[ubuntu-art] Idea regarding themes

[Andreas Nilsson]

Michiel Sikma wrote:
>
> Op 22-jun-2006, om 15:21 heeft Mark Shuttleworth het volgende geschreven:
>>> It would seem that you're okay with this idea as long as the themes 
>>> adhere to the criteria you listed, but I'm not sure. :)
>>
>> No, I'm not OK with the idea, because the way it was phrased 
>> suggested that we should "make them look consistent". They have the 
>> right to be independent, to make the decisions that are best for 
>> THEM, and we should not be enforcing "consistency" over their wish to 
>> be independent. We should propose good ideas, but let the individual 
>> brands / distros choose the ideas they want to integrate.
>>
>> Mark
>
> They definitely should have their own identities. You're right, we 
> should drop the idea of "making the themes look as similar as 
> possible", although I do think it might be a good idea to have all 
> different Ubuntu flavors share color schemes. Ubuntu would have its 
> default theme in three colors; orange, blue, grey, as would Kubuntu 
> and Xubuntu; it's a good way to get some nice different color schemes 
> in the distro while giving the other flavors a wink. Of course, that's 
> only if the other art team members feel that this is a good idea and 
> if the devs of Kubuntu and Xubuntu are up for it.
>
> Otherwise, we could simply make three themes for Ubuntu which use 
> orange, blue, and grey, without doing the same for the other flavors.
>
> Michiel
What we do need to do though is to make sure that if I for example 
choose to use kopete under GNOME it should blend in nice with the rest 
of the desktop. In order to do that we need to make sure that 
icon-naming-spec is properly implented on all four(?) desktops and that 
packages like tango-icon-theme-common works properly (and that the 
coverage of gnome-app-icons in crystal is good for that matter).
I'll personally continue working on this for edgy.
- Andreas