On 03/13/2013 11:10 PM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
= Creating Art for Ubuntu Studio =
Lately, we haven't been very active on creating art for Ubuntu Studio.
Not sure exactly how this has been managed back in the day when Ubuntu
Studio had its own gtk2 theme and so forth.
There are three ways I see how we can go about it in the future, and
this depends on what we want to achieve with the artwork.
Out of these three suggestions, I'd personally like to go with having
a art team work for us, but in order to make that happen, we need to
find some artists who are willing to work with us on this.
== 1. Art Team Develops the Artwork ==
With this solution, we have artists developing the artwork during the
development cycle, or over several cycles. Using this method, it
would be logical to strive for a unified theme, where all of the
components - XFCE theme, icon theme, wallpaper, and the look on our
website and social sites are all coherent, at least to some degree. It
would mean there is some kind of a schedule, with planned goals. It
would also mean that we need to get artists to join our team.
== 2. Submissions selected by Ubuntu Studio devs ==
We set dates, call for submissions, and then the team decides what
goes onto the ISO. It would be hard to have a unified theme experience
this way, but the team is still able to select items that they think
go well together, and what works with Ubuntu Studio, generally.
== 3. Community decides ==
We set dates, call for submissions, and have polls. The Ubuntu Studio
team could either let the users decide completely, or at a minimum
decide what submissions will be up for a vote.
= Choosing wallpaper for this cycle =
As for the current problem on selecting the wallpaper - we haven't
really discussed how to go about it. And we need to do that pretty
fast. User interface freeze is March 21st
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/ReleaseSchedule.
The situation right now is that we have one of my wallpapers as
default on the ISO (just got it in yesterday)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Artwork/RockTheme, but it's not a
final decision in any way.
We have gotten a few suggestions so far. It's not much, but enough to
put together some kind of vote. So, should we let our users decide (if
we do that, I'd rather we do it on social channels and mail lists
alike, and use some kind of poll service), or do we let the devs
decide (which would be faster)?
I would like to include the best of what has been suggested so far in
any case, no matter which one is chosen as default.
So what exactly is needed here? A unified Ubuntu Studio GTK, window
manager and icon theme? If so it would be nearly impossible to make it
all by the UI freeze (which is just a week away) wouldn't it?
Considering the time required to arrange for an artist team, then laying
out the plans and coordinating everything, testing for bugs.......
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