JTK wrote:
> Alright:
>
> 1. The GIMP is cool.
Yes. The GIMP is cool. I agree with you.
> 2. Will the Mozilla project accept reasonable[1] artwork contributions,
> add them to http://www.mozilla.org/banners/,
Why do they have to be added to banners/?
and let the people (as in
> users, not People's Republic)
Mozilla's (the browser) users are the development, testing and qa
communities plus vendors using Mozilla technologies in their releases.
Most of the development, testing and qa community could care less what
the few Mozilla images (installer, splash, throbber and desktop icon) in
the application look like and the vendors like Netscape and Beonex have
their own splash and icon art.
www.mozilla.org's (the website) users are the development, testing and
qa communities, vendors using Mozilla technologies, plus the people that
would like to join one of those groups. I think that the website could
use a new look and that something a little less heavy would be a nice
change. I've seen some pretty nice mock-ups with just the Mozilla head
(like slashdot uses) and "mozilla.org" in the banner as well as some
completely different ideas with totally different art and color schemes.
If we move over to a new website architecture (being worked on) then we
may see something like "site skins" where users could pick from a
handful of style sheets or create their own. I'm all for making a
change to lighten up the website but I prefer to spend my time thinking
about organizing content and navigation because I think those are a more
important problem to tackle. If you'd like to do a mock-up of site
banners and such then please do and post to n.p.m.documentation if you
get something that you like.
decide whether they want to use commie or
> non-commie artwork to promote this supposedly "Open" project?
Did you miss the whole "mozilla icons are really boring and ugly" rants
and the artwork that came of that? What about the "mozilla needs a new
splash screen" and the artwork that resulted there? If you did miss
those read back in .general and .ui and take a look at some of the art
people posted there. [EMAIL PROTECTED] do not want to have a contest
but if something better (lots of wiggle room here, I know) comes along
then I think we should take it. There have already been a large number
of submissions of alternate splash screen and icon art. Some of it is
good, some not so good. I'm not the most eduacted critic in the world
but I do have more than a few years of university study in graphic
design, then art history, and architecture which should at least qualify
me to make the occasional critical statement about this or that icon or
splash screen.
--Asa
