On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 12:00 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 10:32 +0100, Odysseus Flappington wrote: > > > According to one of the blogs on the planet > > > (http://www.lamalex.net/2009/05/chasing-the-white-whale-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-and-new-ubuntu-theme/), > > Mark Shuttleworth has now hinted that there's a good chance it won't > > change at all in the next release: > > > > it has taken a long, long time to pull together a design team > > i had hoped to have that team in place six months ago, but it?s > still forming > > i think we will make good progress in the next cycle > > you can already see a few things that have borne fruit from that > team > > notifications, time zone selector in installer, etc > > but it?s fragmentary > > i?m pretty darn confident we?ll have a new look for 10.04 > > but i think only pieces of that will emerge for 9.10 > > I just recently brought up the same snippet, only I took it directly > from the Open Week IRC log. It's generally a good idea to read the > list > you want to post to ;) > > > For anyone wondering what colour-palette to use, I think it's > probably > > a good idea to stick with the current orange/brown, and deal with > any > > changes that might arrive once an official announcement is made on > > what the new one will actually be if there will be a new one at all. > > I strongly disagree. If one thinks orange/brown is just fine, use it. > If > you want to explore other options, go for it. > > We don't get to work on default artwork, so why should we feel bound > to > a predefined palette? Especially since Mark stated that "Brown has > served us well" but other options will be considered for Karmic Koala: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-February/000536.html >
Thorsten, > Experience tells us that it is not a good idea to wait for Canonical. +1 I would add if this team isn't leading Canonical then we may not be adding value. Alex & others ... If you have an idea on how to improve Ubuntu put it on the wiki as a submission and let's discuss here. John -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art