Re: [ubuntu-art] Theme engines

2008-08-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 09:07 -0400, George Kendros wrote: The only place where I differ is the tabs. I think it looks weird having the active tab look 'pressed in'. The active tab is supposed to be above the inactive tabs so it create a strange look when it's below. It is supposed to? Says

Re: [ubuntu-art] Theme engines

2008-08-12 Thread Vadim Peretokin
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:07 AM, George Kendros [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I'm pretty much in complete agreement with you. I think that pic of the calculator with one button pressed in looks great. The only place where I differ is the tabs. I think it looks weird having the active tab look

Re: [ubuntu-art] Theme engines

2008-08-12 Thread George Kendros
I have tried the theme. The reason I say tabs 'should' look a certain way is because tabs are emulating an actual physical object. Thorsten, I understand your point about consistent UI metaphors and it makes a lot of sense. The only thing I'm saying is that you first need to disassociate the UI

Re: [ubuntu-art] Theme engines

2008-08-12 Thread Andreas Berger
-- Original E-Mail - Yeah, I tried the actual theme out as well. The problem is that it's a pixmap theme so unless you really like that color (which I don't) it doesn't really work for you. It also had a few glitches, that you outlined above, which seem common in many

[ubuntu-art] Brown rocks. Get over it and being default.

2008-08-12 Thread Cory K.
Andreas Berger wrote: a lot of people will not like brown (as a matter of fact) and there will be no way for them with a pixmap theme. (this is not a personal attack. its an attack on the this must be default mentality) This is *only* if someone is trying for default Ubuntu. *WHO CARES* if

[ubuntu-art] Transparency

2008-08-12 Thread Joshua Booth
Frankly, I don't understand people's attacks against transparency. I am so sick of black panels and then the white panels aren't comfortable to me. If they're transparent you can see right through to your comfortable wallpaper, and also clear just looks cooler to me. I believe someone said that

Re: [ubuntu-art] Brown rocks. Get over it and being default.

2008-08-12 Thread Ashton
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Berger wrote: a lot of people will not like brown (as a matter of fact) and there will be no way for them with a pixmap theme. (this is not a personal attack. its an attack on the this must be default mentality)

Re: [ubuntu-art] Transparency

2008-08-12 Thread Vadim Peretokin
There is no 'Ubuntu Design Team'. There is 'Ubuntu Art Team'... and this is their mailing list, heh. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Brown rocks. Get over it and being default.

2008-08-12 Thread Marc Bruno Schroth
Am 12.08.2008, 23:18 Uhr, schrieb Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Berger wrote: a lot of people will not like brown (as a matter of fact) and there will be no way for them with a pixmap theme. (this is not a personal

Re: [ubuntu-art] Brown rocks. Get over it and being default.

2008-08-12 Thread Vadim Peretokin
I don't understand where is this brown so prominent that it's bad... it's mostly orange that I see. (and the wallpaper on 8.04 rocks) -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Brown rocks. Get over it and being default.

2008-08-12 Thread Julian Oliver
..on or around Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:03:37PM -0400 Vadim Peretokin wrote: I don't understand where is this brown so prominent that it's bad... it's mostly orange that I see. (and the wallpaper on 8.04 rocks) i doubt a brown theme will ever be as /ubiquitously/ tolerated (let alone

Re: [ubuntu-art] Brown rocks. Get over it and being default.

2008-08-12 Thread Vadim Peretokin
Steely grey themes imply mac os ones, and Ubuntu can't do anything to help that. People would just need to get that theme themselves and install it. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Brown rocks. Get over it and being default.

2008-08-12 Thread Daniel Moore
On 13/08/2008, at 8:08 AM, Julian Oliver wrote: thankfully Ubuntu is taking something of a risk here, the last thing the world needs is another blue theme. I disagree, it might be hard for a bunch of GUI artists to see but a computer interface is not a piece of art. It doesn't need to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Brown rocks. Get over it and being default.

2008-08-12 Thread Vadim Peretokin
Ubuntu already uses a light grey by default, no? -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Brown rocks. Get over it and being default.

2008-08-12 Thread George Kendros
No one is saying that artists should abandon their pixmap themes. All we're saying is that the best solution for the greatest amount of people would be to take the concepts from a great pixmap theme and try and incorporate it into an engine because it will give users a lot more flexibility.