[ubuntu-art] My opinion about Edgy artwork

[fafek2.mailing]

Hi,

First of all, wallpaper and sounds are really great, especially sounds 
which fit Ubuntu distribution perfectly.
Really great work.

Unfortunetly, I have some notes.

Red captions on GDM with errors like "wrong username or password" look 
very ugly. They don't look well and they're hardly visible.

Some icons don't match to others or they functions. For example, why 
moving to trash icon have a shredding picture? Next examply is ugly 
"Quit" button which looks like ol' Gnome-theme button.

The worst change is new usplash.
Linux users are used to watching useful informations about starting 
services. Now, I don't know where my computer crashed (which on Edgy's 
live-cd happens very often).

The picture looks bad. Simply, previous was better. Now, there is even 
no distribution name.
Moreover, I can see some compression symptoms on biggest resolutions 
(1280x1024 for example).
Now, some psychology information. If nothing on screen moves, there is 
illusion - user thinks that some process takes more time.
He's bored and upset that he don't know what's happening.
User thinks "Oh, geez, progress bar stopped. What now?". After 15 
seconds: "Oh, no I think my computer crashed" and he makes hard reset.
I know it from my own experience on a hibernation process example. It 
takes about a minute and during this user see only a black screen. I 
resetted my computer twice. Third time, I waited a little longer and, oh 
my god, hibernation worked!


Regards,
Rafal Ryba
fafek2 at gmail.com