Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash wiki update

2006-05-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Troy James Sobotka wrote: I took some initiative and thumbnailed all of the work at the usplash proposal portion of the Wiki. Thanks Troy, that's a great bit of organisation and makes the options that much clearer! Can I ask that we go through the options and delete (permanently) those

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash pics

2006-05-16 Thread Jerome Gotangco
A nice wiki page was created just for this and was posted earlier by a list member: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Usplash/DapperPropositions -- Jerome Gotangco [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +639196555242 GPG: 0xA97B69A0 -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://li

Re: [ubuntu-art] Suggestion: Orangify The Default Desktop

2006-05-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Lukas Sabota wrote: Hello! There are a few icons that are displayed on the default desktop. I'll list them here: Applications Mozilla-Firefox Evolution Log out Show Desktop Trash My idea is to theme some of these icons orange. Here is a suggestion for each of these: Applications - Already

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash pics

2006-05-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Kenneth Wimer wrote: I made an SVG based on Viper550's work; played around a bit adding more gradients and also a bit of a 3d effect. I added it to the wiki page, even though it is not really a new design (thought it would be better there than posting it here). Oh, and in my pic the refle

[ubuntu-art] usplash wiki update

2006-05-16 Thread Troy James Sobotka
I took some initiative and thumbnailed all of the work at the usplash proposal portion of the Wiki. You can find it here: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Usplash/DapperPropositions Hopefully we can arrange a like Wiki page for wallpapers, splashes, etc. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.u

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: Before we vote...

2006-05-16 Thread Billy
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 21:35 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: Who wrote: > On 5/16/06, Michiel Sikma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'd like to bring something up again. Why are there so many smooth >> engine skins in the proposed "internal" package? I feel as though we >> only need one, anyway,

Re: [ubuntu-art] Voting for Dapper Themes

2006-05-16 Thread Billy
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 20:31 +0100, Who wrote: On 5/15/06, Guilherme Salgado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:30:05AM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > >Who wrote: > > > >What next? I couldn't see how to make a poll on Launchpad... > > > >Who > > > >

[ubuntu-art] pngtobogl SOLVED

2006-05-16 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Ok... for those of you frantically trying to make the best Ubuntu optimized usplash with Gimp, you will need to use imagemagick's convert function to avoid the pgn being stuck with an extra transparency color index. Save your palette optimized image into a bmp format. Use imagemagick's convert

[ubuntu-art] pngtobogl problem?

2006-05-16 Thread Troy James Sobotka
OK: ubuntu-logo-light.640x400.png (640x400, 4-bit colormap, non-interlaced, 98.5 %). OK: usplash-artwork.png (640x400, 4-bit colormap, non-interlaced, 98.5%). That is the output I just tested on a couple of pngs that are failing in good old pngtobogl conversion. Looks to me that four bits is a

[ubuntu-art] New Default About Me Icon

2006-05-16 Thread Lukas Sabota
Currently, the default About me icon is a little tiny white guy. This does not scale well, and looks very poor on the Lock Screen dialog. I've attached a (quick) image that could replace the little white guy: the Ubuntu logo. This is a 64x64 png image, unlike the 32x32 white guy that is stretched

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash contributions

2006-05-16 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-17-05 at 02:44 +0200, Étienne Bersac wrote: > I followed youre step to manually implement Gimp palette drag'n'drop ;) > [attached], That may have set up the right palette, but that didn't make > my splash viewable ! I wonder why do is see nothing at the screen. Yep. Like I said. Th

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash contributions

2006-05-16 Thread Troy James Sobotka
This is a great discussion. I'm always interested in other's approaches... --- Ken Wimer said: --- 1) Create a basic 640x480 pic with the correct branding, etc. as vector. 2) scale that down to 640x400 3) add extra highlights, glow and shadows as appropriate 4) save a pic as 24bit png 5) change t

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash contributions

2006-05-16 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hello, > Here is how I do it...the first part probably makes no sense, but I > am used to doing it that way :-) > > 1) Create a basic 640x480 pic with the correct branding, etc. as vector. > 2) scale that down to 640x400 > 3) add extra highlights, glow and shadows as appropriate > 4) save a pic

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash contributions

2006-05-16 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi, Here is how I do it...the first part probably makes no sense, but I am used to doing it that way :-) 1) Create a basic 640x480 pic with the correct branding, etc. as vector. 2) scale that down to 640x400 3) add extra highlights, glow and shadows as appropriate 4) save a pic as 24bit png 5

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash contributions

2006-05-16 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hello, > 1) Obtain an optimum 16 color palette via careful scrunching. > 2) Import the palette via Gimp's palette tool. > 3) Scuttle the palette entries around in accordance with > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/USplashCustomizationHowto?highlight=%28usplash% > 29 > 4) Re-work the working image down to

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash contributions

2006-05-16 Thread Troy James Sobotka
> > FYI, if you don't already know this, start with a 640x480 image and > > scale it down to 640x400. That should get you the correct aspect > > ratio. > > > > Hehe, I had this discussion already with someone else :-) > > You only loose information when doing it as you suggest. The correct >

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash contributions

2006-05-16 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On May 17, 2006, at 12:13 AM, Troy James Sobotka wrote: Building on this momentum, anyone want to helm building a cohesive wiki page with the desktop contributions (thumbnails) splash and usplash thumbnails? Nice work guys. A little warning though -- some of those 640x400 images will NOT sc

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash contributions

2006-05-16 Thread Dennis Kaarsemaker
On wo, 2006-05-17 at 00:23 +0200, Étienne Bersac wrote: > I don't start with a 640x400 image ??? Do you mean that usplash use > 640x400 picture scaled up to 640x480 screen (if vga16fb is used) ? I > will test and tell you. Sort-of: vga16fb is a 640x400 screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio. So you indee

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash contributions

2006-05-16 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hello, > Building on this momentum, anyone want to helm building a cohesive wiki > page with the desktop contributions (thumbnails) splash and usplash > thumbnails? I started hosting my splahes. I may do the same for the others. I add rules to my Makefile to do the thumbnails. > A little warnin

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash contributions

2006-05-16 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Building on this momentum, anyone want to helm building a cohesive wiki page with the desktop contributions (thumbnails) splash and usplash thumbnails? Nice work guys. A little warning though -- some of those 640x400 images will NOT scale correctly to their final locations. FYI, if you don't alr

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash contributions

2006-05-16 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hello, > Ok the page is a bit of a nightmare to scroll thru. Is there any way to > set up a tabled thumbnail of the splashes? You're right. I did it for my usplash cause i can host them. That's so crazy to see so many propositions in so few times. Just open the correct wikipage and let's go :)

Re: [ubuntu-art] Where are the scalable icons?

2006-05-16 Thread Who
On 5/16/06, Lukas Sabota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Ubuntu-artwork does not seem to provide any scalable (SVG) icons. This makes the "Stretch Icon" button in nautilus pretty much useless. I have filed a bug here: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-artwork/+bug/34399 Are

[ubuntu-art] usplash contributions

2006-05-16 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Ok the page is a bit of a nightmare to scroll thru. Is there any way to set up a tabled thumbnail of the splashes? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Usplash/DapperPropositions -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Firefox Human theme 0.1 released

2006-05-16 Thread Frank Schoep
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 22:26, Lukas Sabota wrote: > No, I'm referring to the round icons a la nautilus with human iconset. Try setting "use small icons" in the Firefox toolbar. Human only provides 16x16 versions of these arrows, my script wants 24x24 for a normal toolbar. There's a huge list of

Re: [ubuntu-art] Firefox Human theme 0.1 released

2006-05-16 Thread Lukas Sabota
No, I'm referring to the round icons a la nautilus with human iconset. God bless, Lukas On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 16:19 -0400, Viper550 wrote: > If you refer to the new orange arrows instead of green, he's already > done that for 0.2 and 0.3 > > Viper550 -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@list

Re: [ubuntu-art] Firefox Human theme 0.1 released

2006-05-16 Thread Viper550
If you refer to the new orange arrows instead of green, he's already done that for 0.2 and 0.3 Viper550 -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Firefox Human theme 0.1 released

2006-05-16 Thread Lukas Sabota
Frank, The newest ubuntu-artwork provides new back/forward/stop icons. Are you going to be incorporating these in your firefox theme? Or continue with the tangerine icons? God bless, Lukas On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 21:24 +0200, Frank Schoep wrote: > Hi all, > > After more than twelve hours of work

[ubuntu-art] Suggestion: Orangify The Default Desktop

2006-05-16 Thread Lukas Sabota
Hello! There are a few icons that are displayed on the default desktop. I'll list them here: Applications Mozilla-Firefox Evolution Log out Show Desktop Trash My idea is to theme some of these icons orange. Here is a suggestion for each of these: Applications - Already Orange Mozilla Firefox - U

[ubuntu-art] Where are the scalable icons?

2006-05-16 Thread Lukas Sabota
Hello, Ubuntu-artwork does not seem to provide any scalable (SVG) icons. This makes the "Stretch Icon" button in nautilus pretty much useless. I have filed a bug here: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-artwork/+bug/34399 Are SVGs planned to be shipped before Dapper is released?

[ubuntu-art] Re: Before we vote...

2006-05-16 Thread Michiel Sikma
Who wrote: On 5/16/06, Michiel Sikma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to bring something up again. Why are there so many smooth engine skins in the proposed "internal" package? I feel as though we only need one, anyway, so we might as well move one of the eye-candy Please note the 'Real'

Re: [ubuntu-art] Voting for Dapper Themes

2006-05-16 Thread Who
On 5/15/06, Guilherme Salgado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:30:05AM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: >Who wrote: > >What next? I couldn't see how to make a poll on Launchpad... > >Who > >If you go there, NOT logged in, it states.. > > "lo

[ubuntu-art] Re: Before we vote...

2006-05-16 Thread Who
On 5/16/06, Michiel Sikma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to bring something up again. Why are there so many smooth engine skins in the proposed "internal" package? I feel as though we only need one, anyway, so we might as well move one of the eye-candy Please note the 'Real' meaning of 'in

[ubuntu-art] Formal Wiki Centralization?

2006-05-16 Thread Troy James Sobotka
This might seem out of place, but I really would appreciate some direction on where the current leadership is going with the art. One centralized Wiki page for Dapper would be wonderful. It might already exist, but it certainly isn't the easiest thing to find. What I am hoping for is something

Re: [ubuntu-art] Usplash debate

2006-05-16 Thread Étienne Bersac
Mark, can you explain me why usplash artwork are flatten ? Also how to get a usable .so ? I wrote a Makefile that handle quite well the build and install process of splashes. Is it wrong ? Is there any doc about making usplash theme ? UsplashCustomizationHowto seems to have problems according to U

Re: [ubuntu-art] Usplash debate

2006-05-16 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On May 16, 2006, at 6:09 PM, Troy James Sobotka wrote: On Mon, 2006-15-05 at 23:55 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: The logo does not have to be perfect, it just has to look *great* given the medium. Seems to me that the medium dictates that we must keep the palette simple considering the co

Re: [ubuntu-art] Usplash debate

2006-05-16 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-15-05 at 23:55 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > The logo does not have to be perfect, it just has to look *great* > given the medium. Seems to me that the medium dictates that we must keep the palette simple considering the color range. An extremely dense palette also permits th

[ubuntu-art] usplash pics

2006-05-16 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi all, I made an SVG based on Viper550's work; played around a bit adding more gradients and also a bit of a 3d effect. I added it to the wiki page, even though it is not really a new design (thought it would be better there than posting it here). Oh, and in my pic the reflection is not

Re: [ubuntu-art] Usplash debate

2006-05-16 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: I'd like to ask you how the logo guidelines come into play in the making of a usplash screen. Are we supposed to stick with the currently used color scheme of brown for Ubuntu, blue for Kubuntu, and yellow for Edubuntu? Do you think that the usage of the Tangerine color und

Re: [ubuntu-art] Before we vote...

2006-05-16 Thread Billy
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:50 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: I'd like to bring something up again. Why are there so many smooth engine skins in the proposed "internal" package? I feel as though we only need one, anyway, so we might as well move one of the eye-candy external skins to the inte

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ugly Usplash: GONE!

2006-05-16 Thread Viper550
Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 16-mei-2006, om 5:10 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED] het volgende geschreven: p.s. I got an Email from Scott, my Usplash Tangerine (yes, I just gave it an offical name) might be a possible contender for the new Dapper artwork...and apparently he "wasn't paying attention" to t

Re: [ubuntu-art] Usplash debate

2006-05-16 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 16-mei-2006, om 12:41 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED] het volgende geschreven: Hi all I'm writing to try to focus the energy that everyone is putting into getting a great usplash image for Dapper. I really appreciate the effort and the care and the creativity of the proposals. At this stage in

[ubuntu-art] usplash

2006-05-16 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi all, I am the evil person who made the new splash pics (actually I am not that evil) :-) The stuff that I made was trying to fit perfectly with the branding and colors from the original logo (which is pretty much impossible with 16 colors). Note that the pic submitted was supposed to b

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ugly Usplash: GONE!

2006-05-16 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hello, do you have a .deb to test your artwork ?? Étienne. signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Updated "Minimalistic", patching usplash, sources

2006-05-16 Thread Étienne Bersac
Done, https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/44990 signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

[ubuntu-art] Before we vote...

2006-05-16 Thread Michiel Sikma
I'd like to bring something up again. Why are there so many smooth engine skins in the proposed "internal" package? I feel as though we only need one, anyway, so we might as well move one of the eye-candy external skins to the internal skin proposal list. Ubuntulooks Quicksilver, for exampl

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ugly Usplash: GONE!

2006-05-16 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 16-mei-2006, om 5:10 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED] het volgende geschreven: p.s. I got an Email from Scott, my Usplash Tangerine (yes, I just gave it an offical name) might be a possible contender for the new Dapper artwork...and apparently he "wasn't paying attention" to the posts when I at