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
I'll be there. And for good measure...
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?
day=17&month=6&year=2006&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=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, S
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
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 ma
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 fo
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
contr
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
different
Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
Michiel, thank you for your contributions so far, and I want to
urge you
to continue to contribute, using whatever tools work best for you
right
now. As others have written, the use of an open format like SVG or PNG
makes collaboration easier and results in content th
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 b
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 yo
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 t
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
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
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I'm not sure if the art team already has a sort of calendar, but I
think that it would be extremely useful if we were to have one. I see
that Google has released information on their Google Calendar API -
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/calendar.html - which might be the
best way to keep
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 the
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 that
you, as the designers, can make better choices. Listening to people
who
don't know
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.
Op 1-jun-2006, om 14:16 heeft Viper550 het volgende geschreven:
Now, the future of Ubuntu's appearance rests in our hands, Edgy
will feature a huge overhaul of the color scheme and we'll change
to adapt!
Says who? Don't we have yet to decide exactly which direction we're
going to take wi
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
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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 as
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 p
Op 30-mei-2006, om 9:02 heeft Chuck Huber het volgende geschreven:
Booting up this morning I noticed the usplash is looking sexy with
it's
new tangerine color. I can't recall the artist offhand, but nice
work.
Chuck
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> 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 battalio
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 that
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 d
Op 29-mei-2006, om 14:14 heeft Chuck Huber het volgende geschreven:
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 05:08 -0700, Chuck Huber wrote:
Here's something I think is new also. Metatheme files don't show
up as
index.theme anymore. Now they go by the Name= field.
Looking at them in Nautilus and a termina
Op 29-mei-2006, om 13:49 heeft Chuck Huber het volgende geschreven:
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 04:31 -0700, Chuck Huber wrote:
But they need work. It appears none except Human is working
properly.
IndustrialXT looks like it's made it in though I don't see Human
Legacy.
Dawn of Ubuntu and Si
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 better
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 accomplis
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 http:
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 m
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
Who wrote:
My first theme
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=39792&vote=good&tan=54036159
Screenshot:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=39792&file1=39792-1.png&file2=39792-2.jpg&file3=&name=Bluman
I know there are a huge number of blue themes,
> 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
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 colors
Viper550 wrote:
Now that Dapper is behind us, I've got big plans and ideas for Edgy's
artwork, Originality is just one of them:
We all know that the first "theme cycle" of Ubuntu is over. Dapper and
the Human Level is done with, so we need a new color scheme. My proposal
for the new color sch
Pascal Klein wrote:
So, in order to get this happening, how does a meeting sound? I propose
the day of Sunday the 28th, May or Saturday the 3rd, June.
Times are open at this point because I am not very familiar with the
timezone issues and where the bulk of the team are situated in the
world. Do
packaged, etc., please include that
information.
Thank you.
Spread the word. If you are a forum fanatic, tell
them to get involved with this mailing list.
Thank you.
Michiel Sikma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (But this e-mail address will
be changed in a few weeks to something more professional
Op 24-mei-2006, om 12:38 heeft Julian Oliver het volgende geschreven:
here is a link to a screenshot with a few small criticisms that i
think
would be great to address before Dapper goes live.
I'm afraid that's no longer possible. We'll be including these
criticisms in the interface discu
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, b
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 trust
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 subject.
Billy wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 02:59 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>
>> 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
Op 23-mei-2006, om 16:26 heeft Henrik Nilsen Omma het volgende
geschreven:
Michiel seems to be making the suggestion that the Art team makes a
firm recommendation that we use the top 5 themes from the existing
vote (as imperfect as that vote was). Is that a motion that the
whole art tea
Op 23-mei-2006, om 15:43 heeft Henrik Nilsen Omma het volgende
geschreven:
Yes, he knows about the results.
I'm sorry if that might have sounded a little stressed out or even
paranoid. I'm just a little excited for release, I guess.
Michiel
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Op 23-mei-2006, om 15:24 heeft Henrik Nilsen Omma het volgende
geschreven:
I've sent him a list of the other items, with links to tarballs.
Just to make sure there aren't any dramas later: you're sure he's
fully aware of the vote results, and that there therefore is a need
for the Lega
Op 23-mei-2006, om 15:20 heeft Henrik Nilsen Omma het volgende
geschreven:
It is, but the Wikipedia is also the end-product of their project
so the put a lot of polish into it. For us the wiki is a tool and
the CD is the end product.
Yeah, it's not possible (nor required) for the Ubuntu w
Op 23-mei-2006, om 15:00 heeft Who het volgende geschreven:
Yes, there was a lot of confusion about what 'Internal' and 'External'
meant - so the idea rather faltered. As it is I don't really know
which are what - I know neither of the 'orignal Internal themes made
it...
That's information
Op 23-mei-2006, om 10:24 heeft Henrik Nilsen Omma het volgende
geschreven:
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
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 Ub
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.
Viper550 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, and he
thought that it was worth being voted for o
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. There was already a
propositio
Op 22-mei-2006, om 15:57 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
het volgende geschreven:
Instructions to vote: Send an email to each relevant address where you
want to vote. Please list ONE usplash option and up to THREE wallpaper
and theme options in descending order of preference.
The ballot closes at 0
Op 22-mei-2006, om 15:57 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
het volgende geschreven:
We're reaching crisis mode on the usplash. Mark is ill today and has
asked me to drive this to a decision. If the team would like to vote,
that needs to be done by UTC 0700 Tuesday I know that's a short
timeline, bu
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Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 18:17:01 -0700
From: Troy James Sobotka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [ubuntu-art] DapperPropositionsClean
To: Ubuntu Art
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Ok the cleaned up Wiki page has hit mark one.
It has a slot for each image to place
Op 17-mei-2006, om 16:53 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende
geschreven:
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;
Op 17-mei-2006, om 16:05 heeft Kenneth Wimer het volgende geschreven:
On May 17, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote:
Op 17-mei-2006, om 14:49 heeft Kenneth Wimer het volgende geschreven:
On May 17, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote:
Op 17-mei-2006, om 12:52 heeft Kenneth Wimer
Op 17-mei-2006, om 14:49 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
het volgende geschreven:
(btw wouldn't it be great if the ubuntu logo was itself a progress
bar, where a colour rotated through the form, 'filling it' as the boot
progresses)
If you'd like to suggest this, please list it on the EdgyPropositi
Op 17-mei-2006, om 14:49 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
het volgende geschreven:
what immediately strikes me is how much intelligently Viper550's
splashes work
with the limited colour palette.
the don't have gradation, but appear to as s/he uses flat colour to
mimic the effect, as screenprinters
Accidentally sent this mail to just Kenneth, forwarding it to the
mailing list as well...
Michiel
Begin doorgestuurd bericht:
Van: Michiel Sikma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Datum: 17 mei 2006 15:08:42 GMT+02:00
Aan: Kenneth Wimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Onderwerp: Antw.: [ubuntu-art] Re
Op 17-mei-2006, om 12:13 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
het volgende geschreven:
Can I ask that we go through the options and delete (permanently)
those
which:
(a) use too many colours [16 including black and white is all thats
allowed]
(b) are not correctly scaled
Wouldn't it be better if eve
Who wrote:
On 5/16/06, Michiel Sikma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd like to bring something up again. Why are there so many smooth
engine skins in the proposed "internal" package? I feel as though we
only need one, anyway, so we might as well move one of the eye-candy
Op 16-mei-2006, om 12:41 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
het volgende geschreven:
Hi all
I'm writing to try to focus the energy that everyone is putting into
getting a great usplash image for Dapper.
I really appreciate the effort and the care and the creativity of the
proposals. At this stage in
I'd like to bring something up again. Why are there so many smooth
engine skins in the proposed "internal" package? I feel as though we
only need one, anyway, so we might as well move one of the eye-candy
external skins to the internal skin proposal list. Ubuntulooks
Quicksilver, for exampl
Op 16-mei-2006, om 5:10 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED] het
volgende geschreven:
p.s. I got an Email from Scott, my Usplash Tangerine (yes, I just gave
it an offical name) might be a possible contender for the new Dapper
artwork...and apparently he "wasn't paying attention" to the posts
when
I at
Op 15-mei-2006, om 17:13 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
het volgende geschreven:
I've been told the authorization code won't go through. Anyone else
have
that problem? Worked for me on 2 users and two systems. I won't have
time to look into why for a good 20hrs.
You need to input uppercase char
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/DapperThemes
The wiki page currently contains a couple of great themes for inclusion
in either the internal or external package. However, out of the 7
proposed internal themes, 4 are Smooth Engine skins. That's, in my
opinion, much more than is necessary. I
Sorry for this non-contributing mail to the art list, Ubuntu team, but
I just had to respond to the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] heeft op dinsdag, 9 mei 2006 om
22:24 (Europe/Amsterdam) het volgende geschreven:
Why don't we use Gnome and KDE themes regularly ? It seems you use Mac
OS X to bu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] heeft op maandag, 8 mei 2006 om
14:44 (Europe/Amsterdam) het volgende geschreven:
See : http://bersace03.free.fr/pub/captures/dapper-artwork/compare-
human-tangerine.png . 16x16 tangerine icons are very clean and
readable while Human are juste unreadable (see home, desktop,
As for the actual shipit CD designs - I think Canonical takes care of
those.
Cheers,
Pascal
I think so, too. See this page for more information:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DIYMarketing
Regards, Michiel
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Hi all. I've always thought that the top bar of the default theme for
Dapper looked a bit bright. I decided to throw the background color (the
average of the gradient is #d5924c) into the Color Contrast Analyser and
it came up with this:
"The difference in brightness between the two colours is
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.
Regards, Michiel
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nchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-desktop/+bug/42926
On 5/2/06, Denis Jacquerye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/1/06, Mark Shuttleworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michiel Sikma wrote:
> To give my opinion: I believe that Bitstream Vera Sans is a very
nice font,
>
By the way, I'm just wondering, since I haven't tried out the Dapper
beta yet, will the old theme still be available to those who want to
use it rather than the new skin?
Regards, Michiel
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To give my opinion: I believe that Bitstream Vera Sans is a very nice
font, apart from some small kerning problems. Freesans is a more
difficult to read font. As designer, my rationale is the structure of
the font itself: Freesans has a smaller so-called "punch width" (which
indicates how broad
Hi everybody. This is my first mail to the art mailing list. I'm a
long-time graphic designer who likes Linux and would like to contribute
to it. However, with my busy schedule, I find it very difficult to read
all of the mails sent with this mailing list. Maybe there's some kind of
Wiki or for
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