On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 08:01 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote: > Its an intriguing idea. I am unsure as to how you could convey an anime > theme. I think for something totally out-there like this, you will be > forced to use the pixmap engine. Some ideas: > > -The buttons could resemble speech bubbles like in the comics/manga. > -errors could have the eardrop that anime characters get when > conveying embarrassment. > -warnings could be the jagged bubbles, suggesting the computer is > angry at you. > -The drop down menus could be scrolls and such like.
To not end up with something overbearing, I would concentrate on the wallpaper first. If you also want custom widgets, I would suggest to not draw them as something-else-in-place of the common widgets, but rather anime-style renditions of the widgets. How would a mangaka draw the them? -- 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
