[ubuntu-art] Human-Reprise

[Sulley Mansford]

--- On Thu, 1/22/09, Cory K. <coryisatm at ubuntu.com> wrote:
From: Cory K. <coryisatm at ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Human-Reprise
To: "Discussion on Ubuntu artwork" <ubuntu-art at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 5:42 PM

Sulley Mansford wrote:
> I uploaded a revision to the Human theme on the wiki.  This theme is an
overall desktop experience and is quite functional at this stage in development.
 This retains much of the original feel of the Human Theme, but gives an overall
refreshing feeling to a fairly old and established theme.  I realize a majority
of the whole "Desktop Experience" is quite early in the development
stages, but it is also quite stable (including Murrine, the Breathe Icon Set,
and GNOME-Do (Docky) and usable.
>   

Breathe should be further along this weekend as I plan new uploads this
weekend.

And though I love the new GNOME-Do (Docky) I think *any* kinda launcher
(AWN) like this just screams OSX and should be avoided.

Droid Sans has been discussed but I think there was a reason for not
using it. Something about it's hinting and small sizes I think.


> This entire experience including the theme, wallpaper, font, panels, dock,
and compositing manager (Compiz-Fusion) rival the experience of Mac OSX and
Windows 7, which I have installed on another partition.  I can not stay in
Windows 7 longer than 10 minutes without losing the warmness that Ubuntu
provides.

You may not be part of the audience Microsoft is looking to cater to. :)

Personally, I've been rather impressed with the 7 beta. (but that's all
off topic) :P


Now, I don't mean to be demotivating, but the desktop layout is
completely controlled by Canonical and people not on this list. So it
might be a bit of a waste of time to go this far. UI layouts and such.
But taken separately, like the theme, can sure be of help.


-Cory K.

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Thanks for the advice.  

I shall take a more concerted effort working on the theme itself.  I do realize the desktop experience as a whole is Canonical's preference and out of the community's realm, but maybe it can make some type of impact.