[ubuntu-art] Theme Suggestion

2008-01-02 Thread Laren Dubkowski
I stumbled upon this theme on Gnome-Look. I really like the look of this theme and I think it is similar to some of the mockups I've seen on this mailing list. Some things I like: - I haven't been a big fan of the implementation of brown in Ubuntu, but I think this theme pulls it off

Re: [ubuntu-art] Most hated bug - early morning random idea

2008-01-02 Thread Donn
Anyways, no having fun... http://troy-sobotka.blogspot.com/2008/01/things-get-silly-on-mailing-list.h tml Ha ha. That's the sound that bugs make as you swat them: 'Bzr... Svn! :D Now back to work, you louts! \d -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Most hated bug - early morning random idea

2008-01-02 Thread t_w_
Anyways, no having fun... http://troy-sobotka.blogspot.com/2008/01/things-get-silly-on-mailing-list.ht ml Heh, good one :) I wouldn't mind at all if an adapted version of that one would be chosen instead of my dry work ;) Might be a bit of a challenge to transfer that to 75px height, though.

[ubuntu-art] Hardline v0.2

2008-01-02 Thread Thomas L.G
Hi there, Just made another photoshop-mockup, with some improvements and new stuff. Probably all of it can't be considered improvements, but I just wanna hear what you guys think. I have little experience with designing user interfaces, and none whatsoever with creating linux-themes... So

Re: [ubuntu-art] Theme Suggestion

2008-01-02 Thread shadowh511
is there an icon theme to the creamy classic theme? -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Theme Suggestion

2008-01-02 Thread Laren Dubkowski
is there an icon theme to the creamy classic theme? I don't think so, I use the Mac4Lin Leopard icons which can be found here: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Mac4Lin+Leopard+GTK+Icon+Theme?content=68413 Here is what my desktop looks like:

Re: [ubuntu-art] Hardline v0.2

2008-01-02 Thread sylvain marc
Werry good themes 2008/1/2, Thomas L.G [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there, Just made another photoshop-mockup, with some improvements and new stuff. Probably all of it can't be considered improvements, but I just wanna hear what you guys think. I have little experience with designing user

[ubuntu-art] professional typographer working on the Ubuntu Title font

2008-01-02 Thread Jan Claeys
A professional typographer is working on the Ubuntu Title font: http://betatype.com/node/36 Now, that's a nice new year present... :-) -- Jan Claeys -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] artwork for the Ubuntu idea brainstorming website

2008-01-02 Thread Nicolas Deschildre
On Jan 2, 2008 10:09 PM, Thorsten Wilms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 23:31 +0100, Nicolas Deschildre wrote: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/ubuntu-brainstorm-5/ I prefer the old version. Of course I could try some tweaking. I agree. In the second one, the arrows

[ubuntu-art] Usage of Blur...

2008-01-02 Thread AA Boy
I have seen a few mockups which seen to make use of blur. I was wondering if anyone knew if it was going to be turned on in Hardy? Just wondering, because I could add that to my mockups if it was (it would also worry me, since not all graphics cards can handle it).. -- ubuntu-art mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-art] Usage of Blur...

2008-01-02 Thread Jan Niklas Hasse
I don't think it will be, because there are only a few graphic cards which support it. Intel and the free ATI driver are not along them. But I'm just a user and don't know any official decisions. On Jan 2, 2008 11:28 PM, AA Boy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen a few mockups which seen to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread tonic
well there is voting one man, one vote On Jan 2, 2008 6:02 PM, Justin Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whatever, that fact remains that there is no leadership or direction from the people who can make any decisions. You seem to forget many people, such as myself, are on here on their own time

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread Thomas L.G
tonic skrev: well there is voting one man, one vote To be honest, I don't think that's enough. If anyone were to agitate for a community-based organization of this work, it would be me (especially since it politically suits my ideals perfectly... ehem). And I am! But every organization

[ubuntu-art] [Ubuntu-Art]Theme Teams. Moving Forward. Making Stuff!

2008-01-02 Thread Who
This is quite lengthy. If you can't read it all but are interested then try just to look at the bits with ==?== in front of them - they're questions that I hope as many people in the art-team as possible should answer... Wiki Page:

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread julian
..on Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:01:26PM +1300, tonic wrote: well there is voting one man, one vote agreed. it indicates /trends/ of interest, something not easily discernable from sprawling mailing list discussion. as someone said earlier, there are many great ideas contributed to this list

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread Troy James Sobotka
julian wrote: we need to see mockups in one place as opposed to scattered over several sites and hidden as attachments in nests of threads: This has been established at least thrice in my knowledge, and at no point do people bother to tidy things up into an organized manner. The people who

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread Troy James Sobotka
tonic wrote: well there is voting one man, one vote Hilarious. And yes, quite right. sabdfl I suppose _does_ vote. Sincerely, TJS signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Usage of Blur...

2008-01-02 Thread Ken Vermette
By default, I don't believe so, but if the art team makes something that might be considered worthwhile - the argument could probably be made to support blur by default on powerful-enough machines. I'm unsure of who would make that decision in the end - possibly Mark, I don't know. On Jan 2, 2008

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread Who
Dude you are just spinning your wheels, because I don't understand how nything up to this point can be called brilliant. I don't claim to know what to implement to get this project back on its feet. But the fact is that we are more then two months into a six month release cycle without

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread Ken Vermette
No author of any theme is remotely aware of whether or not their submission will make it into the final product. I don't know that, if I turn one of my themes into a full-out GTK with Emerald and Metacity, my time will have been worth it. While we are all aware that Mark will decide the final

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread Who
On Jan 3, 2008 2:29 AM, Ken Vermette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No author of any theme is remotely aware of whether or not their submission will make it into the final product. As Cory K just pointed out - this isn't true. No designer knows if they will make the default. But we can ensure that

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread Andrew Laignel
Who wrote: How does a conventional 'vote for the one you like' allow us to see this? Maybe you could vote 1...5 on each entry then look at the tally graphs for distribution? into love it/hate it camps which should be avoided at all cost. Ideally a default theme should not be even noticed

[ubuntu-art] ArtPackagingSchool

2008-01-02 Thread Cory K.
Who wrote: Cory, I mentioned ArtPackagingSchool on the wiki page about Theme Teams - are you familiar with the launchpad theme packaging method in a way that would mean you can contribute to that? I notice Troy has added a very sensible comment on the wiki suggesting we write a document not

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread Troy James Sobotka
julian wrote: can you list these three attempts here for the benefit of review? To the best of my ability: 1) Roughly about Warty there was a community effort. The original Launchpad group was created from what I can recall. 2) Around Edgy there was a pretty decent push to get people to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Andrew Laignel wrote: Ideally a default theme should not be even noticed by the public - being neutral and innofensive as possible should be the goal. A perfect demonstration of this is Apple, where the current theme for OSX is crips, clean, stylish and probably as neutral as you can get

Re: [ubuntu-art] ArtPackagingSchool

2008-01-02 Thread Who
Great :) Now we just need some theme team leaders :P On Jan 3, 2008 3:04 AM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who wrote: Cory, I mentioned ArtPackagingSchool on the wiki page about Theme Teams - are you familiar with the launchpad theme packaging method in a way that would mean you can

Re: [ubuntu-art] ArtPackagingSchool

2008-01-02 Thread Cory K.
Who wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 3:04 AM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who wrote: Cory, I mentioned ArtPackagingSchool on the wiki page about Theme Teams - are you familiar with the launchpad theme packaging method in a way that would mean you can contribute to that? I notice Troy has

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread Jan Niklas Hasse
As long as I can remember the Ubuntu Theme has been part of the branding, something that helps make Ubuntu known, something for people to talk about. From this point of view, it has worked very well - if you see a screenshot of linux and it is brown, you _know_ it is ubuntu - if you see a

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread Ken Vermette
Ooh, what's that one? OSX is long held as one of the boldest and most unique designs in the industry, when Windows was just toying with XP - Apple made the ultra-shiny, over-glossed look and threw in every effect they could think of and paired it with a pinstripe. If you look at OSX now, compared

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread xl cheese
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 02:31:17 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards. On Jan 3, 2008 2:16 AM, Andrew Laignel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think votes are valuable. Not for seeing who likes a theme but rather who

Re: [ubuntu-art] ArtPackagingSchool

2008-01-02 Thread Ken Vermette
I can lead a team until mid this-month, get a team off to a good start. But if anybody has bold and unique ideas, I'd be willing to work under them. All and all, if people are willing to put up with a guy that has a tree up his [censored for children] for two weeks, and they just need a design

[ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-02 Thread xl cheese
I'm going to try to mimick Ken's mockups as close as I can with a true gtk theme. If anyone here would like to help out with it email and we can take it offline. I'll start using the pixmap engine for things I can't get any current themes to make then attempt to alter some other engines to

Re: [ubuntu-art] ArtPackagingSchool

2008-01-02 Thread Cory K.
Ken Vermette wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 10:27 PM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 3:04 AM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who wrote: Cory, I mentioned ArtPackagingSchool on the

Re: [ubuntu-art] ArtPackagingSchool

2008-01-02 Thread Ken Vermette
On Jan 2, 2008 11:08 PM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Vermette wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 10:27 PM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 3:04 AM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-02 Thread Ken Vermette
I've tackled Emerald, I'll be honest and say I suck when it comes to the live conversion, so it could probably be done better. I'll post what I have done tomorrow the moment I get at my regular development machine (traveling). I'll also make a variation with an opaque content arera in case Cimis'