Hi all, (summary: check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incubator/SecretGarden and give me some feedback, if you like :)
I managed to spend a little bit of time thinking about some designs on holiday and tonight I've tried quickly mocking some of them up. I am under no false illusions - some of this stuff is UGLY at the moment, but it is ideas I'm playing with... First some background: I wanted the theme to make the computer feel more real... and I wanted to convey some sense of what is going in inside as it boots. To me, it feels like a computer is coming alive... So I took that idea and poked around a bit. The work that I've put on the wiki is the result of me musing on the ideas of growth. There are some drawings from my notebook that I will try and get around to putting up later... The idea is that each subsequent step in the boot process will have 'grown' from the previous one... Usplash-->GDM-->Lsplash-->Desktop should be transition So, so far I've just messed about with usplash and GDM. I am not so sure about the technical possibilities of my GDM - I'd like some suggestions on that. I did a quick lsplash (session-splash) idea but tbh I'd really like the session splash to be fullscreen... and animated :P... So, finally, some actual work. There is a mock up Usplash 4 GDM mockups - which do you like best? Why? 1. Lsplash, but see the note on that one If anyone likes the ideas I'd be really happy for some help working on this. You might notice that I have created a 'Incubator' section of the Art Team wiki. This is to indicate I see this as a long term thing - I don't have the time to push it out for any specific release - it'll be done when we do it... etc... I would like to think of it as a 'theme team' style project. If you like the ideas then get drawing, put up some sketches or mockups :) At this stage I would suggest anyone contributing to this theme do quite quick work not really precise stuff, but because that's likely to be a waste of time as the end result might be quite different from the ideas on the page right now. I don't want anyone feeling like they wasted their time :) Comments as always, welcome Who -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
