[ubuntu-art] So long, and thanks for all the fish

Hey, This is a message to those few who might still remember me. It is time for me to leave. I will not be reachable via this list from now on, but you're always welcome to email me directly. See you! -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff OS architect @ elementary -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] possible light-themes/murrine bug, trying to find out who to contact

Thanks for the info, I didn't know of XUL technical details. Still, if the issue is local to Thunderbird, it's still very likely a bug in whatever XUL uses to render via GTK. For example, LibreOffice tries to use GTK rendering too (GTK3 as of late) and it's not 100% compatible either. I'd try to bu

Re: [ubuntu-art] possible light-themes/murrine bug, trying to find out who to contact

Hello John, FYI, Thunderbird uses XUL with a theming compatibility layer, not GTK2. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL for details. This is a wrong list to contact indeed. I'd rather contact Ubuntu Mozilla team, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff -- ubuntu-a

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu 12.04 Countdown banner competition

I'm a surprised not to see Roberto Pérez Favela named among winners. His design is probably the only one vivid enough to grab attention and interest a person who has never heard of Ubuntu before, the only one to actually promote Ubuntu instead of providing a checkbox-filling countdown for geeks who

Re: [ubuntu-art] universal access icon source file

Hi Matteo, Sorry for late reply, this list is not particularly active lately. Ubuntu's Humanity theme already ships in SVG format, so you can browse Ubuntu icon theme at /usr/share/icons/Humanity/. The icon you're looking for is access.svg in apps/ folder. Humanity icons are based on elementary

Re: [ubuntu-art] Web Art

There seems to be an ubuntu-website mailing list which deals with design of such sites as ubuntuforums, packages.ubuntu.com, help.ubuntu.com, etc. It might be a good idea to contact them. https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-website -- shnatsel -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@l

Re: [ubuntu-art] new icon themes

These icons were commissioned by Canonical indeed, but they are over a year old and they're not being developed. By the way, elementary icons, upon which Humanity icon set is based, will see a new release soon: http://elementaryos.org/journal/icons-30-begin-testing-luna -- Sergey "Shnatsel" David

Re: [ubuntu-art] Two wallpaper

Paintsplash is interesting, but wallpapers have to be at least 2000px wide to get their way into Ubuntu. -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Please provide ubuntu training

Amaresh, I think you're looking for this: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/training -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Home page of ubuntu.org

Actually, website stuff is managed on a different list (though I've never understood why): https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-website -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Wallpaper Submission Advice *Draft*

I've put together some wallpaper guidelines for my artistic distro a while ago, but the wiki with them is currently down. I'll post a link as soon as I get the wiki back. However, I'll probably have nothing to add, your draft seems perfect to me. Regards -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff -- ubuntu-a

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpapers in 11.10

John, +1 for stepping up. I recall promising an Ubuntu Faith Award for that :) Cheers -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff elementary OS integrator -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Indigo Icons

Looks nice, but it's even more confusing than Faenza. I'm afraid I'd never guessed what do folder-mail-sent or user-trash-full mean. -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] (no subject)

By the way, I have some artistic apps which I'd like to contribute to Ubuntu Studio. I've packaged GIMP Paint Studio and shipped it by default in my Ubuntu remix: https://launchpad.net/~shnatsel/+archive/gimp-paint-studio GIMP-Painter patch is a great addition to it: https://launchpad.net/~mizuno-

Re: [ubuntu-art] Introduction

Guys, please stop the gimp vs photoshop holywar and get back to topic. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Community wallpaper contest - Re: Looking forwards not back.

> > > Is there anything else that the community would like to change this time > around? (The design team will be around till Wednesday) > I'm not the community team, I'm just an individual, but I'd like Canonical to assign somebody to handle the community-to-Canonical contact in the area of artwo

Re: [ubuntu-art] Looking forwards not back.

> > Fine, we need a new team leader as well. I don't want to miss another > cycle. I hate being subscribed here and not feeling useful. > +1 In Elementary, DanRabbit is a leader that does awesome things which inspire other people. He seems to be a good coordinator too. As a result, everyone is extr

Re: [ubuntu-art] Updating homepage

Back to topic... Ubuntu start page has numerous bugs, like lack of localization support, no session restore button, ugly 404 error if you start firefox with search plugin set to sites other than Google or Yahoo etc. Nobody seems to care. I personally had a bad experience with having my fixes for it

Re: [ubuntu-art] Updating homepage

Wait. Ubuntu IS released. http://www.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Introduction

I suggest making a wiki page for cases like this. "Contact one of these volunteers for small task X" -- shnatsel -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 70, Issue 1

I can package wallpapers for you if you need DEBs, e.g. if you want your wallpapers to be installable from a PPA with software-center. It's not time-consuming but requires quite a lot of knowledge. -- Shnatsel -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dear in .

It's also quite strange to see only narwhal-themed wallpapers chosen for the release, especially after Matthew Nuzum said "Starting at the point of Beta Ubuntu changes from the code name of "Natty Narwhal" to "Ubuntu 11.04" it would probably be inappropriate to over-emphasize narwhal graphics." Som

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu DVD Packaging Artwork - Getting Close to Final

Sorry for late reply, I hope it's not too late because I can't see this cover on SpreadUbuntu now. I like the idea of Tux in "certificate" icon, I don't remember if I said it or not (can't find it in logs now). Ubuntu is powered by Linux after all, and it's one if its major pros, so it's perfectly

Re: [ubuntu-art] Problems with the Ubuntu wiki page's icons.

Hi Reda, as far as I remember, the smileys are just placeholders. I like your sketches, and I'd really like to see them finished. We're always short of Ubuntu pictograms, AFAIK we have only the official setand event pictograms

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dealing with issues and seeking advice

2011/2/22 Vishnoo > On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 15:27 +0300, Сергей wrote: > > people messing up the official wiki without discussing the changes > > first as a consequence. > > Let me ask this first, When should content/tasks be added to the > official wiki? > Everythin

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dealing with issues and seeking advice

I guess we got off the initial topic. We first need to identify the issue to fix the situation. > We need to state clearly what our problem is, before we seek advice from > Jono/Ivanka. I think we need to generalize the facts and go from particular cases to more general issues. Let's recall the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu DVD Packaging Artwork - Getting Close toFinal

> > Things you mentioned are "fixed" now, if this could be called fixing. I tend to call it that way since I mess with code more. I know design basics (revising them right now actually) and that's all, I don't belong to the design culture. > I played with Tux color, and I think it looks more sli

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu DVD Packaging Artwork - Getting Close toFinal

2011/2/19 EldiS > Heh... A lot of dislikes this time. It turned out that I'm going backwards. > No, you are not. You are moving forward. I just can't notice or enumerate all glitches at once just looking at an in-progress version. For all previous versions I thought "OK, enough for this revision"

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu DVD Packaging Artwork - Getting Close toFinal

Tux and ubuntu logo now have the same color technically, but not visually. Ubuntu logo is larger and is surrounded by darker background, so it looks lighter than Tux. Still inconsistent :) Ubuntu and GNOME logos on the side also have different shades of aubergine, it also looks inconsistent. One e

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dealing with issues and seeking advice

> > Banning a person is the last resource. If you have tried to resolve the > issue privately and failed, why don't you take it publicly? We can have a > meeting on IRC with John and the rest of the team and see if we can agree on > how to move forward. What do you think? > I don't quite like the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dealing with issues and seeking advice

2011/2/18 Vishnoo > I doubt that, even Thorsten and Martin tried to talk to him in private > off the mailing list and try to resolve these issues of > mis-communication, mis-representations. > But nothing seems to help, hence the magnitude of frustration you notice > in the replies from Thorsten

Re: [ubuntu-art] IMPORTANT : Natty illustration wallpaper submissions group

AFAIR, his group was created before the announcement of using art-owl, and he tested art-owl and knows its shortcomings perfectly. He knew that art-owl won't work. But the lack of coordination screwed a very good initiative again. You know, John is not the only person on this list who acts first an

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dealing with issues and seeking advice

2011/2/18 Vishnoo > People want to have fun and be productive, and not to constantly have to > worry about people creating their own sub-groups and sabotaging existing > process for their personal interest. > I'm absolutely sure that all people on this list have good intentions. -- ubuntu-art m

Re: [ubuntu-art] Dealing with issues and seeking advice

2011/2/18 Vishnoo > @Сергей, Leandro Gómez, Saleel Velankar: > can you clearly state what issue has been troubling you? > My issue is that most people got disappointed and discouraged to the point of leaving the team. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.

Re: [ubuntu-art] IMPORTANT : Natty illustration wallpaper submissions group

On the other hand, a separate group for artwork makes much more sense than mixing it with photography. Participators can look for inspiration and judges won't have to separate artwork from photos. John, I can't deny that I like using a separate group for artwork. But why didn't you discuss this wit

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu DVD Packaging Artwork - Getting Close toFinal

/* begin personal opinion block */ The previous pictograms on the back were better. The current ones don't have any connection with the text-circles above them and seem meaningless on their own in this context. After re-reading your message I saw that they are explained in the text beneath them, b

Re: [ubuntu-art] Goodbye

It's sad to see Thorsten go indeed. Twice as sad to me because I saw the community of "my" wiki fall apart for the same reason. I'll miss him and his advice. On the other hand, the issues are pointed out, so now we can work on solving them. After reading Martin's message I think we shall ask Ivanka

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended

> > Sergey, > > If there is a ray of sunshine on this list you are it. :) > Don't say that. The list is full of intelligent, talented and creative people. We *all* just need to be a bit more collaborative. Oh well. It seems that I'll have to set up that poll, right? -- ubuntu-art mailing list ub

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended

Well, the first of February was quite a long time ago, in my time zone at least :) I wonder where's the winners announcement? -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Edubuntu Wallpaper

Hi Jonathan, I think closing the contest now is not a good thing to do in a political sense. Announcing some deadline and then changing it or the rules is really discouraging. People must be sure of stability. They must be sure that the rules, specs and the deadline are fixed and won't be changed

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu DVD Packaging Artwork - Getting Close to Final

2011/2/16 Pumpkin Lord > About placement, it is placed exactly on the upper virtual edge, like > side Ubuntu logo, and back tab. And on the right side, it is lined > with main title tab edge too, so if someone have some suggestion where > to place it, I'm open for it. To me this current placement

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu DVD Packaging Artwork - Getting Close to Final

I can't see the point of the little "live cd" label. I store mostly alternate CDs or 2-in-1 DVDs, so that label is simply not true for me. And its location also seems unnatural to me. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu DVD Packaging Artwork - Getting Close to Final

2011/2/11 Pumpkin Lord > Considering optical vs metric font kerning mantioned before, optical > didn't provide any notable improvements. > Automatics won't improve anything in case of such a stretched font. You'll have to do manual kerning. Users don't seem to care about it, but lots of designer

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork/Archives/10.10

2011/2/5 Alexander Milanov > Hi, Sergey. > > Thank you for the help. I didn't know that the default Plymouth theme > remained the same in Maverick. > You can view changelog for any package at packages.ubuntu.com. Here's the Plymouth changelog: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/p/

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork/Archives/10.10

Hi Alexander, Thanks for your work! I've added Plymouth screenshot to the page. I also made screenshots of all Plymouth themes available in Ubuntu repositories a while ago and uploaded them to the screenshots website, you can get them at http://screenshots.ubuntu.com/packages?search=plymouth-theme

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork/Tasks vs Artwork/Specs

2011/1/25 Thorsten Wilms > You could remove or separate the leading numbers. > Agreed. They don't seem to be useful. The table might look more interesting, but showing unnecessary information > while not clearly separating the all important state is by no means > well-designed. > Also agreed.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Xubuntu Background Contexts

Making the context images just before the freeze doesn't make much sense because artists should have time to test their backgrounds if they want. As I understand it, the context won't undergo a major change, so I can make the images now. Is this desktop layout present in today's Xubuntu daily build

Re: [ubuntu-art] Free Culture Showcase

Looks like we're facing duplication of effort again: we have two different Ubuntu wallpaper contests. The first one is http://design.canonical.com/2011/01/bright-light-and-beautiful/, I saw John Baer's proposal linked to it somewhere (and it seems reasonable to me, but I'm sure it's better to discu

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork/Tasks vs Artwork/Specs

One more little thing to do: I think we should add a link to the projects list to the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Tasks page, probably as the first item of the list, or even before the list. Three days seems to be the average response time in this thread, so if I don't receive any objection in

Re: [ubuntu-art] Xubuntu Background Contexts

Those contexts don't look like it's the real thing, especially the low-resolution ones. If that contexts are present in some LiveCD image or can be installed on one, I can make all the needed *real* screenshots and make the contexts for resolutions up to 2560x1600 with xrandr. But I'm not laborious

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork/Tasks vs Artwork/Specs

2011/1/24 Thorsten Wilms > The reason I decided against the table is that it's hard to edit and > didn't make it obvious at a glance what is open or closed. I know how important the KISS principle is for a wiki, but as long as our pages aren't based on complex custom templates and we have peopl

Re: [ubuntu-art] Artwork/Tasks vs Artwork/Specs

The artwork page contained such a nice and clear table, and now it's gone :( As far as I understand, we just agreed that something must be done, we didn't discuss what exactly. As far as I know from my wiki administration experience, edits of pages with high visibility must be very deliberate, so

Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground Explained

2011/1/24 Thorsten Wilms > On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 23:41 +0300, Сергей wrote: > > Oh, and it would be a very nice not to be limited to "zoom" mode. I'd > > appreciate the ability to test other options: "centered", "scaled", > > "stre

Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground Explained

Oh, and it would be a very nice not to be limited to "zoom" mode. I'd appreciate the ability to test other options: "centered", "scaled", "stretched", "zoom", "spanned", there also was some weird name for tiling. And for "scaled" and "spanned" options arises background color problem, so you might n

Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground Explained

> > Turned it into Python to make the h,v,f,o flags available and added you > to AUTHORS. Included with v0.4: > > http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/backtestground-0-4-context-extraction-automated/ > Thanks! I'm glad to work on something meaningful. I've googled for a way to do this in KDE 4

Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground Explained

It writes "Backtestground returned an error" because extract-background-context doesn't return 0. It should be like that. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground Explained

2011/1/22 Thorsten Wilms > On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 12:53 +0300, Сергей wrote: > > I think it happens because extract-background-context script doesn't > > return an exit code indicating success. You should make sys.exit(0) > > the last operation of your script to inf

Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground Explained

> > Excellent, thank you. With your permission, I would like to add this to > Backtestground, under GPLv3 like the rest, clearly identifying you as > the author of this file. > No problem! > One issue, though: the "rm on_white.png on_black.png" does not work (and > I have not the slightest clue w

Re: [ubuntu-art] Backtestground Explained

The process of manually taking screenshots, saving them, naming them, launching the command with the needed parameters seemed too manual to me, so I wrote a small shell script which does it all automatically. After running it waits for 3 seconds, then does all described actions for extract-backgrou

Re: [ubuntu-art] Video Animations

> > We had people like during the brainstorm for ideas on the new bootsplash. A >> mrdoob in particular produced some rather nice youtube videos. ( >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Boot) >> >> -- >> Saleel >> >> > MadsRH as well. > > -- > Saleel > > Links to his videos at Dropbox

Re: [ubuntu-art] Hi all

Hi Abhinav, the current tasks of the team are listed at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Tasks. As you can see, at the moment we have wallpaper contests for Xubuntu, Lubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-art] Help with Art

Hi Diego, have a look at these posters at spreadubuntu: http://spreadubuntu.org/en/node/363 http://spreadubuntu.org/en/node/379 http://spreadubuntu.org/en/node/438 If you like any of them, it should be easy to remix it for your purpose. Respectfully, -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff -- ubuntu-art m

Re: [ubuntu-art] 3 community wallpapers will be included in Natty

> Not a task assigned to us; since the official team has shouldered the > responsibility of picking out the three, there isn't much that we can do as > a group. > On the other hand, artists willing to contribute probably will start looking for possible tasks from that page. It's kinda weird to hav

Re: [ubuntu-art] 3 community wallpapers will be included in Natty

Shall we add this to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Tasks ? -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

[ubuntu-art] 3 community wallpapers will be included in Natty

Hello everyone, It was just announced at Canonical design blog that Natty will include at least 3 non-photographic community wallpapers! It was very a sought-for reform for several years, and now it's finally done. You can read the original announcement at http://design.canonical.com/2011/01/brigh

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu DVD Packaging Artwork

IMO the covers are very nice, but the previews look cluttered and scary. It's hard to understand where is the cover and where is the info about it. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] An ideia to improve the geral artwork on Ubuntu

Hi Paulo, Thanks for posting! I personally really like this idea. Gaia has a rather concise idea to express - "beauty of nature through digital art". It's much easier to express than openness or humanity or ubuntu philosophy or something like that. I'd love to see such themes adopted by the Free Cu

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Software Center Design Proposal

I like the mockup, but it's a task for Ayatana list. Concepts going beyond visual design into functionality are better handled by the Ayatana project . Respectfully, -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wanted: Artwork for Ubuntu Software Center department screens

> > Here is a mock > upmock up > with configurable icons. > > Thoughts? > Looks nice, but takes up too much screen space and duplicates breadcrumbs, IMHO. Respectfully, -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubu

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wanted: Artwork for Ubuntu Software Center department screens

2010/12/20 Charlie Kravetz If it looks like unity/Ubuntu, what about the rest of the derivatives > that also include it? Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Edubuntu all use this Software > Center. Would it not be better to be a little bit neutral? > Hmm, you're right. Even if we make a different background for Kubu

Re: [ubuntu-art] Language barrier for Participation - was Re: Artwork Team Logo - Submissions due today!

Thanks, Vish! I hope it will work. *added myself* -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wanted: Artwork for Ubuntu Software Center department screens

> > Well there is the next logical idea, to make the backgrounds look like the > website backgrounds. > I don't like it. Software center should look as native and desktop-ish as possible. I like the way it's done in Unity Maverick, but I also understand that it's not an option for Natty. So if I we

Re: [ubuntu-art] Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

> > I would also lean towards keeping it >> open, that is: not tied to a release. > > +100500 > Ugh, I mean... Look at the default wallpaper pool. It has thousands of submissions and uses one pool for all releases. We won't have that many submissions, and it's good to have everything in one place,

Re: [ubuntu-art] Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

> > I'm not opposed to a single pool for non-photo wallpapers, if you are > that eager, but please not several. > +1 I would also lean towards keeping it > open, that is: not tied to a release. +100500 I expect that at least one person (ideally at least 2, one as fallback), > volunteers for pack

Re: [ubuntu-art] Alternate Natty Wallpaper Proposal

Hello everyone, I want to add my two cents because I've been a wiki admin for 1,5 years, and there are established and time-proved traditions of handling proposals and making decisions. I'll try to provide a summary of them: 1. Every collaborative task must be proposed to wider audience and

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wanted: Artwork for Ubuntu Software Center department screens

Matthew, Is there a way to use GTK theme colors? You know, white background looks too bright in dark themes, and the blue color used in Maverick is neutral and unobtrusive, but doesn't feel consistent with the rest of the desktop. Respectfully, -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff -- ubuntu-art mailing

Re: [ubuntu-art] My wallpaper submissions

I really like your approach - silhouettes on textured background. It looks balanced and professional, with no snazzy eyecandy. This type of pics will never become old-fashioned. And it's quite symbolic, too. Lubuntu wallpaper is especially cheerful and expressive, but I think would be better withou

Re: [ubuntu-art] Make announcement of submissions mandatory

As for me, I do have time to read the list and post my thoughts, but I don't have time to look through some specs, dig out the links, and check if there are any new submissions in the groups. And even if I bookmark it it would be rather difficult to remember to do it because it doesn't fit in my da

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Artwork Team Logo Deadline Extended

2010/12/8 Vishnoo > > Since obviously option 1 has its pit-fall of not being > international-friendly, let's go with option 2 : "1 February 2010" > > Or if we want to keep it short : "1 Feb 2010" / "2010, 1 Feb" > +1 (or shall I put it

Re: [ubuntu-art] Language barrier for Participation - was Re: Artwork Team Logo - Submissions due today!

> Language Barrier seems to be a very common concern. As the maintainer of > Humanity icon theme I have often been contacted directly by a few other > members who have mentioned the English language as a barrier for > participation. I have also noticed the same problem being mentioned in > other ma

Re: [ubuntu-art] Community toolkit?

Hello everyone, I have a draft of the community toolkit page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Shnatsel/CommunityToolkit Feel free to edit it! -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Needs Artwork : Defualt Splash screen for Open Office

> > So, we do have a default artwork task open : > "The OpenOffice Splash Screens Need Updating" > > I thought Natty will include LibreOffice. And I think we should wait for their final logo and design the splash after it's finished. But we still have sever

Re: [ubuntu-art] [request] packages.ubuntu.com needs rebranding

> > Sergey, > > This is great. There is certainly no reason why we can't do our part to > reduce paper cuts. Ivanka blogged about it > http://design.canonical.com/2010/11/paper-cuts-need-you/ here . > > Thoughts on the best approach? > > John > Rebranding will require tweaks to the engine, so I gu

Re: [ubuntu-art] Compiz close-buttons on expose

Hello! It's better to discuss on Ayatana mailing list, I think. Concepts going beyond visual design into functionality are better handled by the Ayatana project . Respectfully, -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com h

Re: [ubuntu-art] Community toolkit?

2010/11/23 Richard H Lee > On 23/11/10 17:25, Сергей wrote: > > Yes, I know it, but the problem is I can't locate the project. > > I'm not sure about the wiki, but the loco project is located here: > > https://launchpad.net/loco-directory/ > > You c

Re: [ubuntu-art] Community toolkit?

> > For the translation, if you can locate the launchpad project, there > will be a "Help translate" option on the righthand side of the project > overview page. > Yes, I know it, but the problem is I can't locate the project. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.u

Re: [ubuntu-art] Community toolkit?

> > At the moment there isn't a core CSS library that anyone can pick and use > on their sites that integrates the Ubuntu brand guidelines. We are looking > into it now, as we feel it's important and useful. We'll make sure to keep > you posted as this develops. > Thanks! I'll postpone my packages.

[ubuntu-art] Community toolkit?

Hello everyone, I've just tried to start working on redesigning packages.ubuntu.com, and I realized that there should be some CSS implementing Ubuntu website guidelines, and that I have no idea where to look for it. SVG source for Ubuntu pictographs seems to be released, but I have no idea where t

Re: [ubuntu-art] LibreOffice Logo Submission

Hello, To tell the truth, I have no idea what these logos represent. The first one shows some text... with what? And I can undertand that it's text only after I know that it's related to office. The second one shows a gear and something unrecognizable for me. Gears usually scare away non-technical

[ubuntu-art] [request] packages.ubuntu.com needs rebranding

Web interface to Ubuntu repositories, http://packages.ubuntu.com/, needs rebranding to conform the new Ubuntu branding. Frank Lichtenheld maintains this website. Information about upstream developers can be found at at http://packages.ubuntu.com/about/. I guess this should be added to our tasks l

[ubuntu-art] [request] Application branding

Hello everyone! Here's another thing to add to our Tasks page: it's Ubuntu-branded apps initiative led by Scott Ritchie. It first appeared in Karmic, but Ubuntu branding has changed since then, so half of artwork created for Karmic needs updating. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/branding for more info

Re: [ubuntu-art] Screenshots @ Ubuntu.com

> > I do not know the intent or the desired outcome of the authors of > "screenshots.debian.net", but drawing a conclusion from the URL I assume > the > desire was to offer Debian users a method to showcase their desktop. > No. In fact, it's a repository of *application* screenshots. It's intended

Re: [ubuntu-art] Proposal discussion on xubuntu wallpaper/artwork.

Hello everyone! I've just posted a poll idea to OMG! Ubuntu!, let's wait and see if people still want animal wallpapers. Respectfully, -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] screenshots.ubuntu.com

> > Wait, isn't it rather the case that screenshots.ubuntu.com actually > serves screenshots.debian.net? This would not stay this way, then. > Hmm... looks like it is. Screenshots.debian.net aggregates Ubuntu repositories as well as Debian ones. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.

Re: [ubuntu-art] screenshots.ubuntu.com

> > How about one of these for the header? > http://www.foopics.com/showfull/f2a80d3cd8f3a1a388a2b0a53aaa96ac > It looks clean and balanced, but seems confusing for me. It makes me think it's a website for screenshots of Ubuntu itself, not a repository of previews for its applications. I'd rather

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Forums need design assistance

2010/11/15 Mike Basinger > The question mark was the best I could find. > Maybe an aquarium (like at http://start.ubuntu.com/10.10/Google/, community link) would be better? -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Forums need design assistance

> > I used people advise for making forums icons from the pictograms, and made > some changes. What do people think (www.mikesplanet.net/forums) > I think it's better to remove speech dots from the "no new posts" icon. An icon with a question mark also seems an odd icon for a category. -- ubuntu-

Re: [ubuntu-art] Possible tasks

Getting back to the initial point, I've remembered one more task: offline Firefox startpage still uses the old logo, and its CSS still uses the old Ubuntu colors. Actually, the offline start page shows no logo and even no CSS at the moment due to a bug

Re: [ubuntu-art] compiz/unity

I've just googled for symbols of unity. Maybe something like thisor thisin a circle (like the circle around CoF) would fit. --

Re: [ubuntu-art] compiz/unity

> > Thoughts? > In my opinion the current icon ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unity_Logo.svg) is too plain. Actually, the more I look at it, the more I like it, but the first impression is dreadful. The logos proposed in this thread might me not enough symbolic. I'd prefer a simple and sy

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