Re: [ubuntu-art] Schedule-thought

2006-06-26 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Jun 27, 2006, at 12:19 AM, Kenneth Wimer wrote: I have added these to the wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/ Specs/EdgyArtworkPlan) although you should note that this spec is not approved yet, so there might be some small changes still coming. We still need to clear up the situati

Re: [ubuntu-art] Schedule-thought

2006-06-26 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: Thoughts regarding wallpaper idea would be appreciated; http://www.weidel.se/gfx/desktop2%201400.png The desktop colour should not be too bright, or it becomes tiring to look at all day. We generally have chosen to go with darker, richer colours so that there is

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-26 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Lapo Calamandrei wrote I feel like being personally attacked when somebody talk down tango this way. I certainly have no desire to cause offense - sorry if that's the case. My experience with Tango has just not been the one I want for the default experience with Ubuntu and Kubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-art] Appointment of AIC's for Edgy

2006-06-26 Thread Niel Drummond
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:03:14 +0100 Mark Shuttleworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please join me in congratulating Frank and Ken on this appointment! Excellent news. Congrats Ken & Frank, I am hoping this decision will put things on track again! Kind Regards - Niel Drummond > > Mark --

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-26 Thread Lapo Calamandrei
2006/6/26, Mark Shuttleworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [CUT] I think there is plenty of room for Ubuntu to establish a style of its own. I think Tango has been over-rated because it attempts to bind Gnome and KDE together in a way that they do not want to be bound together. I may well be wrong,

Re: [ubuntu-art] Schedule-thought

2006-06-26 Thread Frank Schoep
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 00:12, Michiel Sikma wrote: > I've also done some wallpaper sketching which I'll present later > while we're on the subject. That's great to hear, can you make sure these roll in later next week when we start the "Propose" phase? During that phase we'll be looking for sket

Re: [ubuntu-art] Schedule-thought

2006-06-26 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:29 PM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Niklas Weidel wrote: Just a small thought for the edgy-schedule; the headings could be a bit more obvious, for example there's "Ponder" two time in a row. It's not very obvious, at least to me, that the second of these is meant to rep

Re: [ubuntu-art] Schedule-thought

2006-06-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:27 PM, Niklas Weidel wrote: Just a small thought for the edgy-schedule; the headings could be a bit more obvious, for example there's "Ponder" two time in a row. It's not very obvious, at least to me, that the second of these is meant to represent the end of that act

Re: [ubuntu-art] Schedule-thought

2006-06-26 Thread Frank Schoep
On Monday 26 June 2006 23:29, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Niklas Weidel wrote: > > Just a small thought for the edgy-schedule; the headings could be a > > bit more obvious, for example there's "Ponder" two time in a row. It's > > not very obvious, at least to me, that the second of these is meant to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Appointment of AIC's for Edgy

2006-06-26 Thread Who
Please join me in congratulating Frank and Ken on this appointment! Congrats :) Edgy artwork will rock! -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Appointment of AIC's for Edgy

2006-06-26 Thread Chuck Huber
Congratulations you guys! That's great. On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 21:03 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > I would like to announce the appointment of Frank Schoep (Ubuntu) and > Ken Wimer (Kubuntu) as "Artists in Chief" for Edgy Eft. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https:

[ubuntu-art] New Theme Idea

2006-06-26 Thread Viper550
Guess what, now working around the face that the Human and Tangerine icons are being kept, I have made a brand new theme proposal, inspired by the lights on the front of my Router (of all places for inspiration, it just had to be a network router!) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Trop

Re: [ubuntu-art] Schedule-thought

2006-06-26 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Niklas Weidel wrote: Just a small thought for the edgy-schedule; the headings could be a bit more obvious, for example there's "Ponder" two time in a row. It's not very obvious, at least to me, that the second of these is meant to represent the end of that activity. It would be wiser to label t

[ubuntu-art] Schedule-thought

2006-06-26 Thread Niklas Weidel
Just a small thought for the edgy-schedule; the headings could be a bit more obvious, for example there's "Ponder" two time in a row. It's not very obvious, at least to me, that the second of these is meant to represent the end of that activity. It would be wiser to label them "Ponder start" and "P

Re: [ubuntu-art] Appointment of AIC's for Edgy

2006-06-26 Thread Dennis Kaarsemaker
On ma, 2006-06-26 at 21:03 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Please join me in congratulating Frank and Ken on this appointment! Congratulations, and now get to work ;) Dapper looked good, but edgy will have to look better to hide the edgyness :) -- Dennis K. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubl

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-26 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:02 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote: On Jun 26, 2006, at 10:29 PM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: OK, I think we are making progress here! Michiel Sikma wrote: We would like to flesh out and complete Human during Edgy, and will backport that to Dapper (along with Frank's Fire

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
On Jun 26, 2006, at 10:29 PM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: OK, I think we are making progress here! Michiel Sikma wrote: What I do appreciate is that Human was used in Dapper while it was incomplete as an extra impulse to get people to complete it. I'll definitely make it one of my things to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Appointment of AIC's for Edgy

2006-06-26 Thread Matt Galvin
On 6/26/06, Mark Shuttleworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please join me in congratulating Frank and Ken on this appointment! Indeed, Congrats to you both. I am already looking forward to the edgy artwork! -- Matt T. Galvin mgalvin on irc.freenode.net http://people.simplifiedcomplexity.com/~mg

Re: [ubuntu-art] Appointment of AIC's for Edgy

2006-06-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
Congratulations to you two! Although I don't know Ken too well short of a few run-ins at the IRC channel, I've seen his contributions and know that he knows what he's talking about. Same goes for Frank. I'm fully confident that you guys can steer this project into a good direction! :) Mic

[ubuntu-art] Published Guidelines and Congrats

2006-06-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Mon, 2006-26-06 at 21:15 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > No, there's no published guideline, and fixing that should be our > first step. Human was created over a series of phone calls between me, > Dave (from the company that did the design work), Daniel Holbach, Jeff > Waugh and Jane Silber.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-26 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
OK, I think we are making progress here! Michiel Sikma wrote: What I do appreciate is that Human was used in Dapper while it was incomplete as an extra impulse to get people to complete it. I'll definitely make it one of my things to do to point out things which I believe are bad choices in H

Re: [ubuntu-art] Appointment of AIC's for Edgy

2006-06-26 Thread Étienne Bersac
> Please join me in congratulating Frank and Ken on this appointment! Yeah ! Feliciations ! Bravo ! :D :P Étienne. -- Verso l'Alto ! -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-26 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Travis Watkins wrote: On 6/26/06, Mark Shuttleworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [huge snip] Just wondering: _are_ there any published guidelines and/or colour palettes for the Human icon set? If there are, are they being followed? One or both of these questions appears to be have

[ubuntu-art] Appointment of AIC's for Edgy

2006-06-26 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Artists! Based on conversations on this list, as well as meetings and interviews, I would like to announce the appointment of Frank Schoep (Ubuntu) and Ken Wimer (Kubuntu) as "Artists in Chief" for Edgy Eft. They report to me, in the sense that I will approve their high level direction, but th

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-26 Thread Michiel Sikma
On Jun 26, 2006, at 2:42 PM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Michiel Sikma wrote: I don't think it's just my opinion that differs. As I've mentioned before, I've got valid criticism for the Human icon set. I simply believe it to be inferior to Tangerine/Tango for various reasons. Michiel, Human is

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-26 Thread Travis Watkins
On 6/26/06, Mark Shuttleworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [huge snip] Just wondering: _are_ there any published guidelines and/or colour palettes for the Human icon set? If there are, are they being followed? One or both of these questions appears to be have "no" as an answer. -- Travis Watkins h

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-26 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: I don't think it's just my opinion that differs. As I've mentioned before, I've got valid criticism for the Human icon set. I simply believe it to be inferior to Tangerine/Tango for various reasons. Michiel, Human is incomplete. It's your choice as to whether or not you wa

[ubuntu-art] SOFTWARE: Anyone have howto's?

2006-06-26 Thread Troy James Sobotka
With the recent Inkscape talk, I thought it might be nice if people could assemble some form of howto for each tool to take it up to the latest release. Off the top of my head I can think of: * Inkscape * Gimp * etc. If you know of the documentation (like dependency issues, etc.) please forwa

[ubuntu-art] Re: ubuntu human palette now included in inkscape

2006-06-26 Thread j michaelson
yep, it's there. i deleted my old copy of inkscape. svn updated and built a new version and the ubuntu human palette is in there. i'm quite pleased with that. john m. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

[ubuntu-art] Starting the Edgy Eft release process

2006-06-26 Thread Frank Schoep
Hello artists, I have several important issues I want to inform you about, so please take the time to read through this e-mail if you want to get involved in the Edgy Eft release. First of all, Kenneth Wimer and I have been selected to be Artist in Chief for Kubuntu and Ubuntu respectively. Th

Re: [ubuntu-art] Re: Quick Update

2006-06-26 Thread Andreas Nilsson
Troy James Sobotka wrote: On Sun, 2006-25-06 at 19:21 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: I don't understand why it is so pertinently important to keep Human in. In all objectivity, it's simply a suboptimal icon set when compared to Tango. I also don't see why any of the arguments that I have g

Re: [ubuntu-art] Quick Update

2006-06-26 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi, I have tried to explain how I see things to perhaps shed some light on the issue but it seems that we are not getting anywhere with this conversation. As pointed out in a previous mail from Mark to this list, the decision has been made and we have to live with it. This does not mean t

[ubuntu-art] ubuntu human palette now included in inkscape

2006-06-26 Thread j michaelson
hello all, a little while back i submitted the ubuntu human gimp palette as a patch for inkscape. today i got a message confirming that it had been accepted. i'll do a fresh subversion build of inkscape tonight to check. john michaelson. here's the relevant text from the email.. Init