Re: [ubuntu-art] Dapper lookfeel, some (maybe) useful links

2006-03-15 Thread Frédéric van der Essen
The popup color is nice with human theme, but as soon as you change it for something else, it looks really strange. IMO it should use the gtk theme colors, or a boring color like the new old popup. PS I noticed that the notification-daemon has switched to an IMHO horrible yellow bubble, is

Re: [ubuntu-art] Graphite vs Heat theme

2006-03-13 Thread Frédéric van der Essen
are trying to accomplish much the same as the Heat theme from Frédéric van der Essen... Ie. - a toned down grayish theme - which I totally acknowledge btw - I think it will have a huge user base. Much like the silver-version of XPs theme. Heat: http://www.mentalwarp.com/~fred/divers/ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-art] some artwork.

2006-03-09 Thread Frédéric van der Essen
Thanks for the comments everyone. I must say that my background was not meant to be default or to please everyone. As soon as you put more than two colors, with one of them different than blue, it will lead to strongly different opinions. The safest way to please everyone is to keep the art

Re: [ubuntu-art] some artwork.

2006-03-09 Thread Frédéric van der Essen
For those interested in the vector part of the background : http://www.mentalwarp.com/~fred/divers/simple-brown-background.svg -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dapper Splash continues...

2005-10-26 Thread Frédéric van der Essen
First i'm sorry that i wasn't able to be at the saturday meeting. I have web access only at university so it will hard for me to be at any meeting or to follow closely any discussion here. I would like to take this dapper splash thread as an example of why we really need a comprehensive

[ubuntu-art] Icon feedback

2005-07-20 Thread Frédéric van der Essen
Hi ! Here is my review of the current icon theme after a few days of use :) So i'll start with what i found especially nice :) no particular order. * the theme is overal quite illustration oriented, i like the fact that the icons for documents are like stamps, they have a nice white border with