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nysosymgood mornign :D08:05
darkmatterhi nysosym08:06
darkmatternysosym, jimmac updated the industrial cursors http://jimmac.musichall.cz/themes.php?skin=708:08
nysosymhi darkmatter, how are u? :D08:08
darkmatterthey look awesome on my gnome08:08
darkmatter:)08:08
darkmatterI'm ok... sick.. but alive enough to work on my themme ;)08:08
nysosymwow clean and stylish, try it out :D08:08
darkmatter*theme08:08
darkmatternysosym, http://jimmac.musichall.cz/weblog.php/Artwork/TangoBlender.php <--- thats slick too08:09
nysosymyes, very very good :D08:11
nysosymthx for info ;08:11
nysosym;)08:11
darkmatterI'm going to fetch the latest devbuild sources later :D08:12
darkmatternysosym, my theme has a new overall color... it looks quite nice (though I need to soften the gradient on the tool/menu png08:23
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lizardkinghi02:55
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lizardkingI made a logo for OranSun theme03:03
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troy_slizardking: Where is it?05:04
lizardkingtroy_s: It is not so much05:06
lizardkingtroy_s: http://www.flickr.com/photos/iac_lizardking/382710211/05:07
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troy_sI think the ubuntu font has a lot to be desired...05:09
troy_sUse modata, it is far more stylish and the character spacings are far superior.05:09
troy_sThe ubuntu font is awkward for a number of reasons, not the least being spacing issues, tail heights, drops, etc.05:09
lizardkingtroy_s: modata? where i find it?05:12
lizardkingtroy_s: look at this, friend. https://answers.launchpad.net/oransoda-look/+ticket/355305:17
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troy_slizardking: look in fonts05:42
troy_si can't remember the full title05:42
troy_slizardking: MgOpen Modata is the offical name.05:49
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lizardkingtroy_s:  thanks friend!sudo aptitude install ttf-mgopen06:02
troy_slizardking: you should have it already -- I think it is in the default install.06:02
troy_slizardking: it is a far superior font.  it _should_ be the bloody ubuntu title, but instead they choose to use that kludgy looking monster.06:02
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lizardkingtroy_s: eheheh06:03
troy_slizardking: Typeset masters are rare.  It truly is a craft like everything else.06:04
troy_sPingunZ: How's things friend?06:08
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PingunZtroy_s, fine .. but I've got to eat now :)06:13
PingunZlater06:13
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alefterishi kwwii :) did you merged my branch on feisty-gdm-themes?06:19
kwwiialefteris: nope, I think dholbach will do that06:20
alefterisok :)06:20
kwwiiI'm asking him now06:20
alefterisalso, is the artwork team involved with the redesign of the ubuntu website?06:21
kwwiiyes, it should be06:22
kwwiiyour gdm changes will be merged soon ;-)06:24
alefteristhanks06:25
alefterisso there are people working on the website artwork it right now?06:25
kwwiinot that I know of06:46
kwwiiI do know that any changes need to be agreed upon by those above06:46
kwwiiok, I gotta go06:47
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PingunZ|foooodalefteris, where can I see your gdm changes ?06:56
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alefterisPingunZ, https://code.launchpad.net/~alefteris/+branch/feisty-gdm-themes/fix.bug7082906:57
alefterisits just a simple replacement of Bitstream Vera with the alias Sans06:58
PingunZoh07:02
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PingunZhi darkmatter :)07:09
darkmatterhi PingunZ07:09
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PingunZdarkmatter, wohoo07:09
PingunZdarkmatter, screenies ?07:10
darkmatterwanna _teaser_ hehe?07:10
PingunZyeah07:10
darkmatterhttp://img506.imageshack.us/my.php?image=teasereh2.png07:12
darkmatter*hides*07:12
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darkmatter:P07:13
TheSheepdoesn't look too impressisve >_<07:13
darkmatterhaha07:13
TheSheepdarkmatter: next time post a vertical gradient :)07:14
alefterisi like it :)07:14
darkmatterthats why its a teaser... like I'd actually show an unscaled/uncropped screenie :P07:14
darkmatterTheSheep, lol07:14
darkmatteralefteris, the current alpha preview build is #f4f4f4 for the bg and the overall color in the base pixmaps. I thought a nice honey-ish color would look better :)07:16
darkmatterPingunZ, I started work on an actual panel (no screenies though, trying to balance the pixmaps first)07:18
darkmatterit looks "buttonless"07:18
darkmatterbut not in the typical manner07:19
PingunZdarkmatter, ok07:19
PingunZdarkmatter, you what I'm going to ask ;)07:19
darkmatterlol07:19
alefterisdarkmatter, are you talking about the website redesign? what is Glory exactly?07:20
PingunZMeet, morningglory gtk theme07:21
darkmatterPingunZ, the "buttons" are basically arrows next to the list title.... kinda... only the active task has a more button like feel... now if I can just figure out how to have the pathbar use different buttons than the toolbar07:21
PingunZpixmap engine .. best theme ever07:21
PingunZalefteris, http://pingunz.googlepages.com/morningglory.jpeg07:21
PingunZalefteris, that's a mod of darkmatter's morningglory07:21
darkmatteralefteris, MorningGloey is a 'live mockup' (theme)... to prototype the widget design for the engine for the Glory project07:22
darkmatter*MorningGlory07:22
PingunZalefteris, http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=5205007:22
alefterislike oasis?07:22
alefterisit looks so flat :P07:24
PingunZit's clean07:24
darkmatterhmmm.... not really... as a whole... the project is a desktop extension... the theme engine will actually be dynamic07:25
darkmatterand yeah... its a wee flat atm... but its going to be staying clean.. just a little snazzier07:26
darkmatterbut no glassy crap... ;)07:26
darkmatterPingunZ, you seen jimmacs redo of the industrial cursors yet?07:27
alefteristalking about those? http://jimmac.musichall.cz/weblog.php/Artwork/SizeMatters07:28
darkmatteryup07:29
darkmatternicely done too07:30
darkmatterI'm currently using the black as default on my sys (gdm too)07:30
PingunZdarkmatter, shush .. I'm reading :)07:35
darkmatter:P07:35
darkmatterreasing shmeading07:35
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troy_salefteris: it is too hard to develop for the website when there is still no guiding design principle.09:07
troy_sfurther, redoing it is a complete waste of time until such a plan is in place.09:07
TheSheeptroy_s: have you seen the documents about redoing gnome.org?09:08
troy_sNo... not yet.09:09
troy_s?09:09
TheSheeptroy_s: want a link? :)09:09
TheSheepit's the first time I've seen such an operation09:09
troy_sSure09:10
troy_sLove to see it.09:10
TheSheeplooking for it :/09:12
troy_sdamn you09:17
TheSheepthe live.gnome.org seems down :(09:17
troy_sIts chuggy as hell... I just pulled a page or two from it a few moments ago09:19
TheSheepstill lodading for me >_<09:21
TheSheeptroy_s: well, the docs are there :)09:21
troy_sIts coming slowly09:21
troy_sVERY slowly09:21
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troy_sgnome live is REALLY chuggin09:27
troy_sTheSheep: Have you looked at some of the Topaz work?09:27
troy_sIt is quite interesting, but again a million different things ... no 'top' level view other than the rather astute mock by jdub (Jeff Waugh)09:28
TheSheepit's mostly technology showoff, right?09:30
troy_sNo09:34
troy_sactually09:34
troy_sIt is actually very much like the thinking we were discussing09:34
troy_sWaugh's idea of 'egoless' computing is interesting -- very much akin to what I believe for interface design --09:34
troy_sget rid of the connotations of applications and sixteen thousand icons09:35
troy_sand simplify it down to something like 'Read Email"09:35
troy_setc.09:35
TheSheepRasking wanted to get rid of applications entirely09:40
TheSheepbut what would you "sell" then? ;)09:40
TheSheepRaskin09:40
troy_sWell it is rather ironic that the application layer is almost heading back to the very early command line days...09:40
troy_sthe functionality is what is important09:40
troy_sthe branding is completely irrelevant.09:40
troy_sClick on a piece of mail, your viewer initiates09:41
TheSheepit's needed in the middle, for the transition09:41
troy_sClick on an email address, your sender initiates09:41
TheSheeplike how you need imaginary numbers to solve some equations09:41
troy_sClick on a doc, your editor intitiates.09:41
kwwiihi all09:42
kwwiihowdy troy_s09:42
kwwiiso....things are a-changing09:42
kwwiiI do not have to run everything by mark before submitting...the only requirement is that once I submit something I have to keep working down that same path, not change things again and again in totally different directions09:43
troy_sLol09:45
troy_sWow... that's a helluva big step09:45
troy_sThat's great news really.09:45
troy_sIf a solid plan of attack can be devised.09:46
kwwiiyepp09:46
kwwiithere is little time left for feisty, but it is a step in the right direction09:47
troy_sFeisty was an abortion to start with.09:47
troy_sI don't think it is an issue.09:47
kwwiiif we can get this out the door and prove that we can get things done, then we can certainly use the time after feisty for more ambitious plans09:47
troy_skwwii:  I think the problem is that moving to a 'top down' approach is going to require a little bit of planning as well as some solid process (which we can really push forward this term)09:49
kwwiivery true09:49
troy_sNamely getting the knowledge of bzr in place and that nightmare process of figure out how we are going to make packages buildable09:49
troy_sThe rest is easy09:50
kwwiiyepp09:50
troy_sRelatively speaking of course...09:50
kwwiilol09:50
kwwiiyeah09:50
kwwiithe thing is that we cannot do anything really radically new since there is little time left09:50
troy_sI still hold fast to the notion that as a design club, we need to identify the basic two components before we even consider the work.09:50
troy_sRadical I don't think is really required.09:50
kwwiiI would really like to prove that we can get a solid theme done before the beta09:51
troy_sJust some good solid foundation pouring... carry on from where Edgy left off...09:51
troy_sHell we have people using Bzr now, etc.09:51
kwwiiexactly, my idea as well09:51
troy_sTHAT alone was a huge step09:51
troy_sAnd remember09:51
troy_s@ paris we had exactly 17 people on the art team09:51
troy_shave a look now09:51
troy_slol09:51
troy_sThe bigger picture will require some thinking though -- as to the extent of the design09:52
troy_sIs it website?09:52
troy_sPackaging?09:52
troy_sEtc?09:52
troy_sIf not, the design would be a little different09:52
troy_skwwii what are your thoughts on 'theme09:52
troy_subuntu version 1.0 has the icons locked (plus or minus dave twiddles if paid for)09:53
troy_sclearlooks window look09:53
troy_setc.09:53
troy_skwwii what were you thinking of for targets for the theme?09:53
kwwiisorry, had to make a drink09:54
troy_syah my coffee is fricking cold.09:54
kwwiiI think that for now the scope of this work should stick to the OS themeing09:55
troy_skwwii -- how come the oxygen folder icon changed from the more elegant one earlier?09:55
kwwiiwe can slowly spread our wings once we prove we can fly09:55
troy_skwwii -- the os themeing though is rather difficult to touch.09:55
troy_sas we are hitch pinned by the gdm09:55
troy_setc.09:55
kwwiiwell, we have changed that soo many times, and mainly we change it to satisfy other peoples wishes09:56
kwwiiI would leave the GDM almost as-is09:56
troy_skwwii -- the gdm hasn't changed since inception09:56
troy_slol09:56
troy_sI don't mind leaving everything09:56
troy_sin fact, get rid of the wallpaper and make it a grad.09:56
troy_shell... that is banal enough to appease even the most opinionated.09:56
troy_slol09:56
kwwiihere was what I was going to change: the usplash-improve on the progress bar, logo work; gdm-logo work; desktop splash-make it fit the desktop; desktop wallpaper09:57
troy_soh shit that reminds me09:57
troy_sis there an issue with amd64 usplash?09:57
kwwiithere should be since the pics included are 256 colors09:57
troy_sas the greyscale is stuck09:57
kwwiibut nobody has complained09:57
troy_sLord.09:57
troy_sYou are kidding?09:57
kwwiinope09:57
kwwiino shit09:57
troy_sGoes to show you how much people really care.09:57
kwwiilol, yeah09:58
troy_sI really think that Who did a fantastic job on the logo09:58
kwwiido you think we should set up a meeting to talk about this09:58
troy_saside from the fact that i still disagree with the rather minor issue regarding that gloss curve.09:58
kwwiiI do not want to change the logo, just moce it forward09:58
kwwiimove09:58
kwwiiI redrew it in inkscape and played around with making it simpler, etc.09:59
troy_spossibly, but that would limit who can participate, and that seems to have problems09:59
troy_sYes09:59
kwwiiso, you do or do not like the curve?09:59
troy_swho's svg work is nightmarish :)09:59
troy_sI loved Who's logo since he presented it in brainstorming09:59
kwwiiyou should see nuno's, it is the same stuff09:59
troy_smy only thought was that to09:59
troy_seffectively _really_ integrate with the rest of the 'anchors' the curve should probably span across the entire logo09:59
troy_sas opposed to that rather "graceful curve to inelegant transfer curve to linear to curve"10:00
troy_smore like the  default curve on all the icons.10:00
troy_sSo that there is a feeling of 'oneness' with the rest of the system... but I was shot down by the Ubuntu deathstar as frank would say.10:00
kwwiilol10:00
troy_sIf you look at the folder, the warnings, etc... they all share the same curvature.10:01
kwwiitrue10:01
troy_slower left to upper right...10:01
kwwiiacutally that is a good idea10:01
troy_sat NO point in the entire system10:01
troy_sdoes the curve head twisty or straight.10:01
kwwiiI played around with the text part more than the circular device10:01
troy_s(like osx)10:01
troy_salso, kwwii -- the weighting that jane posted regarding the 'grids'10:01
troy_sis a little skewed10:02
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troy_sDo you remember that email?10:02
kwwiiyeah, that is true as well10:02
kwwiiit seems to me that the logos were made for one purpose, and now they want to use them for everything10:02
kwwiinot a very proffesional branding, if you ask me10:02
troy_sHave you been plucking around with the weighting of the units?10:02
troy_sMeaning10:02
troy_sthe weight of the logo (for centering etc)10:02
troy_sand the weight of the text?10:02
troy_sthey seem to place the text slightly lower than the mid span of the logo10:03
troy_swhich is odd...10:03
kwwiiactually, all I played around with was using the same curve, basically, and using different gloss idea10:03
kwwiis10:03
kwwiione second, I'll find a link10:03
troy_sand on a minor note, the side ball on the log seems to be included in the 'weight' of the centering10:03
kwwiihttp://sincecera.de/UbuntuLogo3c.png10:03
troy_swhich is also not quite right-- the side ball on the logo doesn't affect the gravity of the logo, hence the center of gravity remains in the centre of the circle... not the linear divide of the size10:04
troy_slooking10:04
troy_sdns lookup failure10:04
troy_sno sincecera.de10:04
kwwiioops10:04
kwwiisinecera.de/UbuntuLogo3c.png10:04
troy_slol10:04
troy_sworks10:05
troy_shold.10:05
kwwiinothing remarkable there, I think10:05
troy_su using imagemagick for montaging?10:05
kwwiinope, that is one big inkscape file10:05
troy_sfecking slow pull for me.10:05
troy_slord10:05
troy_slol10:05
troy_swell you did the one adjustment that i suggested10:05
troy_son the gloss curve10:05
troy_seither A) make the curve an art nouveau style swoop10:06
troy_sor b) make it a singular curve as per the icons10:06
troy_syou did (a) and it is immediately more polished looking.10:06
kwwiiactually a curve going up might work very well10:06
kwwiiI like the 3rd column, bottom best10:06
troy_si don't have the whole thing yet10:06
troy_smy thought was that the n curve most closely matches the icons10:07
troy_syour 2nd version top row shows that nouveay style curvature...10:07
troy_snouveau10:07
kwwiialthough the ones with the curve at the bottom look kinda like a planet is rising in the background (thought that might appeal to sabdfl)10:07
darkmatterkwwii, the logo's looking good10:08
kwwiithe one point that sabdfl made was that many of them seem too blocky to fit with the circular device10:08
kwwiiit is very hard to get the same 3d effect on the circular device as on the black text10:08
kwwiidarkmatter: thanks :-)10:08
troy_swell ignore sabdfl10:09
troy_she really is clueless10:09
kwwiioh, I think he is going to let me go and see what I come up with10:09
troy_sand all you will do is redo the mistake i did - end up compromising to the point of really defeating the purpose.10:09
troy_sgood.10:09
kwwiiand after he said my biggest fault in edgy kubuntu was not building the community enough I think it would be funny as shit if we did feisty as a community ;-)10:09
darkmatterthird from left... those are petty sharp looking10:09
troy_skwwii building a community has a bunch of issues...10:10
troy_syou need to give and take10:10
kwwiidarkmatter: yeah, sabdfl and I both liked those better10:10
troy_sas he did with savages work on the sound10:10
kwwiitroy_s: you don't have to tell me that ;-)10:10
troy_sbut the problem is that he is SOoo fucking destination oriented that he doesn't understand the value of accepting minor blobs along the way10:10
darkmatterlol10:10
troy_sjust keep looking to the bigger picture10:10
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troy_sas opposed to frantically pounding away on the minor details of an icon stroke10:11
kwwiisomehow I think that the email I sent (the long one, responding to the community comment) somehow got through10:11
nysosymhi there10:11
kwwiihowdy nysosym10:11
troy_sthe community element means also trusting that perhaps, possibly, just maybe10:11
darkmatterhi nysosym10:11
troy_sthat there are people out there with enough intelligence and capability10:11
troy_sto drive things through10:12
troy_sjust POSSIBLY10:12
troy_sfor me from those samples10:12
troy_sthe standout is the 3rd column 2nd from bottom i think10:12
kwwiicool, so everyone agrees on the 3rd row10:12
troy_salthough 2nd column10:12
kwwiithat is good10:12
nysosymwhat's up? :D10:12
kwwiierm10:12
troy_stop is probably even better in some way10:12
troy_sthe underlight is a nice twist10:13
troy_salthough i do like the refinement you did on the curve...10:13
kwwiihas who been around lately?10:13
troy_sit is an apparently minor detail, but that logo needs to coexist against the icons and such...10:13
kwwiiyeah, true10:13
kwwiior did he run for the hills?10:14
troy_sand dropping the osx reflection attempt is also wise10:14
troy_sit is just too sterotypical and cliched at this point.10:14
troy_swho is studying engineering at cambridge10:14
kwwiiI think that something like that fits better to the circular device's 3d-ness10:14
troy_slol10:14
kwwiiso I'll have to fly to england and pin him down :p10:14
troy_ssorry and i meant 2nd column 2nd row10:15
troy_syou should use montage so you can label the bloody things you stinker10:15
kwwiigood point10:15
troy_smontage -monitor -frame 1 -label %f *.png graphic_study.jpg10:15
troy_s;)10:15
troy_simagemagick rocks.10:16
kwwiithanks for the command, I'd have taken a few minutes to get that right10:16
nysosymwhat is the topic here? :D10:16
troy_shrm... that third column is interesting with the inverted grad... it is rather echoing of an eclipse10:16
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kwwiinysosym: we are talking about artwork for feisty10:17
troy_sI would say keep pushing with that 3rd column 2nd from bottom direction.10:17
nysosymkwwii, nice, any previews?10:17
troy_sor 3rd column bottom too10:17
troy_sas that again fixes the bloody curve issue10:17
darkmatterTrae, yup... I agree... thats the best looking imho10:18
kwwiithe 3rd column bottom was sabdfl favotire10:18
kwwiinysosym: http://sinecera.de/UbuntuLogo3c.png10:18
troy_skwwii: I would probably nerf the whiting on the red too -- it is pulling it heavy into pink10:18
kwwiitroy_s: yeah, good point10:18
troy_swho has a wonderful bit of colour work in the original in that regard.  an elegant mixing of lighter hues without heading into value10:18
kwwiitroy_s: I made a simpler version of the logo too, it appealed to me well...I'll have to find it and post something tomorrow10:19
troy_sSo assuming running with that10:19
kwwiiman, he does stuff that is sooo complicated10:19
troy_skwwii yes --10:19
darkmatterthe dark in the middle of the bottom one looks to glossy10:19
troy_sfar easier paths to get to the destination10:19
darkmatterin column 310:19
troy_sbut he 'sketches' in inkscape10:19
troy_shence the problems10:19
troy_si sketch on paper, scan and pull splines10:19
troy_smeans less complexity in the source10:20
kwwiiyeah10:20
kwwiiI sketch in inkscape too10:20
nysosymkwwii, thx, i think the logo on the right sight bottom is the best :)10:20
kwwiiand afterwards I figure out what I did and redraw the whole thing10:20
troy_skwwii so GDM is the same (although i would suggest trying to sneak that rounded svg in for a base instead of the rectangle under the logon)10:20
troy_skwwii yeah i did that in rough (about 20 mins) and sab got all 'this is diff that is diff etc'10:21
troy_sso i gave up10:21
troy_si was trying to get towards a clean code version10:21
kwwiitroy_s: I'll add an svg in gdm if I can figure out how without too much work10:21
troy_sSo lets assume final logo gets into usplash, gdm10:21
kwwiithose xml files are nasty10:21
troy_skwwii it is one line10:21
troy_sactually, they are VERY shitty code10:21
troy_si had them totally cleaned up10:22
troy_sthere are worthless lines in there too10:22
kwwiiI haven't really looked into the gdm xml yet10:22
troy_sit prevents people from fixing the bugs10:22
troy_sits deadly simple... one line10:22
kwwiibut I know the kubuntu version is nasty10:22
kwwiithat is why I gave it up last time10:22
kwwiiI wanted to round the entry box10:22
troy_si think i have it somewhere...10:22
troy_syep10:22
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troy_stried that10:22
troy_slol10:22
troy_sit just fits better with the roundings on the other elements.10:23
troy_shell, look at the logo10:23
kwwiiand as far as the wallpaper goes, until now I have been going in the same direction as edgy, only softer10:23
troy_swell unless sab is going to sign off on it10:23
troy_snow10:23
kwwiisure, rounded boxes are a must with the rounded font10:23
troy_syou are doomed10:23
troy_sjust put a bloody grad in10:23
troy_seven then, he will bikeshed10:23
kwwiilol10:23
troy_sMake the whole fecking desktop middle 18% grey10:24
darkmatterlol10:24
troy_sThat would communicate perfect design.10:24
kwwiihttp://sinecera.de/drawing1.png is kinda the same as edgy but different10:24
troy_sWe could call it iKea10:24
troy_salthough i must say, ikea's design of late is very solid.10:24
kwwiihehe10:24
troy_sat least they are using organics :)10:25
troy_sis this the middle ripple?10:25
troy_syou might as well be shouting beep and boop at me to type to 0s and 1s10:25
troy_sits SLOOOOOW10:25
kwwiihrm, it is fast here10:25
kwwiifunny10:25
troy_sTCP == Tin Can Protocol10:25
kwwii;-)10:25
darkmatterjust dont call Glory iKea (if I can manage to get enough done to pull a screenie today)... or ya get a big fat aero on your desktop ;)10:26
kwwiidarkmatter: ;-)10:26
troy_sthe great irony of the edgy cycle was the wall he chose in the end.10:26
troy_sbrutal.10:26
kwwiiyeah, I kinda thought anything I make would be at least as good as that10:27
troy_sdarkmatter: I am of the lineage that solid design and artwork makes a clear and present statement.10:27
darkmattertroy, aye... I liked the aqua-ish one better10:27
darkmatterit actual fit with the overall "human" look10:27
troy_sdarkmatter: If you can look back at a design and say "wow that looks dated" you really did your job -- as it means you clearly identified the contemporary stylings and integrated them.10:27
darkmatteryup10:28
troy_skwwii:  There were probably 10 independent desktop walls that were at least as good as that or better.10:28
troy_she just didn't follow the dev10:28
kwwiiI can imagine10:28
troy_she decided to sit down at the last possible minute and try to steer things10:28
troy_slike a fool.10:28
nysosymdamn so many interesting topics here, and i must go to bed in the next half hour... :-(10:28
troy_sas opposed to paying close attention to the checkpoints along the way.10:28
troy_skwwii: It stalled out for me, but that was the one I saw earlier I think...10:29
troy_skwwii:  Well suited for that GDM... in fact, just go with the grads.10:29
troy_slol10:29
darkmattertroy_s, its amazing how much inspiration a cursor set can be... bashing out elements atm. I think this ones going to actually hit "beta" status10:29
troy_s"Ubuntu -- Welcome to the Barren Desert"10:29
troy_s"Ubuntu -- The Look of 'Meh'"10:30
troy_slol10:30
troy_sWe could design marketing phrases.10:30
troy_sOn a serious note, I think that is 1000000 times better than the one he chose for Edgy kwwii10:30
troy_s(the one you just posted)10:30
darkmatterpale honey-ish and blackish/chocolaty bits for contrast.10:30
troy_skwwii -- is that curve centre punched?10:31
kwwiitroy_s:  hehe, that is not hard10:31
troy_sMy only thought might be to slide to into Phi.10:31
kwwiitroy_s: not sure I know what you mean by centre punched10:31
troy_sJust to give it a TEENY amount of life10:31
troy_sIs it symmetrical?10:31
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kwwiihorizonatlly yes, vertically no10:32
troy_sIt actually gets a lot of mileage out of the grads.10:32
troy_sTry dumping the centre of gravity on vertical and horizontal phi just for a test...10:32
troy_sas in10:33
troy_suse yer eyeball to figure out roughly where its centre of gravity is, and plop it on 61.8%10:33
troy_ssee if magic hapens10:33
troy_shappens10:33
troy_sIt looks close to phi vertically10:33
troy_stry it on phi horizontal as well.10:33
alefterisi like the colors iand the grads n the wallpaper but i thing the bright figure stands out to much...10:34
kwwiitroy_s: good idea10:34
kwwiialefteris: bright figure? you mean the middle pinkish part?10:34
alefterisyeas10:34
troy_skwwii:  See... LOL10:35
troy_sit never fails.10:35
kwwiiI think that troy_s is right about moving the gradient a bit10:35
kwwiihehe, yeah10:35
troy_snot so much the grad10:35
troy_sthe curve white swoop10:35
troy_sthe brightest part is almost spot on phi10:36
kwwiiahhh, now I get you10:36
troy_sjust take the centre of gravity of it (roughly now seems like it is in the middle of the horizontal) and slide it probably right(?) to 61.810:36
troy_sgood old davinci10:36
kwwiibasically that pic is several huge circles (some with gaussian blur) on top of a simple gradient10:36
troy_skwwii on the whole, i think it is probably top notch10:37
troy_skwwii yeah it has some very interesting grads working for it.10:37
nysosymi think the "wave" in the middle should have more contrast, like a fold in cloth10:37
troy_sideally you should ship the svg with the package10:37
nysosymwith the light from bottom right10:37
kwwiiI intend to ship all svgs with this stuff10:37
troy_sbecause sab is in the dark on svg... he seems to think that the render is different on different platforms ... lol.10:37
kwwiiit took me hours to find things from edgy10:37
troy_skwwii I will say that if you SVG gdm, and it gets complicated, the logon time increases, which is unfortunate.10:37
troy_skwwii -- yep  -- if we can put the shit into the source files on bzr we are winning10:38
troy_sby we i mean YOU  lol.10:38
troy_sas you are the only authorized packager.10:38
kwwiioh, I think we will still use the png files, but having an svg for reference, future work, etc. is important10:38
troy_sexactly10:38
kwwiilol, I am going to make dholbach package all this10:38
troy_sbut what i was suggesting10:38
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troy_swas that you actually INCLUDE the svg10:38
nysosymhi andreasn10:38
troy_sin the distribution10:38
troy_sbecause if you have a massive high res monitor10:38
troy_syou at least have an OPTION10:39
troy_s(as are a few of the bug complaints)10:39
troy_skwwii: That wall is very evocative of a satin sheet eh?10:40
nysosymyes i have here an 1920x1200 resolution and the default wallpapers look a little bit blurry :-/10:40
troy_skwwii: Just noticed it.10:40
troy_snysosym: Exactly.10:40
kwwiitroy_s: good point about the resolution10:41
troy_skwwii:  Well you kill four or five 'bugs' by doing that.10:41
kwwiiI kinda thought it looks like thighs and the pink in between10:41
kwwiilol10:41
kwwiiafter I made it, that is10:41
nysosymsvgs use much more memory as an png, but a option to render my pngs self would be very nice :)10:42
troy_skwwii:  And you provide people with current technology at least ;)10:42
kwwiisince everyone else seems to see porn in everything I make, I've started looking10:42
troy_snysosym: Having the svg would give you the option10:42
troy_snysosym: technically, they shouldn't use anything10:42
troy_snysosym: Because as everywhere in gnome those svg's get rendered then pooped out.10:42
kwwiipeople shouldn't know about what they are using10:42
troy_sOnce they are rendered, they are just a raw byte sequence.10:42
nysosymtroy_s, hmm crazy, but when i start gnome a svgs use much more time to load as the same picture in png10:43
troy_skwwii:  Now you are _really_ evolving as an artist if you start thinking like that porn statement ;)10:43
troy_slol10:43
troy_snysosym: Yes... that was what I was saying10:43
kwwii:D10:43
troy_snysosym: The time is the GDM going "Oh its an svg -- let's render it"10:43
troy_sjust like rendering a frame in blender10:43
troy_sSVG is plaintext xml that is verted to a sequence of pixels.10:43
troy_sSo it _does_ use up cycles when you initially cache them10:44
kwwiiwith gaussian blur it takes forever10:44
nysosymok :)10:44
troy_skwwii Yeah inkscape hasn't optimzed the blur alg yet.10:44
troy_skwwii not to mention that there are about 1600303040322 different blur algs to pick from.10:44
kwwiiit took me two hours to render that pic10:44
troy_s?!!!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!10:45
kwwiino shit10:45
troy_sThat's just fecked.10:45
kwwiiyepp10:45
nysosymtroy_s, another option is to have pngs in very high resolution for every aspect ratio :D10:45
kwwiiI thought my computer was b0rked10:45
troy_sSomething MUST be wrong there.10:45
troy_snysosym: Or just give out one SVG and let it render.10:45
kwwiiwell, in the final .45 it works better/quicker10:45
troy_skwwii That's bananas.10:45
troy_skwwii yeah i was going to say, try a newer checkout.10:45
troy_slol10:45
troy_si know when they first put blur in it was complete bork10:46
kwwiiturns out, it was a known bug10:46
troy_sit has been getting better and better.10:46
kwwiithey screwed something up and it was not clipping the unnecesary parts10:46
nysosymtroy_s, sure, good option for skilled peoply, but many users wan't render a new picture10:46
troy_snysosym: I meant just let the comp render it... ;)10:47
nysosymtroy_s, did u try xara extreme, i think it hase an awesome blurry alg. :D10:47
kwwiinysosym: it would render it the first time you login and cache that pic for future use10:47
troy_snysosym: The only issue is with the initialize times.10:47
troy_skwwii: Reconciling that bloody tan against the Ubuntu default icon orange is something only a braindead zombie can fathom.10:48
kwwiinysosym: xara is amazing, but it does not save svgs10:48
troy_skwwii: Xara rocks... there is an svg plugin but it isn't mature.10:48
troy_skwwii: and the fact that the cdraw lib isn't open yet.10:48
kwwiiyeah10:48
kwwiiI finally have an i386 to really run it and test it10:48
troy_skwwii: But the more i use inkscape, the more i can say that it is a pretty damn good tool.10:48
kwwiiit seems that they have stopped development for the time being though10:48
nysosymtroy_s, yes, the export in svg doesn't work, its a know bug and will be removed in the next update :)10:48
troy_skwwii: Really?10:49
kwwiionce you bang your head against inkscape enough it rocks10:49
kwwiitroy_s: yeah, I read something on the xara webpage10:49
troy_skwwii: I am going to show some work done in inskcape done off of a photo soon... it might surprise you.10:49
kwwiisaying something like "we are concentrating on the commercial version for now"10:49
troy_s*sigh*10:49
nysosymkwwii, no question, i love inkscape but xara is a lot faster espacially with zoomed pictures10:49
kwwiiheck, xara just renders much faster10:50
troy_snysosym: I think largely because it uses an optimized drawing lib.10:50
darkmatternice... that hack worked10:50
troy_snysosym: Where inkscape doesn't tweak with that to keep development working.10:50
troy_sif you made a custom rendering lib change every time you made a change, it makes it pretty darn hard to keep coordinated i would think.10:50
kwwiiit would take hours to build and be hell to debug10:51
troy_sSo what else is there?10:52
nysosymtroy_s, sure, btw. which time do u have? :D10:52
troy_snysosym: 1:5310:52
troy_s;)10:52
nysosymam or pm?10:52
troy_skwwii: Let me track down that gdm line change.10:52
troy_snysosym: PM10:52
kwwiitroy_s: killer, thanks man10:52
nysosymtroy_s, nice ^^, i have 11:00 PM :D10:53
troy_sWe really should clean up that fecking code but I'll leave that tweak until there are more people on the packaging team.10:53
troy_sIt is _very_ stinky10:53
kwwii;-)10:53
kwwiithat is why I did not want to mess with it unless I know I have time10:53
troy_sIt is very easy to clean10:54
troy_sbut hell... it isn't even well commented.10:54
troy_sHrm... Maybe I'll do that tonight and ship you the changes10:54
troy_sI'll bzr branch it for you and you can have a look at it.10:54
kwwiitroy_s:  that would be great10:54
troy_sOkie?10:54
troy_sTry to save you a bit of work.10:54
nysosymubuntu should have a little option to manage many timezones in the same time, like hover my clock and some defined clocks rising up :D10:54
troy_sOk... must run to pick up my girlie.10:55
nysosymtroy_s, have fun ;)10:55
troy_snysosym: That is about a 15 minute python applet friend ;)10:55
darkmatternysosym, hacked isolated theming for the slab and its extensions into one of the older Glory builds as a test.... sweetly enough it worked :)10:55
nysosymtroy_s, sure, but there is one problem, i can't write any python code :D10:56
kwwiisee you troy_s10:57
nysosymyes troy_s have a nice day :)10:57
kwwiiabout time for bed here10:58
nysosymyes here too :D10:59
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nysosymanyone knows a good texas holdem game for linux :D10:59
kwwiierm10:59
kwwiibed10:59
kwwiinysosym: nope, but if you find one, let me know11:00
nysosymkwwii, i thinking on u ;)11:00
kwwii;-)11:00
nysosymkwwii, see you, have a good bed time :D11:01
nysosymgn8 guys!11:01
kwwiiyeah, see you tomorrow nysosym11:01
nysosymkwwii, sure ;)11:01
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