On Monday 30 June 2008 12:29:29 Nick Russell wrote: <snip> > Rather than necessarily set up opposing 'camps' (not intrinsically a bad > thing, but it can be), is it possible for people to get involved in the > development of this theme? - to improve the entirely-to-be-expected > early flaws.
Yes, it is possible for others to get involved with this. > It doesn't appear to have a statement of concept on the wiki with > screenshots for people to comment on. I know it's possible for people to > submit bugs against it, but I think it would be useful if it were on the > wiki as well. The statement of concept is very important, because when > someone says they don't like it, you can simply point them to the > concept so they can understand why YOU like it and think it is the right > direction to go in. You can also explain who the audience is (i.e. it > may not be designed for the kind of people who are criticising it, if it > is then that's when you know you need to reconsider aspects of your > design). Actually, this is the first update for intrepid of the long term work we started during the hardy cycle. The wiki page just needs to be updated :-) > IMO the wiki allows designer(s) and critics/audience to respond in a > much less clinical/technical way to a design than does launchpad. I am unsure what you mean by "a much less clinical/technical" way as anyone who wants to work on this needs to have the technical skills to do so and/or go through a more elaborate process of submitting their ideas. -- Ken -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
