[ubuntu-art] Anime Ubuntu

[Thorsten Wilms]

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 08:01 -0500, Saleel Velankar wrote:
> Its an intriguing idea. I am unsure as to how you could convey an anime 
> theme. I think for something totally out-there like this, you will be 
> forced to use the pixmap engine. Some ideas:
> 
> -The buttons could resemble speech bubbles like in the comics/manga.
>     -errors could have the eardrop that anime characters get when 
> conveying embarrassment.
>     -warnings could be the jagged bubbles, suggesting the computer is 
> angry at you.
> -The drop down menus could be scrolls and such like.

To not end up with something overbearing, I would concentrate on the
wallpaper first. If you also want custom widgets, I would suggest to not
draw them as something-else-in-place of the common widgets, but rather
anime-style renditions of the widgets. How would a mangaka draw the
them?


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