Hello Ubuntu Artwork team, I joined this list in an effort to avoid a few visual mistakes that I think are very important in the overall look-and-feel of the upcoming Dapper Drake.
The first of this mistakes is the use of the white desktop icon. I commented on a bug report about it and I'm doing it here also as instructed in the bug page. This icon looks very unpolished and unprofessional, the white paper sheet on the icon and the default color make that icon look quite unpleasing and dissonant with the rest of the desktop. Another problem is the hard drive icons, they are in a different perspective from the floppy and CD-ROM icons. I think in this case Tangerine's hard drive icons are better. I think also that Tangerine's desktop icon is much better than the white one. It's stylish, simple and solid. Also, inside Evolution, in particular on the mail composing window toolbar, there are two icons that are not yet in the new theme. These are the Send and Attachment icons. They really look out of place since they're among the first three icons of the toolbar. There's also a problem with the Save and Undo/Redo icons, they seem to have been resized from smaller non-vectorial versions on the same Evolution e-mail composing window. This is the ugliest toolbar I've seen so far on my Dapper desktop. When using pure Tangerine the appearance of the Desktop really gets a lift, it seems the removal of the Human-specific icons and the replacement by the somewhat larger and more solid Tangerine ones provide a better visual experience. I hope this critique to be as constructive as possible, and pushes the Human icon design team to create better quality icons. If that happens not to be the case by the time of the release I hope Human grabs more from Tangerine for a better visual experience. Thank you very much for your titanic efforts. Thanks to you Ubuntu continues to be the best distribution out there. We owe you a lot. El mié, 10-05-2006 a las 02:15 +0200, Andreas Nilsson escribió: > Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > Tangerine has the advantage of (a) being based on Tango, which starts > > with SVG's for everything and has design in place, and (b) being > > developed by folks who work with Gnome and KDE themes regularly so can > > test it in place. > > > > Unfortunately, I don't believe that Tango has the level of design > > quality in place that we need for the best theme for Ubuntu. I just > > don't like the Tango icons. And 22x22 (as well as other decisions) are > > IMO poor choices. Tangerine is therefor somewhat limited. Ideally, we > > want better icons, with a better toolchain process for Human. > First of all, I would like to thank you that both Tangerine and Tango > was accepted into main. > As I've probably mentioned earlier the guidelines are not set in stone > in any way and feedback from Canonial regarding the naming-spec, the > style guidelines and other stuff is more than welcome. But anyway, I > hope we can discuss this again further down the road when we don't have > a deadline a couple of days away. > > So, my opinion is that it would be unwise to change default theme so > close to the release, therefore I say stick to Human for now, as it's > quite easy to change to Tangerine on a fresh install for those who wish > to do so. > Glad to hear that so many people like the hard work that have been put > into tango and tangerine and support the idea of a consistent interface > for the free desktop! > - Andreas > -- Jean Pierre Rupp Xeno-Genesis [www.xeno-genesis.com] * E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * E-mail 2: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Celular: +58 (414) 264-1973 -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
