[ubuntu-art] De Edgy Artwork reflection

[Billy]

On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 01:51 +0200, iacopo masi wrote:

> I'm thinking about Edgy  future artwork and Dapper has close the Human
> theme cyles.
> With edgy there will be a new reinvented from skratch artwork.
> I like very much the new Orange Human expecilly the wallpaper and the
> icons (both Human and Tangerine). 
> I put my opinion,my reflection in the next artwork.
> Starting from other concorrential no open OS like Xp (Microsoft) and
> Osx (Apple) we see that there is a big work on artwork. :D
> Xp is tasted with a blue and green theme with yellow folder. Os x with
> a light cyan, white and gray color scheme.
> In this schemas there was not only a predominant color in the theme.
> So the reproach to Human theme is "when a person looks ubuntu after 2
> minutes says: 
> ohh too much Brown (Breezy: wallpaper dark brow and brown gtk and
> brown metacity) or Too orange (dapper: orange icons,gtk and metacity)
> "
> So do you consider that for edgy it will be better if there will be
> like 2 or 3 color: like 2 major colors and 1 minor. It will be
> beautiful to think at ubuntu and remember nature: so blue (sky), green
> (grass), brown (tree). If this is too xp-ish it can be taken a lot of
> color scheme. For example thinking at dapper, 
> my thought is that it was better if the metacity was of another color
> than the orange. In this way the eye could rest and than all theme
> could be less boring and heavy. Ispirating by Ubuntu logo it is
> possibile to make the metacity of a black color and mixing the black
> color also in the wallpaper. for dapper we could have mix orange,
> black and sand begie. So I hope in edgy will be not only a predomint
> color but at lease two with variations. 
> About the gtk I consider that we must continue to work with engines
> doing a synthesis of all best: I will take checkbox and V check form
> ubuntulooks, scrollbar and progress bar form gFlat engines (rezlooks
> modified) and tab and panel from Clearlooks. However a lot of good
> work has been done with wonderful ubuntulooks. 
> So at the end I consider that we can make a personal ,special,
> recognizable and enviable look and feel mixing cairo animation taking
> the best from various engines, innvoative (not blue) colore schema but
> not boring and a  touch of art. 
> 
> Regards,
> lizardking


Well said. I'm glad there's yet another vote for more than one desktop
theme. Making every element of the desktop in a few color schemes only
takes time, and we have 6 months.
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