Justin Rogers wrote: > I have been watching for about two months now, waiting to see how I can > contribute. Who ever is leading this project, I am still uncertain, have > put very little effort into it overall. I believe we were promised some > sort of direction on the Wiki like a month ago. At this rate there is no > way any new theme will ever get into 8.04. To put it bluntly the > leadership on this project sucks!
First, leadership is a wonderful thing to talk about, but a whole other thing to accomplish. Second, you can play a 'mental game' for yourself. Imagine a list such as this where 100 people submit ideas. You have your own personal aesthetic. You have the aesthetic of people who are 'in charge'. You have individual belief structures. Now you have 1000 different belief patterns, 100 different submissions, and the various computational byproducts. What direction do you go? Every single poor design decision in history has been agreed upon by someone somewhere who thought it was a good idea. Look no further than this list if you need proof. Third, you have people who refuse to examine the history, wiki, or other easily accessible information out there. As has been made clear a thousand times before, the paid art liason is Kenneth Wimer (aka kwwii on Freenode). The final art arbitrator of all things Ubuntu is sabdfl - Mark Shuttleworth. 1) No there won't ever be voting. It is a hideous route to follow for design. Arguably, it can also be a shortcoming, but voting isn't the answer. 2) kwwii (as per email to the list) has been on vacation. I hope this helps, and I hope that perhaps you will see that the situation isn't nearly as simple as some people would like it to be. Sincerely, TJS
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