[ubuntu-art] Kin "Piano" Progress

[Isaiah Heyer]

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 16:41 -0400, Ken Vermette wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Ken Vermette <vermette at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         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         "fit" or looks outdated.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
> 
> An exceptionally rough screenshot. Currently the theme is a version of
> Slickness being modified. The colours,toolbars, anything visible in
> the GTK except the menubar are due for being updated to the Piano GTK.
> Buttons are incomplete, and the bottom of the frames in Emerald are
> en-route (being tinkered)
> 
> http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/raraken/Screenshot-2.jpg
> 
> -Ken Vermette

It beautiful.Too bad that you can't do those subtle corners in metacity.