[ubuntu-art] Intrepid Panels

[Justin Gruenberg]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Steph <orkerone at gmail.com> wrote:
> * The animated, "live" wallpaper : [. . .]

Do people really have their desktop visible that often?  I think the
idea is neat for a default theme, but it has to be dependent on
minimal effect on resources.

>
> * Organisation : As you said, there's a great lack of organisation in this
> list. We don't have any art tracker or anything (what has be done of
> art.ubuntu.com, it's been months since I'me waiting?). But we have the
> Ubuntu Wiki, indeed, wich is actually a very good place to share ideas and
> show the progress of each team.

In the 8.04 release cycle, I mostly lurked around (I'm an engineer,
not an artist--I'm not going to be the one to design the new default
theme).  There is one thing that is obvious:  this effort needs better
structured leadership and process.

[ . . . ]

> The a first proposition for Intrepix : what about increasing the size of
> both gnome panels ? The default, lowest size is 24 pixels, and setting it at
> 32px produces a much pleasing effect. A pleasing desktop shouldn't force
> user to squint to see what's written. Those who have a bad vision would be
> glad. Technically, I don't know if this increase of panel size causes some
> problems with window display, if anybody can tell me more about this...And
> then, we should __definitely__ find a gnome panel background, or anything
> but delete this stupid grey color.

Thats a lot of whitespace.  If I had a huge LCD, I'd be inclined to
agree with you.  But on my laptop, that's a pretty significant amount
of real estate.