[ubuntu-art] Tangerine in universe (and some general comments on all artwork)

[Étienne Bersac]

Hello,

> If Ubuntu followed a blue-ish trend then I have the feeling we  
> would be
> getting complaints from other people just about the same thing:
> colouration. I accept that many people prefer blue above brown, or  
> grey
> above orange, but this is one of the things that sets Ubuntu apart  
> from
> other distributions. We've moved to orange now, as evident in the
> Metacity and GTK themes (great work by the way, and both Tangerine and
> the new Human icon sets are beginning to take form as well, using lots
> of orange.

Yes, it's good for ubuntu to be different. I do not understand why  
changing the color of ubuntu for this cycle.  Why not make a clean,  
polish and professionnal brown theme and work on a orange based theme  
for the next cycle. Using a caramel theme is a good compromise.


> If we were to change main shades now it would be a lot of work to  
> re-do
> the work we have already done.

We have time, artist and artwork. We must review several points of  
the current design. Do we have so much message about artwork in  
previous release ? Even great supporter of Ubuntu (Lionel Dricot  
wrote a book about ubuntu : http://www.eyrolles.com/Accueil/Livre/ 
9782212116083/ ). This is important to take care of those messages  
that come from ubunteros, not from redhat or SuSE users.

>
> We can't follow the Tango guidelines completely. Realise that the  
> Tango
> Desktop Project aims to bring a consistent look to the Linux desktop,
> emphasis on the 'a'.

Of course, i want that ubuntu build it's own guidelines (i'm the one  
who creates DapperUbuntuArtworkGuidelines ), but obviously, Tango has  
a huge advance over us and his highly reusable.

What i like in tango spec is the true emphasis on consistency and  
accessibilty. This is what we must include in our Guidelines.

Best regards.