Re: [ubuntu-art] intrepid update

2008-10-10 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
I haven't seen the version in the PPA but Kenneth, is the Ibex on the left or the right? They're on the right for this very reason, though I think I remember showing a few studies where it's on the left. vs-4 wrote: Hi, I don't like the Ibex from the left side. Firefox has as default

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wubi Website Artwork

2008-10-08 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen-2 wrote: 2008/10/8 Thomas L.G [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: I have to say, I don't like the idea. One of the main wubi tasks is to show to the user that he can leave the world of windows. And normally, you are leaving using doors, not windows.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ibex Wallpaper

2008-10-07 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Smartboy wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Rico Sta. Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Okay, update. Here's a more sophisticated remix (at least I'd like to think) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Earthenibex_wallpaper Direct link to image: https://wiki.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-art] Inspiration mockups.

2008-10-04 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Hi everyone. Just want to show everyone a few things I've been working on. Note that these aren't proposed Ubuntu mockups or anything, just more of a let's see if anything inspiring can come out of it thing. Just sharing. I hope one of these can inspire someone out there. #1) Sin I've always

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ibex Wallpaper

2008-10-04 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
-text.png Rico Sta. Cruz wrote: If anyone remembers my Ibex wallpaper, here's a quick revision: http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/5246/redibexcb7.jpg ...I can't verify the source of the background wood texture though (bummer!). SO: If anyone else wants to do their own remix, here's

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ibex Wallpaper

2008-10-04 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
1920x1200. Just resize/crop it down as needed. Thomas L.G wrote: Rico Sta. Cruz skrev: Okay, update. Here's a more sophisticated remix (at least I'd like to think) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Earthenibex_wallpaper Direct link to image: https://wiki.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ibex Wallpaper

2008-10-04 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
The textless version is available somewhere. It's the second version on http://customize.org/wallpapers/60284 . (Though personally I'd advise against including it in the distribution!) Smartboy wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Rico Sta. Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Okay, update

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wubi Website Artwork

2008-10-03 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
This artwork is not even official. Consider it Ubuntu fan art. :) Not to mention that I think it clashes against the site! Also, I think one of the requirements mentioned was that it should be release-neutral and not be specific to Ibex. Vincent Moulin wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 12:10

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dust menubar evolution

2008-09-30 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
IMHO is quite intuitive and addressess most people's complaints of having both dark and light at the same window. I hope that clears things up! Adam Gusztav Nagy wrote: On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 19:43 -0700, Rico Sta. Cruz wrote: Hi everyone. Just wanted to show you guys the recent unreleased

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dust menubar evolution

2008-09-29 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
-themes that'd be awesome.) Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 19:43 -0700, Rico Sta. Cruz wrote: 1) Light toolbars http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/9896/dusttoolbarko0.png That's interesting. Although, conceptually, the menu-bar is much closer to the tool-bar than

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dust menubar evolution

2008-09-28 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Hi everyone. Just wanted to show you guys the recent unreleased developments on this theme. 1) Light toolbars The toolbars are going to be light by default. The dark, menu-integrated toolbars will still be used by browser- and viewer-type applications where the entire area below the toolbars is

[ubuntu-art] Ibex Wallpaper

2008-09-27 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
If anyone remembers my Ibex wallpaper, here's a quick revision: http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/5246/redibexcb7.jpg ...I can't verify the source of the background wood texture though (bummer!). SO: If anyone else wants to do their own remix, here's the composition isolated in an alpha-blended

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ibex Wallpaper

2008-09-27 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Aw, bummer. Imageshack resized it down. Use this link instead: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/114190/2009%20Dust/bare.png Rico Sta. Cruz wrote: If anyone remembers my Ibex wallpaper, here's a quick revision: http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/5246/redibexcb7.jpg ...I can't verify the source

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ibex Wallpaper

2008-09-27 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
PS, dudes. Forgive me father for I have sinned. Adam Gusztav Nagy wrote: Rico! what did u use to make that ibex? ps or gimp? On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 04:13 -0700, Rico Sta. Cruz wrote: If anyone remembers my Ibex wallpaper, here's a quick revision: http://img218.imageshack.us/img218

Re: [ubuntu-art] Need Help Testing Dust Theme

2008-09-23 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
I've a guideline document listing down common applications that the theme would ideally work with. Others who are also developing themes may also be interested in this list. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dusttheme/+spec/applications-compatibility John Baer wrote: I downloaded the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Need Help Testing Dust Theme

2008-09-22 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Dust has now been migrated to Launchpad. I've set up bug trackers for the GTK and Firefox themes. Please use them for any bug reports: https://bugs.launchpad.net/dusttheme https://bugs.launchpad.net/dusttheme-firefox You can also check out the code over at https://launchpad.net/dusttheme

Re: [ubuntu-art] Announcing Project Kyūdō

2008-09-22 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Re: The Kyudo foundation document: (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/KyudoGuidelines/Foundation) WOW! I think this is spot on. We need a vision to keep the contributors on track, and I think this is just the right initiative to make that vision and push it forward. The target audience I think is

Re: [ubuntu-art] Naxos Theme Clear Version

2008-09-22 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Just a word of advice: It's a bit of a moot point to decide on which to go with: a warm (beige/orange) or neutral grey color scheme. Some will always prefer one over the other. IMHO, you don't have to adjust the colors of your theme just because everyone clamored to have it as

Re: [ubuntu-art] Need Help Testing Dust Theme

2008-09-21 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Dust is a theme (as with the other community themes), not a piece of software with many functions. There's no need to put a testing framework in place. Just test all the things included there (Dust, Dust Aurora, Dust Borderless) and the Firefox theme (if you found it). Also, I repackaged it -- I

Re: [ubuntu-art] Need Help Testing Dust Theme

2008-09-21 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Thanks. I've found this bug myself but I don't know how to fix it. If any GTK gurus can help point us to the right direction, please do. :) A similar bug exists with unison-gtk (not a standard app, but one that I use a lot). On a related note, Dust will soon be migrated to LP, so it'll be

Re: [ubuntu-art] The WidescreenIbexSunset wallpaper

2008-09-19 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Thats a very nice idea, but IMHO lacks a bit on the execution side of things. But I think you're onto something :) Bart Van Loy wrote: Hello everyone , I've made some final changes to the wallpaper . Plz feel free to comment , i really wanna know if someone likes it . Here you'll

Re: [ubuntu-art] GTK theme help

2008-09-18 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Re: borderless borders: They're staying at 1px for the reasons everyone's already pointed out. :) If you want to change them, just edit metacity-theme-1.xml and look at line 19. Btw, I'm working on a Dust Firefox theme. Any thoughts? http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/8383/dust0919firefoxzo8.png

Re: [ubuntu-art] GTK theme help

2008-09-18 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
as per linux tradition (i.e., they change as you change your gnome icon theme). Ken Vermette wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Rico Sta. Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Re: borderless borders: They're staying at 1px for the reasons everyone's already pointed out. :) If you want

Re: [ubuntu-art] GTK theme help

2008-09-17 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Gotcha. I see it now: there's nothing wrong with the theme, it was a clash with my ~/.gtkrc definitions. Thanks! Anton Kerezov wrote: В 19:32 -0700 на 16.09.2008 (вт), Rico Sta. Cruz написа: Hi guys. First of all, I apologize for asking these here but I'm new to the community and I'm

Re: [ubuntu-art] GTK theme help

2008-09-17 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
the padding (2-2) and the roundness (2) of the selected menu items. Adam On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 19:32 -0700, Rico Sta. Cruz wrote: Hi guys. First of all, I apologize for asking these here but I'm new to the community and I'm not sure on what the venue is for these sort of questions

[ubuntu-art] GTK theme help

2008-09-16 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Hi guys. First of all, I apologize for asking these here but I'm new to the community and I'm not sure on what the venue is for these sort of questions. I'm getting an error I can't explain: /home/rsc/.themes/Dust/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:43: Invalid symbolic color 'fg_color'

Re: [ubuntu-art] Meeting IRC log - Wallpaper

2008-09-14 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Hi everyone, I'm the one who's produced this wallpaper, and I have my own criticisms on it: - It's chaotic -- as an OS default, I was thinking it'd be nice to have something a little more subtle. - It's not well polished -- as Thomas has pointed out, the wood background would benefit from

Re: [ubuntu-art] dust is good

2008-09-12 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Just a heads up to everyone: Dust breaks in the latest murrine. Instead of compiling from SVN, try using the snapshop compiled here: https://launchpad.net/~kwwii/+archive Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen-2 wrote: Just installed the theme. I had to comment out the 'style = MURRINE' parts because it

Re: [ubuntu-art] dust is good

2008-09-12 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
I did a quick fix to the borderless theme which should make it look more elegant, while making it easier to resize. IMHO it'd be just as easy to resize as the non-borderless version: the resize handles are just as big and just as visible.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dust theme implementation

2008-09-08 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Hi Dylan! Re: Menubar shadows: It was there to accentuate the toolbars. I'm not sure about working the other direction, if you can expound on that (or do a paint-over mockup) that'd help a lot. I'm also aware of windows having no menus, but with (or without) toolbars and the gradient issue

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dust theme implementation

2008-09-08 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Also, some honest feedback on new min/max/close buttons will be appreciated. http://dump.ambiescent.com/i/dust-mmc.jpg Rico Sta. Cruz wrote: Hi Dylan! Re: Menubar shadows: It was there to accentuate the toolbars. I'm not sure about working the other direction, if you can expound

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dust theme implementation

2008-09-08 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Done. Updated the wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/DustTheme Ian McLean-2 wrote: Rico Sta. Cruz dropbox at ambiescent.com writes: Also, some honest feedback on new min/max/close buttons will be appreciated. http://dump.ambiescent.com/i/dust-mmc.jpg I

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dust theme implementation

2008-09-07 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/DustTheme http://dump.ambiescent.com/i/dust-september-7.png Ken Vermette wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Rico Sta. Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Is there any way we can get some GTK love on this theme? I'm currently lost at figuring out how

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dust theme implementation

2008-09-07 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Well, that's the fault of some bad packaging on my end. ~/.themes/Dust Aurora/metacity-1 is a symlink to ~/.themes/Dust/metacity-1 which is why it breaks. Oops. Peter Petrov-3 wrote: On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Rico Sta. Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hey guys. Sorry to resurrect

Re: [ubuntu-art] We *will* create a new icon set for Ubuntu. (naming)

2008-09-02 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
I'm not sure on these names myself, they kinda remind me of KDE's Oxygen. Not sure if that was the intended effect. Btw, where's the IRC server/channel? :) Cory K.-2 wrote: Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 10:26 -0400, Cory K. wrote So. Name, thoughts? Breath or Breeze

Re: [ubuntu-art] Folder Icon challenge.

2008-09-01 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Here: http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/9104/dusticonsez0.png Perhaps not a direct answer here, as I was thinking more of my Dust theme while making this ;) But the idea is to mix: - Human's orange - The subtleness of the Oxygen icon - The sly translucency of both ...while donning a new a

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dust theme implementation

2008-09-01 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Is there any way we can get some GTK love on this theme? I'm currently lost at figuring out how to make the menubar have a gradient. The latest versions are always at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/DustTheme -Rico S. Kido Mariano wrote: I *tried* to implement the Dust

Re: [ubuntu-art] // wider opinion of Dust theme from Ubuntu users //

2008-09-01 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Re: min-max-close buttons: They're a bit fixed on the Dust-2 attachment in the wiki page. However, they're still not proper min-max-close buttons. Gotta make better ones... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/DustTheme Btw, I did the wallpaper (and the Dust concepts). I'm glad

Re: [ubuntu-art] theme teams

2008-09-01 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Hi Ken, How useful! Should be ping you in case of any updates to our themes? :) -Rico Kenneth Wimer-5 wrote: On Monday 01 September 2008 18:40:42 Kenneth Wimer wrote: Hi all, Today I put Kin, Dust, and New Wave into my PPA so that people can install and test them. Please, don't flip

Re: [ubuntu-art] Tossing some Window decorations into the pot.

2008-09-01 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
Hey! The things I'm not sure about here are: - The orange glow. I like the idea of a different-colored shadow, but if it appears as a glow against certian backgrounds, it seems inconsistent and a bit cheesy. - The min/max/close buttons. I'm not sure if it's too big or if the borders tick me

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dust theme implementation

2008-08-27 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
I was drafting that mockup with a dust lite or dust metal in mind. There's much more to be done 'till we get there, but IMHO it'd be unacceptable to ship it without a light version--I'll definitely work on a brighter variant of Dust. -Rico julian-60 wrote: screenshot for the benefit of the

Re: [ubuntu-art] current status of intrepid theme (Dust?)

2008-08-25 Thread Rico Sta. Cruz
The latest work-in-progress of Dust is based off Murrine. Aside from a review of the themes design and usability, is there any other criteria that we should be aware of to be considered for inclusion? -- Rico Kenneth Wimer-5 wrote: Correction: No community themes will be installed in the