On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 18:33 -0500, John Baer wrote: > This page is not the complete effort of what needs to be done but I > wanted to submit it to the list for comments. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/Impression/KyudoPage01
= Top Level = What is the absolute to-level goal of the theme? Is it meant as implementation of all Kyūdō goals, or would you add, exclude or modify something? = Goals = On "1. Be transparent to the applications it supports": Does this simply mean: work well with all (GTK) applications? On "2. Leverage the power of a robust GTK engine with a history of reliability": Reliability is the goal, choosing a robust engine is a means. On "3. Provide a positive user experience": This leads to the questions of what defines a positive experience to whom. On "4. Permit user customization": While I think some level of it is a good thing, I still have to ask why? You might want to add a section on assumptions, among them could be: - some users have a desire to at least tweak their theme as an act of personalisation (this a matter of user satisfaction, part of usability). - differences of eye-sight, viewing conditions and hardware mean that the best possible result can only be achieved with individual adjustments (pretty much a fact, the assumption would be more on the side of the users motivation and ability for fine-tuning). On "5: Perform well on a wide variety of hardware": Can you derive any conclusions out of this, does this affect any of your decisions? = Target Audience = Users of Ubuntu 9.04 is not wrong, but also not too helpful. I'm very aware of how difficult this area is. Do you think we can exclude some groups that will not be users of Ubuntu? = Color Theory = Nice excursion. To me it looks like the starting point of your theme is the decision to base it on a window-background color. Using a neutral gray for being neutral to content, but moving it a bit towards orange to make it appear warm for the Ubuntu feel (friendly, welcoming, human). If this is the case, it is exactly the thing you should write. The aim at neutrality could make the them interesting for people who edit images and video . The warm tint speak against this, but with a very low voice. Generally I see a number of problems with the ubuntu-typical warm-color approach: - Starting with rather intense warm colors makes it difficult to add any other tones, if you don't start out with a color duo or set (cool colors will seem out of place if you already have everything filled with orange and brown). - The resulting monochromatic palette can be seen as overbearing, suffocating. On a message level, it speaks against the diversity we might want to herald. - Trying to lessen the too-warm impression with amounts of grey can lead to a pale, dry and lifeless impression. -- 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
