Re: [ubuntu-art] And he went to the volcano to offer...

2006-09-28 Thread Michiel Sikma
Off-topic to the discussion of Troy's art, but I'd say that valid positioning and branding of Ubuntu's identity is moreo important than a few tools, but that's something other devs will probably disagree with. :P Like said on IRC, I find this very interesting, Troy. We'll discuss it

Re: [ubuntu-art] panel background

2006-09-27 Thread Michiel Sikma
Thanks for the suggestion. It looks interesting, to say the least, but I wonder about usability here. The bar looks like it's too dark to create a proper contrast between itself and the text. Michiel Op 27-sep-2006, om 3:30 heeft effraie het volgende geschreven: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

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

2006-09-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 26-sep-2006, om 11:51 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: 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

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

2006-09-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
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 Op 26-sep-2006, om 11:38 heeft Julian Oliver het volgende

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

2006-09-12 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 12-sep-2006, om 10:35 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: Both good pointers. Troy Sobotka just called for more comments to help get Edgy's artwork nailed, so your timing is good. Mark That's true. We need to have more people actively criticizing art. Don't worry about

Re: [ubuntu-art] (no subject)

2006-09-12 Thread Michiel Sikma
Welcome to the list, I guess. Michiel Op 12-sep-2006, om 16:18 heeft Alberto Núñez het volgende geschreven: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- ubuntu-art mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-art] Workflow management

2006-09-08 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 7-sep-2006, om 18:43 heeft Nathan Eckenrode het volgende geschreven: I am not certain I see how Mediawiki is better at allowing one to see the progression of work that has been done on artwork. It appears to be the same solution that is currently in place, a wiki. i certainly can be

Re: [ubuntu-art] Usplash for edgy is finished

2006-09-07 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 7-sep-2006, om 0:45 heeft Dennis Kaarsemaker het volgende geschreven: well, almost finished The usplash in edgy actually already supports the bling-bling things I worked on lately, but doesn't say how to use them. I've just pushed some more revisions to launchpad, including an example

Re: [ubuntu-art] Usplash for edgy is finished

2006-09-07 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 7-sep-2006, om 12:08 heeft Who het volgende geschreven: That is _cool_ - what did you use to make it? I like the added shading on the logo too... Just Photoshop. I'll prepare a version that can be opened up in GIMP when I get home (uses layer effects and clipping masks now). The radial

Re: [ubuntu-art] Usplash for edgy is finished

2006-09-07 Thread Michiel Sikma
I would like that too, but a background might not work well for the same reasons it couldn't be anything other than black in the old usplash. I was thinking of shining a big spotlight on the logo that revealed a brown radial gradient-like background underneath it, but that doesn't work

Re: [ubuntu-art] msikma's Progress Indicator

2006-08-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-aug-2006, om 4:21 heeft Troy Sobotka het volgende geschreven: On Tue, 2006-29-08 at 15:55 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: Or something like this: http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/28695/animated.gif I think that concept is terrific. We discussed something very similar to it during

Re: [ubuntu-art] Pretty System Consoles

2006-08-29 Thread Michiel Sikma
Yeah, wasn't it one of the main art-related objectives of Edgy to get that crappy text out of the distro's usplash? Michiel Op 29-aug-2006, om 15:13 heeft PingunZ het volgende geschreven: Seriously, focus the usplash with a higher resolution and color depth. Cheers PingunZ --

Re: [ubuntu-art] Pretty System Consoles

2006-08-29 Thread Michiel Sikma
. We really don't need a beginner-freaking-out-text, its not nice, its not useful.. Just a nicebackground with a throbber. Cheers PingunZ 2006/8/29, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yeah, wasn't it one of the main art-related objectives of Edgy to get that crappy text out of the distro's

Re: [ubuntu-art] Pretty System Consoles

2006-08-29 Thread Michiel Sikma
Well, I'm kind of hoping that somehow we'd be able to get past that limit. I've heard talk of a better usplash that will support 256 colors. It's rather ugly with only a few colors. Michiel Op 29-aug-2006, om 16:05 heeft Viper550 het volgende geschreven: Nice, but that's 256 colors, do

Re: [ubuntu-art] Some guidelines for consideration

2006-08-23 Thread Michiel Sikma
combining brown with orange and even yellow/red hue accents that Dapper made possible. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-23 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 23-aug-2006, om 8:22 heeft Troy James Sobotka het volgende geschreven: On Wed, 2006-23-08 at 08:07 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: I think we have gone a little off-topic. :) Not off topic at all -- the deadline is pretty rapidly approaching. It _is_ difficult to churn out work after you

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-23 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 23-aug-2006, om 11:42 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: Michiel, I'm somewhat responsible for this. 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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Some guidelines for consideration

2006-08-23 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 23-aug-2006, om 11:58 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: Michiel Sikma wrote: It's a little unfortunate that the shut down, restart, etc. buttons are now in a drop-down box, which I think kind of seems out of place when opened. I'd rather have those buttons on the GDM

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
. Does anyone still have that link that contained it? I'm willing to do a lot for Ubuntu art, but reverse engineering the alpha channels of all icons of an icon set isn't one of them. :) Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
screen isn't removed I'd certainly go for an animated one, like xubuntu. I hope you can do this. I think Ubuntu just has too many loading screens. :) Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS: please CC your mails to the Ubuntu artwork mailing list. Seems that I didn't even notice that two mails

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

2006-08-20 Thread Michiel Sikma
and clipping are majorly useful features. I guess I'll have try and go without them. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

[ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-19 Thread Michiel Sikma
about the styles and looks? Regards, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

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

2006-08-19 Thread Michiel Sikma
is going to be very useful. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Progress update on the community process

2006-08-15 Thread Michiel Sikma
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Re: [ubuntu-art] Progress update on the community process

2006-08-13 Thread Michiel Sikma
the easiest way to make everything brighter is tossing a replace color filter on the grey, but that should only be done when I no longer need to edit the layers. :) So I'll try that in a while. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-art] Progress update on the community process

2006-08-13 Thread Michiel Sikma
and orange are okay colors from my perspective, as they're very distinctive and nice colors. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] NEW Startup Sounds

2006-08-12 Thread Michiel Sikma
some interface sounds. I'm really interested in those in particular. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Progress update on the community process

2006-08-10 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 10-aug-2006, om 17:28 heeft Michiel Sikma het volgende geschreven: Op 10-aug-2006, om 17:15 heeft Who het volgende geschreven: Are there going to be any modifactions to the Human engine this release cycle? I recall that the clearlooks developers made it in the UI sprint for dapper

Re: [ubuntu-art] Progress update on the community process

2006-08-10 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 10-aug-2006, om 17:36 heeft Who het volgende geschreven: I too am wondering about the technical aspects of the Human theme/ engine. I've worked out a possible future theme for Human before (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/PolishHumanGTKTheme/

Re: [ubuntu-art] Progress update on the community process

2006-08-10 Thread Michiel Sikma
! -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestions for polishing the Human GTK theme

2006-08-02 Thread Michiel Sikma
colors, since it is just a little bit too bright at the moment. There has been made a bug report about it (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubuntulooks/+bug/37603). Well, off to the drawing table. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] QUESTION: usplash

2006-07-08 Thread Michiel Sikma
, widescreen LCDs are becoming more popular, and one could think that the whole widescreen TV hype might get something to do with it, too. I agree that most computers as of now still have 4:3, but I wouldn't discount the possibility of it being different in the future. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-07-05 Thread Michiel Sikma
to make it more Ubuntu-specific? I'd surely prefer to go without it, though. Here are links to larger versions: http://thingmajig.org/tmp/abstract1.png http://thingmajig.org/tmp/abstract1b.png (different color scheme) Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Holidays

2006-07-04 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 4-jul-2006, om 15:42 heeft Étienne Bersac het volgende geschreven: Hello all, I'll be in holyday with boyscouts during 3 week from 5 to 25 july. So don't hope any changes in the wiki from me nor any comment on ubuntu-art Have nice holydays you too. -- Verso l'Alto ! -- ubuntu-art

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

2006-07-03 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 3-jul-2006, om 10:31 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: You're absolutely right - for non-default wallpapers we could relax this criterion. However, the number of wallpapers we can include on the installation CD is limited by space. I'm not sure, for example, if Dapper

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-07-03 Thread Michiel Sikma
will, too, so we can always have one high-resolution default wallpaper and some smaller ones besides that, if it really takes up that little space. That is kind of nice. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-07-03 Thread Michiel Sikma
, then they should definitely submit them, if only for to show off the fact that it is possible, but I'd much rather work with a much larger control over individual pixels. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-07-02 Thread Michiel Sikma
On Jun 30, 2006, at 5:52 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 30-jun-2006, om 17:47 heeft Troy James Sobotka het volgende geschreven: Huge can of worms. We talked about this in Paris, and this is why I brought it up. I can tell you that 5:4 is pretty common as is 16:9. Yeah, you're right

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 0:22 heeft Étienne Bersac het volgende geschreven: Hello, www.neuronioenlatado.com.br/ubuntu/eft1920x1280.png That would be nice to ship wallpaper in such high resolution. Especially for widescreen for 1650x1080 and higher (like OS X do). Étienne. -- Verso l'Alto !

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 9:58 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: There are two things to bear in mind. First, space. We are very tight on the install CD. In Dapper we switched to 700MB CD formats but we also introduced a lot of example content that shows what the OS is capable

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 10:00 heeft Michiel Sikma het volgende geschreven: Is that so? I always thought that it kept a cached, maybe even uncompressed version of a scaled wallpaper to prevent the rendering from being too difficult. Hmm... maybe that's an idea for the developers. I'll file

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 12:22 heeft Joao Inacio het volgende geschreven: On 6/30/06, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I encourage people to work on as high resolutions as their RAM will allow. I personally work on resolutions in the 4000 px wide regions to ensure that my wallpapers

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 13:25 heeft Kenneth Wimer het volgende geschreven: Hi Thiago, On Jun 30, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Thiago Ribeiro wrote: I made this wallpaper in Inkscape, but I opened it in Gimp and saved as png. I dont know why when I export it in Inkscape the image isnt the same that I'm

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 17:40 heeft Troy James Sobotka het volgende geschreven: The optics of this are poor. There are a plethora of different aspect ratios ( 16:9, 16:10, 4:3, 5:4 ). The only ones that are widely used are 4:3 and 16:10. I don't really see a reason to support 5:4 (??) and

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 17:47 heeft Troy James Sobotka het volgende geschreven: Huge can of worms. We talked about this in Paris, and this is why I brought it up. I can tell you that 5:4 is pretty common as is 16:9. Yeah, you're right. Sorry. 5:4 (1280x1024) is commonly used as well. I

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

2006-06-29 Thread Michiel Sikma
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 well with the backdrop - an generally looked 'cool'. Agree,

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

2006-06-29 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 29-jun-2006, om 17:00 heeft Matthew Nuzum het volgende geschreven: On 6/29/06, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op 29-jun-2006, om 16:14 heeft Matthew Nuzum het volgende geschre For inspiration, I strongly suggest looking at what other OSs are doing. Most computers come from

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

2006-06-27 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 27-jun-2006, om 16:11 heeft Troy James Sobotka het volgende geschreven: On Tue, 2006-27-06 at 07:33 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: 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

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

2006-06-27 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 27-jun-2006, om 16:13 heeft Michiel Sikma het volgende geschreven: Op 27-jun-2006, om 16:11 heeft Troy James Sobotka het volgende geschreven: On Tue, 2006-27-06 at 07:33 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: The desktop colour should not be too bright, or it becomes tiring to look at all

Re: [ubuntu-art] Appointment of AIC's for Edgy

2006-06-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
! :) Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
On Jun 26, 2006, at 10:29 PM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: 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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Schedule-thought

2006-06-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
in vectors? I've also done some wallpaper sketching which I'll present later while we're on the subject. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-25 Thread Michiel Sikma
PS: sorry, I didn't realize you had already sent a mail to the list as well. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-25 Thread Michiel Sikma
On Jun 25, 2006, at 11:55 PM, Kenneth Wimer wrote: Hi, On Jun 25, 2006, at 11:23 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote: On Jun 25, 2006, at 8:25 PM, Kenneth Wimer wrote: On Jun 25, 2006, at 7:21 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote: On Jun 25, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Troy James Sobotka wrote: This will require

Re: [ubuntu-art] Icon discussion

2006-06-23 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 21-jun-2006, om 17:11 heeft Who het volgende geschreven: On 6/20/06, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's open up this discussion again with Edgy in mind. There are currently two viable sets that can be used: the Human set and the Tangerine/Tango set. What are your reasons

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu title font

2006-06-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 21-jun-2006, om 23:29 heeft Niel Drummond het volgende geschreven: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:27:59 +0200 Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ ubuntu-art-titlefont can you make ubuntu-art the assignee to this spec, so it'll show up on the main

Re: [ubuntu-art] Updated Cursor

2006-06-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
The spec for this (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/ ChangeMouseCursors) says J Lo loves her mouse pointers, but ubuntu has not improved on existing commercial mouse pointers. She hopes the next release will. I still don't see this as a valid argument. What is there to improve on

Re: [ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

2006-06-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
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 that the default themes that exist

Re: [ubuntu-art] New member

2006-06-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
Hi Niklas! Welcome to the Artwork team. It's great to have someone around with experience in graphics. Do you also have experience in print work? I hope that you will succeed at getting a job as UI designer at DICE. I too would like to be part of a game studio sometime, although right

Re: [ubuntu-art] Updated Cursor

2006-06-20 Thread Michiel Sikma
Chuck Huber wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 15:25 -0700, Chuck Huber wrote: The link below depicts XP cursors to the left, while the equivalent Polar, Neutral and Ubuntu cursors are on the right, in that order. http://lagunadata.com/staging/buntu_art/cursor_comp.png Checking around I found

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu pallete for inkscape

2006-06-20 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 20-jun-2006, om 9:34 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: 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

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu title font

2006-06-20 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 20-jun-2006, om 9:39 heeft Oliver Grawert het volgende geschreven: hi, Am Dienstag, den 20.06.2006, 08:32 +0100 schrieb Mark Shuttleworth: Andy Fitzsimon did the first versions of the Ubuntu font - I think he did it by hand and it was his first font, so cleanup / patches / improvements

Re: [ubuntu-art] Updated Cursor

2006-06-19 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 19-jun-2006, om 3:00 heeft Chuck Huber het volgende geschreven: On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 15:58 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: For one, and this has nothing to do with your cursor design, but what is exactly the reason why we're making new cursors? At the risk of sounding closed-minded, I

Re: [ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

2006-06-19 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 19-jun-2006, om 3:24 heeft Chuck Huber het volgende geschreven: On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 14:09 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: For instance, Kubuntu could have a blue theme. It should preferably look as much like the Ubuntu default theme as possible, barring the color set. Then we should

Re: [ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

2006-06-19 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 19-jun-2006, om 16:44 heeft Matthew Nuzum het volgende geschreven: On 6/19/06, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ubuntu uses orange, Kubuntu uses blue, Xubuntu uses light anthracite (or something; that's how the color seems to me). Those seem like nice default colors for themes. I

[ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

2006-06-18 Thread Michiel Sikma
I've been thinking about how to retain consistency between different types of Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu). Perhaps we could simply make sure that the default themes that exist for the different distros are somewhat universal? For instance, Kubuntu could have a blue theme. It should

Re: [ubuntu-art] Updated Cursor

2006-06-18 Thread Michiel Sikma
Viper550 wrote: Here's an updated version of my new experimental cursor design for Ubuntu... Viper550 That actually looks better than the one before, but I still have a rather fundamental problem with it. For one,

[ubuntu-art] Main page discussion

2006-06-15 Thread Michiel Sikma
Hey everybody, I recently had another look at the main page design of Ubuntu.com, which I don't really do often, and realized that it went through a bit of a redesign since I last checked there. I think that some of the things that are different should be changed, however. I'm not sure who's

Re: [ubuntu-art] Main page discussion

2006-06-15 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 15-jun-2006, om 9:04 heeft Brian Burger het volgende geschreven: On 6/14/06, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://thingmajig.org/tmp/ubuntuhomepage_proposal.png The trouble with getting rid of the new navigation box along the top is that it's got a bunch of links

Re: [ubuntu-art] Meeting agenda for Saturday June 17, 16:00 UTC, in #ubuntu-meeting

2006-06-15 Thread Michiel Sikma
I'll be there. And for good measure... http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html? day=17month=6year=2006hour=16min=0sec=0p1=0 Michiel Op 15-jun-2006, om 14:32 heeft Pascal Klein het volgende geschreven: Hello all. Please note the following is the agenda for the meeting,

Re: [ubuntu-art] Main page discussion

2006-06-15 Thread Michiel Sikma
Matthew Nuzum wrote: On 6/15/06, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everybody, I recently had another look at the main page design of Ubuntu.com, which I don't really do often, and realized that it went through a bit of a redesign since I last checked there. I think that some

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: Icon request

2006-06-14 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 13-jun-2006, om 23:54 heeft Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen het volgende geschreven: 2006/6/13, Lukas Sabota [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:11 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: Lukas Sabota wrote: Hello! I am currently developing a GNOME front-end for the FCE Ultra NES

[ubuntu-art] SFX in future Ubuntu releases

2006-06-13 Thread Michiel Sikma
Hey all. I'm wondering about the possible inclusion of special effects such as drop shadows and other forms of transparency in Ubuntu artwork (themes). Does anybody know whether this is a planned feature for Edgy? I'm asking because I personally will be designing my mock-ups way

[ubuntu-art] Re: Icon request

2006-06-13 Thread Michiel Sikma
Lukas Sabota wrote: Hello! I am currently developing a GNOME front-end for the FCE Ultra NES Emulator: gfceu [1+2]. I am hoping to see this program pushed into universe. One aspect that is missing however, is an icon for the desktop file. I am by no means an artist, and am asking for a

Re: [ubuntu-art] A request

2006-06-12 Thread Michiel Sikma
Billy wrote: That pretty much sums it up for me. Doesn't matter if you make it in PS or AI in a particular format. Doesn't belong in linux, and it's a shame if it ends up here. I have AI, PS, and many others, but I won't buy them anymore and I do not use them to make anything that ends up on

Re: [ubuntu-art] A request

2006-06-12 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 12-jun-2006, om 9:43 heeft Billy het volgende geschreven: On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 07:41 +0100, Joao Inacio wrote: I have no clue what you're talking about that but if i'm correct (english isn't my first language) thats called zealotry? condemnation? zealotry? it's all the same name calling

[ubuntu-art] A request

2006-06-11 Thread Michiel Sikma
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 great. There is one

Re: [ubuntu-art] RFC: Ubuntu 6.06 Improvement Review

2006-06-09 Thread Michiel Sikma
Frank Schoep wrote: Hello everyone, I'm having trouble finding time to do Ubuntu related things lately due to overtime, but I've managed to put in some hours over the past two weeks. I've got a lot of ideas and suggestions I want to vent but I'm going to have to find a lot more time before I

Re: [ubuntu-art] Calendar (and other organization)

2006-06-06 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 6-jun-2006, om 10:13 heeft Brian Burger het volgende geschreven: Launchpad has a calendar function - we've already got a team calendar, and individual ones too. LP's internal help/documentation could be better, but we don't need to go re-inventing the wheel. Brian/Madpilot --

Re: [ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-06-01 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 1-jun-2006, om 15:04 heeft Julian Oliver het volgende geschreven: ..on Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:26:29PM +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: I don't think that's a very good idea. We need to select a theme based on good discussion about the propositions in which we provide good arguments. We're all

Re: [ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-06-01 Thread Michiel Sikma
Julian Oliver wrote: ..on Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 06:30:20PM +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 1-jun-2006, om 18:27 heeft Tom Moitie het volgende geschreven: Julian isn't saying that the users should be choosing the direction that the Ubuntu artwork should go, but to gain critique from them, so

Re: [ubuntu-art] On the art of creating usplash images

2006-05-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-mei-2006, om 10:04 heeft Dennis Kaarsemaker het volgende geschreven: Hi all, Please have a look at http://www.kaarsemaker.net/images/usplash-viewer.png and tell me whether such an application would be useful to you. Currently it can open usplash .so files, display them and change

Re: [ubuntu-art] On the art of creating usplash images

2006-05-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-mei-2006, om 10:23 heeft Dennis Kaarsemaker het volgende geschreven: The thing is, though, that I feel most people would rather work on doing more revisions to the usplash appearance rather than just a new image for the next release cycle. I too have plans, though not as radically new

Re: [ubuntu-art] On the art of creating usplash images

2006-05-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-mei-2006, om 11:14 heeft Gossler Karoly het volgende geschreven: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts.tar.gz Can you use this? connor ps: sorry. My previous msg goes to private. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] New themes have arrived

2006-05-29 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 29-mei-2006, om 15:02 heeft Daniel Holbach het volgende geschreven: I didn't get a link to a Human Legacy tarball, so I couldn't get it in. Sorry. Human Legacy was voted for by the art team. It's also considered by many to be imperative to the integrity of Ubuntu's compatibility. I

Re: [ubuntu-art] New themes have arrived

2006-05-29 Thread Michiel Sikma
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 15th, not May 24th :-) Mark I know

Re: [ubuntu-art] LAUNCHPAD: ArtworkTeam

2006-05-29 Thread Michiel Sikma
Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Basically, I will be expecting art team members to chip in and help get those themes to completion and not to arbitrarily throw in cute but totally incomplete images. In other words, we need to pick a few specific battles to fight, then get organised into battalions

Re: [ubuntu-art] Giving up on Frozen

2006-05-28 Thread Michiel Sikma
Viper550 wrote: That's it! I see not many people (except me) have liked my Frozen theme idea. I'm going to be possible contributing it for the bonus themes on Edgy, but for now...I'm going to release what I have (not the iconset), and try something different for the next theme. What is a

Re: [ubuntu-art] Human or Tangerine for Dapper by default?

2006-05-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 26-mei-2006, om 11:05 heeft Who het volgende geschreven: I think it is a shame (well, actually, I only really dislike the folders), but I also think that getting someone to develop an entire icon theme from scratch, with the sole intention of it being the Dapper theme and then abandoning it

Re: [ubuntu-art] My idea for Edgy (warning, lots of ranting!)

2006-05-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 26-mei-2006, om 13:29 heeft Viper550 het volgende geschreven: Note, when it comes to changing themes for Edgy, we have no choice: Let's listen to what Mark Shuttleworth said: The overarching theme of the first set of Ubuntu releases is Humanity. This drives our choice of artwork as

Re: [ubuntu-art] Setting a Meeting Date

2006-05-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
Mark specifically asked for it to be post-Dapper, so I have two propositions: Ubuntu-Art Edgy Planning Meeting* *SATURDAY 4th June 22:00 UTC** which is also Saturday, 3 June 2006, 17:00:00 CDT Saturday, 3 June 2006, 15:00:00 PDT Sunday, 4 June 2006, 08:00:00EST (see

Re: [ubuntu-art] Setting a Meeting Date

2006-05-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
Troy James Sobotka wrote: Ubuntu-Art Edgy Planning Meeting* *SATURDAY 4th June 22:00 UTC** which is also Saturday, 3 June 2006, 17:00:00 CDT Saturday, 3 June 2006, 15:00:00 PDT Sunday, 4 June 2006, 08:00:00EST (see http://tinyurl.com/hlet5) What are we going to

Re: [ubuntu-art] AGENDA: Dapper Evaluation

2006-05-25 Thread Michiel Sikma
Troy James Sobotka wrote: Mich posted this interesting thought. I think it is worth discussing to see where everyone thinks Dapper is shy. Shortlist * Beautiful art all round, but perhaps inconsistent? GDM splash compared to Wallpaper? -- TJS * Love the rounded windows. Love the new

Re: [ubuntu-art] My idea for Edgy (warning, lots of ranting!)

2006-05-25 Thread Michiel Sikma
Let's just note some things before I get going to work on my suite: - Firstly, we are technically done with Dapper artwork wise, its all packaged up, it's all ready to go. We won't have to do any more art for Dapper between RC and Release unless we really have to. - I was originally planning

Re: [ubuntu-art] Bluman

2006-05-25 Thread Michiel Sikma
Who wrote: My first theme http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=39792vote=goodtan=54036159 Screenshot: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1id=39792file1=39792-1.pngfile2=39792-2.jpgfile3=name=Bluman I know there are a huge number of blue themes, but I

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

2006-05-24 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 24-mei-2006, om 8:29 heeft Billy het volgende geschreven: trivial? If it was important enough to be chewed out for not doing something when we_did_in_fact_do_it, then it is important enough to set the record straight! It's offensive you think that to be trivial. I'm done on the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

2006-05-24 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 24-mei-2006, om 10:44 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: I would like to propose that we START the edgy cycle with two things: (1) A core of Art Team Leaders. Thing of it as an Art Council. It's too big a job for one volunteer. We need a small group (3-ish) of well

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork vote results

2006-05-24 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 24-mei-2006, om 11:14 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: Michiel Sikma wrote: Of course, we probably have an agenda for this somewhere, but... where? The wiki! EdgyArtKickoffAgenda or something similar. Let's schedule the meeting for a post-Dapper-release day, before

Re: [ubuntu-art] Xubuntu usplash

2006-05-23 Thread Michiel Sikma
Michiel Sikma wrote: I've been talking to janimo, the Xubuntu lead dev, in #ubuntu-devel, and he asked me to post this here: I also made a Xubuntu usplash screen in addition to the Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu ones, and he thought that it was worth being voted for on the Xubuntu wiki

Re: [ubuntu-art] Xubuntu usplash

2006-05-23 Thread Michiel Sikma
daniele favara wrote: On 5/23/06, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michiel Sikma wrote: I've been talking to janimo, the Xubuntu lead dev, in #ubuntu-devel, and he asked me to post this here: I also made a Xubuntu usplash screen in addition to the Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu ones

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