a convoluted compromise has been hit instead.
Rather misleading..
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 11/4/07, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SzerencseFia wrote:
Jean-Denis Vauguet wrote:
What about a startup dialog (post-installation) asking the new user
which kind of art he wants for his desktop
I agree, that is a really nice looking button!
Another detail that I think really makes a difference with the visual
experience are those dotted lines that appear around widgets, indicating
what is selected (and can thus be controlled with the keyboard). Really
useful when tabbing, and it's
. Having MacOS feel like an appliance has the idea of the computer
needing some care actually come across as acceptable.
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On Dec 7, 2007 2:53 AM, julian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
..on Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 07:11:07PM -0800, Troy James Sobotka wrote:
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the
same transparent effect. (Again, I am not up on how themes work, so please
forgive my ignorance!).
Keep up the amazing work, Ken! Everyone likes SVGs, so I see a very good
chance of this mockup making it as a mainified (mainly? mained?) theme.
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On Dec 30, 2007 7:57 AM, Anton
Rats, I went and used an already-taken term! I mean to say that Compiz
shouldn't be blindly drawing shadows, when they are in its preferences.
Details like that should be controlled by the theme.
Bye,
-Dylan
On Jan 8, 2008 6:31 AM, xl cheese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's actually the way
Ubuntu logo at about the same
size being used beside the main menu applet in the default install.
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On Jan 16, 2008 1:59 PM, Kenneth Wimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 21:30:59 xl cheese wrote:
yep. that would be my handy work. I actually presented
thoughts, slides or screams of panic / outrage are welcome now, before
it's too late.
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not be putting themselves in the notification area
all the time, but it doesn't look like that will be fixed very quickly.
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On Jan 29, 2008 11:48 AM, xl cheese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another vote for the etched look.
Does the sample icon png suggest you're going to have
I agree, that does look great! Very abstract, but actually unique --
something that gets trickier by the minute.
That picture seems a bit like I a deciduous tree would look if we were to
stare down at it from the top. May be a fun direction to look at!
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008
with the GIMP splash
screens it is often on the top of peoples' minds to create an inspiring
image, and that should be no different for Ubuntu.
...Gee, it is even an SVG! I say pull out the Ubuntu logo, then dump it in
the Hardy alpha to see how people react. Pronto! :P
Bye,
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On Sat, Feb
and see how it goes at the last minute.
Note that I am not pondering a vote, but an efficient and straight-forward
way that we could decide which wallpapers do and do not work well in action.
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Going by the page's revision history, we can see that the Wiki page's author
(and I would bet the talented artist here) is nothlit.
https://launchpad.net/~nothlit
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On Sat, Feb 2, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Sumit Chandra Agarwal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I really love everything about
little
callbacks for its process icon in the new application list applet as one of
its functions not tied to windows. (One callback being to the left click
function, which triggers it to open a new window!).
Bye,
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On Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Álvaro Medina Ballester
[EMAIL
The problem with the Windows way is that there is a complete lack of
consistency in that environment. Learning a new application is a complex
task since they all behave differently. As an example, there is the question
of whether it places itself in the notification area! Really, programs
should
here, before
applications get too set in the current ways!
-Dylan
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Jan Niklas Hasse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 10, 2008 8:30 PM, Troy James Sobotka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Dylan McCall wrote:
The notification area
exists for programs to present
Mockups, eh? Well, here are a few to look at.
Firstly, I have indeed been very very slowly poking at the application
switcher thought as a panel applet. Not really anywhere far yet, but this
discussion got me opening up the project again. I guess that's a step in the
right direction...
I am
Hehe, I think that thread just got way off topic and everyone forgot what
list they were posting in. No crazy expectations from me!
There do seem to be a lot of creative individuals (in terms of UI design) on
this list. Hoping they keep an eye on the other ones, too...
A crazy ideas project would
That clear border is kind of cool! A nice touch that really makes this
mockup distinct (while still reasonably possible, which is unusual). Very
sharp look on the menus, too.
There seems to be some unnecessary reliance on heavy compositing here. The
transparent windows strike me as unnecessary,
I would likely pop in. No idea about my availability for next week, but I
will be available from 3:30 AM GMT on Friday and Saturday this week, likely
more available following that. Nice to see Fela Kuti in Hardy there!
Bye,
-Dylan
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:42 AM, xl cheese [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the Updates require a restart message. More
realistically, somebody who relies on those keyboard shortcuts really
has to hunt to find the location of the standard dotted line, while the
gummy rectangle is clearly visible on first glance.
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 12:29 +0100, Kenneth Wimer
Hi everybody!
Quick issue I have noticed: Many people (including myself) are being
confused by dialogs using PolicyKit, not quite understanding that they
must click the Unlock button. The issue here is that the button is hard
to find at first glance, and usually not placed in a prominent manner.
Hi!
Sorry, this is a tad rambly, but I feel like pushing some thoughts...
I have spent a bit of time tinkering after discovering that I never use
Metacity's window buttons. Pulled them out by editing metacity's stuff
in gconf... I even tried removing the window titles by editing the
theme, but
Nice work trying to get things moving so early in the cycle, Shadow!
To feed imagination, here is a Wikipedia article on the classical
elements:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element
Personally, I think the Chinese Wu Xing stuff would be the most
interesting here, since it feels more
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:34 PM, shadowh511 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
THERE WILL BE AN INSTALL OPTION TO SKIP THE WIZARD
*Facepalm*
Kill me now.
Hopefully my little slideshow project will make it for consideration
in Intrepid, so people will see hey, I can choose the theme! and
happily
I entirely agree that something other than Nautilus could handle the
desktop background. It has always been odd to me how that is the case
now, and I bet if we had another, simpler program do it, the
background could load in much more happily than it does now.
(Furthermore, fancy visual effects
On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 21:25 -0400, Cory K. wrote:
Can we *please* see *some* original work for Intrepid? Not just pieces
from GNOME-Look or the wiki. It really take no creativity to piece a
couple of things together like some of the examples so far.
Let's really show people something new.
Which engine prefer to create a new theme for Intrepid?
If this concept has not yet been fixed, I think a good idea is to spoken
it and decide which engine to use.
Lately I could not read the mail-list and I do not know if this concept
has already been discussed.
Good Work to everyone for
Hello everyone,
I've made a newer version of New Wave that has darker taskbar and window
handlers. I've also added a small gradient for the menubars so that they
look as if they are in the back. Also changed border thickness and color
esp. for François. To be honest I liked better the old
The other trouble with transparency everywhere is the desktop theme
then relies Entirely on the being a compositing window manager,
preferably doing some kind of alpha blur. Without one, the theme is
going to look quite uninteresting; that very common (likely majority)
section of users not running
2008/5/20 Nick Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I think its much better like this, especially the white.
Btw, is it possible to have a special mailing list (on
launchpad?) just for New Wave? I feel we might be clogging up
the art mailing list a little?
Salane,
Regarding simpler file managers, I suggest you check out Nautilus in
spatial mode. It could be what you're looking for. (In Nautilus go to
Preferences - Behaviour and uncheck Always open in browser windows,
or set gconf key /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser to 0). By
the way,
Hello art team!
It's been a while since I blabbered about this, and it's come some way
since then. I am working on a slideshow system for Ubuntu to work
alongside the installation progress bar in Ubiquity (the Live CD
installer). My goal is to unobtrusively give users an introduction to
Ubuntu.
On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 11:20 +0200, Iacopo Masi wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Kenneth Wimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Dylan,
As you mentioned there is a spec for including a slideshow.
Someone could post the link to this spec?
Thanks.
I believe that would be the
Hi, I really appreciate this wallpaper, is there any possibility that
it could be in Intrepid's default wallpapers, as was the static Dawn
of ubuntu ?
Also, I've just noticed you have added a 4th wallpaper in the
slideshow (midnight), so it's even better now !
But I think it might need some
It's a bit off topic here, but on the topic of GNOME Do, I've always
thought it would do well if it never disappeared. Rather, it would be
visible behind all windows by default, then switch to being on top
when the user presses the hot key. That way, it could indeed serve as
an excellent launcher
Alphas should absolutely be a place for playing around with ideas,
testing concepts...I don't think Digg or even Ars should be given room
to discourage experimentation. Some PlanetUbuntu posts might have
helped. And I'm wondering about the feasibility of some kind of
doc/readme, slide show,
I'm not entirely sure about the direction Kin and Kith are taking,
especially with the whole OSX smackdown - so I'm trying something new with
the themes, posting mockups of the new directions the theme could go
flailing into. When I hit something half-decent, I'm going to develop it
similarly
.
-Dylan McCall
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I don't think many people haven't seen that. It's a very popular mockup ;)
I am not at all convinced on the idea of docks with big icons being
the be-all end-all of pretty interface design. In fact, I think it is
an absolutely bizarre and stupid metaphor better replaced by an
application list
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Caputo, Luke A SPC RES USAR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hey guys... im new to the art group, but im pretty stoked to do my best to
help out...
is there a list of items that need finished or anything like that?
also, is there a certain theme you are working on?
There is a new theme added to gnome-look called Shiki-Colors. The theme
looks very interesting (and quite similar to the New Wave idea).
Preview is available at -
The GDM mockup that guy made has a striking resemblance to New Wave,
so this may not be as far off as we assume. One issue with the mockup
is that it is hoping for rounded corners at the bottom of windows, but
there is no border to acomodate this. That can be overcome by having a
thicker bottom
Someone made a flesh-and-bone GDM theme based off of the mock-up, and it has
a rounded corner, too:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Intrepid+Ibex+GDM?content=86712
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Dylan McCall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The GDM mockup that guy made has a striking
Anton, I love how you have made the Nautilus side bar bearable to look
at. Lots of themes make the side bar white except for the drag handle,
which looks really bad. The squared off buttons are a nice departure
from the round widgets which have become 'the norm'. I think they look
good!
This
Some recent news... GNOME now has proper sound themes following the
Freedesktop specification! Much discussion on the GNOME mailing lists...
I'm linking to this one since it's fairly informative and has the right
links:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2008-August/msg00071.html
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 12:19 +0300, SorinN wrote:
1. What I can see ? - finally an other scrollbar design - (as I
proposed in the past). For the rest we have Aurora M1, Aurora
Borealis, Orion Aurora, Dark Aurora ...etc.
Nothing 'kinky' on this theme (that's good). Pretty bad is dark - but
It is professional, yet modern looking, yet doesn't give the vibe that
we were copying anyone else. Can this be used with Metacity? If so, we
have a winner. :)
Smartboy
To me it is clone of Mac's interface with darker colors. So we are
coping somebody here. One more thing. I think that
I like Hot Wave! It's abstract, but vibrant and exciting. The only
thing wrong with Ubuntu's old abstract backgrounds is they always
looked a bit dull to me...
I think the grey background really nails this one by helping the
foreground stand out much better without stealing its colour. VERY
cool
Here is a relevant discussion on Launchpad regarding packaging Aurora.
It appears we have a package, but need to give the magical review
process a nudge ;)
Bye,
-Dylan
Where would this discussion be? :)
Woops! Here it is:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/136854
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I am REALLY impressed that the new mockups seem to be taking into
account llmitations demonstrated by the Aurora and Murrine
implementations.
Oh, and I too love the background. One of few ibex wallpapers that
hasn't seemed cheesily obvious.
Thanks for the links, Julian :)
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Odysseus Flappington wrote:
I think just by slotting in the word 'community' into the definition,
you're already implying that you aren't affiliated with Ubuntu
officially, and have no decision making power in regards to the
default theme.
Is this a problem for you or anyone?
I do
Michael Stephenson wrote:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2008-September/007923.html
As de-facto community lead atm I wanna give this effort a big +1.
Sounds like you were taking the position as community leader at that
point to me, considering it wasn't you announcing
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote:
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 14:54 +0100, Kenneth Wimer wrote:
Hi all,
Wouldn't it be nice to offer a wallpaper for the Jaunty alphas? People
working
on a test system would immediately know it and it might spur interest as
Those are awesome, Jacob. I particularly like the last one since it
isn't branded. (*Hint hint*). Branding is distracting; we already have
a bunch of Ubuntu logos on the desktop and we needn't remind the user
he is using it again. The added text also creates some distraction
both from the awesome
Just recently I got a totally awesome 24 monitor. (Yay! It's a Samsung T240,
going up from a Dell 17. I can't get over how big it is).
To my dismay, Ubuntu's default wallpaper was stretched way beyond its means at
the monitor's native resolution (1920x1200). GNOME's backgrounds all look fine;
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 12:53 +0100, Steve Dodier wrote:
Hello,
Would anyone mind dropping the list of themes included in
community-themes for Jaunty ? I'm still on Intrepid at the moment, but
i'd like to take the time to make XFWM's for all of these themes
within the next two weeks so that
I think Impression totally deserves in, for its awesome documentation
on the wiki alone.
I've been running it for a while and have not seen a single major
issue. None of the weird applications have trouble with it and it
looks really pretty :)
Heh, not much more to say there. There aren't as many
the eye-straining horror
that stems from a busy GTK theme, for example.
Any hints if something like that will be in the default install, or is
it going to be strictly an optional package?
Bye,
Dylan McCall
PS: Also with the thought of having more downloadable visual fun stuff
in the repositories
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 14:13 +0200, Kenneth Wimer wrote:
Other operating systems offer an extra selection of desktop
backgrounds to their users. Often they are based on different themes
typically applied to photography (nature, for instance).
For Karmic we would like to include a set of
On 5/27/09, Smartboy smartboyath...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Mads Rosendahl mad...@gmail.com wrote:
Besides the 11 photo wallpapers I've added to
I downloaded the fedora live CD to view their effort and found the boot
animation did not display on my nVidia desktop but did display on my
Intel laptop. :/
This is because NVidia is afraid of providing an open source kernel
end for their driver (as i understand it, strictly the mode setting
I think that what we are looking for is something fluid yet solid and
complete. No flickering, no jumping...simple movements which show the flow
of the river, so to speak ;)
Speaking of the flow, do we know yet if there will be a black screen
between usplash and GDM? Or will it be magically
I uploaded a new version of Night Impression to the Wiki.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/NightImpression
Some of the changes include:
Moving the scrollbar stepper back to the standard used by most themes
and darkening the bar. The murrine engine doesn't pre-light a dark
I don't really understand the purpose of the new GDM theme here. The
existing new GDM (the one in Karmic right now) is good and honest. It
provides us with a smooth connection between GDM and desktop, looks as
good as the desktop (which is good) and is optimal for accessibility.
It also supports
Hi everybody!
I have a bug to deal with here:
https://code.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/423638
It regards this image:
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/6127/backgroundcd.jpg
This has been very humbling, because it has reminded me how much of a
newbie I am :P
So I need some clever art people to
about
bringing back Dawn of Ubuntu since the licensing stuff has been cleaned
up; it's simply cc-by-3.0 now. Perhaps this package - or something like
it - would be a stylish way to do so.
Enjoy :)
(And feedback is always appreciated)
Dylan McCall
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Curious why Fedora manages to actually make some useful system sounds
while Ubuntu continues to be oddly mute, I looked at the version number
for sound-theme-freedesktop. It is (*gasp*) now at 0.7 upstream, while
the one packaged in Ubuntu is 0.4. In fairness, it looks like 0.4 was
released on
I like to think my panel as a quiet spot for minimalist information,
not the place where icons are just grey.
(Sorry about the weird quoting. It's amazing that, after all these
years, email tools continue to be so hopeless).
I agree with you, David. It would be nice if there weren't light and
On 3/5/10, Nate Wiebe nate___wi...@hotmail.com wrote:
At first I was very sceptical about having them on the right but I decided
to give it a shot. After using the buttons on the left for a few hours, it
feels very natural since I am usually focused on the left hand side of the
screen to
Hi!
The new fad in UI design is white space. Even though GNOME has very
thick padding inside windows, we seem to be behind on this one :)
A big problem with GNOME's look right now, and this seems to be the case
no matter what theme one looks at, is the huge number of lines scattered
about the
As I understand that, it's a caching problem. Reported over here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+bug/642860
It's a new problem from previous releases, because they're trying something
new: the countdown is just a single external image that you link to instead
of a crazy JavaScript /
In other cases, however, an active choice was clearly made but that
choice doesn't address the element's purpose. Why should a volume
control menu be labelled Mute? Etc.
...
Because that's exactly what the item does. (If the speakers are already
muted, it says Unmute.)
The issue suddenly
While we're here, I was about to file a bug report about how it's a
little unpredictable that clicking the music metadata widget copies
its contents to the clipboard. Was there a particularly strong use
case for that? I keep wanting to click the music info to show the
music player, and I wonder if
Smashing Magazine has an excellent article (as usual) called Most
Common Mistakes in Screencasting:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/12/09/most-common-mistakes-in-screencasting/
Probably as good a time as any to kick off a discussion about
screencasts in Ubuntu. I find they are generally
On 2010-12-16 5:03 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote:
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 14:31 +0200, giannhs qwertyuiop wrote:
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Yesterday, I was grumbling about how nothing has really happened for
sound themes in Ubuntu. We have one very nice system that is pretty
well the same as icons (and gentler because there aren't a million
different names for the same sounds and you can omit sounds without
breaking things) but
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