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Idea #10016: A more productive site for submitting Ubuntu artwork

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #5456: Get art.ubuntu.com back up!.
Written by brettalton the 18 Jun 08 at 22:40. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/ serves its purpose, but I find it rather hard to be productive.

Here are my problems:
* I find it hard to navigate (especially when there are over 30+ themes to view)
* I find it hard to comment on pieces of artwork (the site is slow and the wiki is awkward -- ie, when I sign it, it takes me to my personal preferences, not to the page I wanted to edit)
* There is no general consensus on which theme is currently the most well received by the community (maybe a voting system like Ubuntu Brainstorm is in order?) -- is the theme I am currently looking at dead? Has one already been chosen? I don't know.
* Every author gets to edit his or her own page and this makes every submission really lack uniformity. What if a sever could install the theme pack, provide three basic screenshots of itself and use that for the screenshots? Think http://browsershots.org
* Maybe easy linking to gnome-looks.org would be necessary too (but that is another website that needs some accessibility upgrades)
* A tutorial on how to make a new theme would be fantastic, including rules on what colours to use for the theme. I've seen all sorts of green, grey and blue themes, but under half of them are actually Ubuntu colours. Should they be submitted as Ubuntu colours or can we choose whatever we want?
* A standard screenshot of 1024x768 should be default for people on laptops
* It would also be nice to have user/submission separations much like that of Brainstorm, where I can have multiple submissions and people can vote on them. The only thing that would be necessary is separating votes for versions, ie 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, etc.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #10016
Written by brettalton the 18 Jun 08 at 22:40.
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Vadim P. wrote on the 19 Jun 08 at 00:05
There's the http://ubuntu-art.org/, but it's an extension of gnome-look.org as I understand and I find it a bit messy.

brettalton wrote on the 14 Jul 08 at 19:59
http://derstandard.at/?id=3413801&_artikelIndex=3:
Shuttleworth: "Well, I think the LTS-release should be at the end point of the development cycle,so it's not a good point to change the look. Recently we have been testing a dark theme, it won't be the default in the final release, but we set it as a default to get feedback. And we got a lot of feedback, people saying "Oh my god, this is going to be the default and it is dark!". So dark themes are very useful for specific applications and people who focus on certain types of applications, content-oriented applications.

I would like to see a fresh look, I'd like to see that done in partnership with the community, but I haven't yet figured out, how to do art in a community process. I think art requires strong leadership, to get free software art right, we'd have to have both strong leadership and strong community participation. And I haven't seen that happen yet."

I told you so.

Please 'un-duplicate' my idea...


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