[ubuntu-art] Themes for polishing

[Pascal Klein]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:01:19 -0600
"Matthew Nuzum" <mattnuzum at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/2/06, Pascal Klein <4pascal at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> > 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'.
> > >
> 
> Pascal,
> 
> I will not be able to attend the meeting this weekend, but let me
> contribute some food for thought.
> 
> The art-list until now has been a place where people tossed out ideas
> and art they have done. This is fine, but if the goal is to get art
> into Universe so that it can be considered for inclusion into main,
> maybe there should be a discussion as to what the decision makers want
> to see.
> 
> It is much easier to hit the target when you can see the target.
> Blindly shooting arrows into the sky may result in a direct hit, but
> it's not likely. I'm still using Breezy and Hoary, so I can't see what
> graphical elements have been proposed for Dapper and therefore can't
> make direct suggestions, but here is what might be asked and therefore
> decided upon:
> 
>  - what colors should be used?
>   - is there a theme that should underlie the artwork? (for example,
> when RH released blue curve, there was a definite theme and coherency
> to the artwork)
>  - what are our greatest needs?
>  - the difference between a slick, polished, enterprise grade
> application and something that looks like it was hobbled together is
> the attention to detail. Therefore, identify areas of the interface
> that look 'fine' or 'not bad' but don't have the professional 'shine'
> that we want to be represented in the Linux community for the next 5
> years (the expected support life span of dapper).
> 
> Dapper is going to be around a while, and if anyone on the art-list
> wants to be relevant to the upcoming project, they need to think
> long-term when they think about this release.
> 
> Five years from now there will be people saying, "Well... it's about
> time we upgrade those old Dapper computers..." Their thoughts about
> the look and feel could be one of the following:
>  - "Remember when these came out? They really set the bar for the next
> few generations of desktops."
> or
>  - "Wow, can you believe someone thought this looked good?"
> 
> This weekend's meeting can decide what people will be saying when that
> day comes.
> --
> Matthew Nuzum
> www.bearfruit.org
> 
> 


Very true. I think a wiki page for this would be good. I'll add it to
my to-do. :) I'd very much appreciate any input anyone could supply in
regard to Matthew's ideas especially for the wiki page.

Cheers.


-- 
Pascal Klein
http://wombat.nuxified.com

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