Re: [ubuntu-art] New Default About Me Icon

2006-05-17 Thread Lukas Sabota
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 12:43 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Lukas Sabota wrote: > > 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 gu

[ubuntu-art] Usplash screenshot anyone?

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
I need a captured screenshot (ie not digital camera to screen) version of the usplash with a different text background colour than the png background. If anyone has this, please email me with a copy. Thanks a million. As close as I could find was a screenshot taken with a digital camera. Agai

[ubuntu-art] Re: Screenshot!

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-17-05 at 17:40 -0400, Viper550 wrote: > Okay, here's how I "did it". I don't use Ubuntu anymore, and my Linux is > a REAL installation, so I had to get down and dirty with good ol' Gimp! > > 1. Take a Screenshot from OSDir of Flight 7's Usplash (You have to use > the Flight 7 shots

Re: [ubuntu-art] Faster Theme Engine...found a good one!

2006-05-17 Thread Billy
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 16:53 -0400, Viper550 wrote: Well, you say you needed a faster GTK engine than ClearLooks? Well, I found this pretty good one called RezLooks, he basically stripped out all the parts from ClearLooks he didn't like (such as rounded corners for instance). He says it's f

[ubuntu-art] Re: Screenshot!

2006-05-17 Thread Viper550
Troy James Sobotka wrote: How the hell did you pull a usplash screenshot??? I'd love to know. Thanks again... Okay, here's how I "did it". I don't use Ubuntu anymore, and my Linux is a REAL installation, so I had to get down and dirty with good ol' Gimp! 1. Take a Screenshot from OSDir

[ubuntu-art] Faster Theme Engine...found a good one!

2006-05-17 Thread Viper550
Well, you say you needed a faster GTK engine than ClearLooks? Well, I found this pretty good one called RezLooks, he basically stripped out all the parts from ClearLooks he didn't like (such as rounded corners for instance). He says it's faster than ClearLooks CVS because of the stripping (Clea

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash text colors

2006-05-17 Thread Viper550
Troy James Sobotka wrote: For the purposes of organizing the proposal wiki, please include your images with your sample text left, sample text right, failed, and progress bar palette colours. Make sure you use existing palette entries and that they don't conflict with one another (eg: failed co

[ubuntu-art] usplash text colors

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
For the purposes of organizing the proposal wiki, please include your images with your sample text left, sample text right, failed, and progress bar palette colours. Make sure you use existing palette entries and that they don't conflict with one another (eg: failed color and background progress

[ubuntu-art] usplash proposal wiki

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Updated the wiki to show formal offerings now. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Usplash/DapperPropositions Try to adhere to the submissions guidelines so that I can use my newly written batch script to file things appropriately into a table. Thanks. At some point in the near future I will try to setup a

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

2006-05-17 Thread Billy
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 08:33 -0500, Billy wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:22 +0100, Who wrote: > > Problem is, people do use them. Some do prefer an ungy fast, useable, > nothing in the way gui. That is why I offered to do thinice, mist, or > something for them. Are we just going to

Re: [ubuntu-art] pngtobogl

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-17-05 at 18:21 +0200, Frank Schoep wrote: > One thing I noticed is that my GIMP's palette editor is really awkward (read: > horrible) to use, but it does the trick eventually. Agree. Drag and drop functionality would be great for indexes! That said, you must re-import your image a

Re: [ubuntu-art] pngtobogl

2006-05-17 Thread Frank Schoep
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:27, Étienne Bersac wrote: > All my 640x400 pngs are 16 colours, but i don't even see odd colors !!! > Why ??? > > How did Frank Schoep to build his minimalistic and backlit theme ??? Did > he use another pngtobogl ? I use the default pngtobogl, really. I'm honestly not

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

2006-05-17 Thread Andreas Nilsson
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 Oran

Re: [ubuntu-art] pngtobogl

2006-05-17 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hello, All my 640x400 pngs are 16 colours, but i don't even see odd colors !!! Why ??? How did Frank Schoep to build his minimalistic and backlit theme ??? Did he use another pngtobogl ? Really strange ! Étienne. -- Verso l'Alto ! signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message num

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 11, Issue 46

2006-05-17 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hello, > There is only one version which counts, which is the 600x400 (or > whatever) FINAL IMAGE that gets baked into the .so file. The value of > having a (for example) 1024x768 version is to see what it will > ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE when the framebuffer expands it to fill the screen. > That expan

[ubuntu-art] Usplash progressive discourse

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Ok, at risk of stirring up a hornets nest about matters that take up chat time and not making Ubuntu the best damn product it can be... Provide a 16 color PNG image to the wiki page. We can optimize the palette later, but please give some thought to the following indexes in your scheme: 0 Backg

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 11, Issue 46

2006-05-17 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 17-mei-2006, om 16:53 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: Michiel Sikma wrote: I don't get why you would want that. All that happens with the scaling is the image being squished and then later stretched back to normal. The only effect would be a loss in quality; not a los

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 11, Issue 46

2006-05-17 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hello, > Look, I really don't care what kind of policy is put in place, but > what I do care about is that people's artwork submissions are equally > judged. It's nonsense to say that you'll judge someone's art > differently or even not at all because they didn't adhere to an > unwritten r

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 11, Issue 46

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: I don't get why you would want that. All that happens with the scaling is the image being squished and then later stretched back to normal. The only effect would be a loss in quality; not a loss in proportions or composition. I don't see why you would want to maintain two v

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 11, Issue 46

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Kenneth Wimer wrote: A pic, when rendered from vector with a decent editor, anti-aliases differently at different sizes. Every time the thing is scaled you loose quality (unless you are just really, really lucky). So, making bigger pics is easy but they are only loosely related to other version

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 11, Issue 46

2006-05-17 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 17-mei-2006, om 16:05 heeft Kenneth Wimer het volgende geschreven: On May 17, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 17-mei-2006, om 14:49 heeft Kenneth Wimer het volgende geschreven: On May 17, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 17-mei-2006, om 12:52 heeft Kenneth Wimer

Re: [ubuntu-art] pngtobogl SOLVED

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Wed, 2006-17-05 at 15:52 +0200, Kenneth Wimer wrote: > I did that, several times on several pics...check the pics I posted > online...they all work fine (note that I did not adjust the colormap > to fit the code yet) If you read my original post, I stated that this does not apply to 16 col

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash pics

2006-05-17 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On May 17, 2006, at 3:54 PM, Troy James Sobotka wrote: --- Ken Said --- The problems I see with this whole thing is this: A pic, when rendered from vector with a decent editor, anti-aliases differently at different sizes. Every time the thing is scaled you loose quality (unless you are just re

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 11, Issue 46

2006-05-17 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On May 17, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 17-mei-2006, om 14:49 heeft Kenneth Wimer het volgende geschreven: On May 17, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 17-mei-2006, om 12:52 heeft Kenneth Wimer het volgende geschreven: The problems I see with this whole thing is

[ubuntu-art] usplash pics

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
--- Ken Said --- The problems I see with this whole thing is this: A pic, when rendered from vector with a decent editor, anti-aliases differently at different sizes. Every time the thing is scaled you loose quality (unless you are just really, really lucky). So, making bigger pics is easy b

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

2006-05-17 Thread Billy
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:22 +0100, Who wrote: > > Problem is, people do use them. Some do prefer an ungy fast, useable, > nothing in the way gui. That is why I offered to do thinice, mist, or > something for them. Are we just going to remove them and give them pixmap > and slow cairo? I don'

[ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 11, Issue 47

2006-05-17 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 17-mei-2006, om 14:49 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED] het volgende geschreven: (btw wouldn't it be great if the ubuntu logo was itself a progress bar, where a colour rotated through the form, 'filling it' as the boot progresses) If you'd like to suggest this, please list it on the EdgyPropositi

[ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 11, Issue 47

2006-05-17 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 17-mei-2006, om 14:49 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED] het volgende geschreven: what immediately strikes me is how much intelligently Viper550's splashes work with the limited colour palette. the don't have gradation, but appear to as s/he uses flat colour to mimic the effect, as screenprinters

Fwd: [ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 11, Issue 46

2006-05-17 Thread Michiel Sikma
Accidentally sent this mail to just Kenneth, forwarding it to the mailing list as well... Michiel Begin doorgestuurd bericht: Van: Michiel Sikma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Datum: 17 mei 2006 15:08:42 GMT+02:00 Aan: Kenneth Wimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Onderwerp: Antw.: [ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Dige

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 11, Issue 46

2006-05-17 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On May 17, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 17-mei-2006, om 12:52 heeft Kenneth Wimer het volgende geschreven: The problems I see with this whole thing is this: A pic, when rendered from vector with a decent editor, anti- aliases differently at different sizes. Every time the thin

Re: [ubuntu-art] pngtobogl SOLVED

2006-05-17 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On May 17, 2006, at 3:48 AM, Troy James Sobotka wrote: 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 optim

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Default About Me Icon

2006-05-17 Thread Viper550
Lukas Sabota wrote: 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

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 11, Issue 46

2006-05-17 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On May 17, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 17-mei-2006, om 12:13 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED] het volgende geschreven: Can I ask that we go through the options and delete (permanently) those which: (a) use too many colours [16 including black and white is all thats allowed] (b) a

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash pics

2006-05-17 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:47:50PM +0800, Jerome Gotangco wrote: > A nice wiki page was created just for this and was posted earlier by a > list member: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Usplash/DapperPropositions thanks for doing that, great to see them all together! what immediately strikes me is

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Default About Me Icon

2006-05-17 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Lukas Sabota wrote: 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

[ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 11, Issue 46

2006-05-17 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 17-mei-2006, om 12:13 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED] het volgende geschreven: Can I ask that we go through the options and delete (permanently) those which: (a) use too many colours [16 including black and white is all thats allowed] (b) are not correctly scaled Wouldn't it be better if eve

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash wiki update

2006-05-17 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:13:30PM +0200, Frank Schoep wrote: > On Wednesday 17 May 2006 06:56, Troy James Sobotka wrote: > > I took some initiative and thumbnailed all of the work > > at the usplash proposal portion of the Wiki. > > That's great work, thanks a lot for doing that, it was well wo

Re: [ubuntu-art] usplash wiki update

2006-05-17 Thread Frank Schoep
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 06:56, Troy James Sobotka wrote: > I took some initiative and thumbnailed all of the work > at the usplash proposal portion of the Wiki. That's great work, thanks a lot for doing that, it was well worth the effort. There are a lot of nice submissions already. For the bigg

Re: [ubuntu-art] Usplash and a question

2006-05-17 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On May 17, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Troy James Sobotka wrote: Anyone know how to snapshot the usplash during the boot sequence? Take a pic of it running in a virtual machine is the only way I know Bye, Ken It would be nice to have active images. Further, I updated the wiki to accomodate the sc

Re: [ubuntu-art] pngtobogl SOLVED

2006-05-17 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On May 17, 2006, at 3:48 AM, Troy James Sobotka wrote: 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. My guess is that when

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

2006-05-17 Thread Who
Problem is, people do use them. Some do prefer an ungy fast, useable, nothing in the way gui. That is why I offered to do thinice, mist, or something for them. Are we just going to remove them and give them pixmap and slow cairo? I don't think so!!! I won't take responsibility in that slaughter!

[ubuntu-art] Usplash and a question

2006-05-17 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Anyone know how to snapshot the usplash during the boot sequence? It would be nice to have active images. Further, I updated the wiki to accomodate the scaling in the thumbnails. Some folks probably got stretched by accident, but alas, it is very late here. You can always point to your own lin