[ubuntu-art] More Mockups

[SorinN]

a variation of "The development SVG".

it has a gray version along a modified brown theme made by Ken.
Scrollbars added.

SVG file in attachment -> so ..modify at will...

2008/7/28 SorinN <nemes.sorin at gmail.com>:
> Agree with "Also, I'm thinking of getting a team together..." but not
> only for this theme. For all themes.
> We should organize more than 1 team. Sincerely I'm on the side of
> Usability working day by day with these values - doing interfaces ;) (
> yep GUI ) - so I don't agree for now on too much shine for  a base
> theme ( even that I use dark themes ) - because a lot of users are on
> offices / enterprises / schools - they are an important segment, so I
> need to think in a "marketing" way.
>
> That's why I'm in favor of more teams of designers but at least one
> team of developers / engine hackers for design integration and a
> Ubuntu own engine.
>
> As it should be from start - Ubuntu must come with more "Ubuntu-ish"
> themes - for office users ( minimalistic, clean, non obtruzive ),  for
> photographs ( dark themes ), for artists ( neutral, colored grays,
> also 'dark'  can go here ), for multimedia fans ( extra fancy, bells,
> reflections, etc ).
>
> All themes about I talk here ..sure, must contain some common
> distinctive, unique elements ( as scrollbars, navigation signs ..etc )
> and maybe we should start from here ...to find, to define those
> elements, to make a basic rootkit as a base for constructing Ubuntu
> themes. We need to find a "semiotic" ID ( symbols, signs )  - specific
> to Ubuntu - and all Ubuntu themes will use that base of symbols.
>
> So ..my idea = teams ( some peoples like to do dark themes, some
> peoples want to do flat / minimal themes  ).
> After teams are formed we can choose a relative road map and we can
> have more control about "who do what" and about X or Y theme status.
>
> Finally, Ibex should present at least 3 "Ubuntu specific"  themes,
> along other legacy themes - then different categories of users will
> choose their theme.  After a year, we can see which theme is used more
> and we can do our work on the user direction.
>
> 2008/7/28 Ken Vermette <vermette at gmail.com>:
>> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Kim Kahns <post at kims-area.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 28.07.2008 02:31:11 schrieb(en) Ken Vermette:
>>> >
>>> > Aside from firefox (because you can create themes for it) Openoffice
>>> > could
>>> > simply not have a dark toolbar, simply looking like any window that
>>> > doesn't
>>> > have one of its own.
>>> >
>>>
>>> There is no way to do that other than launching openoffice with
>>>
>>> env GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/ALTERNATETHEME/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
>>> ooffice
>>>
>>> But I don't think that this would be an option.
>>>
>>>
>>> ~Kim Kahns (Kimmik)
>>>
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>>
>> New batch, I tried to get everyones ideas in here. The only thing I did
>> differently from the suggestions was the buttons, the gray background to
>> them just made it all feel more "solid".
>>
>> http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/raraken/kin_piano_kith_r2.png
>> http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/raraken/kin_piano_clouds_r2.png
>> http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/raraken/kin_piano_rocks_r2.png
>>
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/raraken/kin_piano_trnthtfrnupsddwn_r2.png
>>
>> aaand... The development SVG. One thing about the SVG is that it's -very-
>> rough.
>>
>>
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Kin_Intrepid?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=kin_piano_rev2.svg
>>
>> As a thought, please tell me if you like the idea; but what if we create
an
>> all-brown dark theme for the root account? With the root set as a
matching
>> all-brown theme, users will still see when they're using the root
account,
>> and the windows will look half-decent (as opposed to using the most
generic
>> theme settings)
>>
>> Again, any suggestions will be implemented one way or another! Also, I'm
>> thinking of getting a team together to work on a complete version of this
>> style, from login screens to avant colour schemes aswell assuming
thingskeep
>> going in the right direction.
>>
>> --
>> -Ken Vermette
>>
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>>
>
>
>
> --
> Nemes Ioan Sorin
>



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