Hello artists, As I promised yesterday, here's a status update on the progress that's been made so far on all fronts we're tackling. I'll start of with the areas closest to what we've been doing on the mailing list.
The human theme artwork has been flowing in at a regular pace the last week, and there is a good collection of produced artwork already submitted on the progress page on the Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/EdgyArtworkPlan/Produce/Incoming/ More submissions are very welcome, of course - so if you find the time to try some designs, you're welcome to participate. Next up are the Theme Teams. We're wrapping up the Edgy versions of each theme this week so expect more news regarding this soon. The past seven weeks each of the team leaders has done a good job at drafting their theme's direction and producing artwork, their work is greatly appreciated. Polishing the GTK theme is still being investigated as we need to keep a universally accepted clean and polished look. Mark has indicated he wants to approve each and every change we want to make, so we'll have to collaborate intensively on this to make changes. Work on the Human icon set is scheduled to start early September, when we'll have missing icons produced in various sizes. I've been in touch with Mark and Daniel regarding this and everything is looking good so far. Expect some shiny new, crucial icons in Edgy which were missing earlier. The sound themes are progressing nicely with Peter Savage doing an awesome job at creating variations and new sounds at breakneck pace. We've had some good, focused sessions on IRC and I feel we're heading in the right direction. A totally different issue is accessibility work. In Paris, I promised Henrik Omma to look into completing the icon set for the high contrast theme. PingunZ has been very helpful in creating a list of icons that need to be created, but so far no-one has stepped up to actually create the missing icons. If you are interested in doing this, please let me know, you'll have Henrik's thanks in advance. Related to this are SOK keyboard layouts. The new onscreen keyboard allows SVGs to be used as a base for the graphical layout of the keyboard. Right now, there are some layouts available, but volunteers to create new and more pleasing ones are welcomed to get in touch with Henrik. See the following Wiki page for more information on SOK (now named onBoard): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Projects/onBoard So, that sums about pretty much all of what's going on right now. I hope this shines some light on the more recent developments. Questions or comments are welcome on the mailing list or in private. Keep up the good work everyone. With kind regards, Frank Schoep -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
