On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 08:21 -0700, AA Boy wrote: > I think ultimately, if we were to make people create themes by these > rules, then it would stifle our creativity, and ultimately lead to > less people working with the team.
As a designer, if I want or have to create something and don't have much in my hands to guide the work, no rules or requirements, i make the rules myself and work out the requirements. This is because otherwise, I'm confronted with the infinite space of possibilities without a means to navigate it. If anything goes, nothing matters. I'm quite confident many experienced artists and designers will agree here. > Our current process may not be efficient, but it is very free in > allowing people to create what they would like to see Ubuntu use. Free also means somewhat random. Are we creating for ourselves or for others? Are we ego-tripping or do we want to give our best? > Going to something where people are made to follow a stricter set of > guidelines than current ones, which only allow one "official" > community theme to be made, then it will make more people mad when > their piece of the project. I think if 2 or 3 different "official > community" theme candidates were allowed to be produced with this > process, it would at least allow more creative freedom at a minimum. > But ultimately if someone chooses not to follow the guidelines and > decides to go their own way with their theme, that would still be > allowed to be a community theme candidate. OK, this part has been answered already, but to be clear: it's fine to have parallel efforts and nobody is forced to anything. If you just want to do, do. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
