[ubuntu-art] De Edgy Artwork reflection

[Jean-Denis Vauguet]

Ben Pygall a écrit :
> On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 01:41 -0500, Billy wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Another vote for more than one desktop theme. Given the number of people
> who like to contribute art and the time available, it makes sense to me
> if possible to give people a choice. After all, is this not partly what
> the free software movement is all about.

I support this idea too, since iacopo masi has written here what I had
in mind for the last two months without being able to formulate it: too
much of one color-orange (although a lovely orange).

As an example of plural-color GUI, one could have a look to Charamel
theme for firefox/thunderbird. With two main colors (white and beige)
and one secondary blue-and smooth shadows- the GUI looks professionnal
and is actually very usable.

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