[ubuntu-art] yet another mockup (greenish one)

[Alper Beser]

2007/11/25, Troy James Sobotka <troy.sobotka at gmail.com>:
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> Perhaps a few questions and you can evaluate it yourself:
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> 1) Do you feel gloss is contemporary?  Can you site any
> contemporary trend from a designer / art / photography
> magazine that would suggest that glossy / shiny is
> heading back into mainstream?  Are there perhaps other
> styles that might be not only more fresh but more evocative
> of a potential Ubuntu 'identity'?
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> 2) Does green feel close to Ubuntu's lineage considering
> its brown hues of past?
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> 3) Does grass seem distinctive and innovative considering
> the operating system landscape?  Leopard pre-releases and
> Vista have both featured grass wallpapers.  Is duplication
> and imitation something that you wish Ubuntu to forward
> as a trend?
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> 4) Ubuntu has strict rules regarding the presentation of
> its official logo.  Were you aware that there are rules
> governing the colours laid out in the official logo?  Do
> you think that Mark Shuttlworth would be willing to stray
> from the default logo colours presented in the past three
> to four years?  Do you think it would be wise for a company
> such as Coca-Cola to stray from their brand logo of red and
> white?  Pepsi to stray from their brand logo of blue, white,
> and red?
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> 5) On a technological note, is the mock you presented viable?
> Does translucency currently exist as you have it presented?
> Is the visual styling of the menu etc. currently attainable
> with the codebase?
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> 6) Having considered the audience you are designing this for,
> do you believe it helps to create an emotional attachment to
> the Ubuntu identity?  Does it have a clear voice or tepid
> delivery?  Does it have enough body to create a full fledged
> motif from for marketing and further material?  Is the palette
> rounded out enough to support such a presentation?
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> Hope these questions help to illuminate possible future direction.
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> Sincerely,
> TJS
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Ok, first of all I want to thank you for your great feedback, guys! It makes
me happy to see you striving for improving my mockup. :)

Referring to Troy i must say, that i find it neither rude nor offending in
any way. I appreciate negative criticism as much as praise. I want to thank
Troy explicitly for his effort of writing his appropriate questions.

I want to answer them one by one:

1) I don't think that those glossy effects went out of style yet. I would
rather say that they are more popular than anytime else right now. You can
take Apple as a good example, that was the first precursor of that style.

2) You are absolutley right, green doesn't really fit in the color schemes
ubuntu used in the recent past. But when i started to design my mockup, I
wanted to use a color which spreads a good atmosphere - and green does this
way better than brown.

3) The wallpaper was only a random choice of mine. I picked it because i
didn't want to take one of those regular ubuntu wallpapers. I could use
anything else instead of it. :)

4) Well, I've seen some custom themes with variously colored logos of
ubuntu, so I thought that it wouldn't be a problem, if I made it greenish,
in order to make it fit better to the background. However, you are right, I
will take care of keeping the standard logo in further versions in the
future.

5) I unfortunately don't know much about the technical coding stuff that is
behind a theme. Thank you for making me aware of this. I will take care of
this, too.

6) It doesn't have clear ubuntu-based message yet - that's correct, but I
hope that it will develop one in the duration of further work. :)


I hope that I answered all of these correctly (for my own sake ;)) and would
encourage all of you to help me improving it in the same way you already
did.

The next ToDo's:

- changing the green color scheme to orange
- modifying or removing the transparency
- making the lower taskbar look more ubuntu-like
- implanting some gui-icons to make it be a real mockup.
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