[ubuntu-art] LAUNCHPAD: HowTo

2006-06-12 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Ok, despite being horribly short on time tonight, I straggled a little bit of info together for those of you out there who need to know how polls and such work on Launchpad. Revise this page if you feel you can add more. Launchpad information needs documentation, and it currently isn't too easy t

[ubuntu-art] Icon request

2006-06-12 Thread Lukas Sabota
Hello! I am currently developing a GNOME front-end for the FCE Ultra NES Emulator: gfceu [1+2]. I am hoping to see this program pushed into universe. One aspect that is missing however, is an icon for the desktop file. I am by no means an artist, and am asking for a contribution. I'm looki

[ubuntu-art] Re: A Request

2006-06-12 Thread Joel Derksen
Okay. So. This is my first time posting here, and I've only been subscribed to this for a few days in the hopes that I may contribute something (as a friend, a loyal Ubuntu user, suggested that Ubuntu may need more designers for their next cycle release). That being said, I think it needs to a

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Artwork team meeting

2006-06-12 Thread Brian Burger
On 6/11/06, Pascal Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fair enough. And because we really need to go underway I'm just going topropose a time and see what people think. Just say yes or no if youcan't make it.Saturday June 17, 16:00 UTC. I don't think  I'm working this Saturday - my timetable isn't in

Re: [ubuntu-art] A request

2006-06-12 Thread Billy
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 10:01 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 12-jun-2006, om 9:43 heeft Billy het volgende geschreven: > On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 07:41 +0100, Joao Inacio wrote: >> I have no clue what you're talking about that but if i'm correct >> (english isn't my first language) thats called

Re: [ubuntu-art] A request

2006-06-12 Thread Lapo Calamandrei
Hi Michiel,You can use every tool you prefer in my opinion. BTW for icons in tangerine I'd like to have the "source file" in bzr as well (like we do for tango-icon-theme and for g-i-t upstream) and those source file should be either in xcf (gimp format) or svg, since you cannot force people to use

Re: [ubuntu-art] A request

2006-06-12 Thread Jerome Gotangco
as long as the team works in an open format, why not? I also contribute on TheOpenCD project (a FOSS for Windows CD) and we do have some art apps for win32. I work on both Linux and XP for it, and as long as I use a standard format that both platforms can work on, we're in good company. So yeah,

Re: [ubuntu-art] A request

2006-06-12 Thread Tom Moitie
Manu Cornet wrote: but what some guys are doing here looks very much like some kind of "holy crusade" to me ("dude, believe in my god or I'll cut your head off)". Please chill, the main point of this team (if I understand it correctly) is to made great artwork for Ubuntu, no matter what tools yo

Re: [ubuntu-art] A request

2006-06-12 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: I've been on the Ubuntu Artwork team for a little while now. It was fun talking to everybody on the mailing list here and exciting to see my proposal for usplash used in Dapper. I can't wait to begin seriously contributing to Edgy and discussing how we should make it look g

[ubuntu-art] DEV CYCLE: Targets

2006-06-12 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Voice off on the targets and flesh them out folks. Consider it a shortlisting for a breakdown of deadlines. If you have other areas that need addressing, they need to be brought up BEFORE the Edgy cycle begins. Paris is coming rapidly... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mes

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Artwork team meeting

2006-06-12 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Pascal Klein wrote: Fair enough. And because we really need to go underway I'm just going to propose a time and see what people think. Just say yes or no if you can't make it. Saturday June 17, 16:00 UTC. Sounds good to me. Let´s do it! - Andreas -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists

Re: [ubuntu-art] Our wiki organisation

2006-06-12 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Fri, 2006-09-06 at 21:04 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > It would be nice to have a space for each theme, which has a > "standardised" top page. So you could have: > > Artwork/Themes/Human -> top-level theme page with thumbnails of > desktop, splash etc > Artwork/Themes/Outdoors -> as abov

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Artwork team meeting

2006-06-12 Thread Who
Fair enough. And because we really need to go underway I'm just going to propose a time and see what people think. Just say yes or no if you can't make it. Saturday June 17, 16:00 UTC. Looks good to me. Can Mark make it (Claire...)? And let's make sure the meeting happens this time! I though

Re: [ubuntu-art] A request

2006-06-12 Thread Joao Inacio
On 6/12/06, Billy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Freedom is also about not forcing anyone to use free software. Oh that freedom word can be a lot of things. Including and not limited to supporting the other os's. I have no clue what you are talking about. How can someone say 'we are up agains

Re: [ubuntu-art] A request

2006-06-12 Thread Martin Owens
It's more important to use open formats than open software, I would have concerns if the files were saved in .ai or .cdr rather than svg and that the components of the design where some how withheld from other artists and developers preventing the maintenance of the art. Why should I care what

Re: [ubuntu-art] A request

2006-06-12 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 12-jun-2006, om 9:43 heeft Billy het volgende geschreven: On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 07:41 +0100, Joao Inacio wrote: I have no clue what you're talking about that but if i'm correct (english isn't my first language) thats called zealotry? condemnation? zealotry? it's all the same name calling b

Re: [ubuntu-art] A request

2006-06-12 Thread Manu Cornet
Hi ! There's a difference between having your own opinion and not letting other people have another one. Someone mentionned religion (the Pope and Islam) : I think it's perfectly right to defend what you believe in, and to let other people know that their opinion is not the only one out there ("

Re: [ubuntu-art] A request

2006-06-12 Thread Billy
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 08:22 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: Billy wrote: > That pretty much sums it up for me. Doesn't matter if you make it in PS > or AI in a particular format. Doesn't belong in linux, and it's a shame > if it ends up here. I have AI, PS, and many others, but I won't buy them