[ubuntu-art] New Default About Me Icon

[Lukas Sabota]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 12:43 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> Lukas Sabota wrote:
> > Currently, the default About me icon is a little tiny white guy.  This
> > does not scale well, and looks very poor on the Lock Screen dialog.
> > I've attached a (quick) image that could replace the little white guy:
> > the Ubuntu logo.  This is a 64x64 png image, unlike the 32x32 white guy
> > that is stretched to 64x64 in the lock dialog.  Some refinements would
> > need to be done to the image to make it look less blurry, but I feel
> > that the Ubuntu logo would make for a better default About Me picture.
> > Reply with comments.
> >   
> I thought about-me was for info about yourself, hence the icon of a 
> person. I don't see how the icon for some distro would help there, and 
> the logo is elsewhere in the menus, like for about ubuntu.
> I might be mistaken, but I think the icon are avaible in the sizes 
> 16x16, 22x22 and scalable (48x48), so a better idea would probably be to 
> use the scalable size in the dialog. Could you please send a screenshot 
> of the lock screen dialog?
> - Andreas
Hello Andreas,
	While the about-me icon is providing information about the user, a
picture of a white figure is no more describing yourself than a logo.
The current default about-me icon looks very bland in the lock dialog,
and is also quite stretched out (as you can see in the attached screen
shot.
	Perhaps a better idea would be to display a stock image in the Lock
screen if an about-me image is unavailable.  This stock image could be
either a lock, the ubuntu logo, or something else fitting.  But
currently, the stretched out white figure does not seem to fit.
	Thank you for your input to my discussion!

God bless,
Lukas