precise artwork

[amjjawad HOOHAA]

Thanks Rafael, as always, for your explanation :)

Now, can I use your reply as a default answer to someone who may say:

I don't like the new artwork for 12.04 - IMHO the bright grey on blue
> approach looks too much like Windows 95/98. The current (11.10) look is
> more to my liking
>

I was looking for an answer from your side because after all you know about
Artwork much better than me :)

Thanks!

P.S.
I usually find such feedback/notes on the forum A LOT and I usually reply
with few words but this time, I want something more official and loud :P



2012/2/1 神癒礁湖 <rafaellaguna at ubuntu.com>

> **
> Nope. It's more a recommendation. And if a distro wants to be
> "Canonical-friendly", as in resource helped, just what happened right now
> (being an official flavour) that distro must show an homogeneous style
> through its development during the release cycle. I mean, you can't make a
> distro look as green as OpenSuse today and the next version going black as
> CrunchBang.
>
> That's why Xubuntu is getting more "gray" and why Ubuntu is getting a big
> change from that brown to a more personal style (and being not mac-ish
> purposely). The users also wait for "something of the same but better".
> But this doesn't mean we can make subtile variations into a path or
> another. The original artwork for LXDE was absolutely black and vivid green
> on wallpaper, more like Windows Vista first releases [image: :|]
>
> But no, Canonical doesn't explicitely order us to be blue. That
> restriction means continuity and logic (the colour war for complaining
> every personal taste has no sense, that will conclude on making a thousand
> themes and even not getting the point). This style is more our fingerprint,
> and so it's getting approved by users (in fact it can be voted out and
> being rejected) I think we're consolidating a long term corporative style.
>
>
> El dc 01 de 02 de 2012 a les 19:11 +0400, en/na amjjawad HOOHAA va
> escriure:
>
>  Again no option for colour (sorry) for us and Xubuntu devs (also Kubuntu
> are "slaved" to its plasmoid style) due to "Canonical restrictions".
>
>
> Hello again, Rafael,
>
> Are you saying that we "have" to use that color on the new wallpaper for
> Lubuntu 12.04 just because Canonical wants that?
>
> Thank you :)
>
>
>
>  On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:51 PM, 神癒礁湖 <rafaellaguna at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi, people:
>
> I have updated the artwork (again). I REALLY recommend you to replace your
> Ozone3 theme with this one (a lot of improvements solve several bugs).
> Also, the wallpaper is ready (after a selection process). Again no option
> for colour (sorry) for us and Xubuntu devs (also Kubuntu are "slaved" to
> its plasmoid style) due to "Canonical restrictions".
>
> If you feel better, the new artwork package will include all previous
> Lubuntu themes and some walls by the Flickr community. Check out:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Artwork/Incoming/Precise/Ozone
>
> As always, feedback is appreciated. Thanks.
>
>
>
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