On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 00:27 +0100, julian wrote: > then so be it. i strongly believe Ubuntu artwork development needs to > follow the same consensual process as any other aspect of the project's > development: users needs to be able to report what they consider 'bugs' > in the art and design aspects and feel they are being heard. we respond > to those bugs by coming up with working solution. ideally they get on > board and help out.
It's a new idea to me that everything runs on bug reports. What about blueprints and the sprints and summits? Regarding "consensual" - ever heard of the Self Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life? ;) What would you do with a "I don't like that colour" bug, anyway? Change that colour and have the same report from someone else? > if the bulk of users simply don't like brown - which is the fairly > clearly the case - then you have a choice to either listen to the users > and invite them to submit alternative designs or choose the same > semi-closed myopic design-agenda the art currently has. There also have been many saying that Ubuntu should stay away from blue. Cool, let's rule out brown and blue! > Ken is approaching all this with real clarity i think: not too big to > ignore the fact that if one wildly impossible mockup on a forum by a > non-list-member receives 19 pages of praise, it deserves consideration > and consequent feasible response. What exactly would there be to consider, regarding that mockup? I thought a "bulk of users simply don't like brown"? You call it "wildly impossible" yourself. Not to forget that it shows no windows, no widgets. It's easy to do a clean and consistent design if you leave everything out. > this approach has worked brilliantly for other aspects of the Ubuntu > project and there's no reason it can't work as well here. comparing > Apple's design agenda to that of Ubuntu is absurd: this is a volunteer > project remember, made by people for people. two fish with vastly > different budgets and histories. Somewhat true. But should we aim low because of that? -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
