A few random thoughts: It seems to me that a new "official" theme should be introduced with each LTS release. Where/how this theme is developed is not so important as is a consistent look, feel and functionality with all UbuntuStudio parts. Perhaps alternate introducing dark and light themes for each release?
Wallpapers: I'm surprised and disappointed that more community contributions haven't been adopted ... or perhaps I missed the invitation to participate? At any rate, perhaps a contest? Can/would/should the XFCE team or community be willing to contribute to US artwork in some fashion? Finally if the goal is to generate community involvement, introductory tutorials on DIY xfce themes and the various US tools graphic tools would seem a welcome addition to the official US "Welcome New User!" introduction. Oh, and has Desktop Publishing really been abandoned as an Ubuntu Studio component? No Scribus, no font manager ... just askin'. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:40:01 +0100 From: "Kaj Ailomaa" <zeque...@mousike.me> To: ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Choosing Art for Ubuntu Studio Message-ID: <op.wtwbcztx2rg3it@melete.mousike> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes = Creating Art for Ubuntu Studio = Lately, we haven't been very active on creating art for Ubuntu Studio. Not sure exactly how this has been managed back in the day when Ubuntu Studio had its own gtk2 theme and so forth. There are three ways I see how we can go about it in the future, and this depends on what we want to achieve with the artwork. Out of these three suggestions, I'd personally like to go with having a art team work for us, but in order to make that happen, we need to find some artists who are willing to work with us on this. == 1. Art Team Develops the Artwork == With this solution, we have artists developing the artwork during the development cycle, or over several cycles. Using this method, it would be logical to strive for a unified theme, where all of the components - XFCE theme, icon theme, wallpaper, and the look on our website and social sites are all coherent, at least to some degree. It would mean there is some kind of a schedule, with planned goals. It would also mean that we need to get artists to join our team. == 2. Submissions selected by Ubuntu Studio devs == We set dates, call for submissions, and then the team decides what goes onto the ISO. It would be hard to have a unified theme experience this way, but the team is still able to select items that they think go well together, and what works with Ubuntu Studio, generally. == 3. Community decides == We set dates, call for submissions, and have polls. The Ubuntu Studio team could either let the users decide completely, or at a minimum decide what submissions will be up for a vote. = Choosing wallpaper for this cycle = As for the current problem on selecting the wallpaper - we haven't really discussed how to go about it. And we need to do that pretty fast. User interface freeze is March 21st https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/ReleaseSchedule. The situation right now is that we have one of my wallpapers as default on the ISO (just got it in yesterday) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Artwork/RockTheme, but it's not a final decision in any way. We have gotten a few suggestions so far. It's not much, but enough to put together some kind of vote. So, should we let our users decide (if we do that, I'd rather we do it on social channels and mail lists alike, and use some kind of poll service), or do we let the devs decide (which would be faster)? I would like to include the best of what has been suggested so far in any case, no matter which one is chosen as default.
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