[ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

[Michiel Sikma]

Op 19-jun-2006, om 16:44 heeft Matthew Nuzum het volgende geschreven:

> On 6/19/06, Michiel Sikma <michiel at thingmajig.org> wrote:
>>
>> Ubuntu uses orange, Kubuntu uses blue, Xubuntu uses light anthracite
>> (or something; that's how the color seems to me). Those seem like
>> nice default colors for themes. I think that we might have a very
>> rich default set of looks for Ubuntu if we were to make such a cross-
>> platform UI plan a reality.
>>
>> Michiel
>
> This is a bit off-topic, sorry.
>
> You know what would be sweet... Illustrator has that new-ish feature
> where you can genereate an artwork template and then have it create
> variations of the artwork based on a database...
>
> What would be cool is to create the artwork in such a way that you
> could then create a make file and then feed in a color pallette and
> have it generate/regerate the artwork for each distro based on the
> colors in the pallette.
>
> make ubuntu
> make edubuntu
> make xubuntu
> make kubuntu
>
> In the past that would have been so far-fetched that it would've been
> laughable to even propose such a thing, but now, with so much artwork
> being SVG and withPNG's alpha transparency as mature as it is, it's
> not too far fetched.
>
> I think I'm going to try it later on this afternoon just to see how it
> works. I've never deliberately looked at the source of an SVG file to
> see how the colors are defined. Maybe it still is far-fetched.
>
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To be honest, that still sounds a little laughable to me, but if it  
works, I'll kindly shut up. :) Let us know if you were able to do  
something nice with that. I personally haven't tried that feature yet  
so I don't know how well it works.

Michiel