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

2006-04-05 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: The trick is that the tips slightly overshoot the edge of the slider groove so you don't get a round edge meeting a square one. Imagine that the tips are not sitting in the groove with the rest of the slider, but are less deep so they can pass over the edge of the

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

2006-04-05 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: So something like this: http://people.ubuntu.com/~henrik/images/slider-in-action-2.png (left side version) Yes, that's the ticket. Richard, any objections? Mark -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

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

2006-04-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
for Ubuntu. In the interim, I'm trying to get us a look that is both expressive and consistent :-). Mark Shuttleworth wrote: I think the orange looks great on many widgets. In general, widgets are not on-screen all the time. You see them when something is happening or when you need to make

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

2006-04-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Daniel Borgmann wrote: On 4/3/06, Mark Shuttleworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While we are here I'm reminded of one additional thing I'd like to see mocked up. On the scrollbars, the white tips at each end might look even better if they had slightly rounded corners like the slider

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

2006-04-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
bvc wrote: Let's not forget the range slider trough http://kwh.kernow-gb.com/~bvc/dapper-xubu/progress-scroll-trough.png This has the problem Richard identified, that when the scrollbar is all the way up or down, you have a rounded scrollbar against a rounded stepper, which looks bong :-)

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

2006-04-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: Here is a mock-up to illustrate: http://people.ubuntu.com/~henrik/images/rounded-progress.png I appreciate where that's going, but I think it looks wrong because the lines on the progressbar are themselves vertical and straight. So let's leave that one for now.

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

2006-04-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Manu Cornet wrote: Here's a new version of the dialog : http://www.manucornet.net/ubuntu/dev/dialog.png http://www.manucornet.net/ubuntu/dev/logout.png http://www.manucornet.net/ubuntu/dev/hibernate.png Interesting! Many people found that the dialog was too large ; therefore, I

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

2006-04-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Manu Cornet wrote: As a matter of fact, I seldom do mere mockups, most of the time I also write actual patches (and I sent this one to Seb by email along with those captures) :) Seems like it is on its way to be uploaded soon. Rock star :-) Huh, did I misunderstand the meaning of

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

2006-04-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
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 there's a darn good

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

2006-04-03 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Étienne Bersac wrote: 100% agree. I even suggest to use exactly the same look for both scrollbar and slider handles. Mark, you did not clearly said if you prefer orange or caramel. Please precise this point. I think the orange looks great on many widgets. In general, widgets are not

Re: [ubuntu-art] Another different suggestion about notification bubble

2006-03-31 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
The [x] is really a "hint" that you can click to close. Many people don't know they can dismiss the bubbles, so we added the ability to close them by clicking anywhere including the [x]. I don't think there's a way to talk back to the app which popped up the notification, so I don't think

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion about notification bubble

2006-03-30 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Ricardo Pérez López wrote: I think the new notification bubble has a little problem: it is difficult to realize what is the icon the bubble is pointing. Yes, I can see what you are saying. We went to quite a lot of trouble to make the popup cleaner and classier, and I don't think we can

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion about notification bubble

2006-03-30 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Manu Cornet wrote: * Place the bubble farther from the panel, so that a small piece of the background is visible between them (thus making the triangle "pointier" and more precise). This would be my preferred solution, but I think upstream makes this difficult because the pointer is by

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

2006-03-22 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Jakub Steiner wrote: The gnome-themes module, where the icons reside, only includes bitmaps. There are also some, in my view, not so well executed icons contributed by Sun folks there. If anybody wants to step in and create a nice high contrast set based on the original artwork, possibly

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

2006-03-21 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
bvc wrote: I have joined the ubuntu-art mailing list but have not received a confirmation or any email. I've ventured through a lot of the wiki but I do not know what "one of the three "top community" themes which we can get into Dapper" is. Link? That hasn't been decided yet. I think the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Proposal: Tangerine Icon Theme

2006-03-17 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Pascal Klein wrote: So, how does that sound? Drop the official tango package, unless someone else wishes to take it up and work on this? I think it would be better to have one complete, consistent and polished theme as apposed to several incomplete ones. :) Well, I do like the idea of

Re: [ubuntu-art] Gimp splash for dapper[Modified]

2006-03-15 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Suzan wrote: j Mak schrieb:     This is the modified gimp splash.     http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/9205/ubuntugimpsplash5oy.png     I incorporated Mark's and Susanne's suggestions into the new design.     Let me know what you think.     J. Mak

Re: [ubuntu-art] Breaking the standards... splash images.

2006-03-15 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Brant Watson wrote: I know perhaps there were technical limitations, but how come all splash images historically have been rectangular?  The Gimp, OpenOffice, KDE, Gnome (though the temp one in dapper has rounded edges), Azureus, etc...  It always annoyed me, but it seems that its a standard

[ubuntu-art] Proposal for additional QA and localisation time on Dapper

2006-03-10 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Hi all I'm writing to propose a six week delay in the release date of Dapper, in order to do additional validation, certification, localisation, and polish. I would like to call for a community town hall meeting on Tuesday 14th March - once at 09:00 UTC (for the Aussies and Asian communities) and

Re: [ubuntu-art] New icons

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Pascal Klein wrote: Sorry if I was somewhat blunt. I feel that the process isn't moving along as fast as I would like it to and I'm trying to stick a blame to something. Stick it on your own doorstep, then. The art team needs leadership and organisation. This is our fourth release,  so

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