[ubuntu-art] Kin "Piano" Progress

[Ken Vermette]

Hey Everyone;

I've been without an internet connection of my own for awhile, I've recently
moved so I'm waiting to get hooked up.

The Piano styling of Kin is still in the works, and some things are being
modified due to Emerald Pixmap limitations, but it is looking very good,
albut I had to remove the highlight on the top and bottom rims.

Meat and Potatoes;

What I'd really like to get at, is forming a Kin team to help unify
Kin-Theme development and diversify styles. We have Kith, Slab, Tonic,
Human2, Piano, Codname Plue and others; all being produced individually.
They all have several styles in common, so if we could get the people that
excel in their elements to work on what they do best - we could not only
have a diverse collection, but one with truly complete themes instead of
half-baked lemons.

Realistically, what I could dedicate to any team that forms is I personally
can create Emerald themes, from start-to-finish, and build Pixmap/SVG GTK
elements. Anything that could be done with SVG, I could help style and
concept.

What we would need on the team, would be actual GTK theme programming
(having several failed Kin GTK themes myself, I'm no good at it), Metacity
programming (although Kin Tonic metacity has set an EXCELLENT standard for
that, hopefully Tonic, I would like you to join the team). Additionally,
anybody with experience is tweaking themes on a program-level would be good.
In addition, bootsplash, logon pages and other interface elements could be
done, aswell, I can help produce graphics for those.

Going onto less-important assets (but assests nonetheless) we could also
give gnome-games a facelift (I know I've already started a couple graphical
tweaks for aislerot and a couple others), and other programs auch as Avant,
Kiba, Gnome-Panel applets, KDE, Firefox, etc. Any program that either
doesn't "fit" or looks outdated.

I don't know how to setup launchpad or other sites a team could be
established (unless I program a personal site, but I would prefer an already
ubuntu-oriented website) but when I get a solid connection I could set one
up, unless someone beats me to it (I get a connection on Wednsday, nudge
nudge, wink wink)

Lastly, as always, amazing work, everybody! All these themes are similar and
unique. One way or another, if we create a pallet of themes and suite of
components - it would be simple mix and match to maximize all of our themes
unique potential, and we could establish the level of organization required
to polish our themes.

-Ken Vermette
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