On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 16:41 -0400, Ken Vermette 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 "fit" or looks outdated.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
It beautiful.Too bad that you can't do those subtle corners in metacity. -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
