Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 01/04/10 00:52, dani planas armangue wrote: > I have noticed that the icons are nice and simple monochrome, but adding > the color, designers do not take into account the color palette. > We certianly do want consistency. But which palette are you using for this change? signature.asc Desc

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Conscious User
> > I have noticed that the icons are nice and simple monochrome, but adding > > the color, designers do not take into account the color palette. > > We certianly do want consistency. But which palette are you using for > this change? I was wondering this myself. Perhaps dani simply reduced the

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 01/04/10 09:51, dani planas armangue wrote: > El jue, 01-04-2010 a las 08:13 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth escribió: > >> On 01/04/10 00:52, dani planas armangue wrote: >> >>> I have noticed that the icons are nice and simple monochrome, but adding >>> the color, designers do not take into ac

Re: [Ayatana] Gallery

2010-04-01 Thread Conor Curran
Hi Mark, Jim Yes I am certainly interested. There has been some discussion recently at Canonical about this whole area. I know Michael Forrest (cc'd) is particularly interested in revamping the whole sound aspect. To date there has been no work to improve this area. I really think the new so

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Conscious User
> There should be a rationale and guidance for the use of the various > colours. For example, red is clearly an alert colour, as is orange. When > would one use red and when orange? Both indicate a caution or warning. > Green indicates something that one should be aware of that is NOT a > warning

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Yann Lossouarn
Hello, There are different sorts (6, if my brain does not fail) of "daltonism", that more affects men than women. ~8% of men have some sort of color perception deficiency, mostly affecting the perception of green, but red and blue are also affected for some people. Before my current IT profess

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 10:02 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > There should be a rationale and guidance for the use of the various > colours. For example, red is clearly an alert colour, as is orange. When > would one use red and when orange? Both indicate a caution or warning. > Green indicates so

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Luke Benstead
On 1 April 2010 10:52, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 10:02 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > >> There should be a rationale and guidance for the use of the various >> colours. For example, red is clearly an alert colour, as is orange. When >> would one use red and when orange? Both

Re: [Ayatana] [Concept suggestion] About the new possibilities for the top right window buttons on the new Ubuntu visual

2010-04-01 Thread David Siegel
Interesting ideas. Something similar I've seen is in Mac OS X where document-based application windows have little icon in the window titlebar that represents the underlying file. You can drag this icon and drop it on an application icon in the Dock to open that file in another application, for exa

Re: [Ayatana] Gallery

2010-04-01 Thread Jim Rorie
I don't see why some of the initial footwork can't be started now. The individuals hosting the contest could tell the us the time frames involved in turn around. You can target it to a release based on those numbers. I'll do some initial contacts. Some additional info would be helpful: What m

Re: [Ayatana] Gallery

2010-04-01 Thread Jim Rorie
Not permission, approval. If you are going to create a contest concept, there needs to be some small possibility that their creations would make it into the distro. Without Canonical's blessing, the best I could offer was a personal PPA that might go ignored. Not exactly an exciting prize. :/

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 01/04/10 10:11, Conscious User wrote: > >> There should be a rationale and guidance for the use of the various >> colours. For example, red is clearly an alert colour, as is orange. When >> would one use red and when orange? Both indicate a caution or warning. >> Green indicates something tha

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Jan-Christoph Borchardt
On 1 April 2010 11:06, Luke Benstead wrote: > On 1 April 2010 10:52, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 10:02 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > > >> There should be a rationale and guidance for the use of the various > >> colours. For example, red is clearly an alert colour, as is

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Jim Rorie
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 13:38 +0100, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: > > Blue = Information (e.g new mail) +1 Blue is used for informational road signs in the US as well. I agree with trying to map these colors to existing traffic paradigms. It's gives a solid point of reference.

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Jan-Christoph Borchardt
Though I support it; this point was originally made by Luke Benstead, not by me. :) On 1 April 2010 14:23, Jim Rorie wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 13:38 +0100, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: > > > > > Blue = Information (e.g new mail) > > +1 > Blue is used for informational road signs i

Re: [Ayatana] Gallery

2010-04-01 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 07:48 -0400, Jim Rorie wrote: > If you are going to create a contest concept, there needs to be some > small possibility that their creations would make it into the distro. > Without Canonical's blessing, the best I could offer was a personal > PPA > that might go ignored. >

Re: [Ayatana] Gallery

2010-04-01 Thread Andrew SB
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Martin Owens wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 07:48 -0400, Jim Rorie wrote: >> If you are going to create a contest concept, there needs to be some >> small possibility that their creations would make it into the distro. >> Without Canonical's blessing, the best I cou

Re: [Ayatana] Gallery

2010-04-01 Thread Andrew SB
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Jim Rorie wrote: > What media licenses are compatible with an Ubuntu distro? > http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/licensing doesn't > specifically mention media, but then again IANAL. Most of the current icon and theme work seems to be distributed under t

Re: [Ayatana] Gallery

2010-04-01 Thread Conor Curran
Hi guys, I will get back to you early next week once I have a chance to have a word with Michael. Good w/end folks, Conor On 01/04/10 16:38, Andrew SB wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Jim Rorie wrote: What media licenses are compatible with an Ubuntu distro? http://www.ubuntu.

Re: [Ayatana] indicator-messages(change defautl aplication easy?)

2010-04-01 Thread Conscious User
I don't know how hard it would be to implement this, but I support this idea 100%. I think investing some time in thinking if/how this could be done is a very worthy task. Would solve a lot of "what if" scenarios faced by the current indicators and would make indicator acceptance among the communi

Re: [Ayatana] [Concept suggestion] About the new possibilities for the top right window buttons on the new Ubuntu visual

2010-04-01 Thread David Regev
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:30 AM, David Siegel wrote: > Interesting ideas. Something similar I've seen is in Mac OS X where > document-based application windows have little icon in the window titlebar > that represents the underlying file. You can drag this icon and drop it on > an application icon

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 01/04/10 14:23, Jim Rorie wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 13:38 +0100, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: > > >> >> Blue = Information (e.g new mail) >> > +1 > Blue is used for informational road signs in the US as well. I agree > with trying to map these colors to existing

Re: [Ayatana] Gallery

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 01/04/10 12:48, Jim Rorie wrote: > Not permission, approval. > > If you are going to create a contest concept, there needs to be some > small possibility that their creations would make it into the distro. > Without Canonical's blessing, the best I could offer was a personal PPA > that might go

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread dani planas armangue
i made a message-new icon in blue. the atachment shows that i'm inspired by information blue. hope you like -- <> icon.tar.gz Description: application/compressed-tar ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad

Re: [Ayatana] [Concept suggestion] About the new possibilities for the top right window buttons on the new Ubuntu visual

2010-04-01 Thread Jim Rorie
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 16:16 -0400, David Regev wrote: > These are just some preliminary ideas, but I think they demonstrate a > compelling path that could be taken if Ubuntu introduced its own > answer to the Mac’s proxy icon. This path leads to a more > object-centric (or document-centric) Deskt

Re: [Ayatana] indicator-messages(change defautl aplication easy?)

2010-04-01 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 20:16 +0200, dani planas armangue wrote: > many users would like to change the default applications of our applet > indicators. use thunderbird instead of evolution. > Currently, this function is very poor. but it is very easy to fix. > ubuntu have an application to administer

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Yann Lossouarn
I support that... BTW, the colour code used in aeronautics (at least at Airbus) is the same : red = warning (semantic : be very careful, important problem, risk of injury/death) ; orange = caution (semantic : be careful, problem, risk of hardware damage or operational). green = ok (eventhough , a

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Yann Lossouarn
What is the intent ? Having a permanent icon with two states (no new mail / there's new mail) or having no icon when there's no new mail and the icon you sent when there's new mail ? dani planas armangue a écrit : > i made a message-new icon in blue. the atachment shows that i'm inspired > by inf