Re: [ubuntu-art] Meerkat volume control design

2010-10-11 Thread SorinN
...some players as Banshee need a plug-in to be listed also I have many players installed - but the applet see only Rhythmbox (which is not my player of choice btw.) I have Listen, Exaile, Guyadeque now - all working on the same time - and none of them is listed. Maverick is up to date. 2010/10/1

Re: [ubuntu-art] Meerkat volume control design

2010-10-10 Thread SorinN
Hi mr. Ersin, you have your right - in many points of design decisions side - some things seems to lack a serious rationale behind (but I can understand that as a lack of developer power and maybe some short delivery terms for this ambitious project [Ayatana]) - but all in all is this is a work in

Re: [ubuntu-art] Metacity Button Order Changed

2010-03-05 Thread SorinN
Yes. What was to happen was happened :( Very much amateurism on this change (right corner to left corner for close / minimize / maximize buttons). Yes amateurism - you hear well my friends. A good Human Machine Interaction engineer will not do such a move. There are laws and principles. Some Unix

Re: [ubuntu-art] Default design note

2009-10-05 Thread SorinN
s a huge step up. I'm > sure within a few releases it will be really great. > >  @ SorinN, I think if you really wanted to change the GUI as a whole > you should look into joining the gnome community. I'm sure you have > some great ideas that they might be able to use. &

Re: [ubuntu-art] Default design note

2009-10-05 Thread SorinN
inal advice : please read again and understand in context. I talked about "peoples which will cross from XP to Ubuntu not to win7", I don't say "all peoples will cross from XP to Ubuntu NOT to win7". Take care about nuances. 2009/10/5 Jerry Casiano : > > >

Re: [ubuntu-art] Default design note

2009-10-04 Thread SorinN
The strange point is that 90% users will not customize anything. The global perception of Ubuntu user experience, will still walk around the first look. To gain a new level of perception which is needed for the large mass (yep - peoples which will cross from XP to Ubuntu not to win7), a whole new l

Re: [ubuntu-art] Default design note

2009-10-04 Thread SorinN
Just to comment on first post. For the best feeling after 15-20 sec 1 Vista 2 Leopard 3 Gnome (Ubuntu) as a second opinion >> KDE desktop can beat those listed, even Windows 7 - but is not on the list ;) 2009/10/4 Cory K. : > Dávid Horváth wrote: >> Hey Dear Artists! >> >> I read a topic on Ubu

Re: [ubuntu-art] akhil mk wants to chat

2009-09-07 Thread SorinN
Yep ..nice 2009/9/7 Antonio Roberts : > I think the person sent out an invitation to Google Talk to everyone > in their address book, which obviously includes this mailing list. > > Ant > > 2009/9/7 Hrafn Nordhri : >> what the heck is this? >> - >> "Open war is upon you whether you would risk it o

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wave User Requests

2009-07-18 Thread SorinN
ation must change >> anyway I hope new themes will adapt the normal old style to render drop down lists - because seems to be possible to to that from theme engine. Anyway good luck ! 2009/7/18 Antonio > В 11:41 +0300 на 18.07.2009 (сб), SorinN написа: > > well - I mean anout beh

Re: [ubuntu-art] New Wave User Requests

2009-07-18 Thread SorinN
Well - mode color versions - the Blue version like Blue Wave, possibility to switch to normal ( old ) combo-box style for opening / listing options for all applications ( because is better - Gnome does not do a better thing with the "new" combo-boxes opening style from an Usability point of view,

Re: [ubuntu-art] Are we ditching Orange/Brown for Karmic?

2009-04-25 Thread SorinN
nowhere is written - brown is to be killed ;) It will not serve to anyone to let away a point that give a particular touch to Ubuntu { but also brown & Co was too heavy used on everything - a bit over the limits in my oppinion } Mark think is better to ad some life and joy in the Desktop area. Br

Re: [ubuntu-art] Yukai theme ( Metacity )

2008-11-28 Thread SorinN
Pretty elegant, original minimize button. Congrats !. 2008/11/28 Bart Van Loy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi everyone , > > I'm working on a new theme as i told before . > I did some more work on the buttons , giving it a smoother look . > > Here you'll find it : > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Auticoder >

Re: [ubuntu-art] Art opinions

2008-11-27 Thread SorinN
..to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know why you like to tease peoples ? I see that before. If he ..top-post, tell him normally something like : - hey man please don't top post, we try to keep clean here. It's enough. Don't forget Ubuntu is all in all about humanity ..to us and to others. Than mean s

Re: [ubuntu-art] Naxos Theme Clear Version

2008-10-04 Thread SorinN
int, and you don't have arguments, then shoot on my English. Best wishes & a dollar for you. SorinN 2008/10/4 Thorsten Wilms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 15:11 +0300, SorinN wrote: > > *in a terribly hard to read broken/telegram style* > > I like

Re: [ubuntu-art] Naxos Theme Clear Version

2008-10-04 Thread SorinN
of course water is liquid - but that's not the point here - Will be usable for the rest of the world OR just for few fans and peoples with free time ?? ( that's the game between brown - red - orange schemes and gray - lightgray - lightblue schemes ) . My respect, and 5 cents. Sori

Re: [ubuntu-art] Need Help Testing Dust Theme

2008-09-23 Thread SorinN
OK, first problem is not a bug - entire theme is pretty OK as design but the main problem is ..it is black. This is the ultimate way to become usable by the "normal peoples" - and that's the point. Ubuntu need to be a distro for all not for "a superior elite" as many MAC users pretend to be ( an t

Re: [ubuntu-art] Finally something OK

2008-08-19 Thread SorinN
If you don't mind ..please repeat the message cos I don't understand your point Vadim.Consider that I talk about concept - widgets, tabs ..etc - not about colors. Save images, put them on GIMP - change the colors( you can use Colors->Components>Channel Mixer, Preserve Luminosity ) - then look at th

Re: [ubuntu-art] Human 2

2008-08-19 Thread SorinN
Kim, all OK but Orange BG + Black Text on Selectable / Focused elements is not a good contrast for visual focus - please try Orange BG + White text for a better visual mark and usability.Also Scrollbar is a bit too slim - orange top and bottom visual marks - not needed for scroll bar - is an "ove

[ubuntu-art] Finally something OK

2008-08-19 Thread SorinN
Please take a look here - at the theme that is used for Freezy Linux ( Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron and GNOME )http://www.freezylinux.com/node/11 -- Nemes Ioan Sorin -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Intrepid Dust Theme

2008-08-19 Thread SorinN
1. What I can see ? - finally an other scrollbar design - (as I proposed in the past). For the rest we have Aurora M1, Aurora Borealis, Orion Aurora, Dark Aurora ...etc. Nothing 'kinky' on this theme (that's good). Pretty bad is dark - but at least is simple, clean, clear.2. You should put triangle

Re: [ubuntu-art] More Mockups

2008-07-28 Thread SorinN
Agree with "Also, I'm thinking of getting a team together..." but not only for this theme. For all themes. We should organize more than 1 team. Sincerely I'm on the side of Usability working day by day with these values - doing interfaces ;) ( yep GUI ) - so I don't agree for now on too much shine

Re: [ubuntu-art] More Mockups

2008-07-28 Thread SorinN
those buttons are good additions -> they are explicit about their functions. slim.smooth.good 2008/7/28 Nicholas Kraak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> New batch, I tried to get everyones ideas in here. The only thing I did >> differently from the suggestions was the buttons, the gray background to >> the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Human 2 .deb

2008-07-27 Thread SorinN
ok, now just imagine that I can't observe that. Emerald works OK - no memory / CPU overloaded. CPU is about 1 to 5 % with Emerald ..the same with Metacity 2008/7/28 shadowh511 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Jul 27, 2008, at 11:00 PM, SorinN <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ubuntu-art] Human 2 .deb

2008-07-27 Thread SorinN
man shadowh511 -> peoples just ask here for * or for ..other *.. ;) being a discussion list they had all rights to do that and it's normal to be that way. for example Kim told us about the progress of his theme. Which are interested in emerald aspect of life, will test new the new deb and will p

Re: [ubuntu-art] Whats Up with This?

2008-07-01 Thread SorinN
hort: 1. I vote down for this theme. Sorry. 2. I'll use this theme on my free time doing artworks, because I like it. I think I'll change the scrollbar color before ;) 2008/7/1 Julian Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ..on or around Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:27:16PM +0300 SorinN wrote

Re: [ubuntu-art] Whats Up with This?

2008-07-01 Thread SorinN
regarding: > See the complaints? We cannot let this happen. This theme is even worse > then the default of Hardy 1. Well my question is about "worse" word. What is so worse .. ? 2. indeed some things could be improved. Scrollbars are almost invisible - which is not good - always you have to

Re: [ubuntu-art] creamlooks-gtk

2008-03-22 Thread SorinN
> Sebastian Billaudelle > Original-Nachricht > > Datum: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:23:03 +0200 > > Von: SorinN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > An: "Discussion on Ubuntu artwork" > > Betreff: Re: [ubuntu-art] creamlooks-gtk > > > >

Re: [ubuntu-art] creamlooks-gtk

2008-03-22 Thread SorinN
I'm sorry but http://kieselsteinchen.ki.funpic.de/creamlooks.tar.gz don't work because of acces rights. Actually is Forbiden. So : 1. Please let us download this file ;) .. 2. Can we do this hack for other engines ? cheers, Sorin 2008/3/17, Sebastian Billaudelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Oops.

Re: [ubuntu-art] hardy artwork

2008-01-28 Thread SorinN
Clear Looks or Ubuntulooks would look nice with an usable scrollbar ( I mean distinctive ) - as the Aurora theme has ( even that Aurora tent to be on top of highest rated of gtk2 engines on gnome-look.org [ that's mean something - rest of the world dont care about what we talk here ;) - maybe we ca