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Tm_Tartnay: FINALLY! (yeah, code might be ugly but it works here!) http://kapsi.fi/~tm_travolta/kuvat/temp/kedubuntu-basic-03.svg09:04
klepasTm_T: looks clean and sharp (the image, heven't peaked at the xml) :)09:07
Tm_Tso it works, good09:13
Tm_Tearlier I had problem with xml09:14
Tm_Tnow save as plain svg, read, modify, save as plain svg, read, modify back fixed the problem :p09:14
klepascool09:16
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artnayhey guys02:35
artnaydamn, I missed the meeting :(02:35
artnayI've had some serious problems with all my computers (like not getting further from BIOS) 02:36
artnayone lost VGA signal etc.02:36
klepashey artnay !02:36
artnayand they are all broken at the moment02:36
artnayhey klepas02:36
artnayhow was the meeting?02:36
klepashey man, been a while now02:36
klepasi didn't know about it02:36
klepasjust sort of was on at the right time02:36
artnayso did you have it?02:37
klepasnot much happened02:37
klepasyea02:37
artnaygreat02:37
artnaywell that doesn't surprise me02:37
artnayat least henrik was present, that's good. I've wanted to chat with him for a while now02:37
artnayI really need to get some new HW so that all computers would be functional02:38
artnayklepas: so school started, eh?02:39
artnayhow was LCA?02:39
klepasno02:39
klepasthat is monday02:39
klepasartnay: LCA was the most fun i've had for a very, very long time02:39
klepascheck my blog man :)02:39
artnaywhat about andy's icon set?02:39
artnaydo we something to play with?02:40
artnay*insert have*02:41
klepasandy is working on something as a sort of shot-off of tango02:42
klepascanonical will hire more graphic artists02:42
klepasespecially one to do a set02:42
klepasand our influence on what goes into mainstream won't change02:42
klepasthat doesn't mean some of our wallpapers or splashes might not make it into dapper or future releases02:43
klepasthey just need to be very good02:43
klepasas for artwork in general we are encouraged to make and maintain art packages02:44
klepasif they are good and popular enough entire packages might be included in mainstream02:44
klepasthat's the jist of it pretty much02:44
artnayoh, really? I was told that there was plans to hire experts but nothing happened with it02:44
artnayso dapper+1 then02:45
artnayhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Evaluation/MetacityTheme02:45
artnaywhat's the main difference between cl2 and unity-no-red? if I recall correctly, unity does not waste that much space02:46
artnaybut then, that goes against "the bigger the better when it comes to important functions" principle02:46
artnayat least I think that the current metacity theme has too big buttons02:47
artnay...if you take account that X will not get configured correctly, you end up with terrible large metacity theme and low resolution :o02:47
klepasi'm personally fond of a brown version of tango metacity02:50
klepas:)02:50
artnaythe edge is terribly large by default02:53
klepasyea, true02:53
klepasbut it could be fixed :)02:53
klepasbtw, using gnome now02:53
klepason ubuntu02:53
artnaysorry guys, I'm using vista at the moment (friend's computer) and its windeco (aero black) is pretty damn decent02:53
artnaymuch better than xp's luna02:54
klepashttp://wombat.nuxified.com/files/mydesktop_06-02-03.jpg02:54
artnayI find this better than OS X's traffic lights. maybe because this one reflects much better when cursor goes over buttons02:55
artnaywhat, klepas using G? :P02:55
klepasartnay: read my blog... :P02:56
klepasreasons are covered there02:56
artnayok02:57
artnayso how was the change?02:57
klepasi'm still somewhat going through it02:58
klepaslots of things in gnome that really shitting me02:58
klepasand kubuntu annoyed me even more02:58
klepasgnome it is for a while02:59
artnayso was there any word of schedule for andrew's icon set?02:59
artnayhmm03:00
artnayhopefully kubuntu will get more (financial and dev) focus after dapper03:00
klepasi probably ought to properly explain what andy wants to do03:02
klepasbasically rather than make so many icon sets, each with a different colouration and such03:02
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klepasbecause it really is a lot of work03:02
klepashe wants to make a sort of generic set03:02
artnayI know, he explained it to me some time ago03:02
klepaswhich can be altered really quickly03:02
klepasah, good03:02
artnaysounds reasonable03:03
klepashe wants to integrate it into tango03:03
klepasyea03:03
artnaythat way just adapt ubuntu's palette to it and voila03:03
klepashe didn't inform me of any timeframe03:03
klepasandy is a great guy btw03:03
artnayso let's assume that is not for dapper03:03
klepasno03:03
klepasdefinitely not03:03
artnaydamn, I'm missing words every once in a while03:03
klepascanonical is hiring a graphic artists from scandinavia to do it03:03
artnaywhy scandinavia?03:04
klepasfor dapper03:04
klepasno idea03:04
jsgotangcoheh03:04
klepasi guess the guy just lives there that they had in mind03:04
artnayumh, they will have some really busy time03:04
klepasmark didn't hint on his name03:04
jsgotangcowe can still make a difference with AUC03:04
artnayjsgotangco: we actually should make03:04
klepaswell i don't really care if they want the art team to not really have any major influence on mainstream art03:04
artnaythat's a necessity if you ask me :o03:04
klepasmore work for them03:05
klepasand if they or their artists bugger up not my problem03:05
artnayme neither, I'd just like to see some proper plans03:05
klepasyea03:05
klepasi'm going to ask Jeff to re-inforce the fact that we really don't get to decide what goes into mainstream03:05
artnayhmm, damn NAT. it's giving me a headache with this ssh connection03:06
jsgotangco:/03:07
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artnayhmm, I was told something really different by two canonical devs03:07
artnayso, yes, announce the facts and there will be misunderstandings03:08
jsgotangco2 different things?03:08
artnay*NO*03:08
artnayas I said, I'm missing words here :)03:08
klepasjsgotangco: you're using gnome?03:08
artnay2 different things, yeah. you could sum that up to one thing, there really are no proper plans to be announced :(03:08
jsgotangcoyes03:09
jsgotangco(i can switch to kde if you need something)03:09
klepasah, goodie03:09
klepasnah, i've just moved to gnome03:09
jsgotangcowhat's up?03:09
klepasi'm after a good gtk rss feed aggregator03:09
klepaswondering whether you could recommend some good ones :)03:09
artnayliferea is my bet03:09
artnayor thunderbird03:10
jsgotangcoim using liferea03:10
klepasi dislike thunderbird03:10
artnayhaven't really used GTK apps for some time03:10
jsgotangcoi used to have blam but since since i found lifrea, i've stuck to it03:10
klepasalrighty, i'll give it a go03:13
klepashey you two03:14
klepasmy personal suggestion is we just let canonical do their stuff03:14
klepasand we'll fix this wiki so others who join the team aren't under the notion that they can directly get their work into mainstream03:14
klepasand they we can produce and manage some universe art packages03:15
klepasand do some work aside from that which might go into mainstream03:15
jsgotangcowell yes i was thinking more of cultivating community so that they'll see what we can actually do03:16
jsgotangcopackaging them won't be a problem03:17
klepasjsgotangco: i just cba fighting what canonical, mark and others think in regards to this03:20
klepasbecause it will mean distraction from what i want to work on03:20
klepasand senseless frustration03:20
jsgotangcotoo bad i didnt get the chance to discuss that much art stuff with mark when i had lunch with him last thursday :/03:22
jsgotangcowe discussed more about docs03:23
artnayhmm03:23
jsgotangcoi dont think art has its own repository even03:24
jsgotangcobut that's only secondary03:24
artnayI agree that wiki should be fixed03:24
artnaybut how? henrik made some big changes but I don't follow them03:24
artnaythere was this wiki page for wiki structure proposal (thanks to mhz for that)03:25
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artnayfor example /Artwork should be renewed (there are dupe links) but now I have no idea how to set it up03:26
klepasyea03:27
klepasand it should be /ArtWork03:27
klepasfor CamelCase purposes03:27
artnayno offense but I think that the renewal of /Artwork missed the point03:28
artnayI think news section is essential03:28
klepasyep03:28
artnayon the main page...03:28
klepasi won't have time to have a look at it03:28
klepasdamn college begins monday03:28
klepasand i've got to get this damn system working how i like it before then03:29
jsgotangcowhat do you suggest on the wiki page i can help out with markup03:29
Tm_Tartnay: moin03:29
klepasbtw jsgotangco, liferea is really nice. cheers :)03:31
artnaywell my suggestion was what I set up last time03:31
jsgotangcooh goodie03:33
artnayI see no point in official wiki page. that one should be combined with marketing team's web button page etc.03:33
artnayand separate all the logos under different /*buntuArtwork pages03:33
artnayand you could navigate to those /*buntuArtwork pages though /Artwork03:34
artnayand the general feedback page is kind of useless. it *should* receive so much comments that it would be hard to navigate it03:38
artnaymy proposal was to have a wiki page for each project. one to contain dependencies, members, current state, issues etc.03:38
artnayand other one for wip artwork and comments03:38
artnayit would be easier to track the comments that have something to do with projects one is interested of03:39
jsgotangcoUbuntuArtwork/KubuntuArtwork/etc?03:39
artnayjsgotangco: UbuntuArtwork, KubuntuArtwork, EdubuntuArtwork and XubuntuArtwork for now (in order of appereance)03:40
artnaybut the issue was how to cover those projects that are being worked on several *buntus03:40
artnaymainly UbuntuArtwork and EdubuntuArtwork as they use the same GNOME software in many cases03:41
artnayso, we would have ended to /Artwork/UbuntuArtwork/Metacity etc.03:42
artnayI find the current structure much harder to navigate as it hides a lot of essential information under several pages03:43
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artnayI consider /ArtworkTeam/Proposals to be the most important page currently, but it's hidden and the links are without explanations03:44
jsgotangcohmmm xchat is locking up on me again03:45
artnaymhz_dinner: 03:45
artnayhow's gnome-xchat anyways?03:45
jsgotangcohideous in my opinion03:46
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artnayhey, GNOME's splash03:47
artnayhttp://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=108761&page=4 - #1 and #3303:50
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artnayany comments on those? if the metacity theme will be rounded, how about using the third one on #1? #33 is a nice approach, try it :o03:53
klepas33 is nice03:55
klepasbut i doubt we have any say in the matter03:55
artnayumh, isn't that against CoC? ;p03:56
artnayI mean, of course we should have some input, but the decision would be made by canonical devs and mark03:56
artnayand if they don't have time for that nor hired experts, who will do that?03:57
klepasyea, i guess04:00
klepasi might have a crack at it then after i do this splash for sweep :)04:00
artnayhow about background?04:07
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asdaxhallo everybody04:08
artnayhey04:08
asdaxi think all the pixel graphics icons should be replaced with svg in the next realese04:08
artnaywhat's on your mind?04:08
asdaxif it would be possible, it is much cooler when you can scale all icons04:08
artnayit's not possible in every case AFAIK04:08
asdaxwitch case not?04:08
artnayand SVGs are heavier than PNGs04:09
klepasasdax: that is up to whether the underlying technology can04:09
artnaybut yes, I love SVGs04:09
klepasnot the artists04:09
artnay:)04:09
asdaxnot when they are rederd once04:09
asdax:P04:09
asdaxbut like all desktop icons04:09
klepasfor example Qt in KDE 4 will have full SVG support04:09
asdaxbecouse its very nice when one can scale them (i use big icons)04:09
artnayasdax: I fully agree on that04:09
klepasasdax: rendering a PNG icon is easier for the computer than rendering SVGs04:09
asdaxbut i had to replace alot of icons that where pixelbased becouse they looked so ugly when they where scaled04:10
artnayyep, and it's much easier to change colours when you don't need gimp files etc.04:10
asdaxyes :)04:10
artnayasdax: but the case is that we have no clue of the next icon set04:10
asdaxare you all active in the making of the graphics for the next realese of ubuntu?04:10
artnayyasis is one chance04:10
artnayno we're not04:10
asdaxoki04:11
asdaxi could contribute some svg graphics04:11
asdaxi made my own icon for the harddrive becouse that one was pixelbased04:11
artnaythat would be great04:11
artnayyep04:11
asdaxwhere does the graphics developers hang around?04:11
asdaxor who to contact about such things?04:11
artnaymy suggestion would be to use human yasis as a base icon set and then modify it heavily04:11
artnayuse some tango icons, some andy's icons etc.04:12
jsgotangcoyou mean art that comes in the distro? that's contracted outside04:12
asdaxoki04:12
jsgotangcothe tango icons need some changes04:12
artnayjust use ubuntu palette in those icons and add a unified reflection to all icons04:12
asdaxis that the one that is the default in breezer?04:12
jsgotangcoto match the palette04:12
artnayfrom left above, just like tango is doing04:12
asdaxwho is tango?04:13
artnayjsgotangco: yep, I think tango is a bit too colourful04:13
artnayjust type "tango icon project" in your fx's address bar04:14
artnaythat will do it :)04:14
asdaxi have no tango command04:14
artnaywait, I'll give you the address04:15
asdaxbut the people in here are the onces responsible for the graphics shiped with ubuntu?04:15
artnayhttp://tango-project.org/Tango_Icon_Gallery04:15
klepasi might be off04:15
klepasgood night folks04:15
jsgotangconight klepas 04:15
artnayits license is CC-SA 2.5 which is debian takes as a free license04:15
jsgotangcohave a good one04:15
klepascheers04:16
artnayit permits everyone to change the palette etc.04:16
jsgotangcoyes04:16
artnayno, none of us here is responsible for what is being included in default installation04:16
asdaxi want to get involved alite with that04:16
asdaxi like to make svg graphics :)04:16
asdaxwho are working with that then?04:17
artnaysure, one thing would to form a team to be responsible for the icon set04:17
artnayumh, I don't have any idea of that :o04:17
jsgotangcothat's contracted outside for now (especially the wallpaper)04:17
artnayI don't know who did the background, who did the metacity theme etc.04:17
artnayjsgotangco: which parts of DE have been outsourced?04:18
asdax:P04:18
artnayartwork in ubuntu to be precise04:18
asdaxso what are people in here doing then?04:18
jsgotangcoasdax, we're trying to form a team you see04:19
asdaxaha04:19
artnayasdax: umh, tweaking their own DEs and having a chat with people interested in ubuntu artwork04:19
jsgotangcoand we've been trying to do that since breezy04:19
asdaxwhat is a DE?04:19
artnayacronym for desktop enviroment04:19
artnaydamn typos04:19
asdaxoki04:19
artnayjsgotangco: yes, but there are a few things that have been preventing people to fully contribute on ubuntu artwork04:20
asdaxwhat things?04:20
jsgotangcowell there's a.u.c. but its terribly tedious work for admins04:21
artnaythe lack of information, clear goals, disorganization04:21
asdaxoki04:21
asdaxauc? is that on organisation?04:21
artnaywe've been trying to get answers to our questions but haven't succeded in that04:22
asdax:P04:22
artnayno, it's http://art.ubuntu.com04:22
asdaxseems to be very much disorganisation then ;)04:22
artnayAUC should be the primary web site for ubuntu artwork04:22
jsgotangcosilbs used to be involved but she seemed a bit busy lately04:22
jsgotangcoartnay, yes, me and henrik talked about moving it to moin04:23
artnayjsgotangco: volvo and I have sent several mails to different people without getting replies04:23
asdaxoki04:23
jsgotangcowho?04:23
jsgotangcojeff?04:23
artnayand we have even /msg'd "hey, drop me a msg when you're there"04:23
asdaxhope the rest of the ubuntu project is better organaiset :P04:23
jsgotangcoasdax, define organized :)04:24
artnayjsgotangco: no, not jeff. I've spoken to many devs and they have instructed to contact PR people04:24
asdax:P04:24
jsgotangcoPR people?04:24
artnayJane*04:24
jsgotangcosilber?04:24
artnayand W04:24
jsgotangcobut JaneW is a project person04:24
artnayvolvo sent his first mail back in july04:25
jsgotangcoshe's not involved in development at all04:25
jsgotangcoshe'll pass whatever info/email she gets to a dev or a community member that can give an answer04:25
artnayok, good to know04:26
jsgotangcoshe's a really nice lady really04:27
artnayasdax: many of us have contributed a way or another. the main issue is just that we haven't organized, combined our strenghts to pick the best artwork out there04:27
asdaxis volvo someone who use to hang around in this channel?04:27
jsgotangcoyes04:27
asdax:P04:27
artnayhe is the artwork team leader04:27
jsgotangcohe's one of the original artwork people04:27
artnaytake a look at the member list04:27
asdaxoki04:27
jsgotangcobut he got into some health problems lately04:28
asdaxdoes volvo use to hang around in this channel?04:28
artnayyep, he was in a surgery04:28
jsgotangcoand i haven't seen andy for quite a while 04:28
asdaxoki04:28
artnay /last volvo = no result04:28
artnayexcludind what we spoke :o04:28
asdaxdont know what excludind means :P04:29
asdaxsorry04:29
artnayexcluding04:29
asdaxaha04:29
asdaxthen i think i know04:30
asdaxwhat harddrive icons do you use?04:32
asdaxi maybe should show you the one i made04:32
artnaywindows vista :(04:32
asdaxdo you use the original?04:32
asdaxare you running on windows vista? (is that realesed?) :P04:32
artnayactually I don't even have a working computer now04:32
artnayfriend's laptop04:32
asdaxaha04:32
artnayall my three computers are broken at the moment04:33
artnayI'm waiting for new HW04:33
artnaythat's why I missed the meeting, damn :/04:33
asdaxi thought vista wasnt realesed yet, but i am not that up to date with the windows world :P04:33
artnayit's not04:33
asdaxis there hardwere errors in all 3 of your computers?04:33
artnayit will most probably be released before dapper+104:34
asdaxoki :P04:34
asdaxhas it leaked out on the internet then or how did you friend got it?04:34
artnayyep, one crashes even in BIOS, one doesn't send VGA signal and one doesn't even boot04:34
artnayMSDN subscriber04:34
asdaxoki04:34
asdaxdid you do anything special with the computers when they got strange?04:35
artnayhttp://www.ubuntuforums.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1600&c=304:35
artnaythere's the hd icon I use04:35
artnaynot actually, I didn't use one for a long time04:35
asdaxoki04:36
artnayand one just crashed after 17 days of uptime04:36
artnayand since that it has kept crashing even in BIOS04:36
asdaxdoes windows vista look nice or is it as ugly as xp? :p04:36
artnayI was pleasantly surprised by the changes (at least artwork changes :>)04:36
artnayaero black kicks luna's ass big time04:36
asdaxnice screenshot, it looks alite bit mac04:36
asdaxwhat windowsmanager do you use?04:37
artnayand this one has nice effects04:37
artnayKWin04:37
asdaxoki04:37
asdaxnever heard of04:37
artnayit's KDE running there04:37
asdaxaha :P04:37
artnayKWin is what Metacity to GNOME04:38
asdaxoki04:38
artnaydamn, now I'm starting to miss verbs as well :)04:38
asdaxbut you dont use everything in kde, just some parts of it that is kwin then?04:38
artnayKWin takes care of the windecos etc.04:39
jsgotangcoi gotta crash04:39
jsgotangcogood night04:39
artnaybye04:39
artnayand it was nice talking with you04:39
asdaxbye bye04:40
artnayWM != DE04:40
jsgotangconeat-o04:40
asdaxDE is KDE with all menys and everything and WM is just for moving the windows and so on?04:41
asdax:P04:41
asdaxor am i wrong?04:41
artnayDE includes lots of other stuff what WMs are mostly missing04:41
asdaxlike menus?04:41
artnaylike file managers, music players, internet browser etc.04:41
artnaylook at the wikipedia, it might explain the difference04:42
artnaybut DEs include WMs04:42
asdaxoki :)04:42
artnaybut, umh, I have to get going04:42
asdaxoki, C U04:42
asdaxhave a nice day!04:42
artnayI might come back later today, depends on what will happen04:42
asdaxoki04:42
artnayyou too, hope to see you here again04:42
artnaybue04:43
derek[] bbl05:17
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