[ubuntu-art] Themes for polishing

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Hi, and hello list!

I thought, given what Mark has said recently about getting some high
quality, polished themes into the repositories soon, that we ought to get
straight to discussing which themes will be 'operated on'.

Can I confirm what we mean by theme: is it icons+Metacity+GTK theme, or is
it just a GTK Theme
I have the following ideas.

1. We have at least one 'unifying theme' - containing icons for KDE and for
GNOME that are very similar/identical, that by default co-ordinates colours
and sets QTandGTK to use themes that look as similar as possible
My personal proposals for these are either
Icons:
*Tango (http://tango-project.org/)
*NuovEXT (http://nuovext.pwsp.net/)
Both of these also have Firefox themes. Can we apply Firefox themes using a
.deb?
Theme
*Industrial and some work using the Suse-released qindustrial - this is very
hard to get hold of and would be a real coup f we could get it polished for
Dapper - may people think Industrial is the best theme for Gnome - so it
would be great to allow them to integrate KDE apps(
http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/professional/qindustrial.htmland
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=22913). Are there issues
with being 'polite' to Novel and Jakub?
*Plastik themed to look like Clearlooks and Clearlooks looking like Plastik
*Mandrake Galaxy - I will post some screenshots somewhere of how good this
can look with the right colours - and it is identical on KDE/Gnome. How can
we get/build the theme engine for Ubuntu?
2.We discuss which will be our top three for _one week_ (so submissions end
on 9th March 06), and after that week make a decision and start developing.
If anyone feels that their pet theme isn't among the ones we decide on then
they can lead a team to do that. Ideally we shouldn't do this though,
because it will reduce the efficiency of the other teams (by distracting
potential contributors). Can we use
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/Voting for voting, or the forums (see
below)?

3. Each group can do what they want after this date, but I think it would be
useful if we could make user-viewable specs about what we are doing in the
Wiki - so forum users etc can have their say. this will also help artists
who aren't from the group to contribute work - if the spec on the wiki is
clear then what we want/need will be obvious.

4.All suggestions should be accompanied by links, so that we don't all
duplicate our time googling for information about a particular
theme/iconset.

5. (I'm not sure about this) We check back for a review in 4 weeks from now

I have created this page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/AdditionalThemes
that we can use as a central place for suggestions. Please post
simultaneously to this thread and to that wiki page.

Do people think we should open this up to the people on the forums? we could
perhaps using the forum voting system and thus also get more volunteers.

If I am talking out of line, I am sorry, this is just an enthusiastic post
designed to be constructive. I stress I only think these are suggestions. I
don't have any authority!

Enjoy suggestions!

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