On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Ken Vermette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Ken Vermette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hey Everyone; >> >> I've been without an internet connection of my own for awhile, I've >> recently moved so I'm waiting to get hooked up. >> >> The Piano styling of Kin is still in the works, and some things are being >> modified due to Emerald Pixmap limitations, but it is looking very good, >> albut I had to remove the highlight on the top and bottom rims. >> >> Meat and Potatoes; >> >> What I'd really like to get at, is forming a Kin team to help unify >> Kin-Theme development and diversify styles. We have Kith, Slab, Tonic, >> Human2, Piano, Codname Plue and others; all being produced individually. >> They all have several styles in common, so if we could get the people that >> excel in their elements to work on what they do best - we could not only >> have a diverse collection, but one with truly complete themes instead of >> half-baked lemons. >> >> Realistically, what I could dedicate to any team that forms is I >> personally can create Emerald themes, from start-to-finish, and build >> Pixmap/SVG GTK elements. Anything that could be done with SVG, I could help >> style and concept. >> >> What we would need on the team, would be actual GTK theme programming >> (having several failed Kin GTK themes myself, I'm no good at it), Metacity >> programming (although Kin Tonic metacity has set an EXCELLENT standard for >> that, hopefully Tonic, I would like you to join the team). Additionally, >> anybody with experience is tweaking themes on a program-level would be good. >> In addition, bootsplash, logon pages and other interface elements could be >> done, aswell, I can help produce graphics for those. >> >> Going onto less-important assets (but assests nonetheless) we could also >> give gnome-games a facelift (I know I've already started a couple graphical >> tweaks for aislerot and a couple others), and other programs auch as Avant, >> Kiba, Gnome-Panel applets, KDE, Firefox, etc. Any program that either >> doesn't "fit" or looks outdated. >> >> I don't know how to setup launchpad or other sites a team could be >> established (unless I program a personal site, but I would prefer an already >> ubuntu-oriented website) but when I get a solid connection I could set one >> up, unless someone beats me to it (I get a connection on Wednsday, nudge >> nudge, wink wink) >> >> Lastly, as always, amazing work, everybody! All these themes are similar >> and unique. One way or another, if we create a pallet of themes and suite of >> components - it would be simple mix and match to maximize all of our themes >> unique potential, and we could establish the level of organization required >> to polish our themes. >> >> -Ken Vermette > > An exceptionally rough screenshot. Currently the theme is a version of > Slickness being modified. The colours,toolbars, anything visible in the GTK > except the menubar are due for being updated to the Piano GTK. Buttons are > incomplete, and the bottom of the frames in Emerald are en-route (being > tinkered) > > http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/raraken/Screenshot-2.jpg > > -Ken Vermette > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > >
Looks great Ken. -- Salane Ashcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
