[ubuntu-art] Uspash

[Lukas Sabota]

On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 12:28 -0400, Viper550 wrote:
> iacopo masi wrote:
> > I agree.
> > The new usplash is so ugly and not usable!

	The current gray usplash is NOT dapper.  Dapper drake is supposed to
focus on polish.  Much of the current artwork does not seem polished at
all.  I don't mean to troll here, but much of the current artwork is
lacking consistency.  For example, there seems to be no real color
palette at throughout the menu system.  The 3D back/forward/up/reload
icons of nautilus look different from everything else in the theme.  The
folder icons seem bland.  I personally feel that tangerine would make a
better default icon set.
	I would encourage artists to take a look at the new SuSe 10.1
screenshots [1].  For what it's worth, I prefer Ubuntu as an operating
system, but I feel SuSe is a good example of polish, and artists should
get some ideas from other open source work that has been done.
	I'm sorry to sound harsh, but I don't feel that dapper artwork is
really "dapper".  I appreciate all the hard work that has gone into the
artwork, but an overhaul is needed for the iconset and usplash theme to
provide a truly polished OS.

God bless,
Lukas

[1]
http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=637&slide=26&title=suse+linux+10.1+screenshots