[ubuntu-art] My idea for Edgy (warning, lots of ranting!)

[Andreas Nilsson]

Viper550 wrote:
>
> But, my goal for Edgy is to make an entire suite of ORIGINAL artwork 
> to be there by default. Except for the Ubuntulooks Engine (which 
> should stay, because we like it and all), I want every piece of 
> artwork in Edgy to be original, not based off anything, built from 
> scratch. I've been concerned that the Ubuntu installations have not 
> had 100% original Artwork. On the first version, we used Industrial 
> and a theme based off Glider, 5.04 at least used the ClearLooks 
> engine, but still that Metacity theme stayed! Now for Dapper, we do 
> have an original Theme engine (based off ClearLooks), we have a brand 
> new original icon set (built from scratch!), but now your "Human" 
> metacity is based off ClearLooks 2 Metacity. Why can't we have 100% 
> original stuff?! And I can even tell the difference between Human 
> Metacity and ClearLooks 2 Metacity (slightly different buttons). Even 
> worse, we had several GREAT metacity suggestions on the wiki that we 
> completely ignored!
>
> There, now that my rant is over, let me catch my breath...
>
> Viper550
Why reinvent the wheel a bazillion times just because something is Not 
Invented Here[tm]?
Perhaps it should be a nice idea to start polishing other parts of the 
interface during Edgy. There are lots of stuff that needs a lot of love 
from talented artists, both in Ubuntu and on the free desktop in general.
- Andreas