[ubuntu-art] gdm proposal

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 15:32 -0700, Chuck Huber wrote:
> For what it's worth, it's a very light grayish white on my Sony lcd and
> looks good.  
> 
> I thought it might be interesting if you were to rotate the white
> rectangle 180 degrees so it would appear to be carved out of shiny
> plastic instead of looking like a plaque on top of a background image.
> I'm not sure if it has enough of a bevel to lend to that perception but
> if you post the xcf I'd be happy to play with it and post results.
> 

I've uploaded the xcf to http://grillbar.org/tmp/kamstrup-edgy-gdm1.xcf.
Play around to your hearts content :-) Consider the license to be "free
like air" - do what ever you want.

You might wan't to play around with the placement of the box and logo
too. I'm not even sure the box is properly centered (the logo is
though).

In case anybody wonders about the background "gradient" it was a picture
I took directly into a lightbulb from 2 inches away.


> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 21:55 +0200, Kristof Verbeken wrote:
> > On my desktop it does look blue too :)
> > 

Ok. I give in :-) I'll try and adjust the colors. BBL.


Cheers,
Mikkel

> > 2006/10/4, Toby Smithe <toby.smithe at gmail.com>:
> >         On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 21:50 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
> >         wrote:
> >         > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 21:28 +0200, Kristof Verbeken wrote:
> >         > > Well .. I like it .. a _lot_
> >         > > But I'm quite sure you'll have to change the blue box to
> >         brown. 
> >         > > Sorry .. Blue&brown just don't seem to fit.
> >         > >
> >         >
> >         > Maybe my laptop monitor is playing tricks on me... It
> >         appears gray here,
> >         > what do other people see?
> >         >
> >         > It is easy to tweak the color of the box so go ahead and
> >         flame me ;-P 
> >         
> >         Yeah. The colour is bad. It could be really nice! Make it a
> >         colour from
> >         the suggested palette, or a variant, and it could be great.
> >         Here on this
> >         laptop, it looks blue.
> >         
> > 
> -- 
> Chuck Huber <chuck at lagunadata.com>
> 
>