Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick question for the WIKI regarding the range of what constitutes a theme

2008-07-10 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Friday 11 July 2008 00:48:57 Brian Fleeger wrote: From: Salane Ashcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] Honestly, there is one Canonical person who decides what goes in, and that is Ken. Mark has the final say so. As soon as I get more proposals, We will formulate a unified list, create a mockup, and

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick question for the WIKI regarding the range of what constitutes a theme

2008-07-10 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Friday 11 July 2008 01:09:09 Andrea Cimitan wrote: snip.../snip The community here in the mailing list is completely unofficial and in most case its mockups are ignored. If they had more bearing on what is actually possible I think that they would see much more acceptance by developers who

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick question for the WIKI regarding the range of what constitutes a theme

2008-07-10 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Friday 11 July 2008 01:03:42 Salane Ashcraft wrote: Thanks Ken. Haven't seen you on here in a while! It's been a week since I posted to this list :p Sorry, I've been working on another project for Canonical and thought that things were going well so I didn't meddle - someitmes it is better

Re: [ubuntu-art] New theme looking for critique based on Human-Clearlooks

2008-07-06 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Sunday 06 July 2008 16:56:19 AA Boy wrote: Is this better as far as determining which window is unfocused and which is focused? I modified the borders so that the gradient is darker going to lighter when the windows are unfocused, and lighter going to darker when they are focused. I will

Re: [ubuntu-art] Droid Fonts

2008-07-06 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Sunday 06 July 2008 17:25:03 Salane Ashcraft wrote: Hey guys - read way back in this discussion- they are to be released as open source. Dont jsut read some old blog post and assume we cant use them. Salane How about we end this discussion? Ken I think is going to contact them to make

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion for more wallpapers -- Re: Whats Up with This?

2008-07-03 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Thursday 03 July 2008 03:16:33 Brian Fleeger wrote: Salene -- Thanks, you are right to point out it is not art related. However, the two areas I point out have been the object of many legitimate critiques in the past from many press reviews of Ubuntu and in many a forum. I do not think I

[ubuntu-art] Vote for new functionality at www.hackontest.org

2008-07-03 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi all, This just in from the inkscape development team: A 24-hour contest to program new functionality into an opensource program? = www.hackontest.org Inkscape has registered for participation in Hackontest.org! http://www.hackontest.org/index.php?action=Root-projectDetail(97) This means

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion for more wallpapers -- Re: Whats Up with This?

2008-07-02 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Wednesday 02 July 2008 05:07:37 Brian Fleeger wrote: Ravindra makes a good point -- each release should have a better selection of alternate wallpapers.  I posted a bunch of open source photographs a few days back on the Desktop Background Submissions page, all taken from the WikiMedia

Re: [ubuntu-art] Whats Up with This?

2008-07-02 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 01 July 2008 18:26:17 Ashton wrote: I'll say it again, we are testing a dark theme to find out whether it is even possible to use one or not. Getting this message out before the alpha release would have been a good idea, in retrospect. I know there is no way to avoid TehMobMind

Re: [ubuntu-art] Liberation Fonts

2008-07-02 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Monday 30 June 2008 23:21:55 Ashton wrote: I've loaded up Segoe and other fonts in the past. They look great, of course, but there are some areas where I try to stick with open, and um, tolerable solutions...When I first subbed Lib sans for Sans, I felt it was an improvement. I realize

Re: [ubuntu-art] NewHuman feedback

2008-07-02 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 01 July 2008 20:26:46 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: Hi Kenneth and the rest of the list, A thread with a descriptive title for once. Sorry about that. I've now been dogfooding NewHuman on my Hardy box for a few days. Here's what I've gathered: Reactions - * My

Re: [ubuntu-art] Font suggestions

2008-07-02 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Wednesday 02 July 2008 14:43:21 Salane Ashcraft wrote: I am impressed... I especially like Droid Sans... lets find out about licensing ok? Salane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Although it says it is under the apache license the download includes no license so it is not free at all. The font itself

Re: [ubuntu-art] Font suggestions

2008-07-02 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Wednesday 02 July 2008 17:46:14 Ashton wrote: Droid is also being used in Google's Android project. http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtesy-of-google-asc ender Hehe, droid gets it's name from android and is not just being used in it, but is being paid for by google

Re: [ubuntu-art] Font suggestions

2008-07-02 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Wednesday 02 July 2008 17:33:09 Salane Ashcraft wrote: Since you have an official canonical email, would you do this Ken? Salane On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Salane Ashcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really really like Droid... I think we should email the corporation and ask them

Re: [ubuntu-art] Font suggestions

2008-07-02 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Wednesday 02 July 2008 19:04:37 Salane Ashcraft wrote: So I just looked at it again- we could possibly just use Droid fonts for everything... Right, I have been using them on my desktop and they are pretty nice (and very condensed). I think that OOo and other such office apps should still

Re: [ubuntu-art] Font suggestions

2008-07-02 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Wednesday 02 July 2008 19:18:06 Ashton wrote: So how does Droid compare in terms of the language support mentioned earlier? Maybe it has broad support if it's main purpose is to support Android. Also, if Droid was made by the same people who made Liberation, maybe the metrics were given the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Whats Up with This?

2008-07-01 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 01 July 2008 14:57:23 Julian Oliver wrote: ..on or around Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:27:16PM +0300 SorinN wrote: regarding: See the complaints? We cannot let this happen. This theme is even worse then the default of Hardy 1. Well my question is about worse word. What is so

Re: [ubuntu-art] Whats Up with This?

2008-06-30 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Monday 30 June 2008 06:07:29 Salane Ashcraft wrote: Hey Everyone... What's up with this? This is the dark theme that we have put in for testing. It is in no way finished, ie the testing. http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_8_10_Intrepid_Ibex_Alpha_1_Screenshots See the complaints? We

Re: [ubuntu-art] Whats Up with This?

2008-06-30 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Monday 30 June 2008 12:29:29 Nick Russell wrote: snip Rather than necessarily set up opposing 'camps' (not intrinsically a bad thing, but it can be), is it possible for people to get involved in the development of this theme? - to improve the entirely-to-be-expected early flaws. Yes, it is

Re: [ubuntu-art] Whats Up with This?

2008-06-30 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Monday 30 June 2008 13:53:40 Nick Russell wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 13:35 +0200, Kenneth Wimer wrote: On Monday 30 June 2008 12:29:29 Nick Russell wrote: snip Rather than necessarily set up opposing 'camps' (not intrinsically a bad thing, but it can be), is it possible

Re: [ubuntu-art] Whats Up with This?

2008-06-30 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Monday 30 June 2008 14:32:19 Salane Ashcraft wrote: This is not a progression. It isn't even that different. The problem with Ubuntu isn't the color, which has been made worse with this Alpha. Its the widget style, which is flat and outdated. Its the fonts, which need to be updated and can

Re: [ubuntu-art] Whats Up with This?

2008-06-30 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Monday 30 June 2008 15:56:48 Ashton wrote: The fonts are open source (and include symbols for most languages, something that cannot be said for every oss font). We might want to switch to liberation though. The Liberation font license issue has changed, right? For the better I have

Re: [ubuntu-art] Whats Up with This?

2008-06-30 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 01 July 2008 01:27:46 Ashton wrote: - with a pale iris and horizontal slit-shaped pupils. I will do so. I noticed this trait in all the pics I looked at, and failed to carry it over. Not sure if this will help or not, but here is the eye that I was working on. -- Ken attachment:

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 36, Issue 9

2008-06-09 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Sunday 08 June 2008 13:44:04 Nicholas Kraak wrote: Hi, me again, I was just curious, is the Ubuntu Artwork team responsible for start-up and shut-down sounds? If not, who is? Yes, in the past we have also taken care of the sounds. -- ken -- ubuntu-art mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wave Icons

2008-06-08 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Sunday 08 June 2008 12:24:59 Anton Kerezov wrote: В 15:40 -0300 на 07.06.2008 (сб), spg76 написа: I just upload a new revision of the icon theme to Launchpad. It have a few new icons and I change the actions icons to the previous version. Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to work on the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Having fun with installer slideshow!

2008-06-05 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hello Dylan, As you mentioned there is a spec for including a slideshow. We discussed this idea with the Ubiquity developers and it seems like we will get something like this in intrepid. Once they contact me again I'll add you to the discussion since you seem interested :-) -- Ken On

Re: [ubuntu-art] Palette

2008-06-03 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 07:37:13 Salane Ashcraft wrote: Could someone create an adobe Illustrator friendly version of the newbuntu palette? I only use inkscape these days...I have the color values saved as rgb and hex, so if someone wants to create a palette for Illustrator let me know. --

Re: [ubuntu-art] Is There an Official Palette We Have to St ick With?

2008-06-02 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Monday 02 June 2008 08:14:06 Anton Kerezov wrote: В 18:44 -0500 на 01.06.2008 (нд), Salane Ashcraft написа: To Ubuntu Artists- Is there any real input from the developers, Shuttleworth, or anyone about this? Do we even know if there will be a drastic theme replacement? I have seen

Re: [ubuntu-art] Is There an Official Palette We Have to Stick With?

2008-06-02 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Monday 02 June 2008 08:04:24 Kenneth Wimer wrote: Hi, Yes, we have a palette in the works. I should have installable versions done sometime soon. If anyone is interested in helping make a gimp palette please let me know. I made a palette (http://sinecera.de/ubuntu_palette_0.1.gpl

[ubuntu-art] ibex idea

2008-06-02 Thread Kenneth Wimer
I had an idea the other night, check it out. The svg is on the wiki page as well so if you feel the urge to play with things, please do! :-) Not sure what it is supposed to represent. The wallpaper would not include the logo in the middle. I just put it together quickly to show the idea.

Re: [ubuntu-art] murrine in intrepid

2008-05-30 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Thursday 29 May 2008 23:57:57 Who wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Kenneth Wimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I made an svn snapshot package of the murrine engine and included it in Intrepid along with a dark version of the selectable Human-Murrine theme. I wanted to get

Re: [ubuntu-art] murrine in intrepid

2008-05-30 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi Conn, On Friday 30 May 2008 00:29:07 Conn wrote: Ken, Here's my first attempt at modifying the new theme. Screenshot and gtkrc attached. Some of the changes (I don't remember them all): 1. Readded toolbar and menubar separators 2. Darkened menubar to 90% of background 3. Darkened

[ubuntu-art] murrine in intrepid

2008-05-29 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi all, I made an svn snapshot package of the murrine engine and included it in Intrepid along with a dark version of the selectable Human-Murrine theme. I wanted to get something in as soon as possible so that we can test things and report bugs. For now I simply took the current Human-Murrine

Re: [ubuntu-art] murrine in intrepid

2008-05-29 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Donnerstag, den 29.05.2008, 17:33 +0200 schrieb Kenneth Wimer: Hi all, I made an svn snapshot package of the murrine engine and included it in Intrepid along with a dark version of the selectable Human-Murrine theme. I wanted to get something in as soon as possible so that we can test

Re: [ubuntu-art] Icons are great :)

2008-05-25 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Sunday 25 May 2008 13:10:21 José Luis wrote: Those icons are just great! And it's a new style; No glossiness and no tango thick borders. Cool! Once again, I will ask everyone to respond to the email with the Subject included. Just saying icons are great :-) means absolutely nothing without

Re: [ubuntu-art] Kith Intrepid

2008-05-25 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Saturday 24 May 2008 17:51:05 Ken Vermette wrote: I've updated the page with a second button scheme, and a studio style as well. It should look less vista-ish on the second button style. Once again, you've really impressed me :-) Great work! -- Ken -- ubuntu-art mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-art] Art Mailing list

2008-05-22 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Thursday 22 May 2008 11:20:48 Sally Thompson wrote: Am I on the right path. I am looking for art mailing lists for the Johannesburg area. Thanks. Sincerely, Sally This is the international Ubuntu Linux art mailing list. There are no localised lists for Ubuntu artwork that I know of.

Re: [ubuntu-art] The icon set is too simple + ideas

2008-05-21 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 12:22:48 Steph wrote: snip /snip Eventually change this colour to a lighter one ? Keep up the good work, Steph. Please try to keep the subject either the same as the email you are replying to or more precise. It took me a minute to figure out exactly what you were

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wave

2008-05-14 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 20:25:04 Anton Kerezov wrote: snip Oh and I almost forgot - can you use the icons (made by Francois) that I attach. Thank you! Anyone interested in working on simplified icons should look into the stuff we started under https://launchpad.net/human-panel-icons Have

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wave

2008-05-13 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 22:52:10 kim wrote: Am Dienstag, den 13.05.2008, 20:42 +0200 schrieb François Degrave: Hi everybody! I have some remarks about the current theme, and that is easier for me to show it directly on a picture. So here it is:

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wave

2008-05-13 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 00:22:31 Kim Kahns wrote: Am 13.05.2008 um 23:00 schrieb Kenneth Wimer: On Tuesday 13 May 2008 22:52:10 kim wrote: Hi, you can make the dotted line of selected widgets/items dispear by including GtkWidget:: focus-line-width =0 in the gtkrc file. I do

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wave

2008-05-10 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Saturday 10 May 2008 23:37:45 Anton Kerezov wrote: В 22:40 +0200 на 10.05.2008 (сб), Giuseppe Pennisi написа: tomorrow or monday. I go out to drink a pair of beer. ;-) You're not here otherwise I would have invited to you. :-D ;-) Giuseppe P. :) Wow thanks for the invitation.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Intrepid Panels

2008-04-30 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 12:01:46 Steph wrote: Álvaro wrote : I'm not agree with making the panel bigger. Gnome has a problem with upper panel, with large screens becomes unusable (it has a lot of unused space). So in my opinion we should keep ubuntu panel in 24px. In this case,

Re: [ubuntu-art] Theme subteams

2008-04-30 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hello (art)world! On Wednesday 30 April 2008 22:30:37 Who wrote: snip I agree 100% completely, totally, honestly, genuinely with everything Who has said and think that you should listen to him. Create themes which please *you*. Show off what you can do. Talk to others for help and

Re: [ubuntu-art] (RED)

2008-04-06 Thread Kenneth Wimer
I think that this has nothing to do with artwork and therefor this conversation is totally out of place on this list. -- Kenneth On Sunday 06 April 2008 23:58:45 Brian wrote: Sorry, bit of a delayed response heheh, but what do you think would be the best way to go about contacting them? And

Re: [ubuntu-art] Where to get back human-clearlooks theme

2008-04-04 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Actually, as the clearlooks engine is installed by default, I see no reason why we cannot add the Human theme gtkrc by default. I'll take care of this soon. -- Kenneth On Thursday 03 April 2008 18:55:23 chombee wrote: Until recently there was a theme called human-clearlooks in hardy that I

[ubuntu-art] MEETING - Saturday, 21:00UTC

2008-03-06 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi Again, The next meeting will take place on Saturday, 21:00UTC. Topics will include: * GDM:  getting the bg inline with the wallpaper; new icons  * GTK:  tweaking the gtk themes and discussing clearlooks vs. murrine  * DESKTOP: Wallpaper tweaks. Discussing current state, ideas for moving

Re: [ubuntu-art] gtk theme

2008-03-05 Thread Kenneth Wimer
and all. Thanks for the information, I hope we can discuss this more in the future. -- Ken Cheers Il giorno lun, 03/03/2008 alle 12.29 +0100, Kenneth Wimer ha scritto: Hi all, I guess that everyone noticed the change in gtk theme (we are using murrine at the moment). I also included

Re: [ubuntu-art] meeting Thursday

2008-03-04 Thread Kenneth Wimer
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. meeting Thursday (Kenneth Wimer) 2. Re: gtk theme (gp) 3. Re: gtk theme (gp) 4. Re

Re: [ubuntu-art] meeting Thursday --not Thursday but SATURDAY

2008-03-04 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Ok, that was quite stupid and nobody called me on it. The meeting is suggested for SATURDAY, not Thursday. Sorry for the stupid mistake, not sure how it happened. -- Ken On Monday 03 March 2008 13:04:51 Kenneth Wimer wrote: Hi all, It is time that we finally have a meeting as there are lots

[ubuntu-art] gtk theme

2008-03-03 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi all, I guess that everyone noticed the change in gtk theme (we are using murrine at the moment). I also included a clearlooks theme as well and we'll test that in a couple of days). Both themes definitely need improvement if they are going to replace Ubuntu Looks which, although it does

[ubuntu-art] meeting Thursday

2008-03-03 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi all, It is time that we finally have a meeting as there are lots of things to discuss. I suggest this weekend Saturday, the 8th of March. Having it on the weekend might allow more people to attend. Perhaps sometime later in the UTC evening to accomodate more people in the Americas? Likely

Re: [ubuntu-art] Anyone else notice the default theme has appeared in hardy alpha?

2008-02-28 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Thursday 28 February 2008 17:45:47 xl cheese wrote: human murrine. I have now included both a human-murrine and a human-clearlooks for testing, the murrine version is set as default now and we'll swap that out in a bit. The reasoning behind including both of these is that today is the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Compiz desktop switcher color

2008-02-22 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Friday 22 February 2008 11:46:32 François Degrave wrote: That's right. If that's not possible, maybe those colors should simply be white or gray - it would fit any theme. I think that the best approach is to use a color which shows off the ability nicely without being too much of a warning

Re: [ubuntu-art] gdm icons

2008-02-19 Thread Kenneth Wimer
...I think I don't understand. Which GDM theme do you refer to? I know that the icons seen in the GDM are in the GDM tarball theme. Let me know. Have a nice day! On Feb 18, 2008 8:44 PM, Kenneth Wimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 18 February 2008 18:56:46 Iacopo Masi wrote

Re: [ubuntu-art] gdm icons

2008-02-19 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 12:13:00 Stéphane Marguet (Stemp) wrote: Le mardi 19 février 2008 à 11:50 +0100, Kenneth Wimer a écrit : On Tuesday 19 February 2008 11:45:05 Iacopo Masi wrote: Could you post a screenshot of which kind of icons do you want? Unfortunately my Xephyr

Re: [ubuntu-art] gdm icons

2008-02-19 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 13:28:26 Stéphane Marguet (Stemp) wrote: Yeah, I looked at that and saw that we set human as default...so since they are not in human they must be in some theme which human specifies...believe me I have looked for hours and not found them, that is why I asked

Re: [ubuntu-art] gdm icons

2008-02-19 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 19:26:54 Stéphane Marguet (Stemp) wrote: Missing, these icons : http://stemp.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/gdmicon.png Please contact us if found. Thank you. As gp wisely noted, they are in the gdm source code and are compiled in binary form so they do not exist

[ubuntu-art] gdm icons

2008-02-18 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi all, I am trying to figure out where gdm gets the icons it uses in the menu at bottom left. I spent several hours hunting today to no avail. If anyone knows please enlighten me (please!). Thanks Ken -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] gdm icons

2008-02-18 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Monday 18 February 2008 18:56:46 Iacopo Masi wrote: Do you mean something like this? :/usr/share/gdm/themes/Human$ ls *.png background.png icon-session.png icon-language-active.pngicon-session-prelight.png icon-language.png icon-shutdown-active.png

Re: [ubuntu-art] meeting (again)

2008-02-15 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Thursday 14 February 2008 16:42:00 xl cheese wrote: Was it the transparent fela kuti that allows the user to alter the base color? No, for now I tweaked Troy's version a bit and used that. We can look into using a semi-transparent version but the ones I looked at need a bit of work in my

Re: [ubuntu-art] meeting (again)

2008-02-15 Thread Kenneth Wimer
of things... http://people.ubuntu.com/~mmueller/pager-tooltip.png On Friday 15 February 2008 12:40:45 Kenneth Wimer wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2008 16:42:00 xl cheese wrote: Was it the transparent fela kuti that allows the user to alter the base color? No, for now I tweaked Troy's

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mockup!

2008-02-15 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Monday 11 February 2008 04:30:19 Thomas L.Gjeseth wrote: Hi there, A mockup I made this night (!! time to go to bed !!), of how I would like to see a Ubuntu dark theme. As well as some general UI thoughts ;) The UI stuff looks pretty interesting. I wonder how it would look with

Re: [ubuntu-art] new system log on wav

2008-02-15 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Monday 11 February 2008 15:46:59 coz DS wrote: hey guys here is a speedyshare link to another system logon wav Sounds pretty interesting to me. Seems like a good start. Perhaps a bit more drums...not sure though. -- Ken http://www.speedyshare.com/792675352.html i have no idea how long

Re: [ubuntu-art] meeting (again)

2008-02-15 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Friday 15 February 2008 20:56:13 Murat Gunes wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:40 +0100, Kenneth Wimer wrote: 6) Using a clear looks theme instead of ubuntu looks: It does not look like we will be able to get the needed changes upstream What exactly are these changes? the removal

Re: [ubuntu-art] meeting (again)

2008-02-15 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Thursday 14 February 2008 17:58:11 Dylan McCall wrote: I would likely pop in. No idea about my availability for next week, but I will be available from 3:30 AM GMT on Friday and Saturday this week, likely more available following that. Nice to see Fela Kuti in Hardy there! Unfortunately

[ubuntu-art] meeting (again)

2008-02-14 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi, I would like to have a meeting! Is anyone else interested in having a meeting? Let me know and we can set something up. -- Ken P.S. Feta Kuli went in as wallpaper for testing yesterday :-) -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Intuitive application lister and othe r loopy discussions ( was Re: next meeting)

2008-02-10 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Sunday 10 February 2008 23:59:34 Greg K Nicholson wrote: On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 14:15 -0800, Dylan McCall wrote: I am toying with a button-looking container with some toggle buttons within for each process. The one you see here is really just an ugly hack (and a mockup, obviously), but it

Re: [ubuntu-art] next meeting

2008-02-08 Thread Kenneth Wimer
As only one person responded we'll postpone the meeting until I know that people will actually attend :-) Someone suggest a time and date and let's figure this out. -- Ken On Tuesday 05 February 2008 12:16:13 Kenneth Wimer wrote: Hi all, We are slightly overdue for the next meeting. I

[ubuntu-art] testing stuff in the alpha

2008-02-06 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi all, As suggested here, we would like to start putting in wallpapers and a new gtkrc for clear looks so that they can be tested. Wallpapers will be chosen for each week and swapped out to allow people to give feedback. The gtkrc will be changed as needed (no need to swap these out every

[ubuntu-art] icon needed

2008-02-05 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi all, We need an icon to represent the software we get from our partners (like Opera, etc.), basically a commercial repository, in the add/remove software dialog. Anyone have a good idea? Thanks, Ken -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-art] next meeting

2008-02-05 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi all, We are slightly overdue for the next meeting. I suggest this Friday at 20:00 UTC. Is this too soon for anyone? Too early/late? Ideas? Items for discussion are: 1) recent wallpaper submissions, testing by inclusion in the next build, etc. 2) 2D icons: currently underway, I am leaning

Re: [ubuntu-art] 2D updates

2008-02-05 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 00:43:12 Iacopo Masi wrote: In my opinion they looks like very great but what happends if the user install in the try some application not ubuntu-standard like glipper,music-applet etc.? In this case we have two style: tango e that one. Some opinion about that? I

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpapers

2008-02-05 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 15:22:58 Cory K. wrote: Andrew Laignel wrote: It's always disappointed me that Ubuntu has only shipped with one wallpaper usually. I think that, officially, we should approach a website such as deviantart.com (it's where I normally get my wallpapers) and ask

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick user switching panel applet. OT?

2008-02-05 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 16:56:58 Cory K. wrote: I was thinking that as well as they will need to be involved but I think cross-posting will be best. I think ideas for UI will start with the art guys but will need the -desktop team for the technicals. Things like panel layout or other

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpapers

2008-02-05 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 16:54:55 xl cheese wrote: Do we have the flexability to add a link within the gnome appearance manager to things such as a wallpaper package, extra icons, and themes? This way an unknowing user would actually know these things exist? No idea .-( Probably more a

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpapers

2008-02-05 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 17:14:04 Andrew Laignel wrote: Maybe it is possible to put a minimal theme package on the cd and a 'full' version in the repo's as an update so as soon as they do a system update the new one downloads and installs? In the end it comes down to how much space is on

Re: [ubuntu-art] How to find the right wallpaper...

2008-02-04 Thread Kenneth Wimer
I am looking into the possiblity of including a new wallpaper and will let everyone know what comes out of it. Personally, it does sound like a good idea to test things out - I am sure that seeing a noticeable change might be interesting. I'll add this to the items for the next meeting as

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpaper: Brown and exciting

2008-02-04 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Friday 01 February 2008 02:44:13 Who wrote: Hi all, I spent a few hours just playing the other night as I wanted to relax and I ended up with the wallpaper that can be seen at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/UbuntuExplosion Feedback would be much appreciated

Re: [ubuntu-art] Parametrisable colors for window borders, system icons and controls

2008-02-04 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Friday 01 February 2008 16:04:53 François Degrave wrote: Hi everyone, I think a new theme which would provide Ubuntu a fresher look would be really useful. However, orange - and brown - are not always the colors people prefer, and even if it was the case, most people like to change the

Re: [ubuntu-art] wav instead of ogg

2008-02-04 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Sunday 03 February 2008 21:21:20 Sumit Chandra Agarwal wrote: Though I'm very new to all this, I couldn't see it being useful to take a defeatist view. You're probably right about the mailing lists, though. But I think it should be possible to assemble capable teams to push Ubuntu forward,

Re: [ubuntu-art] panel icons

2008-01-30 Thread Kenneth Wimer
way, on irc. Have fun! Ken On Tuesday 29 January 2008 18:22:08 Kenneth Wimer wrote: Hi all, Attached is a png file with ideas for the panel icons. Which is better, the etched look or the simple 2d look? -- Ken -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-art] panel icons

2008-01-30 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 06:19:57 Troy James Sobotka wrote: Kenneth Wimer wrote: Attached is a png file with ideas for the panel icons. Which is better, the etched look or the simple 2d look? Probably not what you want to hear and repetitive - but isn't it dependent on what the overall

[ubuntu-art] panel icons

2008-01-29 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi all, Attached is a png file with ideas for the panel icons. Which is better, the etched look or the simple 2d look? -- Ken attachment: panel_ideas.png-- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] panel icons

2008-01-29 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 21:09:52 Dylan McCall wrote: One quick concern from me: I see that the Update icon in this is going back to the jagged orange splotch. I have yet to see how this represents updating in any way, as it looks more like a bug report. The icon that is currently in the

Re: [ubuntu-art] panel icons

2008-01-29 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 20:48:30 xl cheese wrote: Another vote for the etched look. Does the sample icon png suggest you're going to have dark gray panel bars? When drawing the pics I cycle through different shades of background (and colors as well) to get a feel for how they would work on

Re: [ubuntu-art] panel icons

2008-01-29 Thread Kenneth Wimer
someone can come up with something? -- Ken cheers Am Dienstag, den 29.01.2008, 21:28 +0100 schrieb Kenneth Wimer: On Tuesday 29 January 2008 21:09:52 Dylan McCall wrote: One quick concern from me: I see that the Update icon in this is going back to the jagged orange splotch. I have yet

Re: [ubuntu-art] hardy artwork

2008-01-29 Thread Kenneth Wimer
I like the simplicity of Aurora and think that we can take ideas from it for the future. At first glance it seems quite like the Oxygen style created for KDE4 in some ways. Not sure how much is possible in the short term as far as that kind of coding goes (or how flexible the engine is to allow

Re: [ubuntu-art] Gelatin Metacity?

2008-01-29 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 23:16:07 Kim Kahns wrote: Hi, I'm the guy who created this style (based on venicius d's mockup). Does the art team plan to include the gelatin style in the alternative-theme package? It's just ~30kb big (discovery iconset not included), so it wouldn't take away much

[ubuntu-art] hardy artwork

2008-01-28 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi all, This mail attempts to clear up some issues in the art direction for Hardy Ubuntu. As already stated we will not be changing things radically. Here are some of the things I would like to see changed and some possible ideas for them. 1) Wallpaper: Ideally dark and mysterious yet modern,

Re: [ubuntu-art] hardy artwork

2008-01-28 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Monday 28 January 2008 16:11:44 xl cheese wrote: Did you install my version of clearlooks and the UbuntuClearlooks theme? Those two issues below were resolved. To be honest, no, I have not tested anything yet. I spent the last week in meetings and working on different issues and thought it

Re: [ubuntu-art] music

2008-01-25 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Friday 25 January 2008 15:56:17 coz DS wrote: Hey guys, I have put together a few sounds for login startup etc. How do I submit these? you can post them in an archive file to this list. -- Ken -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] moving from ubuntu-looks to clear-looks

2008-01-23 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi, Thanks for the quick reply. Here a few comments: 1) The window decoration seems too simple (the simple window buttons are nice though) 2) The overlay on the active menu items seems a bit too pinkish/light. Not sure how to explain this better - if it is confusing I can make a screenshot

Re: [ubuntu-art] moving from ubuntu-looks to clear-looks

2008-01-23 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 13:18:10 Kenneth Wimer wrote: I am using your theme on my laptop, I'll report any other issues/ideas as I find them. Thanks again for the great work :-) Another thing that I noticed is that the background of the volume applet is messed up as it seems to tile

Re: [ubuntu-art] moving from ubuntu-looks to clear-looks

2008-01-23 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Murrine is one of the two engines I considered changing to (either clear-looks or murrine, then). I am guessing that murrine is much more flexible than clear-looks. Personally, I like murrine very much ;-) -- Ken On Wednesday 23 January 2008 14:16:54 Cory K. wrote: Nemes Ioan Sorin wrote:

[ubuntu-art] icon for sparkle album-art browser

2008-01-22 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi all, I made an icon for the sparkle album-art browser plugin (attached). If anyone has any good ideas for improvement send me an email or reply to this email on the list. Have fun! Ken attachment: sparkle-22x22.pngattachment: sparkle-2.svg-- ubuntu-art mailing list

[ubuntu-art] inkscape packages available

2008-01-21 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi all, I just found out that the inkscape team has current packages available for both Gutsy and Hardy in their personal package archive. Check them out! https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.testers Select either Gutsy or Hardy and add the corresponding software sources repository. Good fresh

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Mouse Theme

2008-01-16 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 21:30:59 xl cheese wrote: yep. that would be my handy work. I actually presented this idea to the group and it was balked at. :) Maybe the details of the cursor them could be refined, but I though the idea of a rotating ubuntu logo was neat. While it does

Re: [ubuntu-art] Revision 157 needs your voice.

2008-01-15 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi Jason, It might be helpful for you to add MeMaker somewhere in the subject of your email (or at least in the body) for those who don't know which project you work on. -- Ken On Tuesday 15 January 2008 12:38:39 Jason Brower wrote: Could everyone pull the latest and tell me what you think

Re: [ubuntu-art] Edubuntu Hardy Artwork

2008-01-14 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Monday 14 January 2008 07:18:27 Cory K. wrote: Kenneth Wimer wrote: actually, edubuntu does not use gdm but another *dm which sends all the graphics over the network so although it is very similar it does have limitations which gdm does not have. Jordan Mantha (LaserJock) wanted

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