Hello (art)world! On Wednesday 30 April 2008 22:30:37 Who wrote: <snip>
I agree 100% completely, totally, honestly, genuinely with everything Who has said and think that you should listen to him. Create themes which please *you*. Show off what you can do. Talk to others for help and inspiration. Make this community a community not just a small club. The idea is to prove that we can: * create amazing artwork * make entire themes based on these different amazing ideas * do all of this consistently over a longer period of time The default theme is an evolution. New ideas are planned based on ideas taken, in some part, from the wiki. The more good ideas we present the more effect we will have on the default ubuntu artwork. Using the Heron wallpaper was a big step for us, I think. Making GDM use some of the forms from the wallpaper a baby step nonetheless. I am not saying that people should not try to create artwork which is line with the guidelines (somewhat better ones are coming, btw). Please realize that we cannot simply throw everything out the door and start totally new in one release. There simply isn't enough time to do it that way - it has to be an evolution. Working on your own theme you would not be bound to such issues and are free to create whatever you like. One thing that I think we should look into is including some of the better themes in the default selection of themes on the CD. This might mean just picking some good ones from gnome-look or including some of the community themes, depending on how this all works out (and pending technical review). In any case we should have packages available for all complete themes. We could probably include them in one meta-package as well for the theme hungry. Anyway, if you didn't catch the ubuntu openweek artwork talk, the log is available at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/openweekhardy/Artwork It was my first time, so give me a break :-) So basically, for those of you looking to the bottom of the mail for the beginning of my text (I'm a bottom-poster, I admit) Who do we listen to? Yes! -- Kenneth -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
