Agree with "Also, I'm thinking of getting a team together..." but not only for this theme. For all themes. We should organize more than 1 team. Sincerely I'm on the side of Usability working day by day with these values - doing interfaces ;) ( yep GUI ) - so I don't agree for now on too much shine for a base theme ( even that I use dark themes ) - because a lot of users are on offices / enterprises / schools - they are an important segment, so I need to think in a "marketing" way.
That's why I'm in favor of more teams of designers but at least one team of developers / engine hackers for design integration and a Ubuntu own engine. As it should be from start - Ubuntu must come with more "Ubuntu-ish" themes - for office users ( minimalistic, clean, non obtruzive ), for photographs ( dark themes ), for artists ( neutral, colored grays, also 'dark' can go here ), for multimedia fans ( extra fancy, bells, reflections, etc ). All themes about I talk here ..sure, must contain some common distinctive, unique elements ( as scrollbars, navigation signs ..etc ) and maybe we should start from here ...to find, to define those elements, to make a basic rootkit as a base for constructing Ubuntu themes. We need to find a "semiotic" ID ( symbols, signs ) - specific to Ubuntu - and all Ubuntu themes will use that base of symbols. So ..my idea = teams ( some peoples like to do dark themes, some peoples want to do flat / minimal themes ). After teams are formed we can choose a relative road map and we can have more control about "who do what" and about X or Y theme status. Finally, Ibex should present at least 3 "Ubuntu specific" themes, along other legacy themes - then different categories of users will choose their theme. After a year, we can see which theme is used more and we can do our work on the user direction. 2008/7/28 Ken Vermette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Kim Kahns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Am 28.07.2008 02:31:11 schrieb(en) Ken Vermette: >> > >> > Aside from firefox (because you can create themes for it) Openoffice >> > could >> > simply not have a dark toolbar, simply looking like any window that >> > doesn't >> > have one of its own. >> > >> >> There is no way to do that other than launching openoffice with >> >> env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/ALTERNATETHEME/gtk-2.0/gtkrc >> ooffice >> >> But I don't think that this would be an option. >> >> >> ~Kim Kahns (Kimmik) >> >> -- >> ubuntu-art mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > > New batch, I tried to get everyones ideas in here. The only thing I did > differently from the suggestions was the buttons, the gray background to > them just made it all feel more "solid". > > http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/raraken/kin_piano_kith_r2.png > http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/raraken/kin_piano_clouds_r2.png > http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/raraken/kin_piano_rocks_r2.png > http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/raraken/kin_piano_trnthtfrnupsddwn_r2.png > > aaand... The development SVG. One thing about the SVG is that it's -very- > rough. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Kin_Intrepid?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=kin_piano_rev2.svg > > As a thought, please tell me if you like the idea; but what if we create an > all-brown dark theme for the root account? With the root set as a matching > all-brown theme, users will still see when they're using the root account, > and the windows will look half-decent (as opposed to using the most generic > theme settings) > > Again, any suggestions will be implemented one way or another! Also, I'm > thinking of getting a team together to work on a complete version of this > style, from login screens to avant colour schemes aswell assuming thingskeep > going in the right direction. > > -- > -Ken Vermette > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > > -- Nemes Ioan Sorin -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
