[04:48] <Stralytic> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/NetbookLauncherIdeas   << submitting this for feedback
[07:02] <o0Chris0o> hmm I dunno where to start
[07:02] <o0Chris0o> its been awhile :(
[08:28] <o0Chris0o> Hey Guys what are some projects that need help? I'm new,  Id like to help any way I can by giving feedback, artwork..etc. Its going to take me a lil bit to get going in the graphic field again, kinda rusty, and new to gimp and inkspace. Any help is appreciated. I have read the wiki pages and thought it would benefit me if I ask the art members themselves :)
[08:29] <o0Chris0o> inkscape*
[08:30] <thorwil> hi o0Chris0o
[08:30] <o0Chris0o> hi thorwil
[08:30] <thorwil> o0Chris0o: you could perhaps help with Breathe
[08:31] <ziroday> o0Chris0o: I'm no member, but you probably want to join the mailing list
[08:31] <ziroday> if you haven't done so already
[08:31] <thorwil> o0Chris0o: for everything else, we are close to a release and you have to set sight on the next, Karmic Koala, already
[08:32] <o0Chris0o> thorwil: alright, I take that is the next version after jaunty?
[08:32] <thorwil> o0Chris0o: the guys at canonical are working on guidelines, so it's best to wait and see regarding everything. with the excpetion of Breathe, as it's a community effort that is not aligned to the release schedule
[08:33] <thorwil> yes
[08:33] <o0Chris0o> thorwil: alright thanks for the helpful information :)
[08:33] <thorwil> o0Chris0o: being on the mailing list is pretty much a must
[08:34] <o0Chris0o> thorwil:I am on it already, I'm quite new so I wouldn't know what to post  to the team or what not at this time
[08:35] <thorwil> o0Chris0o: you already know the Breath wiki pages?
[08:35] <thorwil> breathe, actually
[08:35] <o0Chris0o> thorwil: no but I can find them
[08:35] <thorwil> o0Chris0o: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/BreatheIconSet
[08:36] <o0Chris0o> ahh that will help too :)
[08:36] <o0Chris0o> ahh very nice
[08:38] <thorwil> o0Chris0o: this effort is headed by Cory K., going as _MMA_ in here. he tends to stay away at weekends
[08:40] <o0Chris0o> thorwil: alright, good to know, does ubuntu theme have to be the orange, red, brown theme?
[08:41] <thorwil> o0Chris0o: so far it had to, but for Karmic, Mark Shuttleworth mentioned that brown "served us well", but it's time for something new
[08:44] <o0Chris0o> Mark Shuttleworth is the founder of of Canonical right?
[08:44] <thorwil> yes
[08:46] <thorwil> o0Chris0o: do you have examples of the work you did online?
[08:47] <o0Chris0o> I'm afraid not, I have been asbent at graphic design for a few years, a little rusty
[08:47] <o0Chris0o> I have worked for the local newspaper here where I live as a graphic artist a few years back, doing ad design and layout
[08:48] <o0Chris0o> I have a lot of hard copy work I have done over the years , but none on the computer
[08:55] <o0Chris0o> I am head to bed, thanks for the info thorwil
[08:56] <thorwil> o0Chris0o: np. we are always in need of experienced people :)
[22:11] <DanaG> Oh hey, who was it that made the most recent changes to the gdm theme?  I actually liked the previous revision better -- the logo was nicely, discreetly nestled in the corner instead of being rather big and in-your-face like the new revision.
[22:11] <DanaG> The little login input-box surrounding thing also reminds me a bit much of those old fake-wood station wagons.
[22:11]  * SiDi thinks it's kwii
[22:11] <SiDi> ping kwwii
[22:12] <DanaG> I do like the style of the logo, though -- the previous revision was perhaps the nicest ubuntu login theme I've seen.  Nice and easy on the eyes, and such.
[22:14] <SiDi> Sounds like everyone's afk.
[22:14] <DanaG> Anyway, I figured such random comments don't quite make an ordinary bug report.  =þ
[22:14] <SiDi> I didn't see what changed in the gdm, btw
[22:15] <DanaG> Compare the old background to the new one.  The logo got way bigger, and moved up a lot.
[22:15] <DanaG> It's more "in-your-face", as I'd call it.
[22:16] <SiDi> I didn't even notice
[22:16] <SiDi> did it just happen ? :P
[22:17] <DanaG> Yeah, in recent updates as of yesterday.
[22:18] <DanaG> I was even using the gdm background as my wallpaper for a while on one of my older systems.
[22:18] <DanaG> My current wallpaper on my modern laptop does the day-fade thing:
[22:18] <DanaG> http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~dgoyette/hp-slideshow.tar.lzma
[22:19] <DanaG> Has to go in /usr/share/backgrounds, and I haven't set it up for the non-widescreen res.  I hacked at Fedora's Solar thingy.
[22:19] <SiDi> 14.5mb wallpaper ?
[22:19] <DanaG> Er, lemme see if I just post it as a dir instead.
[22:20] <SiDi> i'm 12 mins from FINALLY having that OpenSolaris LiveCD
[22:20]  * SiDi is excited
[22:21] <DanaG> Oh yeah, I tried the OpenSolaris 2008 LiveCD.... it failed at lots of my hardware.
[22:23] <SiDi> I just wanna learn how to compile my meant-to-be-cross-platform-bittorren-client :D
[22:23] <DanaG> Intel wifi not work, not new enough radeon driver (thus used vesa), and no working hda audio.
[22:24] <DanaG> http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~dgoyette/hp-slideshow
[22:26] <DanaG> wide is the only one I've set up.
[22:27] <SiDi> hehehe radeon drivers.. :P
[22:27] <DanaG> I'm using the open-source radeon driver from git, on my HD3650.
[22:27] <DanaG> fglrx has only ever worked for me for ONE version of fglrx.
[22:28] <DanaG> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/314600
[22:28] <DanaG> not fixed.
[22:28] <DanaG> I'm not sure what to mark it.
[22:28] <SiDi> They must be desperate... and you know, with new xorg and new ati drivers coming, i doubt people will work on old drivers' bugs
[22:29] <DanaG> The problem is, the brand new 8.600 is just as broken!
[22:29] <DanaG> They marked it fixed without even asking.  =þ
[22:29] <DanaG> Anyway, sort of off-topic for this channel.
[22:29] <DanaG> I do like having my wallpaper change color over the day -- that'd be something cool for the Ubuntu art-workers (yeah, not a great word) to look into.
[22:30] <SiDi> there's a script that updates the wallpaper, right ?
[22:30] <DanaG> It's an xml file, so libgnome-bg (or something like that) does it automatically.
[22:31] <DanaG> It fades over the course of two hours.
[22:32] <SiDi> Okies :)
[22:32] <SiDi> I need to go, see you