubuntu-art] Unsubscribe request

2008-09-26 Thread Cory K.
symon cadwallender wrote: By the way, how the hell do I unsubscribe from this shit. Unsubscribed at users request. -Cory K. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 68

2008-09-26 Thread Ravindra Singh
for the hardy release :( -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/attachments/20080926/fe727e30/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:25:38 +0200 From

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67

2008-09-26 Thread AA Boy
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Vadim Peretokin [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: GUI's didn't exist in the 80's in this form, there's a reason why Gnome is the leading DE, there's a reason why Ubuntu is winning every distro usage poll, and there's a reason this art team is here. You seem to be

Re: [ubuntu-art] Confirmation that Canonical is making a new default theme

2008-09-26 Thread SzerencseFia
Matthew Nuzum wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:41 PM, AA Boy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, there seems to be some discussion over at the forums about there not being a default theme, and the references used are the Kyudo Guidelines Mindset page and that the art deadline that just passed

Re: [ubuntu-art] Confirmation that Canonical is making a new default theme

2008-09-26 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Sorry if this is slightly off topic but I read a while ago that Metacity was adding composite features like transparency, etc. When will this be available? Does this mean that at some point we may be able to get all the features of compiz with metacity and be able to ditch compiz fusion? This

[ubuntu-art] Metacity compositing

2008-09-26 Thread Matthew Nuzum
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Danny Piccirillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this is slightly off topic but I read a while ago that Metacity was adding composite features like transparency, etc. When will this be available? Does this mean that at some point we may be able to get all the

[ubuntu-art] Metacity composite

2008-09-26 Thread Cory K.
Danny Piccirillo wrote: Sorry if this is slightly off topic but I read a while ago that Metacity was adding composite features like transparency, etc. When will this be available? Does this mean that at some point we may be able to get all the features of compiz with metacity and be able to

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 68

2008-09-26 Thread Yann Dìnendal
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 17:05, Ravindra Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a small suggestion... Gnome 2.24 has been released and with it (if you read the release notes) is a collection of very nice set of wallpapers taken after a competition. It would be great if these are included by

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67

2008-09-26 Thread AA Boy
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Vadim Peretokin [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: it seems that Canonical in fact didn't hire designers to do the artwork. :( Smartboy That is an interesting expectation there :-) -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67

2008-09-26 Thread José Luis
it seems that Canonical in fact didn't hire designers to do the artwork. :( Smartboy That is an interesting expectation there :-) They did actually: http://kwwii.blogspot.com/2008/09/intrepid-and-beyond.html As Kenneth Wimer said on his blog: We're building a team of experts in user

[ubuntu-art] [OFF TOPIC] Expectations.

2008-09-26 Thread Cory K.
AA Boy wrote: It was the only logical solution I, and many others, could think of if the Art team wasn't making a theme and there was supposed to be one in time for Intrepid. Guess we were expecting too much though. ;) That's the problem with expectations. ;) Wanna make sure something happens?

Re: [ubuntu-art] Metacity composite

2008-09-26 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Are crazy compiz-like effects being worked on or will they be? On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danny Piccirillo wrote: Sorry if this is slightly off topic but I read a while ago that Metacity was adding composite features like transparency, etc. When