[ubuntu-art] Deadline for community art: May 15

[Billy]

On Tue, 2006-05-09 Mark Shuttleworth wrote:

> Unfortunately, I don't believe that Tango has the level of design
> quality in place that we need for the best theme for Ubuntu. I just
> don't like the Tango icons. And 22x22 (as well as other decisions) are
> IMO poor choices.  Tangerine is therefor somewhat limited. Ideally, we
> want better icons, with a better toolchain process for Human.
>   
> It's not designed to. It uses its own perspective. It's designed to
> become a full, rich icon set that has a unique look.
> 
> You and others do very good artwork with whatever tools you prefer -
> so do the icon designers who are contracted to work on Human. I would
> like to expand the contract team on Human to include folks using free
> software tools but for now we did not have time to do that.
> 
> I would like to document the Human style guideline so that the art
> team can contribute more icons to Human that fit well. For the moment,
> Tangerine is designed to be the best fallback after Human because its
> palette is closest to Human.
>   
> In the Ubuntu project we don't try to shoehorn KDE into Gnome or vice
> versa. We have Kubuntu, and we have Ubuntu, and we try to let both
> communities work on something they consider perfect for themselves.
> 
> Tango comes from a team that is trying to make a unified KDE / Gnome
> desktop. As a result, they have had to make a number of compromises. I
> don't think the result looks good at all. They may succeed, in which
> case we can happily adopt that work. But we prefer to lead in a
> different direction, with a strong icon set for the Gnome desktop that
> has a unique look and feel.
> 
> Mark


Man!.. it's great to hear ALL that! To avoid further controversy, I
won't say more than that, but I appreciate the level head and common
sense of all involved in coming to those conclusions. Thanks for all you
do, and for thinking long term instead of flighty short term!

Billy
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