[ubuntu-art] Who's Vague Direction (WAS mac-unt-ista?)

[Travis Watkins]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Troy James Sobotka
<troy.sobotka at gmail.com> wrote:
> Who wrote:
>> Specifically the awesome Rueben theme
>> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Reuben?content=55876
>>
>> Anyone wanting to work in this vague direction?
>
> Reuben has many elements to like.  In no particular order:
>
> 1) The linework is much closer to some notion of elegant.  In
> particular, the patented Tango heavy outlines are avoided.  It is easy
> to suggest that the technique lends itself to words such as 'elegant',
> 'delicate', and 'sophisticated'.  Contrast that with the other interface
> elements that are prevalent in nearly every GTK theme -- which are far
> closer to 'heavy' and 'clunky'.
>

Really? Where I come from we call things like Reuben 'pixel art' and
it went out of style around the time video game consoles got 3D
accelerators.

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Travis Watkins
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