[ubuntu-art] Community Council nominations and confirmation polls

2007-04-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Members of the Ubuntu community, We have 5 nominations to expand the community council, and voting starts today. Each candidate is standing individually, so there are 5 separate votes. If a majority of the voters approve that candidate, then (s)he will be confirmed as a new member of the CC with

Re: [ubuntu-art] Update-notifier icon

2007-02-13 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
I like the idea of the up arrow, it does seem to symbolize upgrading or improving. Needs to go along with something, though. Mark -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Update-notifier icon

2007-02-12 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Étienne Bersac wrote: As i noticed during the dapper cycle, the update-notifier icon is wrong. It has one goal : tell the user to manually trigger update. I notice that neither my father nor my mother nor any other membres of my family understood that (that's almost all the clueless people i

Re: [ubuntu-art] Update-notifier icon

2007-02-12 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Étienne Bersac wrote: I don't want agressive. The red hat example is far too annoying for my taste. And may be very disturbing. (Especially in development release, i sometimes let updates awaiting). The two points are : * Icon is not consistent with panel icon. I just had an idea : a

Re: [ubuntu-art] A word of thanks to all of you

2006-10-24 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
For my part I'd like to thank Frank for holding things together across a highly divergent and artistic crowd! We've learned a great deal, and in the end I think the result is excellent - Edgy's art is all community-contributed. Please use this thread to comment on the experience of Edgy, and

Re: [ubuntu-art] good job on the usplash!

2006-10-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Jakub Steiner wrote: the last update finally revealed a well executed usplash. While still a bit on the bubblegum side, it's nice and polished. Good job! Thanks Jakub - that's high praise indeed coming from the man who's defined the look of so much great free software! Well done guys.

Re: [ubuntu-art] [OLS] Getting us a FeatureFreeze exception

2006-10-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
We will get an exception if Frank and his team deliver the needed graphics. It's looking good so far. Please  keep traffic on this subject to a minimum - what's needed now is time for Frank to do his bit. Mark -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Reversion to Dapper Artwork

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Reverting to Dapper would not be a great outcome - but it would be preferable to shipping with artwork that does not meet our standards. We've invested a huge amount of time and effort in the Edgy art community process, and thus far we don't have a final set of images that IMO cut the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Reversion to Dapper Artwork

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Toby Smithe wrote: This second clause rather contradicts the first (in the second sentence). We have invested a huge amount of time, but you're still prepared to waste that when people have spent their own spare time, for free, on it? I don't consider it a waste. We have all learned a lot

Re: [ubuntu-art] Last minute logo love leaves littler outlines

2006-10-10 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Who wrote: Here are some brighter ones (if I go any brighter then I will be less true to the colours of the logo...) with the text changed as suggested. I used 85% because 90% was undetectable - perhaps my monitor is funny? OK, these are looking good. Some more comments.  *

Re: [ubuntu-art] Last minute logo love leaves littler outlines

2006-10-10 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Who wrote: These fix those issues in a few ways I know you said no gradients on the gloss, but I tried it the other way around on 18 anyway as a 'see what we can see' experiement. It was an attempt to make the text feel somehow darker but the gloss line still visible... It took

Re: [ubuntu-art] Last minute logo love leaves littler outlines

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Who wrote: Here are the more saturated versions: I have also worked on the style of highlight on the text - I hope people like it now... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/EdgyArtworkPlan/Polish/Incoming?action=""> It's like a 'build your own logo' system - choose a logo and

Re: [ubuntu-art] New emblems are complete! (update)

2006-10-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Eric Schwenke wrote: Sry for filling the mailing list, but in mind of some critic i have an updatet version of my set created. Changes: - Gloss effect like the human folder one (more consistent) - Added a orange color version, in mind of human consistent The Orange version looks like it

Re: [ubuntu-art] New emblems are complete! (update)

2006-10-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Ivan Sagalaev wrote: While such a unification might be good from the artists point of view it's not that good for usability. Three primary characteristics by which humans distinguish things are form, color and pattern. These icons eliminate form recognition (they are all round) and the

Re: [ubuntu-art] List moderation : first step done.

2006-10-02 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Effraie - thank you! -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

[ubuntu-art] Kubuntu Edgy

2006-09-28 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
...just upgrade to Edgy on my Kubuntu desktop. It's wow. A thing of great beauty. Well done Ken. Mark -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] panel background

2006-09-27 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
effraie wrote: i'll try put them here : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/EffraiePanel I think the panel needs to look quite different from our window borders and dialog backgrounds. At the moment, part of the problem is that the panel looks too similar to the menu bar, of an app, and to the

Re: [ubuntu-art] panel background

2006-09-27 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Frank Schoep wrote: There is (also) an aesthetic problem with several applets and gadgets that can be added to the panel which ignore the panel background. Some of them look great until you hover over them, at that moment they start looking like a push button which drops the whole facade

Re: [ubuntu-art] Knot 3 Wallpaper - comment

2006-09-26 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: That is total nonsense. It's a very good wallpaper, and I don't think that the balance its composition currently holds should be compromised because a design element vaguely reminds you of a logo. That's just silly. Michiel, please observe the code of conduct

[ubuntu-art] Restarting art.ubuntu.com

2006-09-26 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
In late July the Art Team requested that art.ubuntu.com be shut down so that it could be replaced with "something better". It's now late September, and nothing better has actually been delivered, so I think it's necessary to ask the art team to turn art.ubuntu.com back on so that the

Re: [ubuntu-art] [WIKI] Defining the sabdfl aesthetic

2006-09-18 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Thanks for doing this Troy. I can appreciate that I'm difficult to please, and it's useful at least to know what's worked in the past. It's easiest for me to give feedback in person or at least by voice. Can we organise a conference call for the AiC, Jmak, myself and yourself to discuss the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Announcing: Fonty Python - TTF Font manager for Gnu/Linux

2006-09-13 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Donn wrote: With Fonty Python you can select ttf fonts and put them into "pogs" (from the word typography). You can place fonts into pogs from a folder or from another pog. You then install the pog you need. After that, you fire-up Inkscape (or Gimp, or Sodipodi, or Blender etc) and

Re: [ubuntu-art] Apologies

2006-09-13 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Jesse Schalken wrote: My deepest apologies to anyone who had interpreted a previous email of mine as offensive to the artist who had created the work in question. Apology accepted - now let's get this artwork to rock! Jmak, you and Troy both have excellent elements in your work. Can we

Re: [ubuntu-art] Edgy's current art looks like fecal matter :O

2006-09-12 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Jasper Schalken wrote: I know I'm being blunt, but it's true. It's dark brown, it's lumpy, and it has red and green streaks running through it. Not a pleasant combination :P. This is NOT constructive criticism of someone else's work! Please choose your words more carefully in future. In my

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu panel background proposal

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
I far prefer the "semi-transparent" panel idea that someone posted a little while ago. I think the Panel should have a very distinctive look, and not be Grey at all! That goes for the Panel menu items as well as the Panel itself. Mark -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu panel background proposal

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
PingunZ wrote: Honestly I don't like that at all, sorry. The transparant background may look nice when no windows are open but when there are, it looks very cheap. What I prefer is a background image ( not-transparant ) and it should fit the GTK theme. I attached a screenshot of my panel. I

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu panel background proposal

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
jmak wrote: I have the feeling that transparency will meet with the same fate as the flash intro. Now, it is cool and fun but it has plenty of drawbacks. Disregarding their resource hungriness, they diminish text legibility and in general make the desktop look more chaotic and disorganized

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu panel background proposal

2006-09-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Álvaro Medina Ballester wrote: Hi!!! I'm agree with jmak and Jan, transparent panel makes less readable everything but, yes, first impression can be cool. But if we put it in Edgy because it's cool we're going very wrong. Let me explain some short reasons: 1.- First of all, the gnome

Re: [ubuntu-art] Workflow management

2006-09-07 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Nathan Eckenrode wrote: There is some interesting work happening over here at http://kollabor8.toegristle.com/ I am not certain of the software which is being used , but I think that this is the sort of idea that you are looking for. Yes, this is very close to what I want! I tihnk we

Re: [ubuntu-art] Glass panels - just a thought

2006-09-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: Completely unrelated and out of sync to Edgy release cycle I put up a glass panel suggestion on the wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/GlassPanel I've been using it on my desktop for a few days and thought - "Hey, the artwork team has been

Re: [ubuntu-art] Fwd: Re: Pretty System Consoles

2006-09-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Matthew Nuzum wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am pretty uncertain as to whether the usplash can/will be made to do more colors for edgy, so I would not hold my breath on that. Forgive the naive question: * Must it be a single animated image, or can it be a series of

Re: [ubuntu-art] Matte and Gloss work

2006-08-26 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Who wrote: (in the course of it I changed my glossy logo, thoughts on the ones at the ed vs the ones at the beginning?) I like the one you selected for the GDM screens. There's a sizing issue, where the "ubuntu" is too small relative to the logo, but the "chiselled glass" look with the

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntuartist.org icon attribution

2006-08-25 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Jakub Steiner wrote: Howdy, I'm not really sure if this is the right list for this request, but there is a good chance there is the person responsible for the ubuntuforums.org skin subscribed here. Currently the footer is attributing the used icon artwork to Canonical Ltd. Can you please

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: Just so this is clear: if anything I make is not accepted, then this is fine. It does, however, seem very awkward to me that the artist-in-chief specifically starts up the efforts to polish the Human GTK theme, then applauds efforts I exert in doing just that, only for it

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Frank Schoep wrote: One goal I set for myself was to _only_ use ideas and sketches that came up during our collaborative brainstorming. I want the artwork we're producing to be the sum of our collaboration to showcase what we can do with the team, basically the end-goal of our new

[ubuntu-art] Some guidelines for consideration

2006-08-22 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Hi guys We had a fantastic experience at LinuxWorld San Francisco last week, with tremendous interest in the community and commercial stands for Ubuntu at the expo. Jane briefed me on feedback from the conference, and there were a couple of items that I think are worth passing on to you,

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-21 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: I think it's very beneficial to get this discussion going a little bit. What do you guys think about the styles and looks? Agreed Michiel - thanks for kicking it off! Mark -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Starting the Produce phase for Edgy Eft

2006-08-19 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Just a quick note to say thanks to Frank for getting the ball rolling on the Produce phase. Having had a look over the "Propose" phase results I'm very, very excited! I think there are some excellent visual themes there that will make Edgy look really distinctive. So, to all who are

Re: [ubuntu-art] Bar charts required for Fridge

2006-08-02 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Matthew Revell wrote: Hi guys, Any of you fancy helping out with a Fridge story? Here are the details: "Possible Fridge story: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1202417,00.html has some great data about Ubuntu and security (it would be great to see

Re: [ubuntu-art] [REQUEST] Sound designers?

2006-08-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Troy James Sobotka wrote: That said, I believe that the opening sounds and such are very critical to Ubuntu's development. If anyone is interested in this facet, please contact me as I know several sound designers from the video game / motion picture industry who would probably love to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu login

2006-07-31 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
jmak wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/EdgyProposals/JMak Jmak, these are really gorgeous. Keep going! It would be great for you to sync with Frank Schoep to see how you can make sure these proposals are in sync with the timelines he has for integrating artwork in Edgy. Mark

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: LAST CALL: Art Council Applications 3/3

2006-07-19 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Matthew East wrote: 1. The Art Council should not be responsible for granting Ubuntu membership, because the risk is that the community won't get to know new  members or hear about good work being done in the art area, and there is a risk of less consistency in membership appointments. The CC

Re: [ubuntu-art] FEEDBACK: Responses

2006-07-18 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Troy James Sobotka wrote: This is why the proposal phase is important! At Paris it wasn't precisely clear that Mr. Shuttleworth was hoping to resume where "Dapper" direction left off. This is now clearer. Thank you for taking the time to comment, we shall steer accordingly. So folks,

Re: [ubuntu-art] Xubuntu

2006-07-17 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
jmak wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/XubuntuEdgy/Proposals Logo v3 looks cleanest to me. Very classy! Mark -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

[ubuntu-art] Re: FEEDBACK request

2006-07-17 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Hi! Troy sent me a bunch of URL's where he'd carefully pulled together submissions from a bunch of different sources. Thanks Troy! I'll comment on each of these briefly here on the mailing list so that everyone can see these responses. Troy James Sobotka wrote: I compiled the bits that

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Propose] Caramel Glass GDM

2006-07-17 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Who wrote: This style is based loosely on the Dapper Splash, It uses a glossy Ubuntu logo that still needs a fair bit of perfection, but I think the gimping (I.E using some filters) of the glassy logo has helped somewhat

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

2006-07-14 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Niklas Weidel wrote: Regarding CMS, as Neil said, there is no shortage of great, free CMS-systems. I've been using Joomla for example, which has a lot of plugins that could form a basis for an easy-to-handle artwork site. What's short is someone to devote the time to getting the system up

Re: [ubuntu-art] WIKI: Please wiki Wallpapers and logos

2006-07-14 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Can I suggest that this list adopt a rule of etiquette, that "we won't comment on art that is not wikified". This means that people who send art to the list are pointed at a simple document describing how to put that art on the wiki *and where to put it*, after which we can all comment with a

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

2006-07-14 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Matthew Nuzum wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 17:32 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Niklas Weidel wrote: Regarding CMS, as Neil said, there is no shortage of great, free CMS-systems. I've been using Joomla for example, which has a lot of plugins that could form

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-07-06 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: http://thingmajig.org/tmp/abstract1.png http://thingmajig.org/tmp/abstract1b.png (different color scheme) Very nice Michiel! -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork specs for Edgy

2006-07-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Could you add an overall "edgy-artwork" spec, which depends on each of the specific targets? Also, I think its important to rename the specs to "edgy-ubuntu-usplash", "edgy-kubuntu-login-screen" etc rather than "ubuntu-art-foo", because we will want new specs for edgy+1. Mark --

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mark's Comments on Branding

2006-07-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Joao Inacio wrote: - How much of this "ubuntu distinctiveness" is really needed on the other included wallpapers (not default)? Even though this i completely agree on the default wallpaper, from my humble POV a few extra wallpapers that didnt quite follow the rules to the point,

Re: [ubuntu-art] Legal question

2006-07-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Gabriel Rodríguez Alberich wrote: My question is: can I freely modify and redistribute the Ubuntu Logo as the ubuntu-artwork license says? As Corey pointed out, there are two *different* law's that govern this. One is copyright law. That is what talks about the art as "art", and

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mark's Comments on Branding

2006-06-30 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: They don't necessarily have to be distinctly Ubuntu, I believe. That's up for debate. I think that nice photos that are included by default can be abstract enough as well simply to be good filler material. Besides, how would you make them classify as Ubuntu-ish, anyway? Do

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mark's Comments on Branding

2006-06-29 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Étienne Bersac wrote: For me, the branding on the Breezy background was great - it belnded in very well with the backdrop - an generally looked 'cool'. Agree, but it was too dark. Especially if we have window shadow. I've no problem if there are SOME desktop wallpapers

[ubuntu-art] How to make something look a particular way

2006-06-29 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Troy's post on compiling Inkscape made me think about an article I saw a while back on "how to make icons that look good on OS X". It was basically a guide to creating something in the "gel" style that Aqua uses. Once we are through the early stages and are converging on a particular style

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mark's Comments on Branding

2006-06-29 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 29-jun-2006, om 16:14 heeft Matthew Nuzum het volgende geschreven: On 6/29/06, Mark Shuttleworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  Étienne Bersac wrote:  For me, the branding on the Breezy background was great - it belnded in very

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-27 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Lapo Calamandrei wrote I feel like being personally attacked when somebody talk down tango this way. I certainly have no desire to cause offense - sorry if that's the case. My experience with Tango has just not been the one I want for the default experience with Ubuntu and

Re: [ubuntu-art] Schedule-thought

2006-06-27 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: Thoughts regarding wallpaper idea would be appreciated; http://www.weidel.se/gfx/desktop2%201400.png The desktop colour should not be too bright, or it becomes tiring to look at all day. We generally have chosen to go with darker, richer colours so that there

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-26 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Travis Watkins wrote: On 6/26/06, Mark Shuttleworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [huge snip] Just wondering: _are_ there any published guidelines and/or colour palettes for the Human icon set? If there are, are they being followed? One or both of these questions appears to be have

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-26 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
OK, I think we are making progress here! Michiel Sikma wrote: What I do appreciate is that Human was used in Dapper while it was incomplete as an extra impulse to get people to complete it. I'll definitely make it one of my things to do to point out things which I believe are bad choices in

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash improvements

2006-06-24 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: Maybe you remember that a while ago I sent a mockup of a usplash-editor to this list. Good news is that large parts of the required patch are accepted. As Mark already said, the size/number of colors limitations remain, but the themeability is much better now.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Colour palette suggestions

2006-06-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Niel Drummond wrote: sorry I removed this page (it wasn't working very well anyway).. will try and fix it if mark and others agree to have such a thing I think a strong palette and consistent approach are essential - but don't want to deviate from the current Ubuntu logo colours so would

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash improvements

2006-06-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: It seems that a bunch of specs have been changed into "obsolete" because apparently a new usplash is in the making. Exactly what will the capabilities of this new usplash be? Is there any place where I can follow its development or learn about Edgy planned features? I'm

Re: [ubuntu-art] Announcement: Minutes for meeting, news

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Pascal Klein wrote: On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 11:09 +0100, j michaelson wrote: hi pascal, could you clarify what you meant by... "Mark Shuttleworth has stated that the artist in chief will not selected not elected." Apologies. That should read: "Mark S

Re: [ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 22-jun-2006, om 9:48 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: Michiel Sikma wrote: I've been thinking about how to retain consistency between different types of Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu). Perhaps we could simply make sure

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu pallete for inkscape

2006-06-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
j michaelson wrote: would it be worth having an ubuntu pallette made for inkscape users or is everything being switched over to the tango pallette now? No, we are not switching to the Tango palette, so it would be awesome to have the official Ubuntu Human palette in there! Mark --

Re: [ubuntu-art] feature list / artistic ideas / re-orginisation review

2006-06-14 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Niel Drummond wrote: mailing list since the release of Draper. I've put it up here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/Drafts This sounds awesome - I'm on the road though so don't often have web access, could you send that to me as an attachment, please? Thanks! It's really great to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Our wiki organisation

2006-06-12 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Étienne Bersac wrote: We must actually define what we work on. We need a page or a bunch of pages that define each part of Ubuntu artwork and document the way we have to work with it. e.g. a page for BootSplash theme pointing to a documentation for USplash theming. I start writing a kind of

Re: [ubuntu-art] A request

2006-06-12 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: I've been on the Ubuntu Artwork team for a little while now. It was fun talking to everybody on the mailing list here and exciting to see my proposal for usplash used in Dapper. I can't wait to begin seriously contributing to Edgy and discussing how we should make it look

Re: [ubuntu-art] Firefox, Thunderbird theming?

2006-05-30 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Jimmy Angelakos wrote: I know this is a very busy time, but I was wondering, would you consider it to be a good or bad idea to include Human themes for Firefox and Thunderbird in Ubuntu (and perhaps install them by default with the application)? As we're striving to identify Ubuntu with the

Re: [ubuntu-art] New themes have arrived

2006-05-29 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: Huh. How can the themes not be included correctly when there are only two days left before launch? That was why we asked for a community decision may 15th, not May 24th :-) Mark -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] New themes have arrived

2006-05-29 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 29-mei-2006, om 15:17 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: Michiel Sikma wrote: Huh. How can the themes not be included correctly when there are only two days left before launch? That was why we asked for a community decision may

Re: [ubuntu-art] LAUNCHPAD: ArtworkTeam

2006-05-29 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
I did ask the admin of the previous launchpad artwork team to add other people as admins. It never got done (joelM!!!) so have done it myself now. No need to create a whole new team, that's just confusing! I have also changed the default subscription and renewal period to be 365 days - it

Re: [ubuntu-art] Glitch?

2006-05-29 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Launchpad teams can have a default "membership length" and "renewal length". When JoelM created this team, for some reason he set this to 30 days, and 0 days, respectivley. So you were all going to expire as members in June. Not very useful. So I just updated the periods to 365 days

Re: [ubuntu-art] Setting a Meeting Date

2006-05-26 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Who wrote: I think this weekend would be ideal IF Mark feels he can make it (Mark...?) - but because we had directino for doing it AFTER Dapper I ahve suggested these dates. If someone feels strongly that this weekend would be better then just add to the wiki... June 3/4 is good

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

2006-05-24 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: For now, let's just be happy that we were able to choose on a couple of good themes and churn out good usplash proposals. This kind of collaboration and activity is good. Yes - there have been flashes of brilliance in the team that suggest, with a bit of leadership, we

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

2006-05-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Billy wrote: Seems to me that the team isn't the problem at all. Seems people don't want to make a move without your concent, because everything they initiate is shot down in flames, and they have no say it the things that really matter. How can community prevail? Billy - I'm trying

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash pics

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Kenneth Wimer wrote: I made an SVG based on Viper550's work; played around a bit adding more gradients and also a bit of a 3d effect. I added it to the wiki page, even though it is not really a new design (thought it would be better there than posting it here). Oh, and in my pic the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion: Orangify The Default Desktop

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Lukas Sabota wrote: Hello! There are a few icons that are displayed on the default desktop. I'll list them here: Applications Mozilla-Firefox Evolution Log out Show Desktop Trash My idea is to theme some of these icons orange. Here is a suggestion for each of these: Applications -

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash wiki update

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Troy James Sobotka wrote: I took some initiative and thumbnailed all of the work at the usplash proposal portion of the Wiki. Thanks Troy, that's a great bit of organisation and makes the options that much clearer! Can I ask that we go through the options and delete (permanently) those

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 11, Issue 46

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: I don't get why you would want that. All that happens with the scaling is the image being squished and then later stretched back to normal. The only effect would be a loss in quality; not a loss in proportions or composition. I don't see why you would want to maintain two

Re: [ubuntu-art] Voting for Dapper Themes

2006-05-15 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Who wrote: What next? I couldn't see how to make a poll on Launchpad... Who If you go there, NOT logged in, it states..  "log in as Admin and set up a poll" (or similar) Does anyone here have such magical powers _and_ some time? I cc'd

Re: [ubuntu-art] Graphic Design

2006-05-15 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Lukas Sabota wrote: I've been doing a lot of nay-saying with the current state of Human, but I have been doing very little about it. I am interested in getting started on some basic graphic design. Perhaps I can contribute more for edgy or edgy+1. Could anyone recommend a online guide

Re: [ubuntu-art] On Human Folder Icons

2006-05-15 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: Can we please put an end to all this negativism I've been witness to on this list lately (not especially from you Étienne, but generally). I think Mark has been pretty clear about the Human policy, and persistent negativism is not likely to change his

Re: [ubuntu-art] Deadline for community art: May 15

2006-05-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
We have struggled to get a good workflow in place between the artist leading Human and the packaging team.  You can see the latest delivery from the Human folks here:   http://daniel.holba.ch/ubuntu/iconcall/ You will see many icons there that have not yet successfully landed in the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Deadline for community art: May 15

2006-05-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Étienne Bersac wrote: At last ! Thanks for this preview of the development state. I'm happy to see new devices and trash icons and other improvement. Human definitively does not blend with neither Tango nor Tangerine. It's not designed to. It uses its own perspective. It's designed to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dialogs icon and tangerine

2006-05-09 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Andreas Nilsson wrote: I think it would be very bad to maintain the old gtk icons for apply,cancel,yes,no,etc, but it also would be bad to use the red icon for tabs. Firefox uses a red [x] by default for tab closure. -- ubuntu-art mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: Deadline for community art: May 15

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: Will the original Human theme (not the new one made for Dapper) be shipped with Dapper for those who aren't willing to make the change? If not yet, then I suggest that one. It's a great theme, afterall. Then nominate it, and vote for it! Mark -- ubuntu-art mailing

Re: [ubuntu-art] Firefox Human theme 0.1 released

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
I really like the work you have done Frank but I would like to see both Human and Tangerine versions! The folder for Human is quite different to Tangerine. Since Human will be the default theme on Dapper it would be better to have this consistent. Here you can visually see both Human (first

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: Default themes

2006-05-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
These are very classy, particularly the smooth-blended one. Pascal, can you organise a good process to pick two or three? Or does someone else want to do that if Pascal is still in the leadup to exams? These are great themes and I think Dapper could benefit by cleaning out some of the current

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: Default themes

2006-04-29 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
bvc wrote: How did we go from three to TWO? I'm talking about external themes (things that exist in the Gnome world, like Gorilla and Mist etc which are high quality but not part of the Ubuntu project). At the moment we have a couple of themes in there as options by default, but I think you

[ubuntu-art] Default themes

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
I just did a virgin Dapper install, and the existing themes are by default pretty weak:  - the high contrast ones we need for accessibility (though they could be installed with the accessibility metapackage that is going to be done, Henrik is working on that IIRC)  - Mist, Smokey, Ocean

[ubuntu-art] Re: Default themes

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: That's not quite what we were planning. The high contrast themes were moved into the desktop seed because they can then be run easily from the Live CD with the F5 options. Also keep in mind that for a person with weak vision it can be very difficult to find the right

Re: [ubuntu-art] Recompressing PNGs to save space?

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
This is a very cool bit of work from Frank Schoep over on [EMAIL PROTECTED] that I think might be of interest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Very late for such a pervasive change BUT 15MB is not to be sniffed at. Frank Schoep wrote: Hi all, I've been fiddling around with the Dapper beta release

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wireless signal icons

2006-04-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Welcome aboard! Joseph Hill wrote: The only change I don't like is the wireless signal meter on the Network Monitor applet.  I have two wireless cards and use only one toolbar, so panel real estate is very valuable. Yes, this is a bug, the fix is due in the next icon package upload which

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wireless signal icons

2006-04-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Lukas Sabota wrote: Community guys - Tangerine is looking great! Let's focus on priorities 6-8 in the http://daniel.holba.ch/ubuntu/ic/ list, so we can maximise the total effective coverage of Human/Tango icons. Mark, will tangerine be installed by default? I would hope so,

Re: [ubuntu-art] (Hopefully final) logout dialog

2006-04-15 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Manu Cornet wrote: I've just sent the patch to Sébastien by email, if he is satisfied with it it should hit the repository in the next dew days :) Thanks Manu this is fine work indeed! Mark -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

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

2006-04-05 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Richard Stellingwerff wrote: I've made a few new mockups: http://stellingwerff.com/ubuntu-art/sb.png (svg: http://stellingwerff.com/ubuntu-art/sb.svg) All of these have rounded scrollbar tips AND rounded steppers. I'm looking for a mockup that does not change the steppers, but does

Re: [ubuntu-art] can glassy and caramel be combined? [was: Inconsistence of gradients and artwork colors]

2006-04-05 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Javier Aravena C. wrote: El mar, 04-04-2006 a las 11:24 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth escribió: The icons are very much a work in progress. See Daniel's excellent page for the full set, and priorities, and know that we will get to everything with priority 8, 9 and 10. Mark where's

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