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darkmattertroy_s, http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=493011899&context=set-72157594488098254&size=o <--- which menu do you prefer?01:24
troy_sdarkmatter: Either if you put a gradient on the base flatbox01:43
troy_sor something...01:43
troy_sthe spherecrystal theme does that, and it is quite pretty albeit very heavy handed01:44
troy_sdarkmatter: In 20 seconds I could not tell those two apart lol01:44
darkmatterlol01:44
troy_sah the dots01:44
troy_sdarkmatter: Ok... lines01:44
darkmatterk01:44
troy_slines are a little more crisp01:44
troy_ssharp01:44
troy_sthe dots are making me want to go rip apart sheets of lottery tickets01:45
darkmatterhehe01:45
troy_sdarkmatter: Are my eyes completely going bonkers01:45
troy_sdarkmatter: Is there a 3d shape to that menu?01:45
troy_sdarkmatter: Or is it the byproduct of the edging causing my eye to correct and create those illusiory shadows01:46
darkmatterit took a bit to get the bleed right in the highlight01:46
darkmatteryup01:46
troy_sdarkmatter: Yup what?01:46
troy_sdarkmatter: I'm on crack or its there?01:46
darkmatterits got 3d, and a kinda flat-3d bleed on the blue01:46
troy_son the blue yes... but not on the flatbox base01:46
troy_scorrect?01:46
troy_syou have seen the grad on spherecrystal i am sure yes?01:46
darkmatteryup... the pixmap is 3d with a slight grad01:47
darkmatteraye01:47
troy_sit also does a rounding on the inset, which is quite alright.01:47
troy_sthe gradient on the menus is probably the strongest elements of that theme01:47
darkmatterate01:48
laposeen this http://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ ?01:49
troy_swtf is a gpl exception license?01:50
troy_slapo: That bodes immensely well -- fonts are a wonderful thing to get growing01:51
troy_sdarkmatter: Get that fecking thing out the bloody door please01:52
troy_sdarkmatter: GTK is driving me bonkers... and I have changed the two elements that I personally require01:53
darkmatterI'm trying.. trust me... got it figured.. just throwing together the base pixmaps01:53
troy_s(still need progress bar fancification but I am not doing that until i have an alpha glory as a base...)01:53
troy_sdarkmatter: Can you bzr it too so that I can at least keep current01:53
troy_sand merge?01:53
darkmatteryeah.. I'll have to install bzr (clean install here) and import all me crappieez01:54
troy_sdarkmatter: You know you can force a bzr write01:54
darkmatteryup01:54
troy_sdarkmatter: So just do a forced overwrite to avoid the need to pull and merge and shit01:55
troy_sdarkmatter: Further, I can probably fix some of the major gongs like tab tears etc.01:55
darkmatteryup01:55
troy_sdarkmatter: And push a branch to help out.01:55
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melarenHello everyone, I had a couple of ideas I wanted to run past you guys...04:24
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melarenI contacted Frank Schoep regarding one of his blueprint specs for "wide-theme-switcher", but he isn't currently working on the project.04:26
melarenIt seems to me that there is a lot of work being done on the various flavors of Ubuntu that could be shared. For example, the Kubuntu and Xubuntu backgrounds could be a selectable option by default in Ubuntu. Of course, if this was the case, we would also need the GDM, Splash, etc., to change to create a unified theme. Ideally it would be nice for each flavor have a completely different color scheme. So let's say Ubuntu stays brown, Kubuntu04:26
melarenCurrently there isn't much diversity in the default theme selection. ...there are four blue themes in Feisty, despite users calling blue "clich" for operating systems. It would also be nice to see one or two relatively neutral photos as selectable wallpaper. I recently tried the live Sabayon Distro. The photo wallpaper was striking. ...the rest of the artwork, not so much. It would be nice for Ubuntu users to have high quality photo wal04:26
melaren...looking at the release of Uuntu Sudio, it would also be nice to share that system-wide theme with the regular Ubuntu release04:28
troy_smelaren: Hello04:35
melarenHey :)04:35
troy_smelaren: Generally photos don't work well04:35
troy_smelaren: From a contrast point of view04:35
wedderburnmelaren: the one for ubuntu studio will be in the ubuntu repo's by gutsy or it should be04:35
troy_smelaren: We don't have too much say as to what goes where, and frank has left the ubuntu scene04:35
melarenok04:35
melarenyeah, that's what he said04:36
troy_smelaren: And if you want the uS theme, you can add the repo from the site.04:36
troy_smelaren: If you want better design and such, complain to sabdfl.04:36
troy_smelaren: And tell your friends to.04:36
wedderburnLOL04:36
troy_smelaren: The more the merrier.04:36
melarenOk04:36
troy_sin fact, if you really want to have an impact04:36
melarenwhat do you think about sharing the work being done between the flavors?04:37
troy_sformulate a nicely phrased standard email and have it forwarded to all of the relative folks at canonical.04:37
melaren...kubuntu, xubuntu, ubuntu studio04:37
troy_smelaren: I think it is an option.  I would say it is probably secondary to getting Ubuntu's design pattern actually with a heartbeat04:37
troy_smelaren: And if anyone asks you who told you... just say wedderburn said so.04:37
melarenyeah04:37
melarenlol04:38
wedderburn:O04:38
troy_smelaren: Seriously though, I am quite passionate about ubuntu's design as in it is sub satisfactory for a microsecond where it actually has the momentum to really make a difference.04:38
wedderburnand if anyone asks say havoc said so04:38
melarenyeah04:38
troy_smelaren: So the more attention it gets (and not of the silly 'brown sux' or whatever variety) the better.04:38
melarenWell, we already have selectable themes, but they are really just Ok04:39
troy_sthey are ...04:39
melarenthe new gloss one is decent04:39
wedderburnbrown doesn't suck its just bland the way they've done it04:39
melarenyeah04:39
troy_swedderburn: Agree... monochromatic brown04:39
wedderburni loved some of the edgy art04:39
melarenIt looks good until I use a different theme04:39
wedderburnit had greens and all in it04:39
melarenthen I'm like, "hmm"04:39
wedderburnthe icons are a mess when you mix them in wiht all the tango ones04:40
melarenyeah04:40
melarenOk, so I'm looking at the theme preferences and I'm thinking "we could have a better default selection"   ...without trying too hard04:41
melarenI haven't installed ubuntu studio yet, but looking at the screenshots, it looks quite respectable04:42
melarenI'm just trying to get a feel for what you guys think...  ...because I'll work on a proposal for the "higher-ups" if I get decent feedback from people who have some experience in the community (more than I do).  There are plenty of people with ideas, many of the ideas are terrible, I'm just trying to ensure that mine isn't one of them...04:44
troy_swedderburn: wellt he main problem is that tango's belief is that they are usable04:45
troy_sand icons are at least as big an aesthetic as anything else04:45
melarentrue04:45
troy_smelaren: You will get a thousand different opinions from a thousand different folks04:46
melarenhehe, true04:46
wedderburnpersonally i would like a green desktop04:46
wedderburngreens great you can mix it with brown and blue04:47
troy_smelaren: You would need to build your case from a very researched and respectable point of view.04:47
troy_smelaren: in the end, hire a real designer.04:47
troy_smelaren: If you are going to spend any money, hire the real deal.04:47
melarenwell all I'm proposing is that we try to utilize the work that is already being done.  ...so making the ubuntu studio theme w/icons & background a selectable option by default.  ...in place of one of the lousy selectable themes currently in Theme Preferences like, "Crux" or "High Contrast"04:51
melaren...and green would be great, but it doesn't look like Ubuntu is going to change any time soon.   ...they may consider changing the Xubuntu color scheme04:52
troy_smelaren: The work that is done is weak05:00
troy_sif you are meaning borrowing from x or k05:00
troy_sits the same homogenized blah mess05:00
wedderburnmelaren: the desktops been the same for ages, we need to change it :P05:03
melarenI think if work was borrowed from x, x would need a color theme change (preferably to green).  This is what I was thinking...  ...If x, k, and projects like ubuntu studio all have different color schemes; and the artwork is respectable, it would be cool to have those themes (along with wallpaper, etc) as a selectable option.  This way a Ubuntu user would have a Brown theme (default), and an option to select a green (x), blue (k), and black theme (u05:07
troy_smelaren: You could do a 1000000 different releases with distinct motifs with brown as a base05:12
troy_smelaren: The downside is that we dont have any bloody one who knows what a motif is.05:13
nothliti'd hope theres one or two :P05:13
troy_smelaren: So unfortunately, it will take Diana over at Fedora to embarass us05:13
troy_smelaren: Before the billion dollar man admits that perhaps, just maybe, just possibly, there are people out there who have a better idea about design than he does.05:13
troy_snothlit: Seriously nothlit -- you are the exception05:14
troy_snothlit: I pushed motifs at the paris uds for god knows how long05:14
troy_show hard05:14
troy_setc.05:14
troy_s_no_ clue05:14
melarenok ok05:14
troy_sits a big hole05:14
melarenyeah, fedora is very nice looking05:14
melaren..I don't remember what the icons look like05:14
nothlitanyways =/ ubuntustudio is supposed to be distinct--theres no reason users can't use that look, but its a horrible idea to provide different color schemes like that--horrible dilution of identity and message--and theres plenty of themes out there people can use05:14
melarenYeah I kinda thought about that... ...it's a branding thing at this point05:15
melaren...Ubuntu is the "brown" operating system05:15
nothlitbut in terms of colorisation--theres a gnome color chooser that edits the gtkrc, you may like that05:15
troy_smelaren: Branding is ONLY effective if it bears a communicative message.05:15
melarentrue true05:16
melaren....but at this point it would probably be odd to switch from brown05:16
troy_sthere is _nothing_ wrong with brown05:17
melaren...even though I would support such a decision05:17
troy_sbrown works05:17
troy_shas worked since 3000 bc05:17
troy_salways will work05:17
melarenhaha05:17
troy_slock it in with context05:17
troy_smessage05:17
wedderburni liked how they made things more orange feels warmer05:17
troy_sand audience05:17
wedderburnand thats what a new os should be05:17
wedderburnwarm fuzzy feel safe05:17
melarenyeah, orange was nice05:17
nothlita single color doesn't make a mood05:17
melarenI thought it would be cool if they kept transitioning the color05:18
nothlitits a selection, used appropriately05:18
melarenOk, thanks for the conversation guys.  I appreciate the feedback.05:18
BHSPitMonkeyI liked the orange color palette05:23
BHSPitMonkeyuntil I got sick of it.05:23
troy_snothlit: AMEN05:38
troy_snothlit hit the nail on the head.  it is _all_ fundamentally about communication, and communication entails more than a single letter to build a word.05:39
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nothlitooh, a thousand self portraits in a thousand days http://www.conceptart.org/artist/andrew-jones/images/1000_sp/1000_sp_2500x4400.jpg06:46
nothlittroy_s: do you get how this schedule works for us? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#head-c9d177822a71b90ec5fb703ed0d0f30eeb8fc1db --i don't get how much versioning applies to a targetted distro and release specific artwork package06:48
nothlittroy_s: we have to make it in before new packages freeze--but then how does revision work-- usually versioning can't change and only bug fixes--but does that mean we can't change anything except touchups or what?06:49
nothlittroy_s: or does it not apply06:49
troy_snothlit: Sorry... reading.07:02
troy_snothlit: Was busy... give me a moment07:02
nothlitnp07:02
troy_snothlit: Yes...07:03
nothlitirc works great on delay too :)07:03
troy_snothlit: If you are out on non Ubuntu main stuffs07:03
troy_syou can avoid feature freeze etc.07:03
troy_snothlit: As for artwork, I think the idea is more along the lines of 'open' as it isn't really a formalized process in terms of art and design.07:04
troy_snothlit: One area you COULD argue similarities between would be something like GDM07:04
nothliti was just wondering how much revision we can do before hard freeze07:04
troy_snothlit: I would assume that if you made it to the freeze, your GDM code should probably be the same, etc.07:04
nothlitbecause its not like software where version changes can break things07:04
nothlitand its specific to ubuntu, and for that release07:05
nothlitahh kk07:07
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wedderburntroy_s: you know whats brown and everyone loves, coffee, ubuntu should pay homage to the caffeine gods the coffee bean in the form of art :-p01:57
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troy_swedderburn: You obviously were not watching the mailing list re your last comment :)05:46
wedderburntroy_s: mailing list?05:46
wedderburnlink us05:46
troy_slet me see...05:47
troy_syou can start with the colour thread...05:48
troy_shttps://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2007-April/thread.html05:48
wedderburntroy_s: i thought it was something good, i read the colour thing ppl talking about colours been bad because of different culters05:50
troy_shttps://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2007-April/003873.html -- last paragraph05:50
troy_swedderburn: Pretty much exactly your thinking.05:51
wedderburnhaha05:56
wedderburncool05:56
wedderburntroy_s: i didn't see this though05:57
wedderburntroy_s: kinda went though the first lot and went meh05:57
troy_swedderburn: It is mostly meh06:01
troy_swedderburn: Mostly people piping off about their opinions, their beliefs etc.06:02
troy_swedderburn: Very very very very few actually trying to site the research and study in the area.06:02
wedderburnbut i mean06:02
troy_swedderburn: Go ask a professional psychologist about color psychology :)06:02
wedderburnyou got foam you got coffee you got beans you got coffee berries06:03
wedderburnso many colours all organic06:03
troy_swedderburn: I tried to do a little of both -- 1 dismiss the garbage about brown, and 2 provide real world examples of companies that have used brown as a _base_ colour and hit billion dollar sales.06:03
troy_swedderburn: absolutely06:03
troy_swedderburn: you have a limited palette all supporting that brown base.06:03
troy_swedderburn: look to adidas for some of that too...06:03
troy_swedderburn: in fact, i just saw a shoe add with grunge (it is popping up everywhere now sigh)06:04
troy_sbrown base.06:04
troy_shell... its even in shiny car advertisements... yet again hitting on contemporary design trends.06:04
troy_sguess where it will end up next?06:04
troy_swedderburn: I think the biggest problem of all with Ubuntu is that things are tried ONCE, and based on (generally poor) execution, the ideas are tossed out as 'not working'06:05
troy_swhich isn't really the most productive way to try something...06:05
troy_srather like Apple trying to make an early version of the iPod with a 3.5 inch hard disk, finding out that it isn't successful with the focus groups, then quitting.06:05
wedderburnindeed06:06
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troy_sdarkmatter: !08:27
darkmattertroy_s, !08:30
troy_sdarkmatter: You know the question so just cut to the answer.08:32
darkmatterthe answer is no?08:32
darkmatterwas way to busy yesterday.. but will have most of the weekend to myself to play08:33
troy_sOkie.08:39
troy_sdarkmatter: Again, when you THINK you have hit on all the bases -- alpha or otherwise -- please push.09:10
darkmatteryup09:11
troy_sdarkmatter: As the sooner I can get a feel for what needs twiddles the easier on my end.09:11
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troy_sdarkmatter: Is there any chance you can put up what you have now?09:33
troy_sdarkmatter: I want to pull some screenshots09:33
troy_sdarkmatter: And the bloody lack of attention GTK has currently is boning me.09:34
BHSPitMonkeyI'm really not sure what it would be like to be boned by a lack...09:49
troy_sdarkmatter: What is that panel control you using in your screenshots?10:18
troy_sdarkmatter: Have you tried gimmie?10:18
darkmattertroy_s, gimmie is to clicky and fugly, though its a decent conept, the executions off10:19
troy_sfugly for certain10:19
darkmatteras for what I use10:19
troy_sbeyond fugly10:20
darkmattergnome-main-menu10:20
darkmatterversion 210:20
darkmatter:P10:20
troy_si am looking for something more mainstream in terms of presentation10:20
troy_s?10:20
troy_swhere is that?10:20
darkmattergnome svn10:20
darkmattergnome-main-menu/brances/versio-210:20
darkmatter*version10:20
darkmatter*branches10:20
troy_sare there screenshots for it around?10:21
darkmatternot many screenies of version 2 cept mine ;)10:21
darkmatterhttp://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=484184032&size=o10:22
troy_swell thats a helluva stepup from the crap that we have now10:27
troy_sdarkmatter: Now to just blow the bloody panel out entirely.10:27
troy_sgrr.10:28
darkmatterlol10:28
troy_swell... maybe make it a little less panel like10:28
troy_sless circa 198910:28
troy_s_something_?10:28
darkmatterwell, once glory is done I'm tossing together a few quick mockups to peak interest in my next project. basically a hybrid first class ui thing10:30
darkmatterthe "panel" is more of a shelf really. has a hybrid mode that uses thumbnails for task switches.. purebred is much more complicated10:32
darkmatterbut both are tied into a "library"10:32
darkmatterI'd go into the details, but it'd take to long10:38
darkmatterbut as others can attest to... no menus, or panels to be seen ;)10:38
darkmatterexcept in hybrid, for those who cant live without a "startbutton"10:38
troy_sits good to have the interface boil down to a singular10:39
darkmatterI've pages and pages notes on it10:39
troy_s(strictly speaking in terms of a casual computer user)10:39
darkmatterbasically it would need a core lib for the library.. the ui would be kinda universal10:40
darkmatterso you would have access to everything from a single point, yet in an uncomplicated.. as hig as an allinone shopping center can get10:41
darkmatterso.. if you went to "music", that page of the library would have playback controls, etc10:41
troy_shig is shit10:42
darkmatterbasically the idea is to create a data management tool that is first class (as in abstracts the application shit n puts the data first)10:42
troy_sand it is the furthest thing from all in one that i could describe10:42
darkmattermakes use of the new core technologies like libburn n telepathy etc10:43
darkmatterbut, i digress. example10:43
troy_shrm... libburn?10:44
darkmatteryou have a "gossip" or "blab" or "contacts" whatever page in the library10:44
darkmatterlibburns the new framework for cd/dvd authoring10:44
darkmatterso you open that page, it has a list of the contacts, basic info, links for addy's n im accounts, online statuse etc10:45
darkmatterclicking an addy would open a blank document (basically evo or tbird or whatevers composition window, but just kinda bypassing the whole launch application thingy)10:46
darkmattertroy_s, or, another example.. basically, the ui "shelf" is a glorified notification center.. akin to a sock ticker on steroids.. but more useful, you can almost look at it like desktop widgets or gadgets too, but thats not really the best analogy10:50
darkmatterbut anyway... on to the example10:50
darkmattersay your boss needs a  presentation finished. job falls to you10:51
darkmatterdeadlines friday, you start the presentation, have other work to do, so save it n set a reminder for wednesday (basically could have a remind me feature in the office ui or just in the library, whatever)10:52
darkmatterso, wednesday at xxx time rolls around10:52
darkmattera reminder appears in the shelf "finish presentation for stupi..."10:53
darkmatterclicky the reminder would open the document directly10:54
darkmatteror you could right click it, a tile pops up gives you other options10:54
darkmatterto dismiss it, delay it, whatever10:54
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