Re: [ubuntu-art] Breathe Submissions page cleanup.

2008-10-19 Thread Ryan Prior
Hey Cory et al, I've got an objection to the trashcan that I was not sure I should post, since I don't really know how to treat works in progress. At any size other than the full one, the little ball of trash looks really strange. I suggest moving it over to the right side, so its shape sticks

Re: [ubuntu-art] Human Synergy GTK Theme

2008-10-26 Thread Ryan Prior
Looks great on Hardy. I wish there were some more orange where there is currently blue/grey, especially in slider bars and in button mouse-overs. I don't like that the task list is all dark except for the currently active window. I would prefer that the inactive tabs have the color that they

Re: [ubuntu-art] Canonical's approach to Jaunty

2008-11-04 Thread Ryan Prior
Hear hear; a lot of the talk/whining about theming engines boils down to a desire to put more lipstick on the pigs that are Nautilus, Rhythmbox, Firefox, etc. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Canonical's approach to Jaunty

2008-11-04 Thread Ryan Prior
GTK is becoming a dinosaur, and the GTK developers realize this to some extent - that's why they're allowing for API breakages with GTK 3, which should be coming out within a year or two. Hopefully they break them enough that we can really get a lot done. :-) On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Adam

Re: [ubuntu-art] How should an Ubuntu button widget look like?

2008-11-26 Thread Ryan Prior
What do unfocused and double mean, for my edification? On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Thorsten Wilms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! How should an Ubuntu button widget look like? Please contribute your designs. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/KyudoGuidelines/Pieces/Buttons for details.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Problem with SVG files

2008-12-09 Thread Ryan Prior
I've noticed over time that many, many SVGs render differently in Nautilus than they do in Inkscape. I always just figured the Nautilus SVG renderer is half-assed and that nobody really cares -- the same seems to be true of Firefox, which renders SVGs very differently from Inkscape as well. On

Re: [ubuntu-art] Problem with SVG files

2008-12-09 Thread Ryan Prior
Also, sorry for top-posting. I've seen some people get in a huff about it here -- I've never heard a complaint anywhere else so it's a new thing for me, and I don't understand why it's harmful in the first place. (It's the default behaviour in many email clients, to boot.) -- ubuntu-art mailing

Re: [ubuntu-art] Feedback on Proposed Default Wallpaper

2009-01-28 Thread Ryan Prior
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote: Chris Tomalty wrote: Hey (I'm new to the whole mailing list thing, so please bear with me if I mess up a bit :) ) I was looking at the default wallpapers proposed for Jaunty in the Incoming Artwork section on the

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Breathe] Power option icons (help wanted)

2009-02-09 Thread Ryan Prior
They look fake? What are they supposed to look like? They're glyphs! On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Nicholas Ipsen(Sephiroth_VII) sephiroth7...@gmail.com wrote: Good start, but I think they need some texture. They look VERY fake right now, though I do like the concept. Sincerely Yours

Re: [ubuntu-art] Jaunty Wallpaper (Kenneth Wimer)

2009-02-14 Thread Ryan Prior
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:45 PM, John Baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: Kenneth, I lot of good info. IMO the bulk of the development is complete on the Impression submission and as I have some time I believe I will work it against the desires of Kyudo. I asked Michael Kuhn if he planned to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Kyūdō (was Re: Jaunty Wallpa per (Kenneth Wimer))

2009-02-15 Thread Ryan Prior
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Saleel svela...@gmail.com wrote: Thorsten Wilms wrote: I observed that discussions on artwork here on this list happened on a level of more orange or not enough brown. Many opinions, but hardly ever any exploration of the reasons behind any decision. A

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Breathe] Power option icons

2009-02-17 Thread Ryan Prior
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:37 AM, J.S. jws...@verizon.net wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 10:43 -0300, spg76 wrote: 2009/2/17 spg76 sebastianpo...@gmail.com 2009/2/17 Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com For now, these are going in unless Sebastien has a

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Breathe] Canonical notification icons

2009-02-19 Thread Ryan Prior
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote: . . . I also have my doubts as to the longevity of this new system . . . Can you please explain why you feel this way? Thanks, Ryan -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-art] Start here button

2009-02-19 Thread Ryan Prior
Are we serious about the start here button that's in Breathe right now? It seems ridiculous that we aren't using an Ubuntu logo! I've attached a logo I've modified to look (in my opinion) more pushable - it has a sort of inviting motion to it. I think we should use my logo, or another one using

Re: [ubuntu-art] Top-posting gmail users

2009-02-23 Thread Ryan Prior
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote: Joseph wrote: Also can someone tell me how not to top post whatever that means, since I think i got screamed at for that before. You pretty much just move your cursor from where it starts to the bottom of the page.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Remove subject tag and footer. Pros/cons

2009-02-23 Thread Ryan Prior
Hello Alan, If the decision is made (as I hope it will be) to remove the tag, I will be happy to write you a Python script that filters your mail for to:ubuntu-art and adds an [ubuntu-art] tag to the subject line. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: 2009/2/23 Cory

Re: [ubuntu-art] Remove subject tag and footer. Pros/cons

2009-02-23 Thread Ryan Prior
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: 2009/2/23 Ryan Prior ryanpr...@gmail.com: If the decision is made (as I hope it will be) to remove the tag, I will be happy to write you a Python script that filters your mail for to:ubuntu-art and adds an [ubuntu-art] tag

Re: [ubuntu-art] Start here button

2009-02-23 Thread Ryan Prior
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Anton Kerezov ank...@gmail.com wrote: *From:* ubuntu-art-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto: ubuntu-art-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] *On Behalf Of *spg76 *Sent:* Monday, February 23, 2009 9:17 PM *To:* Discussion on Ubuntu artwork *Subject:* Re: [ubuntu-art]

Re: [ubuntu-art] Start here button

2009-02-23 Thread Ryan Prior
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Oliver Scholtz scholli...@yahoo.de wrote: Am Montag, den 23.02.2009, 15:20 -0500 schrieb Cory K.: Ryan Prior wrote: I'm starting tot think this is a case where pixel art should really be sought rather than vector art. All the tiny start icons I'm

Re: [ubuntu-art] Start here button

2009-02-24 Thread Ryan Prior
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: The shading could be read as if the button is rounded, bulging outwards, but with an inward dent roughly of the size of the inner circle of the CoC. That's pretty specific. Is this a well-known design pattern, or just a

Re: [ubuntu-art] Start here button

2009-02-24 Thread Ryan Prior
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 11:38 -0600, Ryan Prior wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: The shading could be read as if the button is rounded, bulging outwards

Re: [ubuntu-art] Impression Alpha 5

2009-02-28 Thread Ryan Prior
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Jonathan Blackhall johnny.one@gmail.com wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but I don't quite get the circles. What do they tell me about their purpose? If I didn't already know what the 3 buttons at the top right of the screen did, I wouldn't know what these

Re: [ubuntu-art] Impression Alpha 5

2009-03-01 Thread Ryan Prior
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:59 PM, John Baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: The Alpha 5 release of Impression is a milestone in the fact I am now testing against Jaunty and not Intrepid. Murrine is up to svn143 and other than the progress bar trough issue everything works well. The alpha 5 changes

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Breathe] start-here by O.S.

2009-03-02 Thread Ryan Prior
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote: Oliver Scholtz wrote: This Logo looks simple, but honestly it wasn't for me: I took many render-tests and adjustments for getting this version now. ;) Personally I like it. Hope it will be okay for everybody ...

Re: [ubuntu-art] Make being root more obvious (scary)

2009-03-04 Thread Ryan Prior
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Who mailfor...@googlemail.com wrote: Here is a screenshot to demonstrate what I'm talking about... Nothing says 'beware' like red folder icons, right? In that screenshot you can also see the way red bar in Thunar. What do people think - worth pursuing? I

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Breathe] applications-science

2009-03-04 Thread Ryan Prior
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 13:26 -0200, spg76 wrote: I uploaded a new version with a cork to the wiki. Better or worse? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/BreatheIconSet/Submissions Nice cork, but such a jar would be closed

Re: [ubuntu-art] Make being root more obvious (scary)

2009-03-04 Thread Ryan Prior
See this bug [1] and blueprint [2]. The people involved with those might be interested in our solution (a visual warning, while allowing nautilus to run as root) or might convince us that we're wasting time because nautilus should never be run as root anyway. I'd be interested to see. Ryan [1]

Re: [ubuntu-art] A note on wallpaper dimensions

2009-03-05 Thread Ryan Prior
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Michael McKinley m.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Dylan McCall dylanmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Just recently I got a totally awesome 24 monitor. (Yay! It's a Samsung T240, going up from a Dell 17. I can't get over how big it is). To

Re: [ubuntu-art] Deadlines?

2009-03-09 Thread Ryan Prior
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Saleel svela...@gmail.com wrote: I just find it strange that there was no response to deadline 2 having passed, no blog posts, no forum posts.. heck I cant even find what the deadlines are supposed to accomplish as the wiki pages for them don't exist.. now

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Breathe] applications-science (orange vs. green)

2009-03-12 Thread Ryan Prior
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Yann Dìnendal yanndinen...@universfantastiques.org wrote: Nice, but imo, the previous preferences-desktop-personal with the transparent pen looked nicer. And I also prefer Milan's green, it looks more like real liquid. I am having trouble explaining what I

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Breathe] Render and another start-here-idea

2009-03-13 Thread Ryan Prior
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Cory K. coryis...@ubuntu.com wrote: We have a build system in place. It took a bit to develop and get right. I have no intention of changing now. Sorry. All sources are to use our SVG template and exported with Inkscape. If we were to do this work manually

Re: [ubuntu-art] Newbie

2009-03-13 Thread Ryan Prior
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Brandon brande...@gmail.com wrote: I have not done any work with ubuntu yet ,but am very good with graphic design. Any ideas on what I can do? If you'd like to work on some release materials for the Jaunty Jackalope release, people can start incorporating

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Breathe] system-update-install

2009-03-16 Thread Ryan Prior
2009/3/16 Oliver Scholtz 1 scholli...@yahoo.de I think that if you used Oliver's box with those sort of arrow glyphs, it would look better and more Breathe-like. If doing it, so correct :) See my attach ... ;) The up-and-down arrows say to me, transfer or sync. The current update manager

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Breathe] battery

2009-03-25 Thread Ryan Prior
2009/3/25 spg76 sebastianpo...@gmail.com I uploaded to the wiki a new icon for battery.https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/BreatheIconSet/Submissions https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/BreatheIconSet/Submissions I likes. However, even though the text would be completely unreadable at the two

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Breathe] Additions to Categories

2009-03-25 Thread Ryan Prior
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Oliver Scholtz 1 scholli...@yahoo.dewrote: One ask? How are the ideas for Wine? The glass wine is not really a good icon, because in 24x24 and dark themes it isn't well for seeing it. Maybe the Windows-flag would be better? Hey it's only a opinion ... :D I

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Breathe] Wine icon

2009-03-26 Thread Ryan Prior
2009/3/26 Tibault Damman tibault.dam...@gmail.com 2009/3/26 Steve Dodier sidnio...@hotmail.com Hello, Do you actually plan on using a Windows logo for the wine icon ? That's really, as a wine user, the last thing I'd like to see. I'd really go crazy if i had to see a Windows logo each

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Breathe] audio-card

2009-03-26 Thread Ryan Prior
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:08 AM, daniel planas armangué daniplana...@gmail.com wrote: I really like the card but I would remove the music note and make the card a little bigger. Anyway, great work. -- Seba (AKA spg76) http://www.ubuntu-ar.org thank's. but i think if i remove de

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Breathe] Additions to Categories

2009-03-26 Thread Ryan Prior
2009/3/26 Chris Tooley euxn...@gmail.com I like how Apple handles their windows logo. It's reminiscent of Windows without infringing on their copyright or trademarks. For example, I copied it to use for a VirtualMachine link on my desktop:

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Breathe] media-flash

2009-03-30 Thread Ryan Prior
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 21:43 -0300, spg76 wrote: I uploaded to the wiki a new icon for media-flash. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/BreatheIconSet/Submissions The label is rather overpowering, I think. There should

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Breathe] user-desktop

2009-04-03 Thread Ryan Prior
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Chris Tooley euxn...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if we can generate a desktop image on the fly with compiz, sans open windows? In this way it is an actual representation of the user's desktop and not just a standard one...? I definitely agree with this

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-11 Thread Ryan Prior
to remember that a community where people feel uncomfortable or threatened is not a productive one. We expect members of the Ubuntu community to be respectful when dealing with other contributors as well as with people outside the Ubuntu project, and with users of Ubuntu. Yours, Ryan Prior -- ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Mandating usage of free tools.

2009-04-12 Thread Ryan Prior
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: We recommended the following tools for creating artwork. They are all free software (free as in speech) and can be obtained by everyone at virtually no cost without any licensing-hassle. This simplifies sharing files and

Re: [ubuntu-art] Animated logo

2009-04-23 Thread Ryan Prior
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 17:23 +0200, Steve Dodier wrote: I don't see the point of using Flash (closed and proprietary technology) for the Logo of an openSource OS. I think you should be able to do the same with some SVG and

Re: [ubuntu-art] Animated logo

2009-04-23 Thread Ryan Prior
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Boudhayan Gupta bg13@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'm also a new addition to the list. I'm from India, and 14 years of age, male. Welcome to the list and the community! I look forward to working with you. I checked it up using GNASH plugins for Kubuntu Intrepid.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Open Week, sabdfl on artwork

2009-04-29 Thread Ryan Prior
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: sabdfl: Milos_SD: 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

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Breathe] Freeze and 1st release

2009-05-09 Thread Ryan Prior
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Cory K. coryis...@gmail.com wrote: Places to post besides DeviantArt And the *-Look sites? Spam out emails to all the Planet Ubuntu bloggers. Everybody who is on Identi.ca or Twitter should dent/tweet about it, tagging it #breathe, everybody with a blog should

Re: [ubuntu-art] gnome-colors icons for karmic koala

2009-05-09 Thread Ryan Prior
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:30 PM, solaris manzur sl.sola...@gmail.com wrote: see how beautiful it looks: http://bildr.no/view/406793 beautiful and clean http://code.google.com/p/gnome-colors/ I really like them, and I don't agree that they make the desktop look like a toy or anything -- they

Re: [ubuntu-art] Just a mockup i made

2010-04-26 Thread Ryan Prior
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Sam shadow.h...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I was bored for a while, and made the attatched mockup.  It is of an IDE.  Its an experimental design, and i just wanted to release it to the world and see what i could do from there. Peace, Sam Dodrill It looks like

Re: [ubuntu-art] Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-13 Thread Ryan Prior
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:00 AM, John Baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: I am on the fence with this and your advice is very much appreciated. My concern is the the volume (viz. 5750 photo's to ? illustrations ) and no way to identify effort (viz. intrepid vs maverick vs natty ). Does it make

Re: [ubuntu-art] Goodbye

2011-02-18 Thread Ryan Prior
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: There's not much a of a reason left for this team, not much, if anything, to actually collaborate on. The current round of wallpapers was a ray of hope and might even lead to good results, but is rather a disaster regarding

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu UI kit

2012-08-01 Thread Ryan Prior
Those are some great suggestions, Yogesh. I have a little nit picking for you just because I like to see precise language when we talk about licenses. :-) On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com wrote: Free Art License Creative Commons Creative Commons isn't a

Re: [ubuntu-art] new theme

2013-01-05 Thread Ryan Prior
dear billy, yes go ahead. On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Billy Humphreys pokemona...@gmail.comwrote: dear mailers would we be able to make a theme for all the art we make? -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art --

Re: [ubuntu-art] new theme

2013-01-05 Thread Ryan Prior
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Thomas Corwin dog1...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, Not to get off topic (a lot) but how do you make a theme? On Jan 5, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Ryan Prior ryanpr...@gmail.com wrote: dear billy, yes go

Re: [ubuntu-art] new theme

2013-01-05 Thread Ryan Prior
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:33 AM, MarcoM ilmar...@yahoo.it wrote: Hi guys, I'm in the same situation of Omar! I would like to be' envolved in The community. Let me do something ;)! Cheers Marco Il giorno 05/gen/2013, alle ore 18:12, Omar Otmane acoma...@hotmail.com ha scritto: Hi Guys,

Re: [ubuntu-art] new theme

2013-01-05 Thread Ryan Prior
Canonical's thought-leader and CEO Mark Shuttleworth Canonical's CEO is the awesome Jane Silber ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Silber). Mark is the former CEO. Please forgive my mistake. :-) -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] new theme

2013-01-05 Thread Ryan Prior
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Thomas Corwin dog1...@hotmail.com wrote: Ryan, where would we post hours for an IRC meeting? I am on the same boat as Marco and Omar. That's great. To avoid spamming this list with everybody's availability, I've created a public document that we can all edit.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Mobile

2013-01-06 Thread Ryan Prior
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Billy Humphreys pokemona...@gmail.comwrote: Hey mailers! i have made a ubuntu mobile logo for it, as it really does look good I really like how abstract, yet familiar, this logo feels to me. It reminds me of the days when phones felt simple enough to be easily