Re: [ubuntu-art] New member

2006-06-22 Thread Who
May I ask what the top prios are for the art team right now? What are you guys focusing on - I guess it's a bunch of work for next release? Have a brief scan over this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/Guidelines We are currently in the process of a massive reorganisation, after wh

Re: [ubuntu-art] New member

2006-06-22 Thread Niklas Weidel
Thanks for the welcome!Yes, I have plenty of print experience as it was what I was doing at the advertising agency. It's fun, but i prefer digital; it's s much nicer not to have to work in 2gb photoshop high resolution documents.. =) UI designing at DICE is usually done with freelancers though,

Re: [ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

2006-06-22 Thread Niel Drummond
I've added Mark's comment to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/Guidelines Regards - Niel Drummond -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

2006-06-22 Thread Who
On 6/22/06, Andreas Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michiel Sikma wrote: > > Op 22-jun-2006, om 15:21 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: >>> It would seem that you're okay with this idea as long as the themes >>> adhere to the criteria you listed, but I'm not sure. :) >> >> No, I

Re: [ubuntu-art] New member

2006-06-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
Hi Niklas! Welcome to the Artwork team. It's great to have someone around with experience in graphics. Do you also have experience in print work? I hope that you will succeed at getting a job as UI designer at DICE. I too would like to be part of a game studio sometime, although right now

[ubuntu-art] New member

2006-06-22 Thread Niklas Weidel
Cheers all.I don't mean to spam the list, but I'd like to present myself quickly to you all since I joined this team just now. :)I'm a fairly new, recently-converted, Ubuntu-user so my knowledge of the linux world is, well, pretty basic. But, I've spent 5 years as a professional IT consultant and t

[ubuntu-art] usplash improvements

2006-06-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
It seems that a bunch of specs have been changed into "obsolete" because apparently a new usplash is in the making. Exactly what will the capabilities of this new usplash be? Is there any place where I can follow its development or learn about Edgy planned features? I'm interested in doing

Re: [ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

2006-06-22 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 22-jun-2006, om 15:21 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: It would seem that you're okay with this idea as long as the themes adhere to the criteria you listed, but I'm not sure. :) No, I'm not OK with the idea, because the way it was phrased suggested th

Re: [ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

2006-06-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 22-jun-2006, om 15:21 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: It would seem that you're okay with this idea as long as the themes adhere to the criteria you listed, but I'm not sure. :) No, I'm not OK with the idea, because the way it was phrased suggested that we should "make

Re: [ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 22-jun-2006, om 9:48 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: Michiel Sikma wrote: I've been thinking about how to retain consistency between different types of Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu). Perhaps we could simply make sure that the defa

Re: [ubuntu-art] Updated Cursor

2006-06-22 Thread Dennis Kaarsemaker
On do, 2006-06-22 at 09:56 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: > Although I do agree that there need to be larger versions for those > with visual impairment (aren't there already?) There are. And even installed by default :) -- Dennis K. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. signature.asc Descri

Re: [ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

2006-06-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 22-jun-2006, om 9:48 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven: Michiel Sikma wrote: I've been thinking about how to retain consistency between different types of Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu). Perhaps we could simply make sure that the default themes that exist for the dif

Re: [ubuntu-art] Updated Cursor

2006-06-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
The spec for this (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/ ChangeMouseCursors) says "J Lo loves her mouse pointers, but ubuntu has not improved on existing commercial mouse pointers. She hopes the next release will." I still don't see this as a valid argument. What is there to improve on ex

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu title font

2006-06-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 21-jun-2006, om 23:29 heeft Niel Drummond het volgende geschreven: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:27:59 +0200 Michiel Sikma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ ubuntu-art-titlefont can you make "ubuntu-art" the assignee to this spec, so it'll show up on the main

Re: [ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: I've been thinking about how to retain consistency between different types of Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu). Perhaps we could simply make sure that the default themes that exist for the different distros are somewhat universal? For instance, Kubuntu could have a

Re: [ubuntu-art] Announcement: Minutes for meeting, news

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Pascal Klein wrote: On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 11:09 +0100, j michaelson wrote: hi pascal, could you clarify what you meant by... "Mark Shuttleworth has stated that the artist in chief will not selected not elected." Apologies. That should read: "Mark Shuttleworth has stat