[ubuntu-art] Themes for polishing

[Pascal Klein]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:46:57 +0000
Who <mailforwho at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Yes, these are packages and thus extend to wallpapers, icon sets and
splash screens as well.
See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/Meetings/Agenda


> 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)?

These are awesome ideas. A tango package with a Tango splash, wallpaper
(s), icon theme, Firefox theme, Thunderbird theme, GTK and Metacity
them would be awesome. This is what we are looking at for each and
could easily be added. Given they would be added essentially
immediately to the universe repositories we could even allocate a
maintainer of each set/package. For example the Tango package would
need to be updated every few months after considerable updates of new
icons.

There are many other items you've listed there and I could see almost
every single one as a set. Exciting stuff! :)


> 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

Excellent idea.


> 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.

This coming weekend is the Artwork Weekend. This can all be managed
through that.


> 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!

No, this is precisely what we need! Thank you very much for your
suggestions and links. Looking forward to catching up and discussing
some of these ideas in the IRC channel as soon as possible.


> Enjoy suggestions!
> 
> Who
> 


Thanks and cheers,

Pascal

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Pascal Klein
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