Just a small suggestion... Gnome 2.24 has been released and with it (if you read the release notes) is a collection of very nice set of wallpapers taken after a competition. It would be great if these are included by default or maybe included in the repositories.
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 5:58 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Send ubuntu-art mailing list submissions to > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-art digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67 (Michael Garate) > 2. Re: Ky?d?: Audience and Message (Giuseppe Pennisi) > 3. Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67 (Gary Stanley) > 4. Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67 (Vadim Peretokin) > 5. Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67 (symon cadwallender) > 6. Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67 (Adam) > 7. Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67 (Michael Stephenson) > 8. Re: Ky?d?: Audience and Message (Adam) > 9. Re: Application support (Cory K.) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:21:53 -0400 > From: "Michael Garate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67 > To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I'm really disappointed if the new theme has been postponed again. This is > exactly what happened for the hardy release :( > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/attachments/20080926/fe727e30/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:25:38 +0200 > From: Giuseppe Pennisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Ky?d?: Audience and Message > To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork <ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Il giorno gio, 25/09/2008 alle 16.14 +0100, Jos? Luis ha scritto: > > So we need: > > -Vid editor > > -Third party office support(PS, After Effects, AutoCad..) > > > I agree totally. This items are more important to compete with closed > source OS. > > For the rest, I think is more important make something that is not only > beauty or easily to use but is ready to use without that people should > do particular settings. Ubuntu must be a package ready to use. Also in > the themes should be ready to use, creating more solutions of the same > theme. Infact in some themes is not enough simply change the colors in > the control > panel but must work in the code to adjust some values and for users this > is not simple. And they don't want. > > Sorry for my English, I hope you understand. > > gp > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:43:05 +0100 > From: "Gary Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67 > To: "Discussion on Ubuntu artwork" <ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I feel much the same way. I've been watching the art discussion list for > quite some time and the one thing that comes across more than anything > (or it appears like it to me) is that the art side of development is > almost like an afterthought. > > > > Don't get me wrong, I applaud the effort in killing bugs and bringing > out better software to be included in the next release, but the lack of > a "pretty" interface it isn't helping the migration of users over to > Linux from Windows or Apple when they are used to certain "eye candy" on > those operating systems and that is all they care about ... Canonical > and Ubuntu are missing a trick here in my lowly opinion. > > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Garate > Sent: 26 September 2008 12:22 > To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67 > > > > I'm really disappointed if the new theme has been postponed again. This > is exactly what happened for the hardy release :( > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/attachments/20080926/52d86e83/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:55:20 -0400 > From: "Vadim Peretokin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67 > To: "Discussion on Ubuntu artwork" <ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > A lot of people on social networking sites are expecting a new theme > also... > everybody got scared when the horrid completely brown theme was being > tested, but others comforted them that it was just testing. But with no > themes improving (the little bits really don't count in the whole scope of > the expectations) with the Alphas, everyone is hoping for the final theme > to > be in Beta, and it being good... > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/attachments/20080926/69cf9798/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:16:15 +0800 > From: "symon cadwallender" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67 > To: "Discussion on Ubuntu artwork" <ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Lol. What do you expect from Ubuntu. They will never have a good theme, > either will Gnome. Gnome havn't got the balls to do it, Go Kde. Im so sick > of Ubuntu and Gnome and their 1980's mentality that i just switched to > Opensuse/Mandriva Kde. Atleast Kde are more in touch with today's standard. > 'F ubuntu and gnome' > By the way, how the hell do I unsubscribe from this shit. Im so sick of > ubuntu > kaddy > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Vadim Peretokin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: > > > A lot of people on social networking sites are expecting a new theme > > also... everybody got scared when the horrid completely brown theme was > > being tested, but others comforted them that it was just testing. But > with > > no themes improving (the little bits really don't count in the whole > scope > > of the expectations) with the Alphas, everyone is hoping for the final > theme > > to be in Beta, and it being good... > > > > -- > > ubuntu-art mailing list > > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/attachments/20080926/c239c240/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:18:32 +0200 > From: Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67 > To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork <ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 12:43 +0100, Gary Stanley wrote: > > I feel much the same way. I?ve been watching the art discussion list > > for quite some time and the one thing that comes across more than > > anything (or it appears like it to me) is that the art side of > > development is almost like an afterthought. > > i totally agree, and i think that everybody is expecting the new theme > as well, however this is the ubuntu-art list and if we dont know about > this new theme than i dont know who would. > > we have good and nice community themes. dust is my personal favorite, > but it is still very buggy, and many bugs cannot be fixed without the > applications developers. the only way it could be implemented is if they > would put it in default at the beginning of the next release, so all the > developers have 6 months to correct there application interfaces. > most of the problems come from the different background and toolbar > color btw. > > > > > > > Don?t get me wrong, I applaud the effort in killing bugs and bringing > > out better software to be included in the next release, but the lack > > of a ?pretty? interface it isn?t helping the migration of users over > > to Linux from Windows or Apple when they are used to certain ?eye > > candy? on those operating systems and that is all they care about ? > > Canonical and Ubuntu are missing a trick here in my lowly opinion. > > > > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael > > Garate > > Sent: 26 September 2008 12:22 > > To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67 > > > > > > > > > > I'm really disappointed if the new theme has been postponed again. > > This is exactly what happened for the hardy release :( > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:30:18 +0100 > From: Michael Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 67 > To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork <ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 20:16 +0800, symon cadwallender wrote: > > Lol. What do you expect from Ubuntu. They will never have a good > > theme, either will Gnome. Gnome havn't got the balls to do it, Go Kde. > > Im so sick of Ubuntu and Gnome and their 1980's mentality that i just > > switched to Opensuse/Mandriva Kde. Atleast Kde are more in touch with > > today's standard. 'F ubuntu and gnome' > > By the way, how the hell do I unsubscribe from this shit. Im so sick > > of ubuntu > > kaddy > > See this link at the bottom of every post, click it. > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > Good riddance Troll. > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:24:37 +0200 > From: Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Ky?d?: Audience and Message > To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork <ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > > > So we need: > > -Vid editor > > -Third party office support(PS, After Effects, AutoCad..) > > > > And a pretty interface, of course! > > i agree we need a good video editor, like imovie, and openoffice is > great but they have so dumb mistakes (for example if you would use a lot > of shortcuts like alt+menushortcut+menuitemshortcut, in openoffice ater > u hit alt it opens the file menu so you have to hit escape and than > start hitting the other shortcuts, seems a stupid thing but if u use > office all day u need these shotcuts..) > or comparing impress to apples keynote.. different dimensions. > > however i dont think the games are so important. people play on xbox not > on pc anymore. > > > > > -- > > > > Jos? Luis Ric?n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:28:21 -0400 > From: "Cory K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Application support > To: Discussion on Ubuntu artwork <ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Adam wrote: > >> So we need: > >> -Vid editor > >> -Third party office support(PS, After Effects, AutoCad..) > >> > >> And a pretty interface, of course! > >> > > > > i agree we need a good video editor, like imovie, and openoffice is > > great but they have so dumb mistakes (for example if you would use a lot > > of shortcuts like alt+menushortcut+menuitemshortcut, in openoffice ater > > u hit alt it opens the file menu so you have to hit escape and than > > start hitting the other shortcuts, seems a stupid thing but if u use > > office all day u need these shotcuts..) > > or comparing impress to apples keynote.. different dimensions. > > > > however i dont think the games are so important. people play on xbox not > > on pc anymore. > > This is all very off-topic. Please separate of a topic (especially if it > hijacks one as important as Ky?d?) next time. > > (general note for all ^^^) > > > -Cory K. > > > > ------------------------------ > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > > > End of ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 39, Issue 68 > ****************************************** >
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