[ubuntu-art] Intrepid Ibex

[Seth Woodworth]

I've been reading up on an old proposal about ambient-ly changing desktops
(and themes?) in Ubuntu.  Also, I have been playing with semi-transparent
SVG's as backgrounds, and changing the base background color.

I feel that it would be relatively trivial to create a simple system for
auto-updating the bgshade behind a given svg background based on
environmental variables.  Say: time and projected sun-up/sundown at a given
long/lat.  The shade of your background could very easily match the rough
shade of the sky outside.

Also, as you likely know, SVG's are pretty easy to edit by a program simply
by changing some basic XML structure inside the file.  This too could be
fairly easily changed to create an ever-changing background, with little
resource overhead.

Is it in anyone's plans to go forward with the original proposal?  I'm
interested in working with anyone who is.

Seth

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:47 AM, François Degrave <fdegrave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> It think this is a good idea to start with:
>
>  Attached: 444K sized zip file with PNGs included.
> >
> > The visual style I have mentioned is called 'Elements' and it has 4
> > variations - Fire (the one you can see in the link), Water, Air and Earth.
> >
> > Fire - Orange, the default visual style
> > Water - Blue
> > Air - Grey
> > Earth - Green
> >
> > We have Human Looks now. Imagine from Intrepid, we call our theme "Human
> > Elements". From the different themes I have seen based on Murrine and
> > Clearlooks, this appears possible.
> >
> Cheers,
>
> François
>
>
>
>  Hi all !
> >
> > While everybody is enjoying the new Hardy Heron, I'd like to remember
> > the list what we set previously, the new theme for Intrepid Ibex. It's been
> > two releases since we don't produce anything, lot of talk, no actions, and
> > now it's time to realize something solid, consistent, to fit the hope of a
> > beautiful new theme. Now where should we start ? For the moment, as the list
> > hasn't been very active, there's nothing really defined, so what I suggest
> > is a meeting very soon on IRC, to discuss about this hard task.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Steph.
> >
>
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