Re: [ubuntu-art] karmic koala

2009-04-12 Thread Somlói Richárd
Hi Bret! Very nice wallpapers. But i think the koala is a little bit big. -- Eredeti üzenet -- Feladó: bret sheppard lt;bretco...@yahoo.comgt;Címzett: ubuntu-...@lists.ubuntu.commásolat: Elküldve: 06:09Téma: [ubuntu-art] karmic koala Hi, I thought you might like these. I'm highly

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 19:42 -0700, Smartboy wrote: So are we, as a team, going to criticize others of our team because they are tied to one program? I thought freedom was not only freedom in what you can choose on Linux, but freedom to use what you want. By trying to force people to use only

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 22:01 -0700, David Holland wrote: Well i guess the question is What does ubuntu stand for ? Freedom or Restrections (windows tm) Freedom to do what you want, create what you want as long as no one gets hert and we vote on everything Restricted we tell

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 23:51 -0400, Ryan Prior wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote: I believe that *all* submissions for official art or projects under the art team be created with free tools. This does not go far enough. We should only accept

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Saturday 11 April 2009 21:04:59 Cory K. wrote: This is something I thought about before but was reminded of so here goes. I believe that *all* submissions for official art or projects under the art team be created with free tools. While that would be nice, it is unrealistic. We have to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Art council/open team

2009-04-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 19:48 -0700, Smartboy wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote: We are a listless bunch. Very little direction and nothing to hold us together. (sorry to be critical. I think we need more of it) I was rolling around the idea of an

Re: [ubuntu-art] karmic koala art background

2009-04-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 22:31 -0700, bret sheppard wrote: Hi bret here. I thought this was an interesting idea. Maybe for the alpha releases, if the guys at Canonical could manage to approve such an idea in what little time is left till the alphas ;) Would need a good execution, though. --

Re: [ubuntu-art] karmic koala

2009-04-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 22:06 -0700, Smartboy wrote: Perhaps make them brown instead of green? That way it blends into Ubuntu's default color scheme. From https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-February/000536.html Brown has served us well but the Koala is considering

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread david holland
First off i am not saying it should be free in every sense of the word, that would be chaos. Structure is good,and also i don't think anyone feels forced to contribute artwork to Ubuntu. We are all here by choice, because we choose Ubuntu out of the hundreds of Linux distros to apply our

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread Milan Krivda
On Sunday 12 April 2009 10:52:48 Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 23:51 -0400, Ryan Prior wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote: I believe that *all* submissions for official art or projects under the art team be created with free tools.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread Milan Krivda
On Sunday 12 April 2009 10:52:48 Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 23:51 -0400, Ryan Prior wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote: I believe that *all* submissions for official art or projects under the art team be created with free tools.

[ubuntu-art] Call for wiki review: GTK-Themes

2009-04-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
Hi! Those who know a bit about GTK theming: please check https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/GTK-Themes including the linked material, and correct or remove outdated or no longer relevant information (or tell me what to change). Additions are of course also very much welcome. --

[ubuntu-art] Call for wiki review: Updating

2009-04-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
Hi! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/Updating Is this correct and relevant? Or is there perhaps a guide we can link to instead? -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Call for wiki review: GTK-Themes

2009-04-12 Thread Anton Kerezov
В 13:54 +0200 на 12.04.2009 (нд), Thorsten Wilms написа: Additions are of course also very much welcome. I've made some. Can you check them for grammer and spelling because I'm not sure for some things. Anton -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread Cory K.
So while there are various opinions on this subject, I started Art council/open team thread to try to address the fact that there's nobody that can really make things official. Sure, there's trusted folks around here like myself and Thorsten that are a loose council but really who the hell am I?

Re: [ubuntu-art] Call for wiki review: Updating

2009-04-12 Thread Andrew
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: Hi! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/Updating Is this correct and relevant? Or is there perhaps a guide we can link to instead? I'm not so sure it is very relevant, especially the part about editing

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread John Baer
IMO using free tools is fundamental to community developed effort. Using something else means going it alone. The following comment used to live in the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/CommunityThemes page but I don't see it now. Submissions should be made in formats that can be

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 11:55 -0400, John Baer wrote: IMO using free tools is fundamental to community developed effort. Using something else means going it alone. Spot on. The following comment used to live in the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/CommunityThemes page but

[ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Wallpaper Photo Pack

2009-04-12 Thread Mads Rosendahl
Hi You might remember Kenneth Wimer published some background guidelines for Jaunty (http://anotherubuntu.blogspot.com/2009/02/create-wallpaper-for-ubuntu-904.html) back in February. This was a great move because of the lack of organized effort in the artwork. I know that Canonical will be

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread Ben Crisford
I'll do that linking if you want. Ben From: Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Sunday, 12 April, 2009 17:58:41 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools. On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 11:55 -0400, John Baer wrote: IMO

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread Smartboy
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote: This is something I thought about before but was reminded of so here goes. I believe that *all* submissions for official art or projects under the art team be created with free tools. No more wallpapers done with

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Wallpaper Photo Pack

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Stephenson
I would say that with both Hardy and Intrepid the way mascots was included in the artwork was truly art and worked out fantastically. I'm just guessing but I imagine that decision was Jaunty specific, You can draw a Heron and a Ibex, and majestic and element animals. Whereas whichever way you

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 10:20 -0700, Ben Crisford wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/SubmissionGuidelines#Formats BTW, I would appreciate if someone could take over the job of linking the formats (XCF, SVG and so on) to pages where they are explained. Wikipedia pages might be

[ubuntu-art] Need Launchpad Help

2009-04-12 Thread John Baer
I added Impression to Launchpad @ https://launchpad.net/impression . Currently a 192x192px image titled product-mugshot is displayed to the left. https://launchpad.net/@@/product-mugshot How does one change this image? Thanks, John -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 10:32 -0700, Smartboy wrote: I edited https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/Software to include the results of this discussion here. Read through it and see if it is a good compromise. The edit: These tools are recommended to be used if you want your work to be

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread Ryan Prior
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: We recommended the following tools for creating artwork. They are all free software (free as in speech) and can be obtained by everyone at virtually no cost without any licensing-hassle. This simplifies sharing files and

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 15:45 -0400, Ryan Prior wrote: I like your edit better. It is in the spirit of encouraging the use of free software and pointing out what free software is available, while not explicitly discouraging users of other software from contributing. Well, I tried to keep the

[ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools - reflections

2009-04-12 Thread John Baer
Cory, You are a well respected member of this team and your opinions and/or concerns are appreciated. I believe your desire is the group of folks who subscribe to this list and are collectively referred to as the Artwork Team discover additional ways to add value to Ubuntu. I support that