On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:01:19 -0600 "Matthew Nuzum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/2/06, Pascal Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:46:57 +0000 > > Who <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, and hello list! > > > > > > I thought, given what Mark has said recently about getting some high > > > quality, polished themes into the repositories soon, that we ought to get > > > straight to discussing which themes will be 'operated on'. > > > > > Pascal, > > I will not be able to attend the meeting this weekend, but let me > contribute some food for thought. > > The art-list until now has been a place where people tossed out ideas > and art they have done. This is fine, but if the goal is to get art > into Universe so that it can be considered for inclusion into main, > maybe there should be a discussion as to what the decision makers want > to see. > > It is much easier to hit the target when you can see the target. > Blindly shooting arrows into the sky may result in a direct hit, but > it's not likely. I'm still using Breezy and Hoary, so I can't see what > graphical elements have been proposed for Dapper and therefore can't > make direct suggestions, but here is what might be asked and therefore > decided upon: > > - what colors should be used? > - is there a theme that should underlie the artwork? (for example, > when RH released blue curve, there was a definite theme and coherency > to the artwork) > - what are our greatest needs? > - the difference between a slick, polished, enterprise grade > application and something that looks like it was hobbled together is > the attention to detail. Therefore, identify areas of the interface > that look 'fine' or 'not bad' but don't have the professional 'shine' > that we want to be represented in the Linux community for the next 5 > years (the expected support life span of dapper). > > Dapper is going to be around a while, and if anyone on the art-list > wants to be relevant to the upcoming project, they need to think > long-term when they think about this release. > > Five years from now there will be people saying, "Well... it's about > time we upgrade those old Dapper computers..." Their thoughts about > the look and feel could be one of the following: > - "Remember when these came out? They really set the bar for the next > few generations of desktops." > or > - "Wow, can you believe someone thought this looked good?" > > This weekend's meeting can decide what people will be saying when that > day comes. > -- > Matthew Nuzum > www.bearfruit.org > > Very true. I think a wiki page for this would be good. I'll add it to my to-do. :) I'd very much appreciate any input anyone could supply in regard to Matthew's ideas especially for the wiki page. Cheers. -- Pascal Klein http://wombat.nuxified.com Ubuntu Art team http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtTeam Linux Australia http://www.linux.org.au -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
