Re: [Bug 81608] Re: Please use DejaVu Sans Condensed as the default font

2010-03-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
I've seen the Liberation font, it's very nice and probably a lot better than either one of the fonts discussed here, judging from the samples. I'm not on my Ubuntu box right now, do you have a screenshot showing how it looks as rendered with the system's default anti-aliasing settings? Michiel

Re: [Bug 81608] Re: Please use DejaVu Sans Condensed as the default font

2010-03-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
So basically, Liberation is meant to be the default serif, sans-serif and monospace in documents such as web pages? Just saw some screenshots of Liberation being used as the system font, and while I don't think it's ugly, I can understand what you mean. Nice to hear that Dalton Maag have been

[Bug 42926] Re: More granular font selection for the default install

2009-02-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
(Although I kind of feel like I'm beating a dead horse here) I feel that it's good for the system to have basic support for other scripts. I'm just taking a couple of fonts included in the default install that will add support for the most common scripts for documents and browsers—not the full

[Bug 70403] Re: Strange loss of colors in text-mode terminal

2008-12-29 Thread Michiel Sikma
Oops; I no longer have the screenshots. However, my problem was slightly different. Instead of the white text being cleared, all non-white colors were cleared. -- Strange loss of colors in text-mode terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/70403 You received this bug notification because you are

Re: [Bug 42926] Re: More granular font selection for the default install

2008-12-15 Thread Michiel Sikma
for, say, their OpenOffice documents. We should keep in mind that users might not want to have the language pack, yet still want to read documents made with the script. People who natively speak English but work together with an Indian company, for example. Michiel Sikma mich

Re: [Bug 42926] Re: More granular font selection for the default install

2008-12-03 Thread Michiel Sikma
cannot easily turn off the notifications. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3-dec-2008, at 16:44, sam tygier wrote: an auto font installer ought to be used to add non-latin fonts when needed. http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2008/12/01/packagekit-and- pango- are-now-friends/ -- More granular

Re: [Bug 42926] Re: More granular font selection for the default install

2008-12-01 Thread Michiel Sikma
It wouldn't be a bad idea to include some other fonts to cover some of the more common scripts. I'd be more interested in having default support for Simplified Chinese than a bunch of fancy Latin fonts that you hardly ever use. Only the basics should be supplied. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL

Re: [Bug 81608] Re: Please use DejaVu Sans Condensed as the default font

2008-02-28 Thread Michiel Sikma
I think it's a difficult issue. DejaVu Sans is a very good font, as is DejaVu Sans Condensed. The former has the advantage of being more extended, which aids readability, and the latter might be slightly more elegant and allows for more information to be shown on the screen. In any case,

Re: [Bug 42926] Re: More granular font selection for the default install

2008-02-04 Thread Michiel Sikma
I think that it should be possible to reduce the amount of default fonts without giving up on the most often used writing systems. I personally think that it's important that users of Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Cyrillic, and eastern logographic writing systems, should be supported out of

[Bug 176623] gnome-system-monitor documentation is ancient, needs updating

2007-12-15 Thread Michiel Sikma
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor The documentation of this package is ancient. It's, in fact, so old that it states the window should have no more than two tabs in its main window, while there are four by now. It has no information on the System and File Systems

[Bug 176623] Re: gnome-system-monitor documentation is ancient, needs updating

2007-12-15 Thread Michiel Sikma
** Attachment added: Differences between recent System Monitor and its documentation. http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10917875/system-monitor.png -- gnome-system-monitor documentation is ancient, needs updating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176623 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 141001] Re: Large fonts in window titles

2007-12-14 Thread Michiel Sikma
I have this too. The window title font is slightly larger than it should be. I actually thought this was a feature! To be honest, I like it; the window title is important on-screen information, so it made sense to me that it would be a little bigger. Maybe once you fix this bug, I'll go talk to

[Bug 59695] Re: default value in power.sh potentially kills laptop disks

2007-10-25 Thread Michiel Sikma
I'd like to second (third, fourth, nth) the importance issue. It's currently on the wishlist, but it seems that this bug is potentially harmful to hardware. This should be considered high or critical unless we find definitive proof that it isn't very dangerous at all. -- default value in

[Bug 154802] All repositories deliberately commented out during install

2007-10-20 Thread Michiel Sikma
Public bug reported: Related to bug 35364, but maybe not entirely the same. I just installed Gutsy on a MacBook which didn't have internet access at the time. Since it could not verify any of the repositories, it commented them all out, even though I'd hook it up to the internet after

[Bug 70403] Re: Strange loss of colors in text-mode terminal

2007-09-10 Thread Michiel Sikma
** Description changed: It seems that if you leave a text-mode terminal alone for some time, it will go into a power-saving mode of some sort. I don't know how to otherwise describe it, so here are two pictures that show what I mean: - http://thingmajig.org/tmp/strange_0.jpg - normal

[Bug 135458] X server on Parallels 3.0 crashes upon restart after extra desktop effects is enabled

2007-08-29 Thread Michiel Sikma
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop Yesterday, I had installed Gutsy in a virtual computer under Parallels 3.0 for Mac OS X (this is a standard x86 virtualizer, and quite popular). Just to see what it looked like, I enabled extra desktop effects as I was setting it up.

[Bug 70403] Re: Strange loss of colors in text-mode terminal

2007-08-25 Thread Michiel Sikma
I've taken new photos of this bug while still using 7.04. See here a normal, everyday tty session: http://test.thingmajig.org/25-08-07_0006.jpg After a while of doing nothing (a while is about the time when one would dim the screen to save energy), the screen suddenly looks like this:

[Bug 70403] Re: Strange loss of colors in text-mode terminal

2007-08-24 Thread Michiel Sikma
Sorry, the images are offline by now. I will retake these screenshots with the latest testing version soon to see whether the problem has persisted. (Yes, I know I'm talking to a bot. :) -- Strange loss of colors in text-mode terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/70403 You received this bug

Re: [Bug 81608] Re: Please use DejaVu Sans Condensed as the default font

2007-04-10 Thread Michiel Sikma
be the system's default font, DejaVu Sans, could cause this image to be rendered differently. Am I missing something? Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web designer and programmer On 10-apr-2007, at 16:35, jhasse wrote: Here's another example where DejaVu Sans destroys a svg image: http

Re: [Bug 81608] Re: Please use DejaVu Sans Condensed as the default font

2007-04-10 Thread Michiel Sikma
Ah, I see. In that case, ignore my last message too, since it seems to be a Firefox bug. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web designer and programmer On 10-apr-2007, at 16:43, jhasse wrote: hmm... maybe I'm wrong, when I watch the image with another application then firefox, it works

Re: [Bug 81608] Re: Please use DejaVu Sans Condensed as the default font

2007-04-10 Thread Michiel Sikma
.css Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web designer and programmer On 10-apr-2007, at 17:18, jhasse wrote: I think you're right. It must be something else because this image is broken. well, I just noticed that pons.de has a new design which is now working with DejaVu Sans. But I found

[Bug 81608] Re: Please use DejaVu Sans Condensed as the default font

2007-04-05 Thread Michiel Sikma
A while ago, I replied to this bug about not liking the font at all. It seemed that a more extended font like DejaVu Sans was more readable, due to the fact that broad fonts with a large x-height are simply found to lend themselves very well for reading on a computer screen (as proved by the

[Bug 81608] Re: Please use DejaVu Sans Condensed as the default font

2007-04-02 Thread Michiel Sikma
I'm currently unable to check on how that website looks with Condensed, as I'm at work, but I'd expect that the breakage is due to the site designers having done a bad job rather than the font being incompatible. Making a design rely on the width of a font is always a bad idea (it also probably

[Bug 45739] Re: Loud startup noise during boot

2007-02-01 Thread Michiel Sikma
I actually do agree with Tommi Asiala. Lowering the volume is one thing, but I personally would rather actually not have a startup sound at all. Startup sounds are /so/ 1984. :) But that's something marketing-related, I'll discuss this with the Ubuntu art team later to see if we should open up a

[Bug 81608] Re: Please use DejaVu Sans Condensed as the default font

2007-01-29 Thread Michiel Sikma
By the way, I also believe that this font's usability goes up when using the low amount of hinting. It causes the top and bottom row of pixels to be correctly hinted. If we use this font as default, I believe that we should also start using that setting as the default hinting. (Should I open up a

[Bug 81608] Re: Please use DejaVu Sans Condensed as the default font

2007-01-27 Thread Michiel Sikma
You know, I really don't think that this font is all that great. The hinting is really, really off. Or even non-existent. And, as I suspected, the font does not have the optimal screen font structure. Condensed fonts are more difficult to read, most of the time, and that is why I was skeptical

[Bug 81608] Re: Please use DejaVu Sans Condensed as the default font

2007-01-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
I hope that you realize that changing the default font of the operating system is a gigantic change. I really cannot stress this enough. It will affect everybody, and everybody is going to notice it. Making such a change requires extensive discussion and consideration by everybody involved in the

[Bug 81608] Re: Please use DejaVu Sans Condensed as the default font

2007-01-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
Sebastien Bacher, did you even read what I said? If you're fixing this, you should realize that this isn't your average bug. This is a gigantic OS-wise change that will affect everybody. We first would need to open up a discussion on whether we /want/ to change this before actually doing it. --

[Bug 81608] Re: Please use DejaVu Sans Condensed as the default font

2007-01-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
My concern /is/ appearance, Jimmy. Not testing. I'm active in the Ubuntu artwork team, and I believe that making such a change is /not/ something that you simply propose and accept in an afternoon. This requires more thought, and I believe that the artwork team should be involved here as well.

[Bug 43350] Re: Too Low Resolution Backgrounds

2007-01-18 Thread Michiel Sikma
** Description changed: The backgrounds currently included are too low resolution. * 1600x1200 * 1600x1000 When displaying these background on higher resolution devices it looks stretched and ugly! Considering (also) supplying these sizes: * 1920×1200 * 1680x1050 + +

Re: [Bug 14630] Re: Gdm theme Human with face list

2007-01-15 Thread Michiel Sikma
as it is, due to the lack of official design documentation. Michiel Sikma Web developer, Design Center BV. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://thingmajig.org/ On 14-jan-2007, at 22:37, Mirco Müller wrote: Troy, trust me... there won't be a problem following just any style

[Bug 70387] tty1 littered with debug info

2006-11-05 Thread Michiel Sikma
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: usplash When I start up my computer and switch to tty1 while the nice new usplash software is running, I seem to get a lot of debugging info from usplash. This litters the screen and continues to be seen even after usplash has finished its animation,

[Bug 70403] Strange loss of colors in text-mode terminal

2006-11-05 Thread Michiel Sikma
Public bug reported: It seems that if you leave a text-mode terminal alone for some time, it will go into a power-saving mode of some sort. I don't know how to otherwise describe it, so here are two pictures that show what I mean: http://thingmajig.org/tmp/strange_0.jpg - normal text-mode

Re: [Bug 69627] Re: menubar icon

2006-11-01 Thread Michiel Sikma
they were precisely aligned to the pixel. But I only once did that, so maybe it was fixed or changed since. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web designer and programmer -- menubar icon https://launchpad.net/bugs/69627 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-art] And he went to the volcano to offer...

2006-09-28 Thread Michiel Sikma
Off-topic to the discussion of Troy's art, but I'd say that valid positioning and branding of Ubuntu's identity is moreo important than a few tools, but that's something other devs will probably disagree with. :P Like said on IRC, I find this very interesting, Troy. We'll discuss it

Re: [ubuntu-art] panel background

2006-09-27 Thread Michiel Sikma
Thanks for the suggestion. It looks interesting, to say the least, but I wonder about usability here. The bar looks like it's too dark to create a proper contrast between itself and the text. Michiel Op 27-sep-2006, om 3:30 heeft effraie het volgende geschreven: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [ubuntu-art] Knot 3 Wallpaper - comment

2006-09-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 26-sep-2006, om 11:51 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: Michiel Sikma wrote: That is total nonsense. It's a very good wallpaper, and I don't think that the balance its composition currently holds should be compromised because a design element vaguely reminds you

Re: [ubuntu-art] Knot 3 Wallpaper - comment

2006-09-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
That is total nonsense. It's a very good wallpaper, and I don't think that the balance its composition currently holds should be compromised because a design element vaguely reminds you of a logo. That's just silly. Michiel Op 26-sep-2006, om 11:38 heeft Julian Oliver het volgende

Re: [ubuntu-art] Edgy's current art looks like fecal matter :O

2006-09-12 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 12-sep-2006, om 10:35 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: Both good pointers. Troy Sobotka just called for more comments to help get Edgy's artwork nailed, so your timing is good. Mark That's true. We need to have more people actively criticizing art. Don't worry about

Re: [ubuntu-art] (no subject)

2006-09-12 Thread Michiel Sikma
Welcome to the list, I guess. Michiel Op 12-sep-2006, om 16:18 heeft Alberto Núñez het volgende geschreven: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- ubuntu-art mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-art] Workflow management

2006-09-08 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 7-sep-2006, om 18:43 heeft Nathan Eckenrode het volgende geschreven: I am not certain I see how Mediawiki is better at allowing one to see the progression of work that has been done on artwork. It appears to be the same solution that is currently in place, a wiki. i certainly can be

Re: [ubuntu-art] Usplash for edgy is finished

2006-09-07 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 7-sep-2006, om 0:45 heeft Dennis Kaarsemaker het volgende geschreven: well, almost finished The usplash in edgy actually already supports the bling-bling things I worked on lately, but doesn't say how to use them. I've just pushed some more revisions to launchpad, including an example

Re: [ubuntu-art] Usplash for edgy is finished

2006-09-07 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 7-sep-2006, om 12:08 heeft Who het volgende geschreven: That is _cool_ - what did you use to make it? I like the added shading on the logo too... Just Photoshop. I'll prepare a version that can be opened up in GIMP when I get home (uses layer effects and clipping masks now). The radial

Re: [ubuntu-art] Usplash for edgy is finished

2006-09-07 Thread Michiel Sikma
I would like that too, but a background might not work well for the same reasons it couldn't be anything other than black in the old usplash. I was thinking of shining a big spotlight on the logo that revealed a brown radial gradient-like background underneath it, but that doesn't work

Re: [ubuntu-art] msikma's Progress Indicator

2006-08-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-aug-2006, om 4:21 heeft Troy Sobotka het volgende geschreven: On Tue, 2006-29-08 at 15:55 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: Or something like this: http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/28695/animated.gif I think that concept is terrific. We discussed something very similar to it during

Re: [ubuntu-art] Pretty System Consoles

2006-08-29 Thread Michiel Sikma
Yeah, wasn't it one of the main art-related objectives of Edgy to get that crappy text out of the distro's usplash? Michiel Op 29-aug-2006, om 15:13 heeft PingunZ het volgende geschreven: Seriously, focus the usplash with a higher resolution and color depth. Cheers PingunZ --

Re: [ubuntu-art] Pretty System Consoles

2006-08-29 Thread Michiel Sikma
. We really don't need a beginner-freaking-out-text, its not nice, its not useful.. Just a nicebackground with a throbber. Cheers PingunZ 2006/8/29, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yeah, wasn't it one of the main art-related objectives of Edgy to get that crappy text out of the distro's

Re: [ubuntu-art] Pretty System Consoles

2006-08-29 Thread Michiel Sikma
Well, I'm kind of hoping that somehow we'd be able to get past that limit. I've heard talk of a better usplash that will support 256 colors. It's rather ugly with only a few colors. Michiel Op 29-aug-2006, om 16:05 heeft Viper550 het volgende geschreven: Nice, but that's 256 colors, do

Re: [ubuntu-art] Some guidelines for consideration

2006-08-23 Thread Michiel Sikma
combining brown with orange and even yellow/red hue accents that Dapper made possible. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

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 you

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] Some guidelines for consideration

2006-08-23 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 23-aug-2006, om 11:58 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: Michiel Sikma wrote: It's a little unfortunate that the shut down, restart, etc. buttons are now in a drop-down box, which I think kind of seems out of place when opened. I'd rather have those buttons on the GDM

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
. Does anyone still have that link that contained it? I'm willing to do a lot for Ubuntu art, but reverse engineering the alpha channels of all icons of an icon set isn't one of them. :) Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
screen isn't removed I'd certainly go for an animated one, like xubuntu. I hope you can do this. I think Ubuntu just has too many loading screens. :) Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS: please CC your mails to the Ubuntu artwork mailing list. Seems that I didn't even notice that two mails

Re: [ubuntu-art] Starting the Produce phase for Edgy Eft

2006-08-20 Thread Michiel Sikma
and clipping are majorly useful features. I guess I'll have try and go without them. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

[ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-19 Thread Michiel Sikma
about the styles and looks? Regards, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Starting the Produce phase for Edgy Eft

2006-08-19 Thread Michiel Sikma
is going to be very useful. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Progress update on the community process

2006-08-15 Thread Michiel Sikma
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Re: [ubuntu-art] Progress update on the community process

2006-08-13 Thread Michiel Sikma
the easiest way to make everything brighter is tossing a replace color filter on the grey, but that should only be done when I no longer need to edit the layers. :) So I'll try that in a while. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-art] Progress update on the community process

2006-08-13 Thread Michiel Sikma
and orange are okay colors from my perspective, as they're very distinctive and nice colors. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] NEW Startup Sounds

2006-08-12 Thread Michiel Sikma
some interface sounds. I'm really interested in those in particular. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Progress update on the community process

2006-08-10 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 10-aug-2006, om 17:28 heeft Michiel Sikma het volgende geschreven: Op 10-aug-2006, om 17:15 heeft Who het volgende geschreven: Are there going to be any modifactions to the Human engine this release cycle? I recall that the clearlooks developers made it in the UI sprint for dapper

Re: [ubuntu-art] Progress update on the community process

2006-08-10 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 10-aug-2006, om 17:36 heeft Who het volgende geschreven: I too am wondering about the technical aspects of the Human theme/ engine. I've worked out a possible future theme for Human before (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/PolishHumanGTKTheme/

Re: [ubuntu-art] Progress update on the community process

2006-08-10 Thread Michiel Sikma
! -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestions for polishing the Human GTK theme

2006-08-02 Thread Michiel Sikma
colors, since it is just a little bit too bright at the moment. There has been made a bug report about it (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubuntulooks/+bug/37603). Well, off to the drawing table. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] QUESTION: usplash

2006-07-08 Thread Michiel Sikma
, widescreen LCDs are becoming more popular, and one could think that the whole widescreen TV hype might get something to do with it, too. I agree that most computers as of now still have 4:3, but I wouldn't discount the possibility of it being different in the future. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-07-05 Thread Michiel Sikma
to make it more Ubuntu-specific? I'd surely prefer to go without it, though. Here are links to larger versions: http://thingmajig.org/tmp/abstract1.png http://thingmajig.org/tmp/abstract1b.png (different color scheme) Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Holidays

2006-07-04 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 4-jul-2006, om 15:42 heeft Étienne Bersac het volgende geschreven: Hello all, I'll be in holyday with boyscouts during 3 week from 5 to 25 july. So don't hope any changes in the wiki from me nor any comment on ubuntu-art Have nice holydays you too. -- Verso l'Alto ! -- ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mark's Comments on Branding

2006-07-03 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 3-jul-2006, om 10:31 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: You're absolutely right - for non-default wallpapers we could relax this criterion. However, the number of wallpapers we can include on the installation CD is limited by space. I'm not sure, for example, if Dapper

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-07-03 Thread Michiel Sikma
will, too, so we can always have one high-resolution default wallpaper and some smaller ones besides that, if it really takes up that little space. That is kind of nice. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-07-03 Thread Michiel Sikma
, then they should definitely submit them, if only for to show off the fact that it is possible, but I'd much rather work with a much larger control over individual pixels. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-07-02 Thread Michiel Sikma
On Jun 30, 2006, at 5:52 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 30-jun-2006, om 17:47 heeft Troy James Sobotka het volgende geschreven: 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 common as is 16:9. Yeah, you're right

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 0:22 heeft Étienne Bersac het volgende geschreven: Hello, www.neuronioenlatado.com.br/ubuntu/eft1920x1280.png That would be nice to ship wallpaper in such high resolution. Especially for widescreen for 1650x1080 and higher (like OS X do). Étienne. -- Verso l'Alto !

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 9:58 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: There are two things to bear in mind. First, space. We are very tight on the install CD. In Dapper we switched to 700MB CD formats but we also introduced a lot of example content that shows what the OS is capable

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 10:00 heeft Michiel Sikma het volgende geschreven: Is that so? I always thought that it kept a cached, maybe even uncompressed version of a scaled wallpaper to prevent the rendering from being too difficult. Hmm... maybe that's an idea for the developers. I'll file

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 12:22 heeft Joao Inacio het volgende geschreven: On 6/30/06, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I encourage people to work on as high resolutions as their RAM will allow. I personally work on resolutions in the 4000 px wide regions to ensure that my wallpapers

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 13:25 heeft Kenneth Wimer het volgende geschreven: Hi Thiago, On Jun 30, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Thiago Ribeiro wrote: I made this wallpaper in Inkscape, but I opened it in Gimp and saved as png. I dont know why when I export it in Inkscape the image isnt the same that I'm

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 17:40 heeft Troy James Sobotka het volgende geschreven: The optics of this are poor. There are a plethora of different aspect ratios ( 16:9, 16:10, 4:3, 5:4 ). 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

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 30-jun-2006, om 17:47 heeft Troy James Sobotka het volgende geschreven: 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 common as is 16:9. Yeah, you're right. Sorry. 5:4 (1280x1024) is commonly used as well. I

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mark's Comments on Branding

2006-06-29 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 29-jun-2006, om 16:14 heeft Matthew Nuzum het volgende geschreven: On 6/29/06, Mark Shuttleworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Étienne Bersac wrote: For me, the branding on the Breezy background was great - it belnded in very well with the backdrop - an generally looked 'cool'. Agree,

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mark's Comments on Branding

2006-06-29 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 29-jun-2006, om 17:00 heeft Matthew Nuzum het volgende geschreven: On 6/29/06, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op 29-jun-2006, om 16:14 heeft Matthew Nuzum het volgende geschre For inspiration, I strongly suggest looking at what other OSs are doing. Most computers come from

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mark's Comments on Branding

2006-06-27 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 27-jun-2006, om 16:11 heeft Troy James Sobotka het volgende geschreven: 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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mark's Comments on Branding

2006-06-27 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 27-jun-2006, om 16:13 heeft Michiel Sikma het volgende geschreven: Op 27-jun-2006, om 16:11 heeft Troy James Sobotka het volgende geschreven: 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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Appointment of AIC's for Edgy

2006-06-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
! :) Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
On Jun 26, 2006, at 10:29 PM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: OK, I think we are making progress here! Michiel Sikma wrote: What I do appreciate is that Human was used in Dapper while it was incomplete as an extra impulse to get people to complete it. I'll definitely make it one of my things

Re: [ubuntu-art] Schedule-thought

2006-06-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
in vectors? I've also done some wallpaper sketching which I'll present later while we're on the subject. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-25 Thread Michiel Sikma
PS: sorry, I didn't realize you had already sent a mail to the list as well. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-25 Thread Michiel Sikma
On Jun 25, 2006, at 11:55 PM, Kenneth Wimer wrote: Hi, On Jun 25, 2006, at 11:23 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote: On Jun 25, 2006, at 8:25 PM, Kenneth Wimer wrote: On Jun 25, 2006, at 7:21 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote: On Jun 25, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Troy James Sobotka wrote: This will require

Re: [ubuntu-art] Icon discussion

2006-06-23 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 21-jun-2006, om 17:11 heeft Who het volgende geschreven: On 6/20/06, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's open up this discussion again with Edgy in mind. There are currently two viable sets that can be used: the Human set and the Tangerine/Tango set. What are your reasons

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu title font

2006-06-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 21-jun-2006, om 23:29 heeft Niel Drummond het volgende geschreven: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:27:59 +0200 Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ ubuntu-art-titlefont can you make ubuntu-art the assignee to this spec, so it'll show up on the main

Re: [ubuntu-art] Updated Cursor

2006-06-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
The spec for this (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/ ChangeMouseCursors) says J Lo loves her mouse pointers, but ubuntu has not improved on existing commercial mouse pointers. She hopes the next release will. I still don't see this as a valid argument. What is there to improve on

Re: [ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

2006-06-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 22-jun-2006, om 9:48 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: Michiel Sikma wrote: I've been thinking about how to retain consistency between different types of Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu). Perhaps we could simply make sure that the default themes that exist

Re: [ubuntu-art] New member

2006-06-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
Hi Niklas! Welcome to the Artwork team. It's great to have someone around with experience in graphics. Do you also have experience in print work? I hope that you will succeed at getting a job as UI designer at DICE. I too would like to be part of a game studio sometime, although right

Re: [ubuntu-art] Updated Cursor

2006-06-20 Thread Michiel Sikma
Chuck Huber wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 15:25 -0700, Chuck Huber wrote: The link below depicts XP cursors to the left, while the equivalent Polar, Neutral and Ubuntu cursors are on the right, in that order. http://lagunadata.com/staging/buntu_art/cursor_comp.png Checking around I found

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu pallete for inkscape

2006-06-20 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 20-jun-2006, om 9:34 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: j michaelson wrote: would it be worth having an ubuntu pallette made for inkscape users or is everything being switched over to the tango pallette now? No, we are not switching to the Tango palette, so it would be

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu title font

2006-06-20 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 20-jun-2006, om 9:39 heeft Oliver Grawert het volgende geschreven: hi, Am Dienstag, den 20.06.2006, 08:32 +0100 schrieb Mark Shuttleworth: Andy Fitzsimon did the first versions of the Ubuntu font - I think he did it by hand and it was his first font, so cleanup / patches / improvements

Re: [ubuntu-art] Updated Cursor

2006-06-19 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 19-jun-2006, om 3:00 heeft Chuck Huber het volgende geschreven: On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 15:58 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: For one, and this has nothing to do with your cursor design, but what is exactly the reason why we're making new cursors? At the risk of sounding closed-minded, I

Re: [ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

2006-06-19 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 19-jun-2006, om 3:24 heeft Chuck Huber het volgende geschreven: On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 14:09 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: For instance, Kubuntu could have a blue theme. It should preferably look as much like the Ubuntu default theme as possible, barring the color set. Then we should

Re: [ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

2006-06-19 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 19-jun-2006, om 16:44 heeft Matthew Nuzum het volgende geschreven: On 6/19/06, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ubuntu uses orange, Kubuntu uses blue, Xubuntu uses light anthracite (or something; that's how the color seems to me). Those seem like nice default colors for themes. I

[ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

2006-06-18 Thread Michiel Sikma
I've been thinking about how to retain consistency between different types of Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu). Perhaps we could simply make sure that the default themes that exist for the different distros are somewhat universal? For instance, Kubuntu could have a blue theme. It should

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