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Who_hi all12:41
Who_can someone help me with some drawing in Inkscape12:41
Who_I am trying to draw some liquid...12:42
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Who_anyone know how to use the 'mask' feature in inkscape?02:23
Who_I want to use it like Gimp's mask02:24
troy_swho_03:03
Who_hi troy_s:03:03
troy_syou need to learn layers bor03:03
troy_sbro03:03
troy_sthat was a brutal svg :)03:03
troy_sand what mask feature are you trying to use?03:04
Who_I got the mask feature ok (in Inkscape)03:04
Who_...tell me more about layers - as I was doing it I kept thinking 'I wonder if layers would mean I could select things more easily'03:05
Who_or 'I guess this background stuff should all be on one layer' :P03:05
Who_but it didn't seem to happen :P03:05
Who_I have been thinking for phrases relating to Blubuntu - I think technical, clean, scientific are some early indicators03:06
troy_sare you providing some sort of output for the request?03:06
Who_Well, I was going to use the human buttons in website colours....03:07
Who_not tonight though, I have been Blubuntuing tonight and now it is very close to bed time03:07
troy_seek03:08
troy_sit would be nice to demonstrate some of our professionalism by providing at least a potential starting point in svg03:08
Who_oh, yea, I was going to use svg - just the style from the human theme03:09
Who_I have been working on the hardest SVG I've ever done tonight03:10
troy_seeke03:27
troy_sdoesn't sound too proposaly there Who_...03:27
Who_it is for Blubuntu - I need to know if I could do a paticular effect03:28
Who_troy_s: I sort of can :)03:28
Who_troy_s; and I am a bit 'proposaled out' since the lsplashes03:29
Who_(don't worry, I will certainly do much more proposing - I just need a quick break :P)03:29
troy_sLOL03:31
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Who_troy_s: using masks you can make some _funky_ gradients in inkscape03:44
Who_it has come along so much recently03:44
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Who_suspiciously close to Xara's release03:45
Who_hi Viper03:45
Viper550Hello...03:45
Viper550I'm trying to take Tropic in a new direction...away from the Green scheme and off to a pure Orange look03:45
troy_sLord.03:46
troy_sViper... think.03:46
troy_sTake a week.  Think about it.03:46
troy_sHrm.. version .44 Who_ ?03:47
Who_troy_s: yea03:47
Viper550I made that decision way before I said that...03:47
troy_swhat is the font that looks like the ubuntu03:47
Viper550ubuntu-title-font03:47
troy_sfont but plus the tails.03:47
Who_ubuntu title03:47
Viper550Well, I was close, ubuntu-title03:47
Who_troy_s: try applying a linera gradient mask to a radial gradient03:49
Who_it is very funky03:49
Who_what are you playing with, troy_s03:51
troy_shrm...03:53
troy_si am trying to pound out exactly three VERY loose button variants.03:53
troy_sthen i am going to post an activism post to the damn list03:53
troy_sbecause having the documentation team ask for help03:54
troy_sand have zero replies is just plain03:54
troy_sshoddy03:54
troy_show do i make an inverse mask who?03:54
Who_what do you mean by inverse?03:55
Who_do you want me to do some buttons quickly03:56
Who_?03:56
troy_si would love it if you could...03:56
Who_a mask that inverts things?03:56
troy_syou and i can stick on three each03:56
troy_sVERY loose03:56
Who_we'll call them 3 AM buttons :P03:56
troy_sand simply state that they are very loose and pick a direction and we will finish em03:56
troy_sVERY loose :)03:56
troy_si just got off work03:56
troy_sbloody hell.03:56
troy_sinverse03:57
Who_okay, what do yours look like?03:57
troy_smeaning imagine i have a rounded rectangle03:57
troy_smine are rounded rectangle03:57
troy_sbasically03:57
troy_swith a gloss hit on top03:57
troy_sand maybe a who hill stripe03:57
troy_swith a grad.03:57
Who_okay, that's what mine werer going to be like :P - just like the Human buttons03:57
troy_slike i said, damn loose...03:57
troy_sbut then i will try to give three simple directions03:57
troy_syeah03:57
troy_ssomething like that...03:57
troy_stry it03:57
Who_okay, well, I'll try some other things quickly03:58
Who_I'm going to adapt my lozenge03:59
Viper550Guess what, I've got a screenshot of the next build of Tropic on the wiki page now.03:59
Who_link?04:01
Viper550https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Tropic04:01
Viper550I assumed for a moment that you already knew...but, just in case you forgot04:02
Who_Viper550, have you thought about some of the other elements of your theme - remember Mark made it clear that completeness would me a major factor when it came to decifing what would be included04:02
Viper550Yes, I have, I'm going to adapt one of my splash screen propositions for the splash screen, and I've got a pretty nice wallpaper ready for it too04:02
troy_sWho_, let me remind you on how to do a quick cutout later okie?04:06
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Who_troy_s: hold on...you want me to remind you to show me a quick cutout...?04:10
Who_to whoever is listening, I'd love an opinion on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Blubuntu/BlubuntuWallpaper04:18
Who_the new mercury ones, specifically04:18
troy_syah04:26
troy_si'm here.04:26
troy_swho_s04:26
troy_sWho_,04:26
Who_yea, troy_s04:26
troy_shelmet's image is quite good.04:27
troy_syour mercury blobs need to evolve a little... the gloss is starting though04:27
Who_they took me ages04:27
troy_sfirst, you need to liquify the blobs -- not just circle them04:27
Who_I think helmets image is not likely to be a) available in larger sizes and b) free04:27
troy_ssecond, you might want to put a chrome kick across them04:27
Who_liquify?04:28
troy_s(as a starting point (helmets)04:28
troy_suh... damn...04:28
troy_sWE REALLY NEED  A WHITEBOARD APP!!!04:28
troy_sis there an opensource whiteboard app????????????04:28
Who_they are SVGs at the moment04:28
Who_yea, true, we do!04:28
troy_si know, but i can't sketch here.04:28
troy_sthis blows.04:28
Who_there must be a free whiteboard...04:28
troy_sno kidding04:28
Who_can you deskcribe?04:28
Who_oh...you were suggesting I use Helmet's stuff to help me make the mercury blobs look more liquid....ye, great idea :) they are much easier to SVGise than some of the photos I got...04:31
Who_though, if all the pictures of mercury I found are correct, mercury does normally end up in round bubbles04:31
troy_sphew04:31
troy_sgot one.04:31
troy_sno04:31
troy_si was saying helmet04:31
troy_swas a good starting point for something possibly04:31
Who_oh, okay04:32
troy_sfound a whiteboard04:32
Who_rendering that in SVG would make me cry04:32
Who_okie, link me04:32
troy_shttp://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/04:33
troy_slooking into inkscapes... does it work?04:33
Who_inkscape's what?04:33
troy_sinkscape has a collaboration mode04:34
troy_sbut i don't think it is finished04:34
troy_sdownloading the sourceball.04:34
troy_scvs checkout happening now04:37
troy_sthis blows04:42
troy_show do you get the inkscape whiteboard working???04:42
troy_sWho_,  you there?04:44
Who_troy_s: yea, here, but never used inkscape whiteboard....04:44
Who_perhpas just use something like04:44
Who_http://www.imaginationcubed.com/LaunchPage04:45
troy_swell inkscape has inkboard04:45
troy_sgoogle for it...04:45
troy_sits a plugin04:45
troy_sand i am a 64bit dual core04:45
troy_sno flash04:45
Who_it is 4AM here now - I really need to go to bed04:46
Who_can we resume tomorrow04:46
Who_I will have to submit those buttons in the morning (I have 1 now, but it is oh, so simple04:47
troy_syep04:48
troy_slaf.04:48
troy_smorrow... i'll look into inkboard04:48
Who_just sent some buttons05:09
Who_night05:10
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mhbhi everyone11:59
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Viper550Hello everyone03:59
kwwiihowdy Viper55004:00
Viper550I was tweaking Tropic just right now, wanna see?04:01
Viper550https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Tropic04:01
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kwwiilooking better and better04:30
kwwiiI'm off now...bbl04:30
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Viper550Hello09:26
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newz2000there's something anoying me about Ubuntu/Gnome compared to windows...10:33
newz2000its within the power of the art-team to affect it.10:33
kwwiire10:33
newz2000the amount of lost screen real estate lost on gnome/ubuntu compared to windows10:33
newz2000Should I make a spec or should I send a msg to the mailing list first?10:34
kwwiinewz2000: screen real estate lost through what?10:34
newz2000slightly larger chrome and tool bars10:34
kwwiiyou mean window deco and tool bar size?10:35
newz2000yes. http://people.ubuntu.com/~mnuzum/tmp/window-chrome.png10:35
kwwiiI think if you look at that pic closely you will see more than losing screen real estate10:36
kwwiithey use theirs more efficiently10:36
kwwiithe panel is much smaller and better spaced10:36
kwwiiwhile the window corners (the dragable area) is much bigger10:36
newz2000they is Windows, right?10:37
kwwiiyepp10:38
kwwiihehe, who "they" is for a kde user is kinda hard to decide, eh?10:38
kwwii:-)10:38
newz2000yes.10:38
kwwiilol10:38
newz2000Its been tricky to describe... I bought a new laptop when I came to canonical and lost my old one from my previous employer...10:38
newz2000I went down from 1920x1400 to 1280x800.10:39
kwwiiif you did the same with kde I bet you would get even worse results10:39
newz2000So it was quite a change. But still, it feels cluttered and cramped.10:39
newz2000I've not used KDE for a while so can't comment much.10:39
kwwiibelieve me, gnome does better in this respect10:39
kwwiiyeah, I moved from a bigger laptop when working for suse to a smaller one afterwards as well10:40
newz2000Oh, you worked for Suse?10:40
kwwiiand it took me a while to get used to it, I kept changing the panel size/hiding, font size, etc.10:40
kwwiiI did all the suse graphics for 7 years :-)10:40
newz2000That's cool. Why'd you leave?10:41
kwwiithe decision not to support and develop kde anymore10:41
newz2000Ah. When Novel/Ximian took over.10:42
newz2000I hadn't heard that Suse officially abandoned KDE. I figured it would happen though.10:42
kwwiiwell, it is pretty much unofficial but it already happened10:44
kwwiithe thing is this: lots of suse employees wok on it on the side anyway10:44
newz2000Do you still work for Suse?10:45
kwwiinope, although novell offered me a contract to make their website design I turned it down10:45
newz2000oh too bad. They need it.10:45
kwwiisuse is dead for me10:45
kwwiihehe, I made the opensuse site, and I know exactly what kind of shit is involved in it10:45
kwwiibetter to stay out of that mess (although you can earn a lot of money)10:46
kwwiithe whole team who makes their website is now an external company10:46
kwwiithey fired them all10:46
kwwiiand they made their own company10:46
kwwiiand then novell paid even more to hire that company to do the work10:46
newz2000classic10:46
newz2000:D10:46
kwwiiand the same thing almost happened to me, but I decided to take a step away10:46
newz2000Not to rub salt in the wound, Are there any other major desktops besides Kubuntu that ship with KDE as the default now?10:47
kwwiilinspire and xandros are the two "big" ones that come to mind10:47
kwwiimandriva of course10:47
kwwiiand lots of smaller ones10:48
kwwiithat is the major difference between gnome and kde today, I think10:48
kwwiignome is funded by a few really big companies10:48
kwwiiand kde is funded by a lot of small companies10:48
newz2000Yeah10:48
kwwiikde sees that as a strength not a weakness10:48
newz2000I wish we could pick the best from both of them.10:48
newz2000I'd rather code for KDE and I think it has better eye candy, but I think gnome is more usable.10:49
kwwiiin the end, to be really honest, what is good for one is often good for the other (at least in the long run)10:49
newz2000I just hate glib though.10:49
kwwiithere really is only one linux desktop10:49
kwwiikde and gnome are part of both of them10:49
kwwiihehe, "are both part of it"10:49
kwwiilet's talk about gnome and kde in 50 years and I bet we will all have a good lauch10:50
kwwiilaugh10:50
newz2000yeah10:50
newz2000So is the proper protocol to create a spec first or to discuss issues on the ml first?10:51
newz2000(back to the chrome thing)10:51
kwwiihrm, good question10:54
kwwiiperhaps make a bug10:54
kwwiiand then a spec to improve on it10:54
kwwiior a wiki page describing the problem10:54
kwwiiand a spec to iimprove it10:55
newz2000Ah. That's probably a good place to start10:55
newz2000That sounds like a good plan10:55
kwwiiI guess the problem is really in the theme makers hands10:55
kwwiiand perhaps a bit of developement10:55
newz2000I wasn't sure about who can fix it... since we're doing new themes I thought it would be good to suggest here.10:55
kwwiidefinitely10:55
kwwiithings like the window borders are all up to the theme10:56
kwwiithe panel size setting is up to a developer settings, etc, as is the font size, etc.10:56
newz2000Hmm... bummer. Thats where the most space is lost.10:57
kwwiiyepp, in kde we have the opposite problem10:57
kwwiijonathan made the size so small per defualt that on some systems it cuts off the bottom of the icons in the panel :p10:58
kwwiihe made the spacing 0 I think10:59
newz2000No margin for error there10:59
kwwiiexactly11:01
kwwiihonestly, I like the kubuntu panel much better than the default kde panel, but it could still be a bit better11:01
newz2000I've always felt like there was too much crammed into too little space on the kde panel.11:03
newz2000Admittedly its been awhile since I've used it11:03
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kwwiithe shitty arrows showing that an icon is a drawer in kde SUCK11:20
newz2000Well, you are the art-team lead for kubuntu11:22
kwwiihehe11:24
kwwiiyeah, but that is something that is being addressed in kde411:24
mhbkwwii: what icon exactly?11:24
mhbkwwii: name?11:24
kwwiimhb: not an icon, it is an overlay for a drawer11:24
kwwiicheck the kmenu or the System Menu11:24
kwwiithose little arrows simply suck11:25
kwwiiI would rather make the icon more rectangular to show that it is a drawer graphically11:25
kwwiianyone here know how to install java on ppc?11:25
newz2000Good luck with that11:26
newz2000did you try java.sun.com?11:26
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mhb1~11:27
mhbsorry11:27
kwwiinewz2000: hehe, I wanted to simply install it and keep writing my script11:28
kwwiinot work for an hour on figuring out how to install it11:28
newz2000If you have multiverse you can install java using apt I think.11:29
kwwiiI have osx with all the stuff installed already...I'll write the script there and assume that those that run it have a working java installed11:29
kwwiinewz2000: apparently not on ppc11:29
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kwwiiThe following packages have unmet dependencies:11:29
kwwii  sun-java5-jre: Depends: sun-java5-bin (= 1.5.0-06-1) but it is not installable                                               or11:29
kwwii                          ia32-sun-java5-bin (= 1.5.0-06-1) but it is not instal                                              lable11:29
kwwiiE: Broken packages11:29
kwwiifscked up11:30
newz2000if they have it at java.sun.com you just download, chmod +x java...bin and then ./java...bin11:30
newz2000but I don't know if they have it there11:30
kwwiitoo late, I already started editing it on the other machine11:33
kwwiiit is only a small change, so do not feel so bad11:33
kwwii:-)11:33
kwwiichanging the render engine for the script11:33
newz2000My feelings aren't hurt. I rarely use java11:33
newz2000Well, I use eclipse a lot, but I rarely write java11:34
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kwwiiI am only calling a class in a bash script, don't worry11:35
newz2000xalan by chance?11:35
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newz2000oops11:36
newz2000don't press ctrl+w11:37
kwwiibatik, acutally11:49
kwwiiactually11:49
kwwiiit seems to work, so far11:49
kwwiiit is nasty work on the console in osx11:49
kwwiiunless you have a decent setup of course11:50
kwwiilinux is so much better in that aspect11:50
kwwiihehe, so now the script calls every svg in a singular java session11:54
kwwiigreat11:54
kwwiierm11:54
kwwiithis is getting beyond my interest level11:54
kwwiihehe11:54
mhb:o)11:56
kwwiidude, are you good at shell scripting?11:56
kwwiiI could figure this out tomorrow, with time I guess, but tonight I am too worn out to worry11:57
kwwiiI will simply let the script run as is and be happy for now11:58
kwwiicheck on the results, tweak the settings, etc11:58
kwwiiand worry about cpu usage tomorrow11:58
kwwiierm, actually it is probably the disk hits that are worse than the cpu usage11:59
kwwiiread/write stuff loading and unloading11:59
mhb:o))11:59
kwwiiyou like seeing an artist fsck up his own script, eh?12:00
kwwii:-)12:00
mhbyay!12:01
kwwiiand to watch him dance around in chat like the next idiot on the street12:01
kwwii:p12:01
mhbit's better to let the anger come out of you :o)12:01
kwwiiwell, other than the fact that it takes 10x as long to make the theme as before, batik is working great12:02
kwwiimight want to raise that to 100x12:02

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