> 1) Ubuntu needs to establish a mechanism to bind the design with the > locales. > 2) Ubuntu needs a method to establish working memes for icons, etc., for > each locale. > 3) Locales should be expanded to include particular subsets regarding > physically challenged individuals, as each general class of challenge > requires specific and particular needs.
"Zigactly!" as Asterix would say. :) Point 3 was something I never even thought of. Good call. That's almost a locale within a locale because anyone can be physically challenged. Sounds like a tree is needed. Each branch is a locale. On a branch you have three leaves: Normal, Blind, Deaf. (Perhaps more, I am no expert) Put this on a wiki and perhaps designers can start to fill it in with designs, each working (and debating) on their own well-known locale. Trying to control *all* of those icons (or emblems) with a single top-down "theme" or design-template may prove too hard to do. To do that, each locale branch could sub-branch into n branches, each given a theme name like 'tango', 'human', whatever. (However, as TJS said, good design should work from the audience backwards.) Perhaps a more automated system should be conjured-up. Maybe all the icons are done in grayscale PNG and the 'bling' and colour can be added by an imagemagick script, thus making a theme-change automagic. Anyway, back to lurking. Nice quotes TJS. /d -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
