[ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

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On 6/20/06, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> On 6/19/06, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> > 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
>
> I gave it a try by making an icon in Inkscape and using an
> alpha-transparent png; from a technical perspective, this is possible.
>
> It took longer than I had expected so I don't have a formal proof of
> concept to show, but if people think this is interesting I will
> complete my test and make something that can be experimented with by
> others.
>
> The cool thing about using SVG is that it is very easy to replace
> colors. I simply did a "find and replace" but a more elegant and
> possibly reliable solution would be to transform it using XSL which is
> quite easy.
>
> I'll admit that in the real world this may not be practical because it
> is non-trivial to do more than replace exact colors. Does anyone see
> this as being useful?
> --

I have wanted this kind of thing on a few occaisions - and I think
that if you could release some kind of 'finished' solution there would
be interest much wider than just the Ubuntu community. Making art that
can change colour would be brilliant...

As Etienne said, for wallpapers etc it would be great.

I'm sure you've considered these but:
As for replacing non-exact colours - you culd just apply a uniform hue
shift to all the colours, or simply provide users with a list of all
the colours in a collection of SVGs and let them remap them manually,
replacing a colour at a time...

Sounds cool!

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