[ubuntu-studio-devel] Considerations from a video and photo editing perspective.

[Len Ovens]

On Wed, 16 May 2018, argumento wrote:

> (in case ubuntu studio sticks to GTK). Equilux is a material design 
> based neutral gray theme, it might sound unimportant, but for ppl that 
> do photo or video color correction, having a neutral gray theme is a 
> great help. (idc about 'material design' guidelines, but they work).
>
> https://github.com/ddnexus/equilux-theme

I know that theme colour is important artwork. However, I am not an artist 
myself. We have in the past always shipped more than one theme for this 
reason. Thank you for pointing this out. There are some more artists here 
maybe they can check this theme for such use.

> Also, I hate how ubuntu studio comes with a bunch of low quality free 
> fonts, it makes it awkward to browse your font catalog. Maybe having 
> less, but better fonts could help Ubuntu Studio be a better tool 
> (anyway, anyone can get as many fonts as they want from dafont or 
> -better- sites like Squirrel Font or Open Font, so less fonts might be a 
> good way to go).

This I agree with even though I rarely do art or even formal text projects 
which need fonts. However, the few times I have used different fonts, I 
have fount it difficult to find anything. I have also stumbled on a lot 
that didn't look very nice. The idea of including lots of fonts was 
12.*-ish as I recall.

>  I'd like to share with you a well curated, free font collection, that 
> could be used as a guideline: http://usemodify.com/

If you have time to go through our fonts list in ubuntustudio-fonts and 
tell me which ones to bump. I would be happy to do so. Also if you know of 
any others that have a ubuntu packge that should have been added this 
would be the time.

Eric is working on an installer I don't know if installing extra fonts 
would work from there. An extra fonts button that at least opens a browser 
at the right place could be done though.

Any thoughts? I don't personally have time to vet our fonts.


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Len Ovens
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