On Dec 28, 2007 5:16 PM, Troy James Sobotka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1 - I have long promoted the ditching of the Ubuntu title font
> in everything outside of the word "Ubuntu". Are you against changing
> the 'logo' to a font outside of the Ubuntu title font family? It
> is a sub-optimal fon
On 2/1/06, Young Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Feedback would be appreciated. Also, it would be good to know what the
> team's priorities are right now so I know what to work on.
I'm out of the loop as far as priorities go right now, but those
screenshots look excellent! I love the background
On 12/19/05, Jerome Gotangco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The aim is to eclipse the incredible visual impact of Dapper Flight 1
> Usplash though...
>
> :)
That's either sarcasm or the drugs are really getting to me, because
the impact on my end lasted less than a second. :-\ Are you speaking
of th
On 12/19/05, Travis Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's just a creative use of the 16 colors they have available. There
> are no new features there.
Wait, don't say "just"! :-) After all, we're mostly "just" creative
people working on Ubuntu stuff. hehe. That said, I thought it was
really c
On 11/17/05, Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anybody know of a reasonably-high-quality reasonably-lookalike font
> for that thing?
Are you referring to the Ubuntu logo font? If so, it's in universe,
titled "ttf-ubuntu-title".
--
Aaron
Ubuntu SVG Artwork - http://www.volvoguy.
On 11/7/05, Nicholas Burman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think the idea of the Ubuntu-Art list is to collect people's
> favourite desktops and share them, as entertaining as that is.
While I agree that every wallpaper doesn't need to be mentioned on the
list, we (the art team) DO need wal
On 10/21/05, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The image is extremely busy with all those lines. Very visually distracting.
Busy - yes. It does get a few points for looking very similar to my
vintage Supro tube guitar amp. :o)
--
Aaron
Ubuntu SVG Artwork - http://www.volvoguy.net/ubuntu
On 10/21/05, Gary Varnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please take a look at these, and let me know what you think.
Cool stuff! Did you put it up on art.ubuntu.com yet? :o)
Man, now I want to see if I can get my dad (a toolmaker) to make me a
metal Ubuntu logo. :o)
--
Aaron
Ubuntu SVG Artwork
On 10/19/05, Travis Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One problem: until the end of the month most of the country is running
> on daylight savings time so your table is +1 hour off. :)
Took the words right out of my mouth. I'm unfortunately never up that
early and rarely up that late, so if I'
Speak of the devil. :o)
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From: Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Oct 10, 2005 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: betterDesktop
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Novell & openSuse have launched a usability website for the desktop.
> http://www.betterdesktop.org/welcome/
>
> "
On 10/19/05, Frédéric van der Essen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think that a few thing are going in the wrong way on this mailing list, and
> if we don't move our asses, nothing good will come for Dapper.
> the first is that we aren't doing anything.
> the second is that we don't know what are o
On 10/19/05, Frédéric van der Essen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you heard about the Tango Project ?
> they aim at making a consistant and cross desktops icon theme.
Yep. Lofty goal.
> Their current work looks very good, and IMO a project like that is a very
> good idea.
I only saw bits a
On 10/5/05, Luka Cehovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, the idea of a meeting is not a new one (there was an official meeting
> one or two times during the summer), but there is always a problem with the
> time and the day of the week. We will have to make some compromises and some
> of us will
On 10/3/05, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Our contracted artist, Cliff Chen, created the default backgrounds for 5.04
> and 5.10. We've discussed the use of more complex composition filters in the
> background display routines - we could do this in future releases with Cairo
> filters. W
Hey all,
The rumors of my death have been (mostly) exaggerated. Most of ya'll
know my own miserable medical problems, but two weeks ago my mother
had surgery for a torn rotator cuff which turned out to be about a
million times worse than they expected. Her recovery time went from
three weeks to th
On 9/28/05, Pascal Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is absolutely nothing definite, but, nonetheless a list of some pretty
> good stuff of which I certainly wouldn't mind seeing some stuff in
> Breezy. :o)
Whew... After several hours of browsing and chatting about wallpapers,
we've made so
On 9/29/05, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't be too concerned about results for this release - art team was never
> intended to be on the critical path for default artwork. However, the most
> important thing you guys should be looking at is the calendar backgrounds.
> We've got lots
On 9/29/05, Senectus . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/29/05, Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would much rather see vector art being produced for backgrounds,
> > calendars etc. Photos are problematic in the sense of file size and
> > subject matter.
>
> I had suspected such things woul
On 9/28/05, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Send more! Those are gorgeous. You have taken excellent photos and so
> little touch-up is needed. I've merely cropped it and boosted the
> color a little.
I agree. Very nice! I strongly suggest imageafter.com or flickr.com to
host the full s
On 9/28/05, Senectus . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does the Ubuntu art group accept Photo submissions?
As I said in my previous reply, I think the best solution would be a
flickr.com or similar account for a photographer, as I don't think
it's really necessary to turn art.ubuntu.com into a photo
On 9/28/05, Viper550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, tommorow is the Artwork Deadline, I sent Volvoguy my new splash,
> new wallpapers of mine are there, and my ISOLINUX splash hasn't even
> been mentioned yet! If I'm a contributer, should I get something more
On 9/27/05, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The ideas for the elemental theme this far:
>
> Fire-Air: The sun, sparks flying out of a bonfire
> Fire-Earth: Volcano
> Air-Water: Rain, a whale spraying water, A rainy day, a rainbow
> Air-Earth: A tree (crow
On 9/27/05, Vijay Kishan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am new to this "Open-Source" Art part of it. I
> used to contibute to the kernel code/documentation
> some time back. I have photography as my hobby and
> want to contribute some good photographs to Ubuntu Art
> as this is one distribution
On 9/28/05, Nikolai Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I heard that we were supposed to explicitly tell people about our
> proposals...well then I'd like to "propose" my four wallpapers that
> I've uploaded to art.ubuntu.com as well!
I'll throw in my two cents. :o) Personally I like the illustra
On 9/26/05, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I experimented with the circle of friends thing in the rocky_shore-right
> image, but the orange colors looked out of place. The lozenged logo
> looks nice, but has to be placed in the right part of the image (so that
> the rounded
On 9/26/05, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The PNGs are transparent, so that you can choose the background color
> yourself.
Those are excellent! I especially like how the alpha transparency
worked out in these images. My only constructive criticism is that you
should prob
On 9/26/05, Pascal Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 06:15 pm, volvoguy wrote:
> [...]
> > Just so ya'll don't think I'm slacking... I *am* scheduled (yet again)
> > for another major back surgery on November 4th and I'm in enough
Definitely some nice illustrations! As far as making it into the
Humility (to be renamed Humanity?) icon theme for Breezy, you'll need
to get Andrew's input. If he doesn't see the thread here in a few
days, you might want to peek in on the IRC channel occasionally and
ask him how he's doing with th
On 9/26/05, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there no way to manage something you've added to art.ubuntu.com? I'm
> looking for a way to do revisions/updates or just add new image
> formats... I assumed that this was possible since there's a "version"
> entry in the submis
On 9/23/05, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ideally I'd like every wallpaper (also calendar work) to be a
> transparent SVG so that they would go with all GTK themes. Actually this
> is exactly why I don't use the current calendar images. They are brown,
> but my GTK theme u
On 9/22/05, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Unless somebody opposes to it, I will post a note for
> volunteers/submitters in the forums.
That's ok with me.
--
Aaron
Ubuntu SVG Artwork - http://www.volvoguy.net/ubuntu
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On 9/16/05, Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nh.. its nothing to do with being 'better' or 'worse' ;) And the
> best way to have good ideas is to have lots of ideas.
> I"m not sure where any vecotr tutorials are, but I'm sure you could
> google for some.
There are a fair amount of tutori
On 9/16/05, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think you're a better illustrator than me (judging by your portoflio). As
> a matter of fact, I'm not an illustrator at all. I've never done a trace in
> 2 hours, either, especially people/faces.
>
> I just think this picture is cool (wh
On 9/16/05, Senectus . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not politically incorrect... just distasteful :-P
What do you think a smoking jacket is for? :o)
Anyway, I like the idea of a well dressed duck in browns and tweed
better than the tuxedo idea, but we'll see. Nobody has succeeded in
making the "
On 9/15/05, Senectus . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was thinking more of a well groomed late 60 English gentleman in a
> brown Tweed sports/smoking jacket :-)
> The colours would fit the Ubuntu theme as well :-P
So like Sherlock Holmes or C.S. Lewis, but with a duck's head? :o) I
like it. Would
On 9/15/05, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, Just to kick off the submissions and encourage people, a quick 5 minute
> cartoon one :-)
Nice. Unfortunately all I can picture is Disney's Scrooge McDuck. :o)
No doubt Mark could afford to license the character, but he (McDuck)
really remind me m
On 9/11/05, Jon Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While it will require writing libraries to process the information, I
> believe this will take less time in the long term than using SOAP.
>
> You can find the proposal at http://wiki.jellybob.co.uk/dxs
Hi Jon!
I thank you for your input, but I'
Hi art type people
In my IRC wanderings lately, I ran across someone on the laptop team
that asked if there was anyone on the art team interested in doing
some application icons for a GTK Jabber client called "gajim". This
person (IRC nick is "/sh") said that the app already has a general
"hum
On 9/8/05, Senectus . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=20381
> The competition was announced as an official Ubuntu announcement..
> Since then it's slipped beneath the radar.
Thanks, that's good to know. My statement still applies though. It has
nothing to do
On 9/8/05, Nikolai Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So andy, what happened to the asking around???
>
> I've written jeff waugh ANOTHER mail in the meen-time, and quite
> frankly I am getting a bit pissed about this rude behaviour of you two
> not replying on this topic. I have so far had no su
On 9/8/05, Pascal Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I suppose so. I would like to see the art-web cms continue.
Keep in mind that art.ubuntu.com is simply a place for artists to
showcase their artwork. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do
with art development that makes it into a release (
Hey all. Thomas from over on Gnome's artweb mailing list has made a
suggestion about eliminating duplicate emails that I think we all
ought to follow.
Anything "Ubuntu Artwork" specific should stay here on our own
ubuntu-art mailing list.
Anything related to bugs, enhancements, and technical, web
On 9/7/05, Morgan Tocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > - It puts unnecessary load on the server for little gain while for an
> > artist who has made the original artwork it's a trivial task to make
> > the thumbnail as well.
I think that should be a test. If you can't make a thumbnail of
appropri
On 9/7/05, Sascha Morr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK this is right! But it's also not funny to see a nice wallpaper onto
> the Website, download it and see uh it's not my resulution. Propably
> it't possible to get different sections for differenz resolutions?
My point was just that higher reso
-- Forwarded message --
From: Dave Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Christian Bjälevik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:48:10 +
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] PHP/MySQL tasks on the art.ubuntu.com website
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:49 +0200, Christian Bjälevik wrote:
> > * A
On 9/6/05, Pascal Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Marvelous idea. I really like this, and I think art.ubuntu.com could easily be
> the staging ground for such an event. :-)
>
> Anyone else agree? :-)
I agree, but we may want to save that until the bugs are worked out of
the site. :o)
By the
On 9/7/05, Sascha Morr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> some of the wallpaper-pictures @ art.ubuntu.com are only available in a
> size of 1024 x 768. This is ok but users of a higher resolution (like
> me) will be unhappy with this because autmatic resized Wallpapers don't
> look fine.
This is really
On 9/6/05, Henrik Nilsen Omma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. Suggested license: Apparently in order for a piece of artwork to be
> considered for inclusion in any of the official distros it needs to be
> under the CC-Attribution-ShareAlike license (can someone confirm this?)
> I don't think we s
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From: "Thomas Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Henrik Nilsen Omma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 12:15:31 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: PHP/MySQL tasks on the art.ubuntu.com website
> Hi,
>
> You guys expressed an interest is doing some PHP/MySQL work on
On 9/6/05, Pascal Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey.
> I saw on the corresponding wiki page -
> [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuArtWebsite] that we need three or so pages
> written:
>
> "We need to write some pages with information about licenses, copyright, use
> of logo, website info, contac
On 9/2/05, Henrik Nilsen Omma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If anyone is very keen to follow my progress over the weekend on this
> I'll be posting questions and suggestions for improvements on the gnome
> art-web mailing list:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/artweb-list/2005-September/thread.html
On 9/2/05, Blu Dharma Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you are interested please contact me at the email address listed
> belowthere are also no adsor hidden agenda...except that I really
> believe in linux, open-source, and more importantly ubuntu ;-)
Hi Namo! I definitely appr
Actually, this page should be for tracking issues with the website
software, not submitting artwork. The only time images might be needed
on this page would be to point out rendering issues in a specific
browser or something.
For now, if you want to show off artwork, I suggest using a service
like
I've created the following wiki page to help keep track of issues
regarding art.ubuntu.com:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuArtWebsite
Henrik, I added the comments that I made to you earler. I'm sure you
can add a lot more regarding what is and isn't working. :o)
--
Aaron
Ubuntu SVG Artwork - w
On 9/2/05, Henrik Nilsen Omma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The good news is that the maintainers are friendly and helpful and seem
> willing to accept our changes into their tree to make it more general so
> we can all continue to use the same version. That will be useful for us
> as they make mor
On 9/2/05, Ali Davoodifar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What needs to be done? Perhaps I can help?
I don't know the details yet myself. I've asked Henrik (our server
guru) to join the list so we can discuss the issue. If I don't fall
asleep first, I'm going to get a wiki page started to track webs
On 9/2/05, Morgan Tocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This mailing list and the IRC channel* are our two
> > primary methods of communication and discussion at the moment. If
> > you're a PHP or MySQL guru, let me know and I'll get you in touch with
> > Henrik to try and get the rest of the bugs
On 8/31/05, Jeff Hottinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This website/server I think is a huger issue than ever. I bet these
> projects would get a ton more casual user support and contribution if
> there were a central discussion board or any sort of site for
> submitting, viewing submissions, com
On 9/1/05, Pascal Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I heard there was a sort of reformation of the art team. The channel is quite
> dead most of the time, and the mailing list isn't really all that active
> either. I'm just wondering because I'd like to apply my skills to the art
> team.
I think
On 8/30/05, bmgz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, I did a quick mockup. This is just to illustrate the fullscreen splash.
> The image can be found here:
> http://img344.imageshack.us/img344/6321/breezysplash018vz.png
Hey, that's not half bad. :o) Since it's just a quick mockup, I'll
throw out som
On 8/30/05, bmgz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has a gnome splash screen been finalised yet?
> I have some suggestions and will contribute some mockup ideas (for what
> it is worth...).
Nope. Nothing but the icon set have been finalized. Our initial goal
when we started was to have our community a
On 8/14/05, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > Sure there are marketing efforts, but this is more on a Canonical business
> > oriented approach rather than a community approach that is similar to the
> > marketing efforts in Gnome and OOo.
>
> Not that it should be left to Canonical a
If you're brave enough to be using Breezy right now, I just noticed
some good news in my daily "apt-get dist-upgrade":
inkscape (version 0.41-5) will be upgraded to version 0.42-1
Woohoo!
I apologize for the silence lately. My back pain over the last week or
two has made me pretty much useless.
On 7/31/05, JoE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> See, I like the brown at pretty much all times. And users can change
> a lot of defaults if they dislike them. Though it might not hurt to
> have a few "default" color scemes to choose from that maintain the
> feel of ubuntu while moving away from the
On 7/29/05, Martin Magnusson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I consider myself most skilled in the areas of typography, 3D-graphics
> and photography. Is anyone in charge of delegating work here? What needs
> to be done?
Hi Martin!
Actually, you're not much newer to this list than the rest of us. O
Well folks, our first unofficial art meeting has come and gone.
Andrew, Nicholas and myself did most of the talking, with Jeff Waugh
standing by for important issues. :o)
We're still kind of waiting on the server for two purposes:
1. Public art website for artists to submit their work. Potentiall
On 7/28/05, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Three quick questions
>
> 1) Does this list include any Kubuntu users?
The official answer is maybe. :o) It's past my bedtime, so I may
not be thinking clearly, but I don't recall anyone introducing
themselves specifically as Kubuntu users.
Pers
On 7/28/05, Luka Cehovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> damn ... that's 4:00 am CEST so it is logs reading for me :-(
>
> i realy hope we will change that...
Because we're a small group scattered all over the planet, it's going
to be difficult to find times that will satisfy everybody. I'll make
s
Howdy Art Team members!
Sorry for the delay in setting up a time for our first IRC meeting.
Andrew and I have been pretty busy lately (well, he's busy, I'm just
in pain). Since a big, official, super-organized meeting is still a
little ways away, I wanted to at least set up a time when Andrew and
I'm hoping to attack the wiki with whatever energy my back pain allows
over the next few days. Specifically I want to beef up the icon page
and start to get things prepped for organizational stuff (even if it
means creating "blank" pages and talking other people into actually
filling in the data).
On 7/21/05, Luka Cehovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> is somebody working on the list of all icons that need to be done ... or
> are we waiting for the new web site? (we can write it in ubuntu wiki ...
> at least temporary)
We're "kinda" waiting for our server, but we do need to add more to
the ub
On 7/20/05, kori mendocino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i believe that while the wiki is great for what it has been used up to
> now at the ubuntu site, both for development and help, but i really
> think that it is not the best platform for a team like ours, with the
> goals and projects that we a
On 7/18/05, YetZero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've noted that on the wiki pages it's still a bit confusing to find
> areas where you can apply to participate. Maybe one non-wiki webpage
> could be useful, if no one is working on it yet, I can manage to do
> it. If there's anything else I can he
On 7/18/05, Ricky Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My life is totally unpredictable right now so i can offer no promise
> of showing up sadly. I'm heading to police academy in two weeks and am
> not even sure how long that will last. then i'll be moving and
> finishing my last year of college,
On 7/18/05, Ricky Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use, and have used xchat for many years. I consider it the best
> graphical client out there. I'll do my best to hang out in
> #ubuntu-artwork as well. that's on irc.linux.org for any one else who
> wants to join :)
I fired that up for a whi
Hi all!
I think that by late next week or early the following week we should
try to have our first official team meeting. I want to use this thread
to discuss what day/time would be best for everybody, so chime in with
what works best for you.
It seems as though UTC is the most common time code f
On 7/17/05, Ricky Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey guys. Just a thought, but how about an IRC channel to help
> collaborate on art projects? how about something like #ubuntu-art on
> freenode (where #ubuntu is already located) ?
Andrew down in Australia (who only cooks prawns, lamb or snags
On 7/17/05, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> A little help here? I'm creating a Planet for Polish LoCo team, but I
> couldn't come up with a logo. Could someone please do something nicer?
> :P Everything's under temporary address: http://bronikowski.com/planet
There's at l
On 7/17/05, Paul Belanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do creating Metacity themes count? I currently am an admin | themer at
> a theme site www.boxwhore.org, you can see my work there, its mainly
> fluxbox as that is what I'm using atm, there are also some blackbox
> and openbox themes I have don
On 7/16/05, Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, I'm waffling, and I can't even blame drugs (hehe)
That's right. I only I can blame my behavior on drugs, and only
because they're legal drugs. In case I didn't mention it in a previous
email, I've had two discectomies in the past three years a
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