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

[Billy]

On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:53 -0700, Chuck Huber wrote:

> 
> 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


You don't use 3 diff icon themes. You use Human Icons in 3 colors. Human
ubuntulooks in 3 colors. Wallpaper in 3 colors. Gdm in 3 colors...etc..
lil somthin for everyone.
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