I think I know why this is happening. It seems to me that Canonical design team forgot about the Cathedral and the Bazaar, or just got the Not Invented Here syndrome, and this makes all community efforts useless. Remember the boot experience redesign initiative in Karmic. There were loads of great boot splash designs in Artwork/Incoming/Boot. In Lucid dev team introduced Plymouth, where everything suggested for Karmic was possible, and what we got?! An plain splash which would work in USplash (Hardy - Karmic bootsplash engine) much better - it would appear on time, have a working progressbar and there would be no ugly fallbacks to text mode. Why use Plymouth then if it's better with USplash? OK, if you really want to use Plymouth, use a 100% Self Made, but plain and ugly splash for it? You've already got great mockups. Just pick the best one and tell the community to implement it. In a few weeks you'll have a perfect implementation created and tested by the community. Remember the Cathedral and the Bazaar? Now remember GDM decorations in Lucid. That thing is the most plain login screen I ever seen! I remember some Canonical designer mentioned that they didn't have enough time to design a good one - I don't remember was it on this list or not, but that's unimportant. If they realized that they won't make good one on time, why didn't they get the community involved? Again, they had lots of great mockups from Karmic. And again, lots of work was wasted, and Canonical again used the 100% Self Made, but absolutely plain artwork. Will anybody in the community want to do waste their effort on that again? What's the difference between the design team and the community in terms of creative potential? In any team it's limited. In a community of a project like Ubuntu it's virtually unlimited. A team can't beat the rest of the world, they must understand this! And if design team doesn't eradicate all this cathedral stuff and switch to bazaar as soon as possible, this list and all community efforts will remain absolutely useless!!
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