On 2/21/07, Jelle de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jmak wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Here are a few pointers. The usplash should have a flat background, > > this is the rule. The other thing is that in the index color mode, > > images look best when the colors are flat or close to flat. That is > > why I toned down the colors in the text logo; just giving enough > > highlights to make sure that color banding wont happen. If anyone > > wants to see how bad the continuous tone artwork look in index mode > > take a look at fedora screen-shots. > > > > The login box. Please take a look at the images in context rather than > > in isolation. And when you suggest something articulate it, because > > saying like this should be lighter or darker of more blue or more > > artistic and so on are quite meaningless. > > > > The idea behind the artworks is to further refine the edgy artworks. > > Ubuntu, Kubuntu people are doing the same, as far as I can see. Take a > > look at Ubuntu herd4; the wallpaper is very simple almost flat. We > > too should follow similar strategy rather than changing the look and > > feel of the distro radically from release to release. > > Of course we have to continue developing the artwork. And I am not > saying you are doing things bad. You sort of have to learn to express > things we like and thins we don't like. My propoasal to help with this is: > > "quote" > > Can you do some research for xubuntu and getter all the usplash screens > of the ubuntu destro's and zenwalk, fedora, redhat, suse, dreamlinux, ms > vista and some other popular distributions. > > Than put them or links to it on the xubuntu art wiki, then we can see > what we like and don't like about them. And get some direction on what > would be a very nice usplash artwork. > > This way we could give you specific answers that can help you a lot better. > > Is this a good idea for your?
Here is a link to the screenshots. http://shots.linuxquestions.org/ But the approach you are suggesting doesnt hava much use. This is not like cooking that is to say mix a bit of bean, lentil and greenpeas and the supper is done. -- 2007 Calendar http://www.lulu.com/content/512622 http://jozmak.googlepages.com/ -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
