Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpapers in 11.10

2011-07-12 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 15:10 +0530, Prateek Jadhwani wrote: it says free brushes i dont think dey hv copyright issues But, Nintendo might.. ;-) -- Cheers, Vish -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Indigo Icons

2011-07-06 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 00:34 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: Hey all, I like the faenza shape, but I don't like the icons, so I started making my own. If you know how to work inkscape, and you know icon design I would like to here your feedback. I am focusing naming based on oxygen since its

[ubuntu-art] Community wallpaper contest - Re: Looking forwards not back.

2011-05-09 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 07:08 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: I know we kinda fell apart through the last cycle. Well these things happen. Looking forwards I would like to suggest this: 1. A regular meeting, every so often during the oneiric cycle. 2. We move away from wallpaper, interface

Re: [ubuntu-art] Community wallpaper contest - Re: Looking forwards not back.

2011-05-09 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 10:44 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: As today is the due date for a spectacularly boring research paper of mine, I will be spending the day looking up and rechecking pointless MLA rules. Please post a link to summary/actionables/what happened. --Saleel We ended up

Re: [ubuntu-art] Looking forwards not back.

2011-04-28 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 15:22 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 12:39 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: Fine, we need a new team leader as well. I don't want to miss another cycle. I hate being subscribed here and not feeling useful. Until we get the council to sort it all out,

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] GTK3/GNOME3

2011-04-11 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 16:21 +0200, Krzysztof Klimonda wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 15:03 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: Hi, The idea was never really dropped but it's not likely it will be an official focus for the team, contributions to help getting it working better are welcome

Re: ari-tczew to be excluded from Ubuntu community

2011-04-11 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 17:25 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Friday, April 08, 2011 05:19:30 PM Loïc Minier wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: Do we have something similar to debian-private in Ubuntu? God forbid :p Eh; yet it would still be less private than the

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] Default Browser

2011-04-08 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 17:27 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: Please note, I was suggesting not having Firefox or Chromium as the default, but a webkit based browser with a normal release cycle like Epiphany (which uses webkitgtk :)). If I'v understood that right, what you are suggesting is we use

Re: [Oneiric-Topic] GTK3/GNOME3

2011-04-07 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 10:32 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: Le jeudi 07 avril 2011 à 09:59 +0200, Martin Pitt a écrit : kind of obvious topic, but next cycle we'll need to move to GTK3 and GNOME3. Aside from the obvious update the package versions, I see the following particular challenges:

Re: [ubuntu-in] Canonical kills free Ubuntu CD program

2011-04-06 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 19:53 +0530, Stereotactic wrote: First, they move towards Unity instead of supporting Gnome, Support is too broad a term and using Unity as default does not mean not supporting GNOME. then they refuse to contribute much to the code, Do you have any evidence to

Re: New GNOME Icon's In Natty?

2011-03-28 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 17:16 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: Hi all, Some of you may have seen http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/?p=1145 - some fantastic work on the icon theme going into the next GNOME release. I wanted to see if there is any possibility of bringing those icons into Natty? Hi

Re: Unity, consistency and password-protected web pages

2011-03-28 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 20:32 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote: Hello, Something I've noticed lately has me a little concerned. I am hoping you folks can put my fears at ease! When I look at bug reports for Unity, I often encounter links to what I assume are design documents internal to Canonical.

Re: [ubuntu-in] Is anyone using Ubuntu Tweak

2011-03-20 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 09:27 +0530, Stereotactic wrote: Is Ubuntu Tweak really required? It's not really required, most of it is available via gconf-editor. Why not ship with the enhancements built in? AFAIK, most of the enhancements are available by default. You don't really need Ubuntu

Re: Post about Ubuntu teams

2011-03-15 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 12:18 +0100, Dani Gutiérrez Porset wrote: Hi, Ubuntu friends, first of all thanks a lot for your good and hard work in favour of free software for the whole world. I'd like to share with you this post where I [weakly] analyse some statistics. Feel free to disagree or

Re: [ubuntu-art] Question About Natty Wallpaper Contest

2011-03-14 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 20:59 -0400, John Baer wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Erin Estes e...@estes.com wrote: John, I did post my submissions to that gallery, but I read over some posts here that said that gallery was no longer official and

Re: [ubuntu-art] Question About Natty Wallpaper Contest

2011-03-14 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 17:15 -0700, ErinOfEarth wrote: I've had Ubuntu for a while now and have made a number of non-photographic (mostly Ubuntu-themed) wallpapers for personal use. I was searching for some way to get them recognized by the design team at Ubuntu when I read about the Bright,

Re: [ubuntu-in] Membership to ubuntu-in?

2011-03-10 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 20:38 +0530, Manish Sinha wrote: On 03/09/2011 06:53 PM, Kingsly John wrote: Focus your efforts on the Indian Loco alone and keep it active. And if possible see if we can get those other groups disbanded. We barely have the numbers/strength to keep the momentum going

Re: [ubuntu-in] Membership to ubuntu-in?

2011-03-10 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 02:40 +0530, Manish Sinha wrote: On 03/11/2011 12:06 AM, Vishnoo wrote: So should we go ahead and get them removed? It can be done. Just want to know if everyone is fine with it. We can ask popey or jcastro and they can get it done directly or through someone

Re: [ubuntu-in] Membership to ubuntu-in?

2011-03-10 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 12:18 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 02:40 +0530, Manish Sinha wrote: Yes, creating millions of teams is allowed in Launchpad. Not an issue, but randomly creating and listing them down in the list of LoCos is what I was saying was bad.. Maybe

Re: [ubuntu-art] Pictograms

2011-03-03 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 11:29 -0600, Leandro Gómez wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:34 +0100, rAX wrote: Hello Vishnoo, As for sending the sketches to Marcus Haslam, I

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dealing with issues and seeking advice

2011-02-22 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 15:27 +0300, Сергей wrote: people messing up the official wiki without discussing the changes first as a consequence. Let me ask this first, When should content/tasks be added to the official wiki? -- Cheers, Vish -- ubuntu-art mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dealing with issues and seeking advice

2011-02-22 Thread Vishnoo
/22 Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 15:27 +0300, Сергей wrote: people messing up the official wiki without discussing the changes first as a consequence. Let me ask this first, When should content/tasks be added to the official

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dealing with issues and seeking advice

2011-02-21 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 08:44 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: I asked for critique on a wallpaper idea I was playing with, and other than yourself I got 0 feedback. Again what is the point? I could have --no I should have just asked for your opinion over IRC. It would have been a heck of a lot

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dealing with issues and seeking advice

2011-02-21 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 08:44 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: If I have to go to the blog to find out about important changes, then what exactly is the point of being here? Regarding Communications from the design team, IMO, this cycle they have improved this multifold. We have an increased

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dealing with issues and seeking advice

2011-02-19 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 00:36 -0600, Leandro Gómez wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 19:30 -0500, coz DS wrote: We all need to do our part in trying to talk with jbaer, other

Re: [ubuntu-art] IMPORTANT : Natty illustration wallpaper submissions group

2011-02-18 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 19:55 +0300, Сергей wrote: On the other hand, a separate group for artwork makes much more sense than mixing it with photography. Participators can look for inspiration and judges won't have to separate artwork from photos. Yep, thats why submissions were in a separate

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dealing with issues and seeking advice

2011-02-18 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 21:10 +0300, Сергей wrote: 2011/2/18 Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com People want to have fun and be productive, and not to constantly have to worry about people creating their own sub-groups and sabotaging existing process

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dealing with issues and seeking advice

2011-02-18 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 15:17 -0600, Leandro Gómez wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 13:47 -0600, Leandro Gómez wrote: I don't like the way this is discussion is turning out

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dealing with issues and seeking advice

2011-02-18 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 19:30 -0500, coz DS wrote: Hey guys Bad taste.. wrong timing...or just plain being an ass... the links offered by jbaer came at an inappropriate time. Let the judging of the included wallpapers finish..then do what you like... but official stuff needs to have a

Re: [ubuntu-art] Goodbye

2011-02-17 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 13:41 -0500, Martin Owens wrote: Thanks for all your work thorwil, On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 18:40 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: Our combined inability or unwillingness to deal with repeated misrepresentations and incredible ignorance from one member pisses me off to

[ubuntu-art] IMPORTANT : Natty illustration wallpaper submissions group

2011-02-17 Thread Vishnoo
Hi, In case folks have not seen Thorsten's post about this: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/watch-out-regarding-natty-wallpaper-submissions/ The submissions for the natty wallpaper illustration *should* be in the Ubuntu Artwork Group : http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/ and

Re: Busy work

2011-02-06 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 18:46 +, Chris Coulson wrote: On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 10:22 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote: it's 30s of editing. Arguably, my bad for not providing a patch; but again, I thought that would be a waste of time, because it would take longer for me to produce a patch, be

Re: [ubuntu-art] Say hello to nathan.

2011-01-21 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 22:55 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: I actually get some stuff down when my internet goes down. This is nathan, he enjoys cold water, and fighting with his tooth. but seriously could use some critique here. email me directly if you want the source, last time I threw

Re: [ubuntu-art] 3 community wallpapers will be included in Natty

2011-01-15 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 00:50 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Сергей shnat...@gmail.com wrote: Shall we add this to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Tasks ? -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-art] The Importance of Designing an Experience Culture

2010-12-20 Thread Vishnoo
Hi, A wise Canadian dropped by the #ubuntu-artwork channel and shared this link : http://uxmag.com/strategy/the-importance-of-designing-an-experience-culture Though a little beyond the scope of what we usually talk here, A nice read for all... :-) If anyone finds any such interesting links,

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wanted: Artwork for Ubuntu Software Center department screens

2010-12-19 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 10:40 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: 1. I love the idea of a pattern, I am stealing from you ;-) 2. Why not use the dots from the branding pack? it may help with consistency, although I am not sure whether to use the developer or the enterprise dots. Well, I did think

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wanted: Artwork for Ubuntu Software Center department screens

2010-12-18 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 21:52 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: While we're doing all those things, we would also like to make USC prettier. As part of that, we're considering adding some custom artwork to each of the individual department screens -- Games, Internet, Sound Video, and so on.

[ubuntu-art] Community-wallpapers package - was Re: Free Culture Showcase History - was Re: Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-15 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 14:22 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: IIRC this years FCS will be focused on an overarching theme of light(?) and ubuntu specific stuff will be turned down. Here is the thing, my proposal for new non photo pool covers stuff that was clearly made for Ubuntu, yet not made

Re: [ubuntu-art] Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-14 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 11:27 -0500, John Baer wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: However, It is not clear what this alternative wallpaper task is meant for? Is this aimed as an addition to default wallpaper

[ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase History - was Re: Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-14 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 09:48 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 19:52 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: Exactly for this reason the submissions should be in the pool, where the jury will see them in any case. Not to mince my words here, but the jury is a

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase History - was Re: Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-14 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 14:22 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: I didn't think that this is such a radical proposal as all that. Right, you did switch the focus of the initial proposal(which aims at the default install). The initial proposal though is an unnecessary duplication of efforts, with

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase History - was Re: Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-14 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 15:46 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: I'll focus on stuff that is achievable right now, but my opinions on the original idea still stand I am afraid, I really do think that there ought to be a separate pool for abstract and nonphoto default wall proposals, and they do

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase History - was Re: Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-14 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 02:38 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 15:46 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: I'll focus on stuff that is achievable right now, but my opinions on the original idea still stand I am afraid, I really do think that there ought to be a separate pool for abstract

Re: [ubuntu-art] Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

2010-12-13 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 11:44 -0500, John Baer wrote: Hello Everyone, I added to the project board a very exciting proposal for the team. The proposal is to create graphic designs to be used as alternate Ubuntu wallpapers for the Natty release. It is important to remember this is a proposal

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wanted: Artwork for Ubuntu Software Center department screens

2010-12-12 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 13:08 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 19:34 -0500, John Baer wrote: Saleel, I see your point and agree. The only confusion in my mind is their spec permits posting submissions to where-ever you want. In itself this is Ok but if you wanted to compare

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wanted: Artwork for Ubuntu Software Center department screens

2010-12-11 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 19:34 -0500, John Baer wrote: Saleel, I see your point and agree. The only confusion in my mind is their spec permits posting submissions to where-ever you want. In itself this is Ok but if you wanted to compare/review there is no list to reference unless you scan the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Make announcement of submissions mandatory

2010-12-10 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 09:02 -0600, Leandro Gómez wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: We need to get more eyes on the submissions. More people expressing their views/opinions/critique on the submissions. Announcements

Re: [ubuntu-art] Make announcement of submissions mandatory

2010-12-10 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 11:55 -0600, Leandro Gómez wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: As I mentioned, it does not take long for the 20 people who are active. Are other's viewing the submissions? How do we get others excited

Re: [ubuntu-art] Make announcement of submissions mandatory

2010-12-10 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 11:55 -0600, Leandro Gómez wrote: An interest approach is what John is doing with his weekly summary of what's going on in the community (The Brickyard). Maybe we should think of creating an official weekly newsletter for this group with links to new submissions?

Re: [ubuntu-art] Make announcement of submissions mandatory

2010-12-10 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 12:33 -0600, Leandro Gómez wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Vishnoo v...@ubuntu.com wrote: This is again only creating more work on the active members, rather than growing the community. I see

Re: [ubuntu-art] Make announcement of submissions mandatory

2010-12-10 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 17:08 -0500, John Baer wrote: 2010/12/10 Leandro Gómez leo.tel...@gmail.com I completely understand your reasoning and your intentions behind this. I'm just annoyed to see yet another bureaucratic process being added to the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wanted: Artwork for Ubuntu Software Center department screens

2010-12-10 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 00:04 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: While I agree that we need spec for generalized tasks, looking at the wiki page Matthew linked to is pretty detailed and clear as to what is needed as to the scope, artwork aspects etc. Only thing we really need is a general date. I

[ubuntu-art] Make announcement of submissions mandatory

2010-12-09 Thread Vishnoo
Hi, While we are getting new submissions for each task, there seems to be less activity here regarding the submissions and it is not clear that there were submissions even. If anyone had to check the new submissions they will have to keep checking the respective flickr groups *daily* for

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended

2010-12-08 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:09 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 07:47 -0500, John Baer wrote: The deadline to the new Artwork Team Logo project is extended to 2011-01-02 (...) I messed up the date on the wiki and just fixed that. Like I said earlier, 1st of February, so

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended

2010-12-08 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 14:43 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 18:52 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: Instead, for months we use Jan/Feb/Mar.../Dec . And yrs/dates are numerical /DD? Numerical dates are short and make calculations more obvious I'm not sure I see any need for us

[ubuntu-art] Wallpaper due dates need to be checked - was Re: Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended

2010-12-08 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 18:11 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 20:27 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-date-format Since obviously option 1 has its pit-fall of not being international-friendly, let's go with option 2 : 1 February 2010

[ubuntu-art] Language barrier for Participation - was Re: Artwork Team Logo - Submissions due today!

2010-12-07 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 10:33 -0200, Blau Araujo wrote: First of all, I apologize for not participating so actively in this discussion. Not only because my English is not good enough to develop full arguments, but mainly because I've had a season with many shows (I am also a musician in a blues

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork Team Logo Submissions

2010-12-05 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 16:30 -0800, j_baer wrote: Hello everyone, I collected all of the submissions ( 41 :- ) and created a wiki page based on the Launchpad use case. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/TeamLogoSubmissions #37 seems interesting , but wonder how it would look in smaller

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork Team Logo - Submissions due today!

2010-12-03 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 18:15 -0800, j_baer wrote: j_baer wrote: Hello everyone, I could not be more pleased with the submissions and thank you to everyone who contributed. Please upload any last minute creations today (2010-12-01). Cheers, John Just an update to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork Team Logo - Submissions due today!

2010-12-03 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 10:32 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: Would scale better and is less busy than the other submissions. That's a ridiculous claim, given submissions like http://www.flickr.com/photos/j_baer/5142173763/in/pool-uawt-1#/photos/j_baer/5142173763/in/pool-1507...@n25/ Right,

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork Team Logo - Submissions due today!

2010-12-03 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 10:07 +, Ivanka Majic wrote: There is something about this one that I like: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55752...@n05/5166498982/in/pool-1507...@n25/ but fear that a compass is an outdated idea. A paintbrush really says artwork. As i mentioned in my earlier mail,

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Xubuntu Wallpaper

2010-12-02 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:32 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 22:05 +, Jakub Jankiewicz wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/56196...@n08/5221489829/ http://images.jcubic.pl/xubuntu-wallpaper.svg Thank you for your contribution. I think we should avoid text and

Re: [ubuntu-art] Need Advice - Bugsquad Icon

2010-11-27 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 16:58 -0800, j_baer wrote: Charlie Vish, This task has submissions posted for your review. Will one of these meet your needs? If not, please advise on how they can be better. * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs//0003_Bugsquad_Icon Submissions Hey, We

[ubuntu-art] Needs Artwork : Defualt Splash screen for Open Office

2010-11-26 Thread Vishnoo
Hi, So, we do have a default artwork task open : The OpenOffice Splash Screens Need Updating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/645819 Anyone interested in updating the default OOo splash screens? :-) -- Cheers, Vish -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-art] Icon for Ubuntu-bugsquad

2010-11-21 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 17:06 -0800, j_baer wrote: Hey Everyone, I put a some love into this spec and added a couple of submissions just to get things started. Don't be shy to add yours! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/Request-3 Specification In addition to being 'bugsquad', The logo

Re: [ubuntu-art] LibreOffice - An Open Apology

2010-11-16 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 04:44 +0800, David Nelson wrote: As regards any apology, well, anyone who puts forward a controversial idea in an Open Source project had better be thick-skinned, and had better be ready with good arguments! I know how these things go, so no worries there. ;-) In open

Re: [ubuntu-art] LibreOffice - An Open Apology

2010-11-15 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 10:52 -0800, j_baer wrote: For the members who participate on this team may I remind you that your actions are to always reflect the Ubuntu code of conduct and to represent the community in the best possible manner. Hi John, Lets *not* blow things out of proportion

Re: [ubuntu-art] compiz/unity

2010-11-14 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 12:58 -0500, coz DS wrote: Hey John, These are ideas for compiz/unity.. no one proposed them... well...other than myself. however, considering that unity now has compiz as backend, I felt it needed a new logo/icon. So, essentially I am asking that these be

Re: [ubuntu-art] Possible tasks

2010-11-13 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 00:31 +0300, Сергей wrote: 2. update Ubuntu brainstorm look and feel ** This community site is run on ideatorrent software. This request should come from the community as it may involve some coding. Actually, it does: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/26349/

Re: [ubuntu-in] New Logo poll

2010-11-13 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 13:00 +0530, Maitraya Bhattacharyya wrote: Hi everyone, vote for the new Ubuntu-in logo. To do so, go here: http://polldaddy.com/poll/4079461/ or my blog http://openfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/11/13/ubuntu-india-new-logo/ Great start! One odd thing i noticed

Re: [ubuntu-in] The logo

2010-11-13 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 21:31 +0530, Maitraya Bhattacharyya wrote: Our main concerns with every logo on the poll is the chakra. When your logo is too small, you cannot really make out if its a chakra. Any suggestions for any alternative symbol? How about if we run this as a logo-contest of

Re: [ubuntu-art] Possible tasks

2010-11-12 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 15:52 -0500, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:43 PM, j_baer bae...@gmail.com wrote: Сергей-33 wrote: Yes, checkbox-gtk is the System Testing application found in System Administration System Testing There is an open bug report for this

Re: [ubuntu-art] screenshots.ubuntu.com

2010-11-10 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 12:54 +, Ivanka Majic wrote: Hi all, 1) At UDS we talked about me putting out 'briefs' in a place where everyone could pick them up. 2) I have put a brief up here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/buttons/+bug/673488 Questions: - does this work for everyone? -

Re: [ubuntu-art] LibreOffice project: request for contributors and mentoring

2010-11-10 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 15:41 +0800, David Nelson wrote: Hi, :-) I'm a member of the LibreOffice community. [...] Notably, right now, we urgently need creative talent to help us design artwork for our websites. We need to develop a logo, and - hopefully - a MASCOT along the lines of Linux's

Re: [ubuntu-art] Hello everyone!

2010-10-22 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 12:29 +0530, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: Hi! ... and another inactive member! No, you are not. :-) Even welcoming new members and directing them in the right direction makes you part of the team, no need to consider yourself as inactive. :-) We do *not* have a designated

[ubuntu-art] UDS-N session - Reinvigorate Ubuntu Artwork Team

2010-10-19 Thread Vishnoo
Hi, The blueprint for our session at UDS-N : https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-design-n-reinvigorate-artwork-team Everyone pls subscribe and do feel free to use the whiteboard to add your suggestions and plans. If anyone can make it personally to the UDS it would be

Re: [ubuntu-art] Spread Ubuntu

2010-10-03 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 22:15 -0400, John Baer wrote: I noticed someone is using Foopics to host artwork titled spread ubuntu. http://www.foopics.com/show/0990f45cf5843a7deaacbcbea579a5ce Nice! I'm the Guilty party! ;) The trigger was thorwil's blog and my latest iteration for Spread

Re: [ubuntu-art] Reporting for duty...

2010-09-28 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 23:53 +0100, Ronnie Tucker wrote: Hi all, I doubt I'd be any use in creating themes, but I could certainly create wallpapers, booklets, posters etc. [...] So, if there's anything I can do, just gimme a shout :) Hi and welcome! We usually do not assign tasks over

[ubuntu-art] Humanity-icon-theme plan for Ubuntu 11.04

2010-09-28 Thread Vishnoo
Hi, Humanity icon theme was not much discussed here. It was basically 3 people who worked on it and its been down to only 2 for more than a year now. Many may already know that Humanity and elementary icon theme are siblings. Most of the icons are same. Daniel was incharge of elementary and I

Re: [ubuntu-art] Natty Xubuntu Wallpaper. Edubuntu needs help too!

2010-09-22 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 11:48 -0400, Saleel Velankar wrote: The xubuntu peeps are looking for artwork for Natty Narwhal (11.04) I'v informed the Xubuntu team to think about a theme/direction/goal for their Natty wallpaper. We should have that too.. In the mean time we can continue to brainstorm

Re: [ubuntu-art] What would you like to work on?

2010-09-22 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 15:35 -0400, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: What would I not like to be doing? Also simple, being the sole decision maker for what goes into the community-themes package or other community artwork efforts. Yes! I'v noticed you havent been very comfortable being the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions

2010-09-20 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 01:47 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: Well this group competes against Mark's own thoughts and preferences, Who else thinks this?! There is no competition with Mark or Canonical Design team and considering this official artwork team as a competition is a *very* bad labeling.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Solutions

2010-09-19 Thread Vishnoo
On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 20:28 +, Martin Owens wrote: Hey Art Team, On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 23:16 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: Trim the list to contributors only, only those that post and contribute regularly. I would _highly_ advise against trimming a community, so long as the silent

Re: [ubuntu-in] 64-bit - Not recommended for daily desktop usage, (and problems in i5 processor)

2010-08-17 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 22:21 +0530, S. Kartik wrote: Hi was starting to download 64 bit at http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download then saw this message along side the button to check for which version to download 64-bit - Not recommended for daily desktop usage so

Mentioning Papercuts in the !development page

2010-06-23 Thread Vishnoo
Hi, While going through the Ubuntu Development wiki [1] , I noticed a few things that struck me as out of place, the mention of bugsquad and the communication subsections. However, I was enlightened to the usefulness of those subsections being present there. Which made me wonder if we can have a

Re: [ubuntu-in] Need a list projects and tasks ? (required by a Student(s)

2010-06-22 Thread Vishnoo
On Friday 18 Jun 2010 5:57:31 pm K Ramnarayan wrote: A college student is asking me for any project. Is there any open source project is waiting for contribution? Need a list projects and tasks On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 10:58 +0530, Rajat Khanduja wrote: In case there are some people

Re: [ubuntu-art] adium-theme-ubuntu: some improvements

2010-06-16 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 11:40 +0200, Nicolò Chieffo wrote: Hello, I've opened some bugs (with patches) [1] [2] [3] long ago, to make some small tweaks to adium-theme-ubuntu. I really need someone to review them, since the patches are small and ready to be looked at, but apparently

Re: [ubuntu-art] Gwibber icon

2010-03-24 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 11:27 +0300, Сергей wrote: Thank you for your feedback, I'll try to recolor it to purple. What about those white dots and lines on the surface? Shall I move them closer to the center to make them more visible, or it's unneeded? Humanity theme sometimes replaces upstream

Re: Beautiful stupidity?

2010-03-09 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 10:30 +0100, Kenneth Wimer wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2010 07:04:53 am Vishnoo wrote: Now that it was fixed[in Humanity] for Lucid , the design team _again_ has a new icon far worse than what was earlier. Again not an Ubuntu decision? Now where is the decision being

Re: [ubuntu-art] Beautiful awesomeness ---stupidity?---

2010-03-08 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 19:03 +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: On 7 March 2010 22:56, Alex Launi alex.la...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think that new users will crap their pants over the window controls being on the left, I think we've all seen OSX before. I'm pretty sure this whole

Re: Beautiful stupidity?

2010-03-08 Thread Vishnoo
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 22:54 +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote on 06/03/10 16:14: ... In my opinion, this is the worst design change since the decision to hide incoming IMs and phone calls from the user, and instead

Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

2010-02-23 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 00:21 -0600, Richard JOHNSON wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 01:45:53AM -0500, Alain-Olivier Breysse wrote: Bonjour, The motivation of your decision is already being talked about around the net in many different languages, and because it is the net, will continue

Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

2010-02-23 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 00:21 -0600, Richard JOHNSON wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 01:45:53AM -0500, Alain-Olivier Breysse wrote: Bonjour, The motivation of your decision is already being talked about around the net in many different languages, and because it is the net, will continue

Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:04 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 07:38:23 am Merk wrote: I'm not asking why the OS X was directly copied instead of either Windows one. I'm asking why any existing Word icon was copied at all. It is a mimetype and as such

Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:18 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:04 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 07:38:23 am Merk wrote: I'm not asking why the OS X was directly copied instead of either Windows one. I'm asking why any existing Word

Re: [ubuntu-art] .doc, .xls, etc icons in Humanity Update

2010-02-17 Thread Vishnoo
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:44 +0100, François Degrave wrote: Vishnoo a écrit : On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:18 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:04 +0100, François Degrave wrote: On Wednesday 17 February 2010 07:38:23 am Merk wrote: I'm

Re: [ubuntu-art] Máirín Duffy: Random idea for d esign collaboration tool

2010-02-13 Thread Vishnoo
On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 11:36 +, Andrew wrote: On 13/02/10 10:23, Thorsten Wilms wrote: Hi! Máirín (Fedora Art-Team Lead) created a mockup of one page of the kind of web application she’d like to use to manage the artwork process:

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu 9.10 artwork

2010-02-04 Thread Vishnoo
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 20:56 -0800, Chris Tooley wrote: Hello all, Is there a specific site that lists all the official Ubuntu artwork the Ubuntu artwork team has put into Karmic? I found this site here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Official but more specifically, I'm looking for the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Creating Viral Video's - Is anyone interested?

2010-02-03 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:09 +, Liam Wilson wrote: Hey all; Some of us on the Ubuntu-uk LoCo have come up with an idea for a new project - creating a marketing campaign for Ubuntu using Viral Videos - short little videos that get a message across, similar to Microsoft's efforts, we also

Re: dragging icons onto desktop - place where i drop plz

2010-01-29 Thread Vishnoo
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 08:36 +0100, Rene Veerman wrote: if i drag any icon onto the desktop, it just goes to a random place it seems. please make sure it ends up under my cursor when i drop it. Known bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/246981 -- Cheers, Vish --

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