Re: [ubuntu-art] PROPOSALS

2006-07-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-13-07 at 22:15 +0200, Niklas Weidel wrote: > Regarding Niel's work on logoproposal, I would say that the top left > one has the best lighting - if it could be centered just a tiny bit so > the last "u" has the same shade as the first. When one edge of a text > like that is darker it of

[ubuntu-art] PROPOSALS: Update

2006-07-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/EdgyProposals/ Root page now shows subchildren as per the template. I have probably missed several wiki pages that need to be moved here. Sorry if I overlooked some pages -- I was in a huge rush and must escape. Please migrate accordingly. Thanks. CH

[ubuntu-art] PROPOSALS

2006-07-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
I have created a proposal sub area of the incoming section on the wiki. Thus far, I have dropped Niel's early work on some logo props: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/EdgyProposals/LogoProposal and the full contact that I have churned out: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/EdgyPro

Re: [ubuntu-art] Introduction (Welcome Lisa!)

2006-07-11 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 21:29 +0100, Lisa Savage wrote: > Hi Artwork Team, > > I thought I should just introduce myself. I am Lisa Savage and I have > been given the task of heading up the edubuntu artwork team. I'm fairly > new to the whole ubuntu community, so go easy on me :D > > I would be in

[ubuntu-art] WIKI UPDATE: Specifications

2006-07-11 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Limited on time, I have adjusted the wiki page for a clearer guide to specifications. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Team/GetInvolved CHANGELOG: * It now points to the official SpecTemplate that the other Ubuntu developers use. * Attempts to explain the parties involved more. * Has the pre

[ubuntu-art] Prelim Work

2006-07-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
The following is a link to a good cross section of sample work that I have churned out for this cycle. With the hopes that someone can perhaps build on some of the starting points, I offer them here. Included on the page is a contact sheet with all the photos I have spec'd. There are a _few_ the

Re: [ubuntu-art] ideas for kubuntu edgy...glass effects, colors, textures, etc.

2006-07-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 00:03 +0200, Kenneth Wimer wrote: > http://bootsplash.org/kdm-edgy.pngideas > http://bootsplash.org/kdm-edgy1.png Work on the black version > http://bootsplash.org/edgy3a.png An idea for a Bg for kdm, > desktop > splash, etc. The third element

Re: [ubuntu-art] Graphical Accessibility

2006-07-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-10-07 at 22:15 -0400, Viper550 wrote: > So, how do you like my idea? I love Slab to death, it's easily one of > the best things you can ever have on a desktop, just do a few > modifications and it will be all set for primetime! This is more of a development issue. Further still, Ub

Re: [ubuntu-art] REQUEST: Glassy samples

2006-07-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-10-07 at 14:15 +0200, Niklas Weidel wrote: > Feel free to use the glassy ubuntu-logo I've upped earlier for > logon/isplash. I'll see if I can make some complete variants, but I'd > rather have them connect in some way to the desktop background for a > really sleek feel. That is the i

[ubuntu-art] REQUEST: Glassy samples

2006-07-09 Thread Troy James Sobotka
SUMMARY: Request for glassy demonstrations. I thought Who's and Weidel's glassy looks would do wonderfully for the branding across the two higher resolution items (Logon and l-splash). However, it would be nice if we could get an idea as to how to accomplish this in 16 colours. If Weidel and Wh

Re: [ubuntu-art] formalities & procedures

2006-07-09 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sun, 2006-09-07 at 11:00 +, Htay Htay wrote: > Is there any formal procedure to submit art to the ubuntu art team? Or can I > just post it as a mail message as I am doing so right now? I'd like to > contribute a few wallpapers and such. > Yes and yes. Currently we have a working model i

[ubuntu-art] QUESTION: usplash

2006-07-07 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Perhaps Frank or Ken could answer this. It was general enough that I believe it is of interest to the general list: Q) Are there any compositional considerations for the current implementation of usplash. For example, is there a reserved area on the screen for text or something else? I

Re: [ubuntu-art] Starting the Propose phase for Edgy Eft, wrapping up Ponder

2006-07-07 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 16:57 -0400, Viper550 wrote: > > > Here be an updated version of my cursor set that I was working on during > the ponder phase. I decided to redo them using Fireworks MX on my > Windows computer since I was more comfortable with that program, and > CursorXP can use PNG

[ubuntu-art] SUMISSIONS: Reminder 2 of 3 for Art Council

2006-07-05 Thread Troy James Sobotka
If you would like to become a member of the extremely important "Art Council" for the Ubuntu project, please take note. This is your second of three reminders. FAQ: * Who should apply? Anyone interested in the overall governance of "Art" in the Ubuntu project. * How to apply? Subm

[ubuntu-art] SPECIFICATIONS: Edgy primary targets updated.

2006-07-05 Thread Troy James Sobotka
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/ChangeDesktopWallpaper https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/ChangeLoginImage https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/ChangeLoginSplashImage https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/ChangeUsplash The above links now contain updated information. In some instances

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Ponder] Glowing Lines

2006-07-05 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-06-07 at 01:51 +0100, Who wrote: > I was working on using SVGs to get fyre-like effects a while ago and I > have dugg up some of the ideas - I have put together a 'ponder-pic' > that shows off the style a bit This is much more what ponder is for. The idea is to get fresh directions

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork specs for Edgy

2006-07-04 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Jul 3, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > I've been fairly liberal about approving specs, since I don't think > > we can > > expect the same level of definition for creative targets as we > > currently do > > for technical ones. I think this has been part of the problem with t

[ubuntu-art] PROGRAM: XaraLX

2006-07-01 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Thanks to Ken for pointing this app out to me! If you haven't already found this program, you should probably do yourself a favour and check it out. It has recently migrated to open source, so it deserves some attention. http://www.xaraxtreme.org/ If you download the precompiled binaries, you

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpaper Spec Update

2006-06-30 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-30-06 at 23:41 +0100, Who wrote: > > It would be really, really nice if someone would write this up as a wiki > > page as "guidelines for an Ubuntu wallpaper"! > > > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/Guidelines/WallPapers > In addition to this, the spec has been alter

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-30-06 at 17:36 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: > 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 16:9. 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 comm

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-30-06 at 09:37 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: > I personally work on resolutions in the 4000 px wide > regions to ensure that my wallpapers will always, no matter what > kinds of strange things will happen, will work on the highest > resolutions that are available. That includes the

Re: [ubuntu-art] funky keyboard layouts

2006-06-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Can we spec this please? On Thu, 2006-29-06 at 16:25 +0100, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: > Hey art list, > > Please have a look at the new skinnable on-screen keyboard: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Projects/SOK > > The keyboard layouts can be created and modified in Inkscape. The > cur

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-28 Thread Troy James Sobotka
The textures are there to inspire and create new ideas, so it is nice to see someone trying to use them as a leapboard. Thiago's sample shows how we might be able to get some sort of glossy effect across a background. It is worth brainstorming early before everyone starts putting pen to paper wi

[ubuntu-art] [Ponder] WAS: Mouse Cursor

2006-06-28 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-28-06 at 15:56 +0100, Who wrote: > This is an idea tha just occurred to me - no mock ups or anything till > I get home tonight, sorry I believe the team is expected to prove itself with the four initial specs before further tasks will be assigned. Let's try to keep focused and deliv

[ubuntu-art] [Ponder] Keep it loose guys

2006-06-28 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-28-06 at 11:10 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > > As you suggest this could do good as a unifying theme for splashes, > wallpapers and such, I am totally with you on that. Maybe even > metacity borders? Indeed, once we have finished our pondering regarding loose textures,

[ubuntu-art] HOT OFF THE WIKI: Inkscape Compilation

2006-06-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
As per my request to the mailing list, someone took the time to step up and contribute a very useful document to the new Artwork archives... j michaelson provided the following guide that I Wikized. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/HowToCompileInkscape Thanks again to Mr. Michaelson for

[ubuntu-art] PONDER: Development

2006-06-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
It should be noted that Mark wants to proceed along the lines of the GDM logon splash in terms of the glossy look. This means that during the proposal phase, we should aim to keep focused development using the gloss look. To this end, I provided a sample textural reference page, which Frank has

[ubuntu-art] Mark's Comments on Branding

2006-06-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
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 there is less strain on the eyes. Also, we are > preferring not to have distro

[ubuntu-art] Published Guidelines and Congrats

2006-06-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-26-06 at 21:15 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > No, there's no published guideline, and fixing that should be our > first step. Human was created over a series of phone calls between me, > Dave (from the company that did the design work), Daniel Holbach, Jeff > Waugh and Jane Silber.

[ubuntu-art] SOFTWARE: Anyone have howto's?

2006-06-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
With the recent Inkscape talk, I thought it might be nice if people could assemble some form of howto for each tool to take it up to the latest release. Off the top of my head I can think of: * Inkscape * Gimp * etc. If you know of the documentation (like dependency issues, etc.) please forwa

[ubuntu-art] SUBMISSIONS: Art Council Application

2006-06-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
The Art Council will provide form basis of an incredibly important aspect of the Ubuntu project. If you are interested in becoming a member of the art council, and believe that you have the experience and education required, please provide an online link to your resume / cv and email it to me per

[ubuntu-art] Re: Quick Update

2006-06-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sun, 2006-25-06 at 19:21 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: > I don't understand why it is so pertinently important to keep Human > in. In all objectivity, it's simply a suboptimal icon set when > compared to Tango. I also don't see why any of the arguments that I > have given have to be ignored

[ubuntu-art] SPECIFICATIONS

2006-06-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Do not manually update your specification to anything other than braindump. The assigning of specifications comes during the summit meetings. As of now, we should have the wiki specification, which is underway, and the four primary targets for Edgy. Hope this clears things up a little more. Fra

[ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Lot's of mail. I tried to boil down a few relevant quotations and their relevant Paris information: On Mon, 2006-19-06 at 09:44 -0500, Matthew Nuzum wrote: > You know what would be sweet... Illustrator has that new-ish feature > where you can genereate an artwork template and then have it create

Re: [ubuntu-art] Colour palette suggestions

2006-06-16 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-17-06 at 00:31 +0200, Niel Drummond wrote: > well I didn't much like the hodge podge of new theme ideas scattered > around https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/Drafts/ so I created another > page, in an effort to reduce the clutter. I don't know how much room there is to adjust the pal

[ubuntu-art] LAUNCHPAD: Specifications

2006-06-14 Thread Troy James Sobotka
To everyone who has joined the ubuntu-art team, I have been doing some last minute cramming to try and learn the Launchpad system in order to document it for everyone to use efficiently. It's was a bit tricky out of the gate as there aren't a whole lot of documents or howtos out there. That said

Re: [ubuntu-art] Art and the membership process

2006-06-14 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-14-06 at 14:20 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > It would mean that the art-team in Launchpad would become a part of > the ubuntumembers team. Members of the art team would automatically > get to vote in CC resolutions put to all Ubuntu members, and > confirmations of new appointments

[ubuntu-art] LAUNCHPAD: Update on information

2006-06-14 Thread Troy James Sobotka
I added a link to that LaunchpadHowTo at the wiki that a wise ArtworkTeam member managed to dig up. It contains a plethora of information on tracking features and assigning tasks to individuals. I encourage everyone who wants to participate to read through the docs if you can find a few moments.

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

2006-06-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-13-06 at 16:11 +0200, Niel Drummond wrote: > I hope this clarifies things, and the Paris summit can be a successful > organisational front for the upcoming release cycle. > > Kind Regards, > > - Niel Drummond > WONDERFUL work Niel. I thank you immensely! Finding the who/what/whe

[ubuntu-art] LAUNCHPAD: HowTo

2006-06-12 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Ok, despite being horribly short on time tonight, I straggled a little bit of info together for those of you out there who need to know how polls and such work on Launchpad. Revise this page if you feel you can add more. Launchpad information needs documentation, and it currently isn't too easy t

[ubuntu-art] DEV CYCLE: Targets

2006-06-12 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Voice off on the targets and flesh them out folks. Consider it a shortlisting for a breakdown of deadlines. If you have other areas that need addressing, they need to be brought up BEFORE the Edgy cycle begins. Paris is coming rapidly... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mes

Re: [ubuntu-art] Our wiki organisation

2006-06-12 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-09-06 at 21:04 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > It would be nice to have a space for each theme, which has a > "standardised" top page. So you could have: > > Artwork/Themes/Human -> top-level theme page with thumbnails of > desktop, splash etc > Artwork/Themes/Outdoors -> as abov

[ubuntu-art] Dapper Improvement Review

2006-06-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
If everyone could try and get through Frank's document, perhaps we can get a relatively finished document together in time for Paris, at which point Frank and I will try to further the cause. Thanks folks. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/l

Re: [ubuntu-art] DEV CYCLE: TARGETS

2006-06-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-10-06 at 14:12 -0500, Billy wrote: > A complete Tango/Tangerine would be nice before venturing out. As long > as it takes, I don't see how anyone could suggest other icon themes, > especially after having icon themes cut from us on dapper. Lets keep > it realistic and managable. Compl

[ubuntu-art] DEV CYCLE: TARGETS - Discussion

2006-06-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-10-06 at 17:02 +0200, Étienne Bersac wrote: > All of those targets are very exciting ! Wikize it ! > > We really must write GuideLines for each Theme we want to ship. We must > define what is a theme GuideLines. For me its : > > * color palette > * color policy (e.g. oran

[ubuntu-art] DEV CYCLE: TARGETS

2006-06-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Targets for Edgy: * USplash * GDM Logon * GDM Splash * GNOME Wallpaper * Window Color / Theme * GTK Theme (probably incremental improvements on Human) * KDE Theme that integrates well with the GTK Theme * Panel background image * M

[ubuntu-art] DEV CYCLE: TARGETS

2006-06-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
In an effort to document a full listing for the development cycle, I am seeking your contributions regarding what is a viable set of artistic elements to adjust. Please cut the following list and reply it to the mailing list with your additions. If we can pound this out in a week, I'll take it to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Our wiki organisation

2006-06-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-10-06 at 14:22 +1000, Pascal Klein wrote: > > * Reviews must remains > > I think we might be able to condense Propositions and Drafts into one > page, personally. We'll see how it progesses. Agree. Basically this is a submission pool area. > > We must define what we want t

Re: [ubuntu-art] Our wiki organisation

2006-06-09 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-09-06 at 13:15 +0200, Étienne Bersac wrote: > Hello, > > Before Edgy cycle, we have the time and the ability to deeply rework our > wiki architecture, including breaking Google cache, however we should > avoid that. > > I suggest : > > * Gather Artwork and ArtworkTeam into Art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Testing Numbers

2006-06-03 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-03-06 at 17:05 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > > Those are interesting numbers... Perhaps they should be put somewhere > for referance just so people know how much effort is put into > pre-release testing... Way ahead of you. I have it in my mail folder for wikizing. -

Re: [ubuntu-art] Next Meeting

2006-06-03 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sun, 2006-04-06 at 01:00 +1000, Pascal Klein wrote: > If I recall correctly we were going to hold in the second or third week > after the release of Dapper. :) So can we agree that we shall meet after Paris? > > We can still meet for a light chat, of course for those interested, but > as alwa

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

2006-06-02 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-01-06 at 09:17 -0700, Chuck Huber wrote: > Hopefully what comes from the Paris meeting will be rather broad style > guidelines and not a ton of overly confining details. I'm sure we all > appreciate that as artists we need room for creativity or else "Bad Art" > happens. Details are

Re: [ubuntu-art] WAS: Wrap.

2006-06-01 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-01-06 at 14:26 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: > Don't we have yet to decide exactly which direction we're > going to take with Edgy? Like I've said before, I don't think it's a > good idea to start exclaiming what to do next out loud just now. Paris is going to lead to a hard directi

[ubuntu-art] IRC help SOLVED. Thanks.

2006-05-31 Thread Troy James Sobotka
8:00 +0100, Martin Owens wrote: > Do let me know if you need a hand, I've been sort of waiting in the wings for > a chance at the media art work. > > On Wed, 31 May 2006 09:53:05 -0700 , Troy James Sobotka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >Yes sorry Oliver, I missed those.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Almost CRITICAL QUESTION: From IRC.

2006-05-31 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Yes sorry Oliver, I missed those. Anyways, there is a printing issue regarding colours. Thankfully ompaul is doing the work to fix it in time. Thanks for your input Oliver. I guess they weren't cleared with the printer before it became a little 'critical'. > > He needs the NEW marketing artwor

[ubuntu-art] Almost CRITICAL QUESTION: From IRC.

2006-05-31 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-31-05 at 17:36 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > ompaul: where are the images for cd's and dvd's for dapper I have to > > submit them to a printer today so I can have them published tomorrow for > > the session in the *house of celebration of dapper* (cough pub) > https://wiki.ubuntu.c

[ubuntu-art] QUESTION: From IRC.

2006-05-31 Thread Troy James Sobotka
ompaul: where are the images for cd's and dvd's for dapper I have to submit them to a printer today so I can have them published tomorrow for the session in the *house of celebration of dapper* (cough pub) We really need a way to get the darn Launchpad email set to the mailing list. Mark, perhap

[ubuntu-art] Summer of ??Art??

2006-05-31 Thread Troy James Sobotka
I think the student idea is wonderful. Things can actually get done, as it has been demonstrated with the "Summer of Code" type efforts. Wikize. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] I will make a wiki page

2006-05-31 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Thank you! That's the way to get work done. Document it. As of now, there aren't a heck of a lot of folks editing and proofing the documents, so I will try when you have finished it. Email me. Thanks... On Wed, 2006-31-05 at 08:45 +0200, iacopo masi wrote: > Tomorrow or Tonight I will make th

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

2006-05-30 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-30-05 at 10:04 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: > 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 paameters. What I have > p

Re: [ubuntu-art] GUIDELINES: Words from sabdfl

2006-05-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
I agree... I just tried to stick it in there. At some point someone should snag the related links from the mail archives. Starting points. On Tue, 2006-30-05 at 03:02 +0100, Who wrote: > Cathcing hold of every comment Mark makes is probably not the best way > to organise things - short statement

Re: [ubuntu-art] WORK

2006-05-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
. Thanks again for offering to contribute! On Tue, 2006-30-05 at 03:07 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: > On ma, 2006-05-29 at 15:32 -0700, Troy James Sobotka wrote: > > > * We need package information so Daniel doesn't get another bomb. > > * We need details on how to a

[ubuntu-art] WORK

2006-05-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
== Mark said: Billy wrote: > Yes, I understand all of that, I was just curious about > going from 2 or 3 to just 1 or 2, so soon :D Hmm... depends how optimistic I'm feeling when I hit send. Call it "1", and if it looks like the team can handle more, "2". We have very tight constra

[ubuntu-art] GUIDELINES: Words from sabdfl

2006-05-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Let's try to collect all of Mark's posts so that we can keep within his goals for Ubuntu artwork. To this end, and after MUCH restructuring by Etienne, I have added to Et's page structure: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/Documentation/Guidelines Also, I suspect Et would appreciate some feed

[ubuntu-art] LAUNCHPAD: Admins

2006-05-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-29-05 at 14:11 -0500, Billy wrote: I'd like to propose Who as another admin, if another is needed (can't have too many). He's very active, knowledgable, and level headed. Done. Agree 100% with Billy on this one. We are going to need SEVERAL to keep the pace with the massive develop

[ubuntu-art] PARTICIPATION needed

2006-05-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
OK, in light of the last drama, I have made the decision to release a draft of working procedures. It isn't perfect. It will probably cause a fuss. It is a start. Please locate all comments in a separate wiki page and we can deal with them in IRC or this list. Thanks for your time. https://

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: Urgent: Themes and Icons

2006-05-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Thank you very much for all of your work Who. Work get things done, and for that, I appreciate you making Ubuntu that little bit better for everyone. On Mon, 2006-29-05 at 18:57 +0100, Who wrote: > > Last 5 minutes. > Enjoy :) -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://list

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: Urgent: Themes and Icons

2006-05-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-29-05 at 12:21 -0500, Billy wrote: > Or was it Silicon? Well either way. Dapper-Drake stays! Who is doing the work and he is stressed enough as it is. To this end, I support him 100% because he is putting in the legwork where others have dropped the ball or are unavailable. He is do

Re: [ubuntu-art] Website art request

2006-05-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
New page at the wiki: Tasks. The following task has been added. Please attack as able. I will add it to Launchpad. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/Tasks Of course, this link is available off the root ArtworkTeam page as well. On Sun, 2006-28-05 at 00:20 +0100, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-art] LAUNCHPAD: ArtworkTeam

2006-05-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-27-05 at 14:20 -0700, Brian Burger wrote: > Having an art team entry in Launchpad is useful for bug reporting, if > nothing else. The wiki is far more flexible for displaying draft > artwork, brainstorming, and all the other stuff that goes on there. Agree 100%. Launchpad has speci

Re: [ubuntu-art] LAUNCHPAD: ArtworkTeam

2006-05-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
> Also, while I do not have any personal admin experience in launchpad, > JoelM made it clear that as an admin nothing works for him in > launchpad, so before we run down yet another dead end road, someone > needs to make sure it actually functions correctly. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. It

[ubuntu-art] LAUNCHPAD: ArtworkTeam

2006-05-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Launchpad has a ton of useful features. Unfortunately, the ubuntu-art team apparently has one admin who is too busy. To this end, there is a fresh Ubuntu Artwork Team launched at launchpad. It has several admins to prevent useless bottlenecks. Further, the contact list for email is set to none

Re: [ubuntu-art] dapper in wiki?

2006-05-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
> Thanks, I knew about that, but why the change in address? I mean, I > knew it had been edited but did not notice the change in address, > because I just thought it was edited, as usual. What is unusual about > it that it needed another address? Because the structure of the wiki was horrible, an

[ubuntu-art] CONTRIBUTIONS: Wiki

2006-05-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Étienne Bersac has done some great work collecting the information on the overall looks for 6.06 release of Ubuntu. If anyone can find the time to follow his lead and finish up the others, it would be greatly appreciated. We will need these sample pages to discuss future work, so it is quite im

Re: [ubuntu-art] Setting a Meeting Date

2006-05-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-26-05 at 21:13 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: > I'm sure we all have time during weekends. I sooo wish. And I am quite certain I am not alone. Careers and life. Which is exactly my point. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/lis

Re: [ubuntu-art] Setting a Meeting Date

2006-05-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
> 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 accomplish there that

[ubuntu-art] Motifs

2006-05-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Since we have indirectly gotten to the point before we probably should have, let's just assume that we will be discussing Motifs and such once we get a little more structure for recording, commenting, and decision making in place. It has begun, but it will take a little more time before we can con

Re: [ubuntu-art] WAS [...lots of ranting!]

2006-05-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
First can we start clipping QUOTES down to the minimum? Fishing stinks. On Fri, 2006-26-05 at 02:40 -0500, Billy wrote: > Choice is good business. Strangely, many include color in their choice > of whether to install or buy. If they knew they had a few choices, or > even one they wanted. They wou

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Directions WAS [...lots of ranting!]

2006-05-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-26-05 at 11:11 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Why reinvent the wheel a bazillion times just because something is Not > Invented Here[tm]? > Perhaps it should be a nice idea to start polishing other parts of the > interface during Edgy. There are lots of stuff that needs a lot of lo

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

2006-05-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-25-05 at 23:57 -0400, Jean Pierre Rupp wrote: > It seems Dapper still comes with the ugly Human icons by default instead > of the much more streamlined Tangerine set. I am running Human here for Dapper and they are beautiful. I hope it stays the way it is. -- ubuntu-art mailing lis

[ubuntu-art] AGENDA: Dapper Evaluation

2006-05-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
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. --TJS -- ubuntu-art mai

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

2006-05-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-25-05 at 14:38 -0400, Viper550 wrote: > > 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. One doesn't start with the finishing brush strokes until they have sketched. Structure. Ideas. Execut

[ubuntu-art] LAUNCHPAD: HowTo?

2006-05-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
--- QUOTE --- Using the launchpad team voting system would be great. For disputes art team leaders would moderate the issue and if no agreement can be reached the Edgy Artist-in-Chief. --- END QUOTE --- https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-art/ There is your starting point for those of you out the

[ubuntu-art] QUESTION TO SABDFL: Edgy Goals

2006-05-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Foundation Building * Do you have any specific tasks regarding the ArtworkTeam that you would like accomplished for Edgy? -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

[ubuntu-art] WEB: wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam

2006-05-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
There is our starting point. SIMPLICITY. * None of us have time for long rambles and jitter. * Please use one line where appropriate. Distill. * KISS * Don't make pages if you can help it. Make it fit. CHANGELOG: * Added Mich's wonderful thoughts to the /Meetings/Agenda listing. -- ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-art] Meeting proposal

2006-05-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-25-05 at 20:32 +1000, Pascal Klein wrote: > With our organisational problems laid out to us by Mark and numerous > other people I think we should consider getting our act together to > identify those with leadership skills so that we, the art team can > direct our efforts and skills i

Re: [ubuntu-art] PLANNING: Contact List

2006-05-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-25-05 at 20:17 +1000, Pascal Klein wrote: > I would suggest we just encourage everyone to go to the wiki page (can't > recall the page for it and offline as I write this) and go over their > contact details in a new section and after about a month we can delete > the outdated informa

Re: [ubuntu-art] PLANNING: Contact List

2006-05-24 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-24-05 at 21:01 +0200, Étienne Bersac wrote: > Hello, > > You can see art team member at https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-art . > > Étienne. Yes I know. I am trying to tabulate _active_ members for wikization. Being active is great. But if no one knows where all the information

[ubuntu-art] PLANNING: Contact List

2006-05-24 Thread Troy James Sobotka
We need a contact list. The wiki is horribly out of date for active members. What I need? Send me your name and an active contact email address so everyone can contact you. Also send me your areas of interest. If you are currently working on Dapper art that is packaged, etc., please include t

[ubuntu-art] Do

2006-05-23 Thread Troy James Sobotka
When is the next team meeting? as Nothing appears listed at the fridge. http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/TodoList http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/Meetings/Agenda http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/Meetings My schedule is ugly as hell, but I am quite certain the we should be able to at least

Re: [ubuntu-art] Xubuntu usplash

2006-05-22 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-22-05 at 22:33 +0200, 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 bein

[ubuntu-art] DapperPropositionsClean

2006-05-18 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Ok the cleaned up Wiki page has hit mark one. It has a slot for each image to place ArtTeam comments, so please contribute if you are on the art team. I relocated the comments that were applicable from the submissions page. Hopefully this will assist the vital ArtTeam members in making their dec

[ubuntu-art] Usplash screenshot anyone?

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
I need a captured screenshot (ie not digital camera to screen) version of the usplash with a different text background colour than the png background. If anyone has this, please email me with a copy. Thanks a million. As close as I could find was a screenshot taken with a digital camera. Agai

[ubuntu-art] Re: Screenshot!

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-17-05 at 17:40 -0400, Viper550 wrote: > Okay, here's how I "did it". I don't use Ubuntu anymore, and my Linux is > a REAL installation, so I had to get down and dirty with good ol' Gimp! > > 1. Take a Screenshot from OSDir of Flight 7's Usplash (You have to use > the Flight 7 shots

[ubuntu-art] usplash text colors

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
For the purposes of organizing the proposal wiki, please include your images with your sample text left, sample text right, failed, and progress bar palette colours. Make sure you use existing palette entries and that they don't conflict with one another (eg: failed color and background progress

[ubuntu-art] usplash proposal wiki

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Updated the wiki to show formal offerings now. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Usplash/DapperPropositions Try to adhere to the submissions guidelines so that I can use my newly written batch script to file things appropriately into a table. Thanks. At some point in the near future I will try to setup a

Re: [ubuntu-art] pngtobogl

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-17-05 at 18:21 +0200, Frank Schoep wrote: > One thing I noticed is that my GIMP's palette editor is really awkward (read: > horrible) to use, but it does the trick eventually. Agree. Drag and drop functionality would be great for indexes! That said, you must re-import your image a

[ubuntu-art] Usplash progressive discourse

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Ok, at risk of stirring up a hornets nest about matters that take up chat time and not making Ubuntu the best damn product it can be... Provide a 16 color PNG image to the wiki page. We can optimize the palette later, but please give some thought to the following indexes in your scheme: 0 Backg

Re: [ubuntu-art] pngtobogl SOLVED

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-17-05 at 15:52 +0200, Kenneth Wimer wrote: > I did that, several times on several pics...check the pics I posted > online...they all work fine (note that I did not adjust the colormap > to fit the code yet) If you read my original post, I stated that this does not apply to 16 col

[ubuntu-art] usplash pics

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
--- Ken Said --- The problems I see with this whole thing is this: A pic, when rendered from vector with a decent editor, anti-aliases differently at different sizes. Every time the thing is scaled you loose quality (unless you are just really, really lucky). So, making bigger pics is easy b

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