[ubuntu-art] Mark has Thrown Down the Gauntlet!

[Duncan Austin]

2008/7/23 Salane Ashcraft <salane89 at gmail.com>:

> Read this article everyone. It is interesting.
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9419
> We do indeed need to step it up! But at least we have made more
> progress here latley!
>
>
I absolutely agree with the article, and Mark. A few weeks ago I posed a
question but got no reply, but I'll repeat it again in case it's relevant:

Hi All,

I have some thoughts, for what they're worth, about the direction and
concepts that Intrepid could take.

Firstly, if we're going to go orange then I think we should be careful about
going too orange. A theme should stay in the background and enhance the
focal point, ie the content. An overwhelming, or high contrast theme is a
distraction - no matter how pretty it is. Orange is not a background colour!
I think it should be the foreground colour - ie title text, titlebar buttons
- close, minimize etc. This would also make the orange more striking,
instead if drowning the user in it.

Ever listened to a beautiful Chopin? Where it ends with a note, a pause,
then solfly, the final note - perfection. This last note is what a theme
should feel like. This is what Apple consistantly get right.

Secondly, we seem to be thinking along the lines of "What does an Ibex look
like?" as a cue for the themes. Perhaps we should be thinking about "What is
it like to be an Ibex?".

I think Intrepid provides a great opportunity to break the mold and take
that last note from Apple! What does an Ibex see when it opens its eyes up
there in the mountains? What does it feel like to breathe that crisp, clean
mountain air? Or munch on that green grass or drink that clear, icy water?

Feel like perfection? I think so.

I've uploaded a screenshot of my current theme which is along these lines at
http://readitsideways.com/screenshot.jpg

This is based on the googol theme at gnome-look.org so the titlebar buttons
are googlish, but perhaps we could take a cue from the Ubuntu logo and also
use circles, but in the logo colours and make the circle thickness the same
as the logo's circle thickness?

If anyone else thinks that this is a direction worth persuing I'll do a mock
up, and then a theme.


Regards

Duncan
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