2008/8/14 Who <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > (summary: check out > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incubator/SecretGarden and give me > some feedback, if you like :) > > I managed to spend a little bit of time thinking about some designs on > holiday and tonight I've tried quickly mocking some of them up. I am > under no false illusions - some of this stuff is UGLY at the moment, > but it is ideas I'm playing with... > > First some background: I wanted the theme to make the computer feel > more real... and I wanted to convey some sense of what is going in > inside as it boots. To me, it feels like a computer is coming alive... > So I took that idea and poked around a bit. The work that I've put on > the wiki is the result of me musing on the ideas of growth. There are > some drawings from my notebook that I will try and get around to > putting up later... > > The idea is that each subsequent step in the boot process will have > 'grown' from the previous one... > Usplash-->GDM-->Lsplash-->Desktop should be transition > > So, so far I've just messed about with usplash and GDM. I am not so > sure about the technical possibilities of my GDM - I'd like some > suggestions on that. I did a quick lsplash (session-splash) idea but > tbh I'd really like the session splash to be fullscreen... and > animated :P... > > So, finally, some actual work. > There is a mock up Usplash > 4 GDM mockups - which do you like best? Why? > 1. Lsplash, but see the note on that one > > If anyone likes the ideas I'd be really happy for some help working on > this. You might notice that I have created a 'Incubator' section of > the Art Team wiki. This is to indicate I see this as a long term thing > - I don't have the time to push it out for any specific release - > it'll be done when we do it... etc... I would like to think of it as a > 'theme team' style project. > > If you like the ideas then get drawing, put up some sketches or > mockups :) At this stage I would suggest anyone contributing to this > theme do quite quick work not really precise stuff, but because that's > likely to be a waste of time as the end result might be quite > different from the ideas on the page right now. I don't want anyone > feeling like they wasted their time :)
I like the general idea of the computer coming to life. And using the plant metaphor. Some comments: - Is the intent to have the final artwork in the same simple lines and color spectrum as the mockups? I can not fully extract your intentions here... - Watch out for a tentacle-like feel... - I like the black with the orange bar best. It is somehow more in line with the standard ubuntu artwork. - Second best would be the white with the thin orange bar. Simpler in composition than my prefered one, but bordering on just way to simple, but maybe with a bit of subtle details it could shine. The danger in this one is going to Mac-style. - Maybe a synthesis of the two I mention above. Grayish/Cream gradient as background, thin orange bar... - About the technical sides of usplash I suggest you contact Troy (I am not sure he's on this mailing list anymore). He has done some pretty interesting thing for Mythbuntu. -- Cheers, Mikkel -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
