Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-22-08 at 19:04 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Well, we also have some time in the bank with the designer who did the Dapper icon set, so we expect to get some changes and improvements to that icon set in for Edgy. If you have specific icons that you think need to be done (that

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Art DOT Com/ website status

2006-08-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-10-08 at 18:36 -0500, Brandon Holtsclaw wrote: Sorry for my lack of progress updates to the list , a.u.c is in the process of getting reworked by myself and troy, as soon as its useable we will most likely announce it here and open the staging site up for comments and

[ubuntu-art] [REQUEST] Batik 1.6 on amd64

2006-08-06 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Has anyone had any luck getting the Batik scribbler application to run on Java under amd64? http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/ The following error is output: AWTError: Cannot load AWT toolkit: gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit I suspect it might have to do with my Java paths, but was hoping

Re: [ubuntu-art] [REQUEST] Sound designers?

2006-08-02 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 19:02 +0100, Peter Savage wrote: Can I ask do the sounds have the same deadline as the rest of ubuntu-art? If so, I need to start finalising the login sound so I can started creating logout, and all the other little soundsGot mail etc, of course that all hinges on

[ubuntu-art] [REQUEST] Wallpaper sources

2006-07-31 Thread Troy James Sobotka
If everyone who has submitted a wallpaper could take the time to Gimp test / Inkscape test their layers and such and ship the parcels off to: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/ What I would require are 1600x1200 resolution source files in XCF and SVG where appropriate. The layers _must_

Re: [ubuntu-art] [WIKI] Added completed sample set and a request.

2006-07-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-26-07 at 23:47 -0700, Chuck Huber wrote: Are any full size mocks available for live testing? No. We _must_ get some more compositional sketches in for Propose so that we can clearly pick a few directions and focus our energy in that format. I simply banged out that set so that we

Re: [ubuntu-art] Nuak's Proposals

2006-07-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-27-07 at 10:02 +0100, Who wrote: AICs (and Mark, if reading): Is there any chance of Edgy + 1 looking like this (or Edgy, but I guess it is a little to late for that)? I am aware we are comitted to Gloss as a result of Human - but I think this clean look 1)allows us to use the

Re: [ubuntu-art] [TT-Tropic] New Wallpaper and Splash Screen (and your help) Needed

2006-07-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-27-07 at 09:20 -0400, Viper550 wrote: Now that the overall style of Edgy has been decided on, This is completely misleading. We are only in Proposal. No decisions have been made yet. Frank will attest to this. We need more contributions, so please don't post erroneous

Re: [ubuntu-art] [TT-Tropic] New Wallpaper and Splash Screen (and your help) Needed

2006-07-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-27-07 at 13:39 -0400, Viper550 wrote: Oh, sorry, I thought it was an official decision, guess the subject was a little misleading Added completed sample set and a request., I thought completed represented that it was the offical choice. But still, I could use some hands with

[ubuntu-art] [REQUEST] Sound designers?

2006-07-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Are there any sound designers out there? I would suspect the number is critically low at the moment. That said, I believe that the opening sounds and such are very critical to Ubuntu's development. If anyone is interested in this facet, please contact me as I know several sound designers from

Re: [ubuntu-art] Xubuntu-new login screen proposals

2006-07-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-26-07 at 13:35 -0400, jmak wrote: Hi, I've just uploaded three new login screen proposals for xubuntu. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/XubuntuEdgy/Proposals Personally -- GDM V3 is heading in a distinct new direction. Fresh. Clean. Simple. Perhaps some variants

[ubuntu-art] [WIKI] Added completed sample set

2006-07-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
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[ubuntu-art] [WIKI] Update

2006-07-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork Changes: * Updated the Documentation page. * Updated the Documentation/Tools page. This page requires a large amount of work. Please contribute if you can. * Added usplash information as per Dennis Kaarsemaker's terrific update on this mailing list.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Xubuntu splash

2006-07-24 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-24-07 at 17:59 -0400, jmak wrote: On 7/24/06, Niklas Weidel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: V3 is nice! But I must say, I think the top gradient is a bit off. It's greyscale, while the rest is bluescale. Just nitpicking, tho. :) Thanks for pointing this out. I look into it.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpaper Idea

2006-07-23 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sun, 2006-23-07 at 18:28 -0400, Ryan McNeely wrote: A somewhat rough concept wallpaper, what do you think? Unfortunately, although it tries a new glossy look, the specification states that branding is out, especially in that bold of a form. Also, the palette is probably too orange -- as we

[ubuntu-art] WIKI: Planned update and TODO

2006-07-22 Thread Troy James Sobotka
If I can find some time tonight, I will be attempting a wiki update. What I would like to do is trim the incoming dir and migrate several items to 'Need Sorting' directories. We need four solid edgy incoming pages for each item, plus one summary page for referencing at a distance. This reflects

Re: [ubuntu-art] SLAB

2006-07-22 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-22-07 at 12:20 -0400, Viper550 wrote: p.s. If my Slab specification were to be included, we'll need fullsized versions of all the prefrences icons! With whom have you made progress with in development? Are they on board? Who is implementing it? Who is packaging it? Where are

Re: [ubuntu-art] Technique used for stylized waves

2006-07-22 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-22-07 at 08:55 +0200, Niklas Weidel wrote: I'm also quite fascinated with wall_troy_04 which I'd appreciate some inside information on how it was done. :) 2006/7/22, Chuck Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I like the look and wonder if you could briefly go over the technique used to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Edubuntu Artwork

2006-07-22 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-22-07 at 21:26 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, On Sa, 2006-07-22 at 12:16 -0700, Troy James Sobotka wrote: My only thoughts are that it would seem a colossal task to try and get _three_ full looks included. What are you encompassing by a look when you suggest those three

[ubuntu-art] [INFORMATION] Specifications

2006-07-22 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-22-07 at 23:12 +0200, Niklas Weidel wrote: Could someone also please point out where to submit specs for edgy +1? It eludes me in the wiki. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-art mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: Artwork sizes and specs

2006-07-21 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-21-07 at 18:12 -0400, jmak wrote: I am just wondering why the Scope section of those pages don't include xubuntu. We welcome your participation jmak! I believe the idea was to not appear as though we are 'forcing' any of these specs on a particular distribution, but rather

Re: [ubuntu-art] Knot 1 Usplash: LOL!!!

2006-07-21 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-21-07 at 09:03 -0400, Viper550 wrote: http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/original.php?release=703slide=2 Now, who was responsible for that very nice temporary pattern? If you want, I can try to make you a similarly themed wallpaper for the desktop... It would seem logical to use

Re: [ubuntu-art] New papers for that wall!

2006-07-21 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-22-07 at 02:56 +0200, Niklas Weidel wrote: Once more I've played around with some wallpaper ideas. For those wondering why I'm pumping out these things, it's my own little way of experimenting up a feel and form in my own head. Each idea directs the next one, and I think I'm

[ubuntu-art] Re: Artwork sizes and specs

2006-07-20 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-20-07 at 12:37 -0700, Chuck Huber wrote: For instance, is there required size for the login splash? If so where would we find this information? On the spec page under 'Design' it mentions that the glassy look will carry forward but does not mention whether general size and shape

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: LAST CALL: Art Council Applications 3/3

2006-07-18 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-18-07 at 09:49 +0100, Matthew East wrote: It seems to me that a representative council can be a good thing for the art team because art decisions can sometimes be difficult to come to a consensus on. However it is important to be careful about designating the competence of the

Re: [ubuntu-art] PROPOSALS: Caramel Glass GDM

2006-07-18 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-18-07 at 12:41 +0100, Joao Inacio wrote: - I think a dark background is nicer than a lighter one, though the 4th one may be a bit too dark. Tonal issues are easily and quickly dealt with once a guiding direction is chosen. Don't get too fussy about the small details just yet. On

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: LAST CALL: Art Council Applications 3/3

2006-07-18 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-18-07 at 16:58 +0100, Matthew East wrote: 1. The Art Council should not be responsible for granting Ubuntu membership, because the risk is that the community won't get to know new members or hear about good work being done in the art area, and there is a risk of less consistency

Re: [ubuntu-art] Colour variations on splash

2006-07-18 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-18-07 at 22:31 -0400, jmak wrote: Thanks for the comments. Tomorrow, I will change the black to something else. I am going to make a few color variations. If I might ask, can we postpone the colour variations until a little further down the road? Colour is a minor tweak. We need

[ubuntu-art] SUMMARY: Proposals

2006-07-18 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Here is a contact sheet of all submissions. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/EdgyProposals/Summary_18JULY2006 Note that I kept a few of the logo designs out as they are so similar that the variations were not even visible on the contact sheet. Keep the variations such that they are

[ubuntu-art] FEEDBACK: Responses

2006-07-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-17-07 at 09:49 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: But... none of these really reminds me of the Dapper login splash, which I think is a nice combination of glassy and human. Did nobody submit anything along those lines? I would really like it if we could shape the login screen around

[ubuntu-art] LAST CALL: Art Council Applications 3/3

2006-07-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Please consider this the last call for Art Council applications. The deadline is Friday, the 21st of July 2006. The Art Council will become an extremely important are of the Ubuntu project, so I would encourage everyone and anyone who has interest to apply. Thank you for your time, TJS PS: A

Re: [ubuntu-art] GDM theme with face browser

2006-07-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-17-07 at 20:20 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: A request I hear often is to have a gdm theme with face browser. Such a theme has been ready for inclusion for a few months now, but unfortunately didn't make it into dapper. Can anyone tell me which steps I should take to see this

[ubuntu-art] PROPOSALS: Request

2006-07-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Some terrific work coming down the pipes in a good direction right now! jmak, Who_, Weidel, etc are all busy banging out some terrific stuff that is along the lines of what we need. If _everyone_ who offers up some loose mocks could send me a wiki page with their variations, I will contact

Re: [ubuntu-art] Xubuntu

2006-07-14 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-14-07 at 14:00 -0400, jmak wrote: These are some of my explorations in the direction of developing a new feel for the logo an gdm greeter screen for Xubuntu/edgy. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XubuntuEdgySpecs Please note that these artworks are still a work in progress. Thank you

[ubuntu-art] PROPOSALS: Wiki Update

2006-07-14 Thread Troy James Sobotka
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/EdgyProposals/LSplashProposal In the limited time I had today, I tried to offer up a better selection of mockups for the lsplash. I chose the lsplash initially because all of the critical elements are contained within it -- backing texture (TBD), loose

[ubuntu-art] PROPOSALS: Gloss sampling update

2006-07-14 Thread Troy James Sobotka
I took the time to wiki up a contact based on the current submissions for gloss approaches. These are all artistic based. Once Frank and Niel get the bugs out of the Blender processes, I'll contact up the results. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/EdgyProposals/GlossProposal

[ubuntu-art] PROPOSALS

2006-07-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
I have created a proposal sub area of the incoming section on the wiki. Thus far, I have dropped Niel's early work on some logo props: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/EdgyProposals/LogoProposal and the full contact that I have churned out:

[ubuntu-art] PROPOSALS: Update

2006-07-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/EdgyProposals/ Root page now shows subchildren as per the template. I have probably missed several wiki pages that need to be moved here. Sorry if I overlooked some pages -- I was in a huge rush and must escape. Please migrate accordingly. Thanks.

Re: [ubuntu-art] PROPOSALS: Update

2006-07-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-13-07 at 22:19 +0200, Niklas Weidel wrote: Pinch off? You mean you'd like to see the same gloss effect I made on the ubuntu-logo for the textlogo? Bingo! With variants. Don't worry about polish. Let's get a good set of design directions going first, then we can work our way

Re: [ubuntu-art] PROPOSALS: Update

2006-07-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-13-07 at 22:39 +0200, Niklas Weidel wrote: I'll look into it. I tend to overwork everything, but I'll try to keep it moderately simple. :) At this development point, it is more useful to have many variations. Various applications of your sheen would be very useful to compare

[ubuntu-art] WIKI: Please wiki Wallpapers and logos

2006-07-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-14-07 at 03:09 +0200, Niklas Weidel wrote: I've been playing around a bit with both desktop ideas and the textlogo. I know we're in a basic-ideas-phase, but as usual I couldn't stop, so these are somewhat advanced. Unfortunately my time is horribly crimped at the moment, so please

[ubuntu-art] Prelim Work

2006-07-11 Thread Troy James Sobotka
The following is a link to a good cross section of sample work that I have churned out for this cycle. With the hopes that someone can perhaps build on some of the starting points, I offer them here. Included on the page is a contact sheet with all the photos I have spec'd. There are a _few_

[ubuntu-art] WIKI UPDATE: Specifications

2006-07-11 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Limited on time, I have adjusted the wiki page for a clearer guide to specifications. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Team/GetInvolved CHANGELOG: * It now points to the official SpecTemplate that the other Ubuntu developers use. * Attempts to explain the parties involved more. * Has the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Introduction (Welcome Lisa!)

2006-07-11 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 21:29 +0100, Lisa Savage wrote: Hi Artwork Team, I thought I should just introduce myself. I am Lisa Savage and I have been given the task of heading up the edubuntu artwork team. I'm fairly new to the whole ubuntu community, so go easy on me :D I would be

Re: [ubuntu-art] REQUEST: Glassy samples

2006-07-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-10-07 at 14:15 +0200, Niklas Weidel wrote: Feel free to use the glassy ubuntu-logo I've upped earlier for logon/isplash. I'll see if I can make some complete variants, but I'd rather have them connect in some way to the desktop background for a really sleek feel. That is the idea

Re: [ubuntu-art] Graphical Accessibility

2006-07-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-10-07 at 22:15 -0400, Viper550 wrote: So, how do you like my idea? I love Slab to death, it's easily one of the best things you can ever have on a desktop, just do a few modifications and it will be all set for primetime! This is more of a development issue. Further still,

Re: [ubuntu-art] ideas for kubuntu edgy...glass effects, colors, textures, etc.

2006-07-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 00:03 +0200, Kenneth Wimer wrote: http://bootsplash.org/kdm-edgy.pngideas http://bootsplash.org/kdm-edgy1.png Work on the black version http://bootsplash.org/edgy3a.png An idea for a Bg for kdm, desktop splash, etc. The third element of

[ubuntu-art] REQUEST: Glassy samples

2006-07-09 Thread Troy James Sobotka
SUMMARY: Request for glassy demonstrations. I thought Who's and Weidel's glassy looks would do wonderfully for the branding across the two higher resolution items (Logon and l-splash). However, it would be nice if we could get an idea as to how to accomplish this in 16 colours. If Weidel and

[ubuntu-art] QUESTION: usplash

2006-07-07 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Perhaps Frank or Ken could answer this. It was general enough that I believe it is of interest to the general list: Q) Are there any compositional considerations for the current implementation of usplash. For example, is there a reserved area on the screen for text or something else?

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Ponder] Glowing Lines

2006-07-05 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-06-07 at 01:51 +0100, Who wrote: I was working on using SVGs to get fyre-like effects a while ago and I have dugg up some of the ideas - I have put together a 'ponder-pic' that shows off the style a bit This is much more what ponder is for. The idea is to get fresh directions

[ubuntu-art] SUMISSIONS: Reminder 2 of 3 for Art Council

2006-07-05 Thread Troy James Sobotka
If you would like to become a member of the extremely important Art Council for the Ubuntu project, please take note. This is your second of three reminders. FAQ: * Who should apply? Anyone interested in the overall governance of Art in the Ubuntu project. * How to apply? Submit

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork specs for Edgy

2006-07-04 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Jul 3, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Matt Zimmerman wrote: I've been fairly liberal about approving specs, since I don't think we can expect the same level of definition for creative targets as we currently do for technical ones. I think this has been part of the problem with the existing

[ubuntu-art] PROGRAM: XaraLX

2006-07-02 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Thanks to Ken for pointing this app out to me! If you haven't already found this program, you should probably do yourself a favour and check it out. It has recently migrated to open source, so it deserves some attention. http://www.xaraxtreme.org/ If you download the precompiled binaries,

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-30-06 at 09:37 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: I personally work on resolutions in the 4000 px wide regions to ensure that my wallpapers will always, no matter what kinds of strange things will happen, will work on the highest resolutions that are available. That includes the

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-30 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-30-06 at 17:36 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: The only ones that are widely used are 4:3 and 16:10. I don't really see a reason to support 5:4 (??) and 16:9. Huge can of worms. We talked about this in Paris, and this is why I brought it up. I can tell you that 5:4 is pretty

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpaper Spec Update

2006-06-30 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-30-06 at 23:41 +0100, Who wrote: It would be really, really nice if someone would write this up as a wiki page as guidelines for an Ubuntu wallpaper! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/Guidelines/WallPapers In addition to this, the spec has been altered

[ubuntu-art] [Ponder] Keep it loose guys

2006-06-28 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-28-06 at 11:10 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: As you suggest this could do good as a unifying theme for splashes, wallpapers and such, I am totally with you on that. Maybe even metacity borders? Indeed, once we have finished our pondering regarding loose textures, the

[ubuntu-art] [Ponder] WAS: Mouse Cursor

2006-06-28 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-28-06 at 15:56 +0100, Who wrote: This is an idea tha just occurred to me - no mock ups or anything till I get home tonight, sorry I believe the team is expected to prove itself with the four initial specs before further tasks will be assigned. Let's try to keep focused and

Re: [ubuntu-art] new wallpaper

2006-06-28 Thread Troy James Sobotka
The textures are there to inspire and create new ideas, so it is nice to see someone trying to use them as a leapboard. Thiago's sample shows how we might be able to get some sort of glossy effect across a background. It is worth brainstorming early before everyone starts putting pen to paper

[ubuntu-art] PONDER: Development

2006-06-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
It should be noted that Mark wants to proceed along the lines of the GDM logon splash in terms of the glossy look. This means that during the proposal phase, we should aim to keep focused development using the gloss look. To this end, I provided a sample textural reference page, which Frank has

[ubuntu-art] HOT OFF THE WIKI: Inkscape Compilation

2006-06-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
As per my request to the mailing list, someone took the time to step up and contribute a very useful document to the new Artwork archives... j michaelson provided the following guide that I Wikized. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/HowToCompileInkscape Thanks again to Mr. Michaelson

[ubuntu-art] Published Guidelines and Congrats

2006-06-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-26-06 at 21:15 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: No, there's no published guideline, and fixing that should be our first step. Human was created over a series of phone calls between me, Dave (from the company that did the design work), Daniel Holbach, Jeff Waugh and Jane Silber.

[ubuntu-art] SPECIFICATIONS

2006-06-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Do not manually update your specification to anything other than braindump. The assigning of specifications comes during the summit meetings. As of now, we should have the wiki specification, which is underway, and the four primary targets for Edgy. Hope this clears things up a little more.

[ubuntu-art] Re: Quick Update

2006-06-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sun, 2006-25-06 at 19:21 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: I don't understand why it is so pertinently important to keep Human in. In all objectivity, it's simply a suboptimal icon set when compared to Tango. I also don't see why any of the arguments that I have given have to be ignored.

[ubuntu-art] SUBMISSIONS: Art Council Application

2006-06-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
The Art Council will provide form basis of an incredibly important aspect of the Ubuntu project. If you are interested in becoming a member of the art council, and believe that you have the experience and education required, please provide an online link to your resume / cv and email it to me

Re: [ubuntu-art] Colour palette suggestions

2006-06-16 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-17-06 at 00:31 +0200, Niel Drummond wrote: well I didn't much like the hodge podge of new theme ideas scattered around https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/Drafts/ so I created another page, in an effort to reduce the clutter. I don't know how much room there is to adjust the

[ubuntu-art] LAUNCHPAD: Update on information

2006-06-14 Thread Troy James Sobotka
I added a link to that LaunchpadHowTo at the wiki that a wise ArtworkTeam member managed to dig up. It contains a plethora of information on tracking features and assigning tasks to individuals. I encourage everyone who wants to participate to read through the docs if you can find a few moments.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Art and the membership process

2006-06-14 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-14-06 at 14:20 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: It would mean that the art-team in Launchpad would become a part of the ubuntumembers team. Members of the art team would automatically get to vote in CC resolutions put to all Ubuntu members, and confirmations of new appointments to

[ubuntu-art] LAUNCHPAD: HowTo

2006-06-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Ok, despite being horribly short on time tonight, I straggled a little bit of info together for those of you out there who need to know how polls and such work on Launchpad. Revise this page if you feel you can add more. Launchpad information needs documentation, and it currently isn't too easy

Re: [ubuntu-art] Our wiki organisation

2006-06-12 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-09-06 at 21:04 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: It would be nice to have a space for each theme, which has a standardised top page. So you could have: Artwork/Themes/Human - top-level theme page with thumbnails of desktop, splash etc Artwork/Themes/Outdoors - as above for

[ubuntu-art] DEV CYCLE: Targets

2006-06-12 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Voice off on the targets and flesh them out folks. Consider it a shortlisting for a breakdown of deadlines. If you have other areas that need addressing, they need to be brought up BEFORE the Edgy cycle begins. Paris is coming rapidly... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [ubuntu-art] Our wiki organisation

2006-06-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-10-06 at 14:22 +1000, Pascal Klein wrote: * Reviews must remains I think we might be able to condense Propositions and Drafts into one page, personally. We'll see how it progesses. Agree. Basically this is a submission pool area. We must define what we want to

[ubuntu-art] DEV CYCLE: TARGETS

2006-06-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
In an effort to document a full listing for the development cycle, I am seeking your contributions regarding what is a viable set of artistic elements to adjust. Please cut the following list and reply it to the mailing list with your additions. If we can pound this out in a week, I'll take it

[ubuntu-art] DEV CYCLE: TARGETS

2006-06-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Targets for Edgy: * USplash * GDM Logon * GDM Splash * GNOME Wallpaper * Window Color / Theme * GTK Theme (probably incremental improvements on Human) * KDE Theme that integrates well with the GTK Theme * Panel background image *

[ubuntu-art] DEV CYCLE: TARGETS - Discussion

2006-06-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-10-06 at 17:02 +0200, Étienne Bersac wrote: All of those targets are very exciting ! Wikize it ! We really must write GuideLines for each Theme we want to ship. We must define what is a theme GuideLines. For me its : * color palette * color policy (e.g. orange for

Re: [ubuntu-art] DEV CYCLE: TARGETS

2006-06-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-10-06 at 14:12 -0500, Billy wrote: A complete Tango/Tangerine would be nice before venturing out. As long as it takes, I don't see how anyone could suggest other icon themes, especially after having icon themes cut from us on dapper. Lets keep it realistic and managable.

[ubuntu-art] Dapper Improvement Review

2006-06-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
If everyone could try and get through Frank's document, perhaps we can get a relatively finished document together in time for Paris, at which point Frank and I will try to further the cause. Thanks folks. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Our wiki organisation

2006-06-09 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-09-06 at 13:15 +0200, Étienne Bersac wrote: Hello, Before Edgy cycle, we have the time and the ability to deeply rework our wiki architecture, including breaking Google cache, however we should avoid that. I suggest : * Gather Artwork and ArtworkTeam into Artwork.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Next Meeting

2006-06-03 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sun, 2006-04-06 at 01:00 +1000, Pascal Klein wrote: If I recall correctly we were going to hold in the second or third week after the release of Dapper. :) So can we agree that we shall meet after Paris? We can still meet for a light chat, of course for those interested, but as always

Re: [ubuntu-art] Testing Numbers

2006-06-03 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-03-06 at 17:05 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: Those are interesting numbers... Perhaps they should be put somewhere for referance just so people know how much effort is put into pre-release testing... Way ahead of you. I have it in my mail folder for wikizing. --

Re: [ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-06-02 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-01-06 at 09:17 -0700, Chuck Huber wrote: Hopefully what comes from the Paris meeting will be rather broad style guidelines and not a ton of overly confining details. I'm sure we all appreciate that as artists we need room for creativity or else Bad Art happens. Details are the

Re: [ubuntu-art] WAS: Wrap.

2006-06-01 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-01-06 at 14:26 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: Don't we have yet to decide exactly which direction we're going to take with Edgy? Like I've said before, I don't think it's a good idea to start exclaiming what to do next out loud just now. Paris is going to lead to a hard

[ubuntu-art] Summer of ??Art??

2006-05-31 Thread Troy James Sobotka
I think the student idea is wonderful. Things can actually get done, as it has been demonstrated with the Summer of Code type efforts. Wikize. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

[ubuntu-art] QUESTION: From IRC.

2006-05-31 Thread Troy James Sobotka
ompaul: where are the images for cd's and dvd's for dapper I have to submit them to a printer today so I can have them published tomorrow for the session in the *house of celebration of dapper* (cough pub) We really need a way to get the darn Launchpad email set to the mailing list. Mark,

[ubuntu-art] Almost CRITICAL QUESTION: From IRC.

2006-05-31 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-31-05 at 17:36 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: ompaul: where are the images for cd's and dvd's for dapper I have to submit them to a printer today so I can have them published tomorrow for the session in the *house of celebration of dapper* (cough pub)

Re: [ubuntu-art] Almost CRITICAL QUESTION: From IRC.

2006-05-31 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Yes sorry Oliver, I missed those. Anyways, there is a printing issue regarding colours. Thankfully ompaul is doing the work to fix it in time. Thanks for your input Oliver. I guess they weren't cleared with the printer before it became a little 'critical'. He needs the NEW marketing artwork

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: Urgent: Themes and Icons

2006-05-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Thank you very much for all of your work Who. Work get things done, and for that, I appreciate you making Ubuntu that little bit better for everyone. On Mon, 2006-29-05 at 18:57 +0100, Who wrote: Last 5 minutes. Enjoy :) -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-art] GUIDELINES: Words from sabdfl

2006-05-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Let's try to collect all of Mark's posts so that we can keep within his goals for Ubuntu artwork. To this end, and after MUCH restructuring by Etienne, I have added to Et's page structure: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/Documentation/Guidelines Also, I suspect Et would appreciate some

[ubuntu-art] WORK

2006-05-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
== Mark said: Billy wrote: Yes, I understand all of that, I was just curious about going from 2 or 3 to just 1 or 2, so soon :D Hmm... depends how optimistic I'm feeling when I hit send. Call it 1, and if it looks like the team can handle more, 2. We have very tight constraints

Re: [ubuntu-art] WORK

2006-05-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
. Thanks again for offering to contribute! On Tue, 2006-30-05 at 03:07 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: On ma, 2006-05-29 at 15:32 -0700, Troy James Sobotka wrote: * We need package information so Daniel doesn't get another bomb. * We need details on how to add / adjust / integrate various

Re: [ubuntu-art] GUIDELINES: Words from sabdfl

2006-05-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
I agree... I just tried to stick it in there. At some point someone should snag the related links from the mail archives. Starting points. On Tue, 2006-30-05 at 03:02 +0100, Who wrote: Cathcing hold of every comment Mark makes is probably not the best way to organise things - short statements

Re: [ubuntu-art] dapper in wiki?

2006-05-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Thanks, I knew about that, but why the change in address? I mean, I knew it had been edited but did not notice the change in address, because I just thought it was edited, as usual. What is unusual about it that it needed another address? Because the structure of the wiki was horrible, and

Re: [ubuntu-art] LAUNCHPAD: ArtworkTeam

2006-05-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-27-05 at 14:20 -0700, Brian Burger wrote: Having an art team entry in Launchpad is useful for bug reporting, if nothing else. The wiki is far more flexible for displaying draft artwork, brainstorming, and all the other stuff that goes on there. Agree 100%. Launchpad has

Re: [ubuntu-art] Website art request

2006-05-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
New page at the wiki: Tasks. The following task has been added. Please attack as able. I will add it to Launchpad. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/Tasks Of course, this link is available off the root ArtworkTeam page as well. On Sun, 2006-28-05 at 00:20 +0100, Henrik Nilsen Omma

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Directions WAS [...lots of ranting!]

2006-05-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-26-05 at 11:11 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Why reinvent the wheel a bazillion times just because something is Not Invented Here[tm]? Perhaps it should be a nice idea to start polishing other parts of the interface during Edgy. There are lots of stuff that needs a lot of love

Re: [ubuntu-art] WAS [...lots of ranting!]

2006-05-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
First can we start clipping QUOTES down to the minimum? Fishing stinks. On Fri, 2006-26-05 at 02:40 -0500, Billy wrote: Choice is good business. Strangely, many include color in their choice of whether to install or buy. If they knew they had a few choices, or even one they wanted. They

[ubuntu-art] Motifs

2006-05-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Since we have indirectly gotten to the point before we probably should have, let's just assume that we will be discussing Motifs and such once we get a little more structure for recording, commenting, and decision making in place. It has begun, but it will take a little more time before we can

Re: [ubuntu-art] Setting a Meeting Date

2006-05-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Ubuntu-Art Edgy Planning Meeting* *SATURDAY 4th June 22:00 UTC** which is also Saturday, 3 June 2006, 17:00:00 CDT Saturday, 3 June 2006, 15:00:00 PDT Sunday, 4 June 2006, 08:00:00EST (see http://tinyurl.com/hlet5) What are we going to accomplish there that we

Re: [ubuntu-art] Setting a Meeting Date

2006-05-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-26-05 at 21:13 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: I'm sure we all have time during weekends. I sooo wish. And I am quite certain I am not alone. Careers and life. Which is exactly my point. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-art] CONTRIBUTIONS: Wiki

2006-05-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Étienne Bersac has done some great work collecting the information on the overall looks for 6.06 release of Ubuntu. If anyone can find the time to follow his lead and finish up the others, it would be greatly appreciated. We will need these sample pages to discuss future work, so it is quite

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