[ubuntu-art] Ciao

2008-05-20 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Just wanted to drop you all a note that I'm going to be disconnecting from the mailing list. If someone out there feels the need to contact me, all of my information is on Launchpad. It has a been a long wonderful ride. Thanks to everyone. Sincerely, TJS signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [ubuntu-art] Newsplash usplash mockup updates

2008-05-16 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Nick Russell wrote: I've updated the original mockups on the wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Newsplash to address concerns/criticisms and I've added a few new ideas and variations on old ones. I've also started a forum thread to gauge community interest in a new usplash

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wave .deb

2008-05-16 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Giuseppe Pennisi wrote: I managed to create an Ubuntu Package for New Wave, it's not yet perfect but the way is right. At the soone realise available for wiki and\or LP. Once you have your infrastructure in place, look into the Personal Package Archives so that your changes will get

Re: [ubuntu-art] petition for more descriptive email subjects

2008-05-15 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Matthew Nuzum wrote: For those of us following along, it would be far easier to keep up on things if there were more descriptive subjects. So instead of 50 emails with the subject New Wave maybe just be more specific. Nuzum, as usual, spot on. While we are at it, I would add that _IF_ you

[ubuntu-art] Sapien Theme (WAS Windows? Mac? Gnome? KDE?)

2008-05-11 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Seth Rattan wrote: However, this is the first time I've tried my hand at writing a theme, and I would appreciate someone (not to write the theme for me) but to be available to give pointers as I experiment. If you have _any_ questions in relation to something you are trying to accomplish,

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wave

2008-05-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Anton Kerezov wrote: Probably it is a good idea but I'm not familiar with branches and version control systems :( http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bzr It is quite easy. Sincerely, TJS signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-art] Who's Vague Direction (WAS mac-unt-ista?)

2008-05-09 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Who wrote: Specifically the awesome Rueben theme http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Reuben?content=55876 Anyone wanting to work in this vague direction? Reuben has many elements to like. In no particular order: 1) The linework is much closer to some notion of elegant. In

Re: [ubuntu-art] Random Thoughts on Mail Burst

2008-04-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Matthew Nuzum wrote: If you would have asked me before Hardy if something as exciting as the heron wallpaper would be the default desktop I would have said there's no way. Give Kenneth Wimer _full_ marks here for getting that image in front of the people who use Ubuntu. If he had not put it

[ubuntu-art] Random Thoughts on Mail Burst

2008-04-28 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Bharat Varma wrote: The visual style I have mentioned is called 'Elements' and it has 4 variations - Fire (the one you can see in the link), Water, Air and Earth. Fire - Orange, the default visual style Water - Blue Air - Grey Earth - Green Don't you feel that this thinking is bordering

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

2008-03-30 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Who wrote: Especially about colours - I haven't done much work on this display and I want to know if it looks too intense/yellow/dark/whatever on other people's monitors.. Greetings Whoosie! Great to see you still around. I would encourage anyone with interest to purchase a colour

Re: [ubuntu-art] creamlooks-gtk

2008-03-21 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Sumit Agarwal wrote: As I see it right now, the wide borders reflect the very annoying hard-outlined GNOME style icons. This is a trend that seems to be self-perpetuating for no good reason (look at the icon sheets for Firefox 3. See the Linux set? Why are we making new icons that look

[ubuntu-art] Linework (WAS creamlooks-gtk)

2008-03-21 Thread Troy James Sobotka
George Brooke wrote: Is is not possible to have a wider window border appear when your mouse hovers near the edge of the window or would this not be possible with current GTK/Meatacity themes? Not possible. The ubuntu-art crowd has grown to include a few coders however. Perhaps one of them

[ubuntu-art] Hacking / Kludging - WAS Re: gtk theme

2008-03-06 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Patch the code. Kludge it out when we have no other option. Let the progression happen. (First post here. I'd like to say hi! :D) I don't know if I'm in any position to say this, but if you do things in a hackish way, you do advance, but at the expense of having more and more

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Brainstorm title.

2008-02-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Denis Jacquerye wrote: The Ubuntu Brainstorm title could definitely be improved. The letters of the word brainstorm seems to be have ad hoc. Could it simply use the letters from the font Ubuntu Title, available in the package ttf-ubuntu-title, or from Ubuntu Titling. [

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

2008-02-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Dylan McCall wrote: The notification area exists for programs to present information about notable happenings. That Rhythmbox is running is by no means a notable happening. If you want to make a difference, get involved in the specifications that matter. Most importantly -- _FILE BUGS_

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

2008-02-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Jan Niklas Hasse wrote: GNOME Applets aren't an alternative because they are only available for GNOME. XCFE, KDE, Windows for example use GTK+ applications, too! So please stop blaming developers that they shouldn't use the notification area without providing an alternative with the same

Re: [ubuntu-art] wav instead of ogg - ATTN KEN (kwwii)

2008-02-02 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Carlos Moreno wrote: If that's not the case in this list (that is, if this list is intended for people to send files as attachments), please guys let me know, in which case I would be forced to unsubscribe from the list. Ken - perhaps we should announce this as a rule for the list to abide

Re: [ubuntu-art] panel icons

2008-01-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
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 approach is going to aim for? Honestly, they are both top shelf

Re: [ubuntu-art] panel icons

2008-01-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Sebastian Billaudelle wrote: In my opinion we need the icons to have a border, in order to make them visible on lots of backgrounds. Gosh. Can we for once in this wonderfully claustrophobic land of vacuous style and vacant design goals let go of this hideous trait? Can we just worry about

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

2008-01-23 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Ken and xl (once again great effort xl): Do you think this might be a wonderful opportunity to attempt and ease off of the stuck-in-this-mindset conservativism by implementing a small yet significant change to Ubuntu? I believe this can be accomplished by making the shift to Murrine with a

Re: [ubuntu-art] Hacking clearlooks engine.

2008-01-07 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Troy James Sobotka wrote: xl cheese wrote: If I could figure out how to make the location toolbar not use the same toolbar gradient I think it would look better and more consistant. Try integrating the pixmap engine and changing the class styling for edit boxes. There are a few good

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-05 Thread Troy James Sobotka
xl cheese wrote: In gutsy: System - Preferences - Appearance We need more people like you around this group, xl. People who actually produce the hard nuts and bolts work are a rare breed. Kudos to you. Sincerely, TJS signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Theme Teams. Moving Forward. Making Stuff!

2008-01-05 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Who wrote: 3. We shouldn't get hung up on being the default theme. We gain freedom of design by NOT being default, and we can still reach many people (Epiphany team doesn't stop because Firefox is deafult... Why should we ONLY concentrate on the default theme) With a little regular cleanup

Re: [ubuntu-art] Most Hated Bug continued

2008-01-04 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Nicolas Deschildre wrote: When I see a logo drawn like this like with pencils, it gives an artistic connotation and I will expect the website to be somehow artwork-related. Ignore your feelings. You are beginning to fall into the FOSS trap when it comes to art and design - the avoiding of

Re: [ubuntu-art] Most Hated Bug continued

2008-01-04 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Nicolas Deschildre wrote: The bug in the Ubuntu battery is original, but the most hated part of the message is also missing. As proof of my last point. I'll go out on a limb and suggest that it is a can of bug killer. *sigh*. Sincerely, TJS signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-04 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Nemes Ioan Sorin wrote: Blue OR blue + green, well combined will give you a Peace of Mind feeling [don't think a second that $MS designers are stupid]. Once again, colour psychology has been debunked 100 times in 10 different environments. Don't even think about going there. Look no

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-03 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Andrew Laignel wrote: Hey, I was only saying that votes are valuable in so far as to find out what not to do and finding out what people hate is important. Neutral doesn't have to be bland or lacking in style, it just needs to avoid polarizing people. And this is the exact opposite as to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread Troy James Sobotka
julian wrote: we need to see mockups in one place as opposed to scattered over several sites and hidden as attachments in nests of threads: This has been established at least thrice in my knowledge, and at no point do people bother to tidy things up into an organized manner. The people who

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread Troy James Sobotka
tonic wrote: well there is voting one man, one vote Hilarious. And yes, quite right. sabdfl I suppose _does_ vote. Sincerely, TJS signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread Troy James Sobotka
julian wrote: can you list these three attempts here for the benefit of review? To the best of my ability: 1) Roughly about Warty there was a community effort. The original Launchpad group was created from what I can recall. 2) Around Edgy there was a pretty decent push to get people to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-02 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Andrew Laignel wrote: Ideally a default theme should not be even noticed by the public - being neutral and innofensive as possible should be the goal. A perfect demonstration of this is Apple, where the current theme for OSX is crips, clean, stylish and probably as neutral as you can get

Re: [ubuntu-art] Moving things forwards.

2008-01-01 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Justin Rogers wrote: I have been watching for about two months now, waiting to see how I can contribute. Who ever is leading this project, I am still uncertain, have put very little effort into it overall. I believe we were promised some sort of direction on the Wiki like a month ago. At this

Re: [ubuntu-art] artwork for the Ubuntu idea brainstorming website

2007-12-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Nicolas Deschildre wrote: - Two banners, one for the Ubuntu idea brainstorming part, and one for the Ubuntu most hated bug tracker. Here is a really quick knock off for the 'yet-to-be-named' idea site. Sincerely, TJS inline: idea-arena.png signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [ubuntu-art] artwork for the Ubuntu idea brainstorming website

2007-12-28 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Amazing work! Nicolas Deschildre wrote: The QA team and I have been developing the future Ubuntu idea brainstorming website, codenamed tokamak (cf blueprint [1]). Another separate module will also track the most hated bug by allowing to vote for them. The website is beginning to mature, and

Re: [ubuntu-art] Who is our target audience?

2007-12-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thorsten Wilms wrote: For projects taking 4 months max, the time you can spend worrying about your target audience is quite limited. Perhaps ignoring the time constraints is worthy? Maybe get the 'broad' strokes in place then finesse in the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Who is our target audience?

2007-12-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damian Vila wrote: And Ubuntu won't be brown, that's for sure. I wonder if the trend toward eco friendly products could be embraced by a very 'earthy' feeling operating system. (Well 'earthy' in the 'idea', not the presentation) Unbleached CD

Re: [ubuntu-art] Who is our target audience?

2007-12-24 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thorsten Wilms wrote: Having a clearly defined target audience would be of advantage. But I have to say that during my industrial design studies, this part was mostly guesswork. Then you didn't go to a very good school or for long enough. We

Re: [ubuntu-art] Fine Artist Joining Group and other tids.

2007-12-23 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henning Ludeke wrote: Let me know if there's a need for research or contributions from a theoretical (visual arts theory) perspective, or if there are other art theorists on the list. I want to see Ubuntu making a serious statement on next

[ubuntu-art] Art Director

2007-12-22 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings all. An art director / designer associate of mine has graciously accepted an invitation for an interview. His name is Andrew Menzies ( http://imdb.com/name/nm0579980/ ). He is formally trained in Architectural design and has extended his

Re: [ubuntu-art] Anyone Remember this idea?

2007-12-21 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 xl cheese wrote: I thought is was a good use of brown. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2620273#post2620273 Seriously folks, look at the details on this: 1) It is completely devoid of any concept or goal. 2) It resorts to the already

Re: [ubuntu-art] Choosing color palettes

2007-12-20 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Nuzum wrote: Still, I've seen artists do this by eye and come up with spectacular results that make any auto-generated theme look calculated and mathematical. Rather spot on. That said, at least understanding how some basic colour theory

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpaper

2007-12-07 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 julian wrote: 1 - we don't need desktops that demand to be noticed. we need desktops that look and feel great to /use/. 2 - they must be easy on the eye for sustained periods of use. I wish I was as certain in this world as you are. What does

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpaper

2007-12-06 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 julian wrote: ..on Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:30:53PM +0200, Özgür BASKIN wrote: +1 for elephant-skin picture :) i think the cleanest themes are those that simply don't a) try to make a strong artistic statement and b) don't try to bring the

Re: [ubuntu-art] hardy gtk theme

2007-11-06 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: Another problem with dark themes is a purely technical one. I've done a handful dark themes myself, but they always end up with small glitches here and there because not all apps are designed to respect the theme

Re: [ubuntu-art] [Ubuntu-Art] Hardy GTK theme

2007-11-06 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: Another problem with dark themes is a purely technical one. I've done a handful dark themes myself, but they always end up with small glitches here and there because not all apps are designed to respect the theme 100%

[ubuntu-art] More of same.

2007-09-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 During the Edgy cycle we tried a more open, community approach to the artwork and it failed miserably. I see this pop up from time to time, and I would like once again to address it. First, some people push hard for changes and some wriggle

Re: [ubuntu-art] New member/ Gutsy wallpaper observation.

2007-09-22 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Nilsson wrote: A bike shed on the other hand. Anyone can build one of those over a weekend, and still have time to watch the game on TV. So no matter how well prepared, no matter how reasonable you are with your proposal, somebody will

Re: [ubuntu-art] My new Wallpaper

2007-09-09 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Matthew Nuzum wrote: How did you create those parallel curved lines? That's an interesting technique and I can't think of any easy way to do that. Deadly easy. 1) Make a spline in Inkscape. 2) Duplicate it and paste in place using Ctl-Alt-V. 3) Spread out the duplicate along an axis -- use Ctl

Re: [ubuntu-art] white blur around text wanted/needed

2007-08-24 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Wimer wrote: Hi all, As seen in these screens: http://gnomestyle.blogspot.com/2007/05/make-ubuntu-look-like-vista.html It is possible to have a nice blur around the text to help it stand out when overlayed and transparent. Anyone

Re: [ubuntu-art] List Submissions

2007-07-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 However, I am asking permission from the list to simply delete them all, and start anew. Opinions would be appreciated. Kenneth Wimer wrote: As one can simply join the team and post to the list I think it would be fine to simply delete all the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Human iconset is incomplete and inconsistent

2007-06-23 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander van Loon wrote: 1. The Human iconset is not complete, less complete than Tango for example. 2. Currently the Tango/GNOME and Human iconset are being mixed. 3. There are no style guidelines or color palette for the Human iconset.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Blubuntu Font Theme

2007-06-19 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Wimer wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2007 19:37:20 Zach Rattner wrote: Hi, I am interested in helping the development of Blubuntu. Would a new font scheme be possible? Everything else about Ubuntu is easily customizable, but the fonts

Re: [ubuntu-art] Human iconset is incomplete and inconsistent

2007-05-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Alexander van Loon wrote: Besides that, is there anyone who prefers the Human iconset over Tangerine? The Human icons don't look professional at all, it looks blurry and ugly. From what I understand from previous posts on the mailing list, the only reason the Human iconset was created

Re: [ubuntu-art] Human iconset is incomplete and inconsistent

2007-05-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Ravi Shanker wrote: Whatever one says or gives opinion is just personal. You can't say anything without your personal analysis and thoughts. Its what human thinks and express. Everything is personal friend. You can't go universal saying anything. His personal opinion is this means a person

[ubuntu-art] Current Community Theme and a Good Read

2007-04-30 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just wanted to say that it is a pleasant experience to see interest popping up at the thought of a community theme. On a side note, here is a very good read to anyone interested in art and design from a person who is one of the top in their field.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Current Community Theme and a Good Read

2007-04-30 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Hough wrote: Another point to maybe mention, since it has been leaked that Dell will be using Ubuntu on new PC`s sold will there still be the same community involvement? What is discussed in this thread is a community theme. There has been

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu ISO Testing Team Artwork

2007-04-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Pavlik wrote: I find the same problem with the burning idea, and suspect it may not internationalize/localize well. Perhaps using the lightburst design from the Tango new icons combined with some of these other ideas may provide a more

[ubuntu-art] Ubuntu-Art Identity @ 305

2007-04-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well we certainly aren't the '300' but we hit 305 members! That is a _lot_ of interest in Ubuntu artwork and design related matters. As a fun marker, and after having the ISO testing guys request some work, how about we do a little ditty up for

[ubuntu-art] Polls

2007-04-16 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For those who are interested, there are a couple of new polls set up to get a grasp on our swelling membership numbers. https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-art/+polls Sincerely, TJS -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment:

Re: [ubuntu-art] Colour

2007-04-14 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jmak wrote: Don't forget that color is not only a matter of aesthetics but it is a usability issue as well. There are plenty of info on the net about the effects of color on human psychology. Research the subject to see what I mean. I can't

Re: [ubuntu-art] Colour

2007-04-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jmak wrote: I wrote: Colours are _culturally_ and _temporally_ rooted in meaning. Look to the colours of traditional wedding wear in Japan or different parts of tribal Africa for examples of cultural meaning. Look to the tonal differences

Re: [ubuntu-art] Update-notifier icon

2007-02-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here is a Humanized offering of the arrow suggestion from Yann, along with the newer Apport notification icon and the existing Warning dialog icon. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Re: [ubuntu-art] Update-notifier icon

2007-02-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Shuttleworth wrote: *Really* like the arrows, the orange one suits me better but I could live with the red one too. Ken? Should be Humanized though shouldn't it? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment:

Re: [ubuntu-art] Incoming Feisty art

2007-02-12 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Prieto wrote: Er... I don't know much about monitor sized, but are not most monitors either 1024x768 or 1280x800, or some other size with the same proportions? Incorrect. Monitors fall into a vast array of aspect ratio and resolutions.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Apport icons -- merely some ideas

2007-02-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Jones wrote: We could re-use the icon that's used for the Force Quit GNOME Panel applet, the picture of a window with a big crack down it. I think that signifies broken program as well as anything else could. This is heading down the route

Re: [ubuntu-art] Apport icons -- merely some ideas

2007-02-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donn wrote: From a practical integration element -- it also must _readily_ fit into the the Human scheme. At the very least, it should be based on the Human warning type symbols. (Yet another reason we need DESIGN guidelines for Human.) Have

Re: [ubuntu-art] Apport icons -- merely some ideas

2007-02-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jean Pierre Rupp wrote: In short, we should make the artwork based on the concepts, and not the words. In short, concepts are culturally based. The idea of locale-based icons is great, but of course it would be a huge task to undertake for

Re: [ubuntu-art] Incoming Feisty art

2007-02-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Étienne Bersac wrote: Also, who made this artwork ? Is ubuntu-art only a place to comment new artwork ;) ? It feel like we forgot to plan community themes :| kwwii -- Ken, created the new art. You should know by now Et, don't expect planning.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Apport icons needed

2007-02-08 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donn wrote: I just did this to get the idea out of my head. It doesn't scale well, but what the hell. Wow. Yet more proof that our little artwork community is filled with some damn talented folks. Do you have formal training? It would

Re: [ubuntu-art] Apport icons needed

2007-02-02 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do we have any metaphors that seem appropriate? Kenneth Wimer wrote: There is an open request for Apport icons. Apport needs icons for various purposes: - panel tray if a crash happened while the user wasn't logged in, or a system process

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stock rotate icons for eog and gimp

2007-01-18 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Emir Beganovi? wrote: P.S. icons which I've made are 48x48 but files has suffix 16 (means 16 pixels). eog and GIMP show the icons OK, but shouldn't those icons be scaled to 16x16? Great work Emir. I think I see a few issues: 1. If this is

[ubuntu-art] [Fwd: Re: Stock rotate icons for eog and gimp]

2007-01-18 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'll make SVG and file a bug with Malone. How do you mean this by 'hazy gloss needs to be customized for each icon? Is there any SVG available so I can just rotate it by 90, 180 and 270 degrees? Yes there are in /usr/share/icons/Human/scalable

[ubuntu-art] On bugs...

2007-01-15 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings to everyone on the list... Over the past while you might have noticed a little bit of activity on the 'bugs' assigned to the 'ubuntu-art' project team. The bugs provided there are the byproduct of a massive amount of work and energy on the

Re: [ubuntu-art] bringing good things to life

2007-01-03 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Nuzum wrote: How about some people +1 this if they like the idea, ensuring to note if they feel competent enough to contribute a monthly background. We'd also need a person willing to be the scape goat and be the first aic... +1 brilliant

Re: [ubuntu-art] Temporary Feisty Artwork Idea

2006-12-07 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Schoep wrote: On top of this, and this is just a wild guess like anyone else's, I think the big idea is to have Feisty's final artwork integrated from the start on. I'm talking about at least the wallpaper and possibly the GDM theme,

Re: [ubuntu-art] getting face-browser visually inline with artwork-plans for feisty

2006-11-30 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:05 +0100, Mirco Müller wrote: Ok. I've learned that Mark has the final word on what goes in and what does not visual appeal-wise. The spec shows screenshots against a black background. I hope Mark is coordinating that design of the default GDM with the default

Re: [ubuntu-art] getting face-browser visually inline with artwork-plans for feisty

2006-11-28 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 22:15 +0100, Mirco Müller wrote: I tried to keep the visual gap between usplash and gdm (for the case of the face-browser, which is planned to be on by default for feisty) as small as possible. But if there are any non-obvious things in the pipe for feisty in the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Branching Feisty Artwork

2006-11-22 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 19:09 +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: Apart from that, I'd like to drop the individual themes from ubuntu-artwork. gray-theme, industrialtango-theme, legacyhuman-theme, outdoors-theme, resilience-theme, silicon-theme have been part of Ubuntu's default for 2 releases now and

[ubuntu-art] [WIKI] Update to documentation

2006-10-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
* Moved the package related documents that recently landed on the wiki to the /Documentation section. * Updated documentation root page to reflect changes and more clearly explain what the package subpages are for. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-art

[ubuntu-art] Who's Logo Work

2006-10-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 16:29 +0100, Who wrote: These fix those issues in a few ways As I have always said -- your work is pretty incredible Who. Although I fundamentally disagree with the design decision to put the dual curve into the logo, your work is the most standout by far. In particular,

Re: [ubuntu-art] Logout sound

2006-10-09 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-09-10 at 17:58 +0200, Frank Schoep wrote: We created this short sound to prevent it from being cut off. On fast systems, only the first few seconds of the sound are played. See this bug on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/bugs/61530 Doesn't that make the rather massive

[ubuntu-art] [WIKI] Updated sources

2006-10-03 Thread Troy James Sobotka
New sources for anyone who needs a starting point. If we expect a wallpaper, we need to decide on the tones for the GDM. Sincerely, TJS https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/EdgyArtworkPlan/Polish/Incoming/LastMinuteRush signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part --

[ubuntu-art] Foolish villager...

2006-09-27 Thread Troy James Sobotka
And the foolish villager forgot the great tenant -- let the people have the source of the work: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/LetTheGodsBeHappy signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] cancel / apply icons

2006-09-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-26-09 at 15:36 +0200, David Prieto wrote: You can see how the proposed cancel icon is a red cross just like the current one, only beautiful. And the apply button is a green tick just like the one we have one, so the metaphors really stay the same. My only concern with the two

Re: [ubuntu-art] Knot 3 Wallpaper - comment

2006-09-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-26-09 at 11:38 +0200, Julian Oliver wrote: ..on Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 01:13:29PM +0200, Andreas Haller wrote: Hi, i just saw the new Wallpaper for Edgy Knot3 (http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/knot3) and wanted to tell you that the cross on the left side reminded me of the

Re: [ubuntu-art] From the Fedora User to the Ubuntu Art Team: Here's your big competition...

2006-09-13 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-13-09 at 21:33 +0100, Toby Smithe wrote: I just don't like the glossy unity in SuSE and Fedora Core. A tad 90's would be a good way to describe it. Vista is well on its way to releasing itself right into that has-been pile. Both Apple and Microsoft have built their market around

Re: [ubuntu-art] Edgy's current art looks like fecal matter :O

2006-09-12 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-12-09 at 17:03 +1000, Jasper Schalken wrote: I know I'm being blunt, but it's true. It's dark brown, it's lumpy, and it has red and green streaks running through it. Not a pleasant combination :P. Yikes. There is another version without the dappling here:

[ubuntu-art] [REQUEST] The final push -- help needed.

2006-09-11 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Ok folks -- we are almost there! First I would like to thank everyone on this list -- it has been a tremendous ride. Plenty of learning for everyone I am certain! Now onto the nitty gritty. Currently, because of our slight blip in development while approval was sought, our Produce phase sort of

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu panel background proposal

2006-09-10 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sun, 2006-10-09 at 09:04 +0200, PingunZ wrote: That's most people agree that we just need a background image, no tansparancy. Still, we are left with certain buttons and such not abiding by the background texture / colour. This is fundamentally more problematic than the actual change --

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu panel background proposal

2006-09-09 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 10:43 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: I far prefer the semi-transparent panel idea that someone posted a little while ago. I think the Panel should have a very distinctive look, and not be Grey at all! That goes for the Panel menu items as well as the Panel itself.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu panel background proposal

2006-09-08 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-08-09 at 15:50 +0200, Álvaro Medina Ballester wrote: I was looking to my ubuntu panel on Dapper and I think that the gray plain background doesn't have the same style that the human theme. I think we are all with you in agreement. Once the palette is settled down and published, I

Re: [ubuntu-art] Usplash for edgy is finished

2006-09-07 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-07-09 at 12:13 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: Thanks for the progress update, I hope we're able to properly work around feature freeze limitations on the artwork for usplash. Given that there is no artwork at all yet for usplash and noone wants to see the testcard in the

[ubuntu-art] msikma's Usplash

2006-09-07 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-07-09 at 14:37 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: I would like that too, but a background might not work well for the same reasons it couldn't be anything other than black in the old usplash. Op 7-sep-2006, om 14:33 heeft Álvaro Medina Ballester het volgende geschreven:

Re: [ubuntu-art] Proposal : Ubuntu-Art forum.

2006-09-04 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-04-09 at 18:10 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: On ma, 2006-09-04 at 17:21 +0200, PingunZ wrote: Maybe it would be better if the forum just replaced the wiki+ML, not launchpad ? Please no, a wiki isn't a discussion medium -- which is a good thing for artwork. Agree with

[ubuntu-art] [WIKI] Update to GetInvolved

2006-09-04 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-04-09 at 22:24 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: Do people know that the mailing list has a web-interface too? http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.artwork (It also has Usenet and RSS interfaces there.) Thanks to the great tips that Jan has offered here over the past few posts, I

[ubuntu-art] [REQUEST] Produce DEADLINE

2006-09-03 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Please note the schedule archived here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/EdgyArtworkPlan/ This has been the schedule since the beginning of the cycle, and we must stick to it as the rest of the development team is in sync with those dates. September 7th is the final deadline for all

Re: [ubuntu-art] msikma's Progress Indicator

2006-08-30 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-30-08 at 10:17 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: Mich -- do you think you could bang out a similar animation with a 'spotlight' approach? Basically, it would be almost identical to what you have there save a more focused circular light illuminating the Ubuntu logo as it rolls

Re: [ubuntu-art] [REQUEST] Widescreen / Scaling GDM issues

2006-08-29 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-29-08 at 13:24 +0100, Who wrote: I think using a background that is okay for scaling - say something abstract, and then putting the logo etc as boxes on top should help - no? Yes. I can live with scaling of the background. The boxes technique seems to be the key, but it needs

[ubuntu-art] [WIKI] Updated incoming

2006-08-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
If you browse to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/EdgyArtworkPlan/Produce/Incoming/ you can see the fresh work coming in. Thank you to everyone who is posting their effort. I am very impressed with that page thus far. Sincerely, TJS signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

[ubuntu-art] [LAUNCHPAD] Subscription list

2006-08-24 Thread Troy James Sobotka
There appears to be some flipping in the Launchpad specification records. In order for all of the artwork related specifications to show up in our http://www.launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-art/+specs listing, ubuntu-art must be added as a subscriber to the specification in question. Some of our

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