Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: Just so this is clear: if anything I make is not accepted, then this is fine. It does, however, seem very awkward to me that the artist-in-chief specifically starts up the efforts to polish the Human GTK theme, then applauds efforts I exert in doing just that, only for it t

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-23 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 23-aug-2006, om 11:42 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: Michiel, I'm somewhat responsible for this. Just so this is clear: if anything I make is not accepted, then this is fine. It does, however, seem very awkward to me that the artist-in- chief specifically starts up

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-23 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: This is ridiculous. So even though it was asked by Frank to polish the Human GTK theme, going as far as to start a wikipage dedicated to it and advertising it on the mailing list (and not minding the fact that I did so afterwards), apparently we're now dropping it

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
I think we have gone a little off-topic. :) On Aug 23, 2006, at 4:33 AM, Troy James Sobotka wrote: > I cannot stress enough how 'knee-deep' we are in it > right now folks -- the deadline is coming _fast_. We > must demonstrate serious work ethic and finish this > task -- as tedious and repetitio

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-22-08 at 19:04 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Well, we also have some time "in the bank" with the designer who did > the Dapper icon set, so we expect to get some changes and improvements > to that icon set in for Edgy. If you have specific icons that you > think need to be done (

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Frank Schoep wrote: One goal I set for myself was to _only_ use ideas and sketches that came up during our collaborative brainstorming. I want the artwork we're producing to be the sum of our collaboration to showcase what we can do with the team, basically the end-goal of our new proc

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Who
> > > > I hope you can do this. I think Ubuntu just has too many loading > > screens. :) > > I don't think we can pull off amazing things like this for Edgy. > We'll probably have to work within Dapper-like constraints for most > of the artwork which implies that the login splash can only use 1-bit

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Frank Schoep
On Aug 22, 2006, at 8:33 AM, Michiel Sikma wrote: > On Aug 19, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Who wrote: >> Personally, I was struggling to produce much that I liked with all >> out >> gloss, I think that matte/gloss will be much easier to produce work >> that is easy on the eyes and has a positive impact. Do

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Frank Schoep
On Aug 22, 2006, at 8:37 AM, Michiel Sikma wrote: > On Aug 19, 2006, at 2:22 PM, PingunZ wrote: >> My preferences are " Rounded " and " Matte and Gloss " >> >> What I like about Rounded : >> - A face browser for the GDM. This is really popular on sites like >> gnome-look. I'd really like to see it

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-21 Thread Michiel Sikma
On Aug 19, 2006, at 2:22 PM, PingunZ wrote: > My preferences are " Rounded " and " Matte and Gloss " > > What I like about Rounded : > - A face browser for the GDM. This is really popular on sites like > gnome-look. I'd really like to see it included in Ubuntu. We can probably have a face brow

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-21 Thread Michiel Sikma
On Aug 19, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Who wrote: > Good idea to discuss this :) > > Personally, I was struggling to produce much that I liked with all out > gloss, I think that matte/gloss will be much easier to produce work > that is easy on the eyes and has a positive impact. Do people think > failsafe

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-21 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: I think it's very beneficial to get this discussion going a little bit. What do you guys think about the styles and looks? Agreed Michiel - thanks for kicking it off! Mark -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/l

[ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-19 Thread Michiel Sikma
Hello everybody, Since the produce phase has now officially began, I think that it would be useful if we took the time to discuss with one another what we feel about the styles that have been outlined. This is purely for internal purposes, which is why I think the mailing list is useful fo