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

Chuck Huber chuck at lagunadata.com
Sat May 27 04:53:36 BST 2006



On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:46 -0500, Billy wrote:

> You miss the point. Human is ubuntulooks. So is Dapper-Drake and
> Silicon, if they made it into the packaging. They do not have the
> other elements of the Human desktop enviornment.
>
Usually proprietary software products are branded from start to finish.
Even if there is a choice of color(and usually there isn't) you start
with the same artwork as the original theme and work from there.  If
themes are available, you colorize the original to lessen the workload.

For Dapper I think the community did remarkably well to choose Human,
Tangerine, Gion and nuoveXT icon themes -- but how do we find 3 icon
sets of this quality next time that haven't been used in competing
distros?

Some have mentioned sticking with Tango but it would be hard to bind or
brand Tango with Ubuntu.  Same with nuoveXT, or Gion, though we might be
able to colorize them as we did Tangerine.  In any case, the metatheme
idea is similar in concept to what we did with Tangerine just taken one
step further.

Chuck





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