Re: [ubuntu-art] FW: User Log In Screen

2006-11-16 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
have just typed in, or you have used the wrong credentials! Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Henrik Nilsen Omma Sent: 16 November 2006 10:50 To: ubuntu-accessibility Subject: Re: User Log In Screen Ian Pascoe wrote: However

[ubuntu-art] funky keyboard layouts

2006-06-29 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Hey art list, Please have a look at the new skinnable on-screen keyboard: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Projects/SOK The keyboard layouts can be created and modified in Inkscape. The current one shows the possibility of the flexible use of colour, but is admittedly rather garish.

[ubuntu-art] Website art request

2006-05-27 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Hi, I'm just giving the website a bit of a face lift before the release. I'm going to simplify the front page a bit, adding some images and direct links. I've also updated the side menu a bit. On secondary pages like http://www.ubuntu.com/community I've added some grey text to the top of

[ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

2006-05-23 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Thanks to all those who participated in the voting and helped bring this to a conclusion. I asked you to vote for one usplash option and three wallpapers and theme options. To rank the latter two I have used a simple weighting system of 5:3:1, where the top choice gets a weight of 5x, the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

2006-05-23 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: Thanks to all those who participated in the voting and helped bring this to a conclusion. I asked you to vote for one usplash option and three wallpapers and theme options. To rank the latter two I have used a simple weighting system of 5:3:1, where the top choice

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

2006-05-23 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: Spreadsheet attached ... - Henrik Ah, crap, that spreadsheet wasn't complete (I blame OOo constantly crashing when the accessibility features are turned on ...) Anyway, this one is correct, really. - Henrik art-vote-complete.ods Description: application

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

2006-05-23 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Who wrote: All thorugh this process it was discussed that we were choosing 5 themes, and there was no discussion of weighting of votes - why was there such a sudden change? OK, So looking back at this post: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2006-April/001216.html we see that there

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

2006-05-23 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Who wrote: Give me 6 Hours, who do I email the completed .tar.gz to? I can make a metatheme, but packaging is beyond me. Please send it directly to dholbach, who is doing the packaging. Who (question, not my name) is going to make sure the other themes make it, assembled, to the right people

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

2006-05-23 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Who wrote: Henrik, would Daniel's workload be able to accomodate 2 extra themes, or even 3 if LegacyHuman is taken as not being an extra theme, but necessary for continuuity, provided they were ready to package tonight? I did actually send him the list of top five and asked him to see what he

Re: [ubuntu-art] Voting for Dapper Themes

2006-05-22 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Viper550 wrote: Let's just make this easy! I'm on IRC right now, we'll vote there! Freenode #ubuntu-artwork You are, but not everyone on the art team has a chance to be on IRC at this very moment. People have different time zones, work, school, etc. But, when should we vote? Should we do

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 11, Issue 54

2006-05-22 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Michiel Sikma wrote: How about the Edubuntu and Xubuntu splash screens (Kubuntu has already been packaged, one by kwwii)? I've made an Edubuntu one and a Xubuntu one (the latter which I can fix up to have a correct palette without any trouble before that deadline). Are we to send propositions

Re: [ubuntu-art] Voting for Dapper Themes

2006-05-22 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Who wrote: But, when should we vote? Should we do it ASAP? Now? Or later today? You can vote on the addresses listed any time before 0700UTC tomorrow. I really do understand how urgent this is, but I don't think that is enough time for everyone to vote - It isn't fair to stop someone from

Re: [ubuntu-art] Changing GIMP splash for Dapper

2006-04-16 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Petr Tomeš wrote: Hello, I think this is absolutely great: http://klepas.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/gimp-ubuntu-splash.png I agree. I think we should use that one. - Henrik -- http://www.ubuntu.com http://www.theopencd.org -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Inconsistence of gradients and artwork colors

2006-04-05 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Richard Stellingwerff wrote: I've made a few new mockups: http://stellingwerff.com/ubuntu-art/sb.png (svg: I like the last ones, though I can see that even rounded scroll bar tips against a rounded edge can look odd. Here is a version with square stepper edges and rounded scroll bar tips:

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: (Yet another) new logout dialog

2006-04-04 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Andy Somerville wrote: I think theres hardly anyone (who doesnt know beforehand) who thinks the hibernate/sleep functionality is clear. Maybe its been suggested before, but should we consider renaming these? (regardless of what other changes are made) IMO it would be best to only show one of

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: (Yet another) new logout dialog

2006-04-04 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: IMO it would be best to only show one of these options to the average user. (It would be useful to have some real-world data on which of these people use most often -- sleep I guess -- and how many people regularly use both options. Except

Re: [ubuntu-art] Inconsistence of gradients and artwork colors

2006-04-03 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Mark Shuttleworth wrote: I like the glass effect on our current widgets. There's a strange greyness to the top half progressbar currently that I don't like, but I do like the glass effect nonetheless. These new mockups are smoother, rounder, but don't have the same glass effect that we have

Re: [ubuntu-art] Inconsistence of gradients and artwork colors

2006-04-03 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Daniel Borgmann wrote: The problem is, that two rounded widgets glued together look very ugly. We avoid this everywhere else in the theme, like the comboboxes or treeview headers. So if we do rounded scrollbar sliders, I think we should do something different with the steppers. OS X and Vista

Re: [ubuntu-art] Inconsistence of gradients and artwork colors

2006-04-03 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: You said you wanted the scrollbar-tips slightly rounded, but I would actually like to see the tips of the progress bars slightly rounded too. That would make it look like a slightly viscous liquid filling a glass tube. Here is a mock-up to illustrate: http

Re: [ubuntu-art] WinFOSS CD browser design

2006-03-29 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
j Mak wrote: Hi Henrik, I've created this splash for the cd browser http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/4932/ubuntulive4qx.png What do you think? Thanks that looks good. A few things: I notice that you have a black region at the bottom where I presume progress icons would

Re: [ubuntu-art] WinFOSS CD browser design

2006-03-29 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Corey Burger wrote: A quick sanity check: Does the browser take so long to start up that it needs a splash? Yes, because it loads the whole thing from the CD. So if you have slowish drive it can take a while. It's good to let the user know that something is actually happening. - Henrik

Re: [ubuntu-art] update-notifier icon

2006-03-23 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Julian Turner wrote: Hi! You're absolutely right about the exclamation mark - it's just visual noise. But I found the gloss effect on your version doesn't make it easier to recognise the arrows: it lessens contrast. I did a quick gimp-up based on your work (I'm not a great vector artist, so I

Re: [ubuntu-art] update-notifier icon

2006-03-23 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
j Mak wrote: I disagree with Henrik. I think the icon needs a gloss because all the other icons on the panel have some kind of gloss to them; so this feature would make it stylistically blend better with the rest. I also think they should have gloss, but that the arrows should be painted

Re: [ubuntu-art] update-notifier icon

2006-03-23 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Étienne Bersac wrote: Hello, I'm wondering if it's such a good idea to use exactly the same symbol for the update icon as for the restart icon. Especially when both appear besides each other it looks a bit like we couldn't think of anything else. :-) You're right. Maybe a up-arrow should fit

[ubuntu-art] Is colour useful in high-viz icons?

2006-03-20 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
We are working on the high viz icon theme, trying to make it more complete: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/AccessibilityIcons The original author Jakub Steiner notes in his icon development guide: http://jimmac.musichall.cz/doc/high-contrast/html/index.xhtml that the icons have been made

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: The example package gimp file

2006-03-19 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Pascal Klein wrote: Is there a page where I can find a list of what still needs to be done for the example package? I've updated this page to reflect the current status: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/ExampleContent Also if you look at the latest installed example pack you'll see

Re: [ubuntu-art] A call for icons: gnome-accessibility-theme

2006-03-19 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Jakub Steiner wrote: Hi Mark, the archive above contains both the adobe illustrator source files and svgs exported with Adobe Illustrator 9. It uses viewbox parameter for the canvas which causes trouble for some renderers and has weird scaling. For the new proper theme I suggest using a 48x48px

Re: [ubuntu-art] A call for icons: gnome-accessibility-theme

2006-03-17 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: It's seems the bz2 file has them. I'll fire up my secret win32 box and see if they can be exported to something more open. Update: so it seems more recent versions of Adobe Illustrator can export to SVG. I couldn't find any batch conversion utils, but there are only

Re: [ubuntu-art] ArtworkTeam - DapperTasks

2006-03-15 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: I created the page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/DapperTasks Looks great! This is the time for focus :) Henrik: Should we add the example content package on the page? Yes, that would be good. I've added a page with an overview of those items that

[ubuntu-art] wiki cleanup and agenda items

2006-02-01 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Hi, I've done some rather heavy handed restructuring of the wiki art pages, but IMO it's a bit more sane now. There are two basic categories: 'Artwork' and 'ArtworkTeam', each with several sub-pages. The first is for the art itself -- icons and wallpaper, etc, and the second is for content

[ubuntu-art] wiki cleanup and agenda items

2006-01-29 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Hi, I've done some rather heavy handed restructuring of the wiki art pages, but IMO it's a bit more sane now. There are two basic categories: 'Artwork' and 'ArtworkTeam', each with several sub-pages. The first is for the art itself -- icons and wallpaper, etc, and the second is for content

Re: [ubuntu-art] art.ubuntu.com (regarding CMSs)

2005-09-08 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
volvoguy wrote: If this is for general artwork that people are doing for themselves and not for release, I don't really see the point. It's easy to set up a free website somewhere and we can have a page on the wiki that points to the various artists work. If this is for artwork destined to

Re: [ubuntu-art] art.ubuntu.com (regarding CMSs)

2005-09-07 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
really respect the work of all you guys so far whom have been involved with the art.ubuntu.com process, especially by that of Henrik Nilsen Omma, however I think we, as the Ubuntu art community should decide what CMS we should use, no? I just began helping out at art.ubuntu.com with the art-web CMS

[ubuntu-art] art.ubuntu.com administration: please help

2005-09-06 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Hi list, Currently only volvoguy and I have admin access rights to the art.u.c site, which means we have to log in often and check for new submissions and approve and upload them. As we spread the word about the new site, submissions might pile up. Are there any other established members of

Re: [ubuntu-art] art.ubuntu.com

2005-09-05 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Benjamin Berg wrote: The art.gnome.org source supports BBcode, so linking, etc. is possible. The possible tags are described in the following e-mail: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/artweb-list/2005-July/msg00028.html The BBcode works for the news items, descriptions and comments. Oh, cool