Fwd: Re: Ubuntu Studio artwork for next release - wallpapers, and Carbon Theme

[Kaj Ailomaa]

On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:28:01 +0100, Ralf Mardorf  
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 12:14 +0100, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Artwork/CarbonTheme
>
> The wallpapers are ok :). Perhaps they are sexist :D?
>

There's always that danger :), but I'm feeling pretty safe.
The background is too dark though. I'll fix that.

> FWIW I tried to edit a XFCE theme myself, until now without success. I
> also tried to include some new icons, with limited success. Editing XFCE
> seems to be limited, even when editing files directly. I want to adjust
> some light seems to my taste and I want to make a dark theme that does
> work with all applications. I couldn't find a dark XFCE theme that does
> work with all GNOME apps, there always is something invisible for dark
> themes.
>
>

Len has been working on our icons for the menu, so he should know how that  
stuff works.

When working on the wallpapers, I started thinking about all the art we've  
had in the past. I think I'd like to work at creating some sort of unified  
theme for whatever will be the next release after 13.04, and base that  
theming on much of the stuff we already have.

A simple way to achieve that would be to follow the same recipe Ubuntu  
uses for its artwork.

  * symbol (we have our own)
  * logo (using the Ubuntu font, as all flavors are doing)
  * background pattern (Ubuntu has their own, we have one for our website  
background, and the carbon wallpaper also uses one)

My ambition would be to create a unified look for the release after 13.04,  
using those three components. A great plus with that setup is that you can  
easily update the look, and still keep consistency.
Would be nice to get some artists to help us with that, if that is  
something we'd like to achieve.

Additionally, it would be interesting to look at the XFCE theming, to see  
what Ubuntu Studio users prefers, and usually there are two ideals: a  
light theme and a dark theme.