Jaunty Artwork

[Pasi Lallinaho]

Vincent wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Pasi Lallinaho <open at knome.fi
> <mailto:open at knome.fi>> wrote:
>
>     Charlie Kravetz wrote:
>     >
>     > I did test these using a P2 400MHz cpu with 320MB ram. The video
>     card
>     > only has 4MB memory, so this could be greatly different than a new
>     > system. I did not find any of these slow my system down more
>     than any
>     > other, which normally is very noticable with an old system.
>     >
>     > If need be, I can lower the ram to 128MB and repeat the tests
>     Thanks Charlie for the valuable information! If you want to test with
>     128 (or probably 192, because that's our minimum recommended for
>     desktop), it would be great.
>
>
> In that case - great! This means we can use it now with perhaps a
> hardly noticeable speed decrease (and the user can always change the
> themes if he really cares), and since the theme author wants to move
> to Murrine that will improve in future releases as well. (Of course,
> it needs to run usable enough on 192MB).
>  
Yes, there is no slowness issue as Charlie pointed out. The panels don't
look as good as they could on small color depth (see Charlie's
screenshot at http://www.mediafire.com/?uulzhbcsncs), but we need to
work on them anyway because at the moment it's hard to distinguish panel
from application menu bar (see
http://emonk.fi/open/xubuntu/panel-menu-issue.png).

Vincent also noted today that the Firefox fixes for Shiki-colors does
not seem to a lot. Thus we might not need to include those and would not
break any other themes accidentally.

This leaves Shiki-colors with no cons.
>
>
>
>     One more update: My suggestion for countdown banners for Jaunty can be
>     seen at http://emonk.fi/open/xubuntu/jaunty-countdown/. Those pictures
>     are created by a very intelligent script, so modifications can be done
>     easily.
>
>
> Ha, very nice, it's just a bit unclear that this is about Xubuntu
> (i.e. the name is minuscule, my resolution is 1280x1024 so imagine
> what it looks like in 1024x800!).
>  
I will play with these again later today.

06:16  cody-somerville: knome, It isn't obvious that it is a countdown
06:17  cody-somerville: knome, You might do something...

I think I'll try playing around with some text first. Adding a star
wouldn't really fit that and it would be somewhat hard to include
anyway. Let's see what comes.

>
>     --
>     Pasi Lallinaho
>     Xubuntu Marketing Lead
>     Web-designer, graphic artist
>     IRC: knome @ freenode
>
>
>     --
>
>
> Good job on the summarization email :)
>
> -- 
> Vincent
Thanks for the flattering comments across the ML and IRC and valuable
opinions again.

-- 
Pasi Lallinaho
Xubuntu Marketing Lead
Web-designer, graphic artist
IRC: knome @ freenode