Hello Coz, Lets not call for people to be fired just yet, I'm sure things can be improved with some community involvement and a little unmooding of the style.
Though it's totally subjective, as style usually is. A lot of people call my graphics too cartoonish and not serious. I tend to iconify instead of illustrate and that's reflected in my styles. Is there an art team? much like the technical board? Regards, Martin On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 19:18 -0400, coz DS wrote: > Hey guys, > I had been on the art team for a number of years. > I am really surprised that some of the artwork, ie,,,boot splash and > splash screen with progress bar , were able to be considered let > alone actually used. > I have to tell you that that the choices for these images and > colours are completely not ubuntu in any way and certainly the worst > choice. > When booting into karmic, the white ubuntu symbol should have had > the colours gradually fill it in as a progress bar...and the following > boot splash the ubuntu logo certainly should have had color and the > background for that image most definitely should NOT have been > used...it implies a dark..albeit muddy,, theme is going to be default > system theme. > I have seen none of the major distributions have any > inconsistencies...including ubuntu...with graphics during install..or > boot..as radical and inappropriate as karmic has. > Who ever has made these decisions is most likely a developer and > there are NO developers capable of making final choices for anything > without discussing the options with at least one "qualified" artist. > Creating and deciding on graphics , especially for a distribution > as globally used as Ubuntu, takes as much skill and time and mental > capabilities as it does to code "any" application...or DE..and any of > the developers who think otherwise should be kept as far away from > decision making about graphics permanently!!! > To mr shuttleworth,,, if you are making final decisions then you > need to pull yourself away from graphics altogether and let the art > team back in as official...if on the other hand you are relying on an > "artist" at cononical to make these final decisions ,, then please > give them their walking papers. > coz > > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
