Hi all, Since my last update a few things has happened regarding xubuntu artwork development that I thought would be beneficial to report to the xubuntu community. As you know from my last update, I incorporated xubuntu visual development to be part of the ubuntu art development process. Since then we got overwhelming approval of our logo. In fact, my logo proposal turned out to be so popular among the community, including Mr Shuttleworth, that they asked me to create one in the same style for ubuntu as well. This was Mr shuttleworth's reaction: "Very classy!" Now, I am working on the ubuntu logo as well, which is already nominated to be one of the official logo for ubuntu.
If you want to know what's going in this regard you can take a look here. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/EdgyProposals/Summary_18JULY2006 Currently, I am also working on some ubuntu splash screen projects. You can see the designs here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkJmakProposals I am also planning to develop a glossy splash for xubuntu along the lines you can see on the page above. Glossy, glossy, glossy, this is the mantra, this is what Mr shuttleworth is pushing for edgy. But our splash needs some animation indicating activities during the boot up. I already have some ideas regarding this, that I will post here, as well as on the art ubuntu site simultaneously, as soon as I put them together. I also have some ideas regarding wallpapers. The usplash probably will be developed together with the other siblings. What we don't have yet is a good default gtk theme. Viper made a proposal that he posted on the xubuntu proposals wiki page. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/XubuntuEdgy/Proposals (I will delete the ubuntu artworks soon, so that the page, in the future will include only xubuntu related artworks; scroll down to the bottom of the page to see viper's proposal) But I found a really good gtk them that would be excellent for edgy with some modifications. The theme is 'Blubuntu' and can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Blubuntu It is part of the official edgy theme development project; simple blue and will be glossified. I think this theme could be excellent as a default theme for xubuntu, provided, it will be developed the way intend. If you think so too let me know and I will get in touch with the developer asking him to develop a version with our color scheme as well. The theme is also include an icon theme and a window décor. Currently, unfortunately, what we don't have is a good icon theme. The blue tango doesn't really fit for it is too blue, lacking contrast; it would be great, if we could find an attractive icon set for edgy. I keep my eyes open and this is what I ask from everyone to do; there is still time and lets hope we will find a good fit for edgy. One more thing; a few weeks back I sent a help request to the community about creating a drop shadow under the username box. I have not received any reply for that. Should this be interpreted that no one knows how to achieve this effect, or this was just an oversight. Please let me know because this effect would really cool to implement and would add a sense of class to edgy. My goal is to make xubuntu the number 2 flavor of the ubuntu family. We have a chance to pass kubuntu in popularity on the disrtowatch either in edgy or in the post-edgy circle. This is where the artworks comes in (in accord, with the lightweight-ness requirements, of course) By the way, anyone who is interested what's going on in kubuntu edgy art development, can take a look at here: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Artwork/Incoming/Kubuntu-Edgy-Ideas And lastly, something that only indirectly belong to the subject discussed above. Probably, some of you read the article about Mr Shuttleworth's speech, he recently delivered in Dublin. If not here is a quote from his speech: "Coders tend to ignore the outward 'prettiness' of applications, not realizing that 'pretty' is a feature." Sorry that this post got a bit longish. J. Mak -- http://jozmak.googlepages.com/ -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
