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Idea #14034: Make the art selection process more transparent

Written by amiga_os the 3 Oct 08 at 19:41. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Ubuntu is a project that is well-served by a loving community. There are loads and loads of great mock-ups and art suggestions. And I'm sure the art team works really hard.

But Ubuntu often doesn't look great, to be honest. And Intrepid isn't moving the look and feel of the OS forward in leaps and bounds.

Ubuntu has a great community because of its open development process - but what about art development and selection?

We need a more open, transparent, process for how art decisions are made.
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Written by amiga_os the 3 Oct 08 at 19:41.
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cardinals_fan wrote on the 4 Oct 08 at 01:09
From the wiki of the artwork team:

"The decisions are made by our Self Appointed Benevolent Dictator for all final say and direction for the default artwork in the Ubuntu product."

MarcioVinicius wrote on the 4 Oct 08 at 20:23
"The decisions are made by our Self Appointed Benevolent Dictator for all final say and direction for the default artwork in the Ubuntu product."

what does it mean?

yeah... we do need a more open, transparent, process for how art decisions are made.

+1

cardinals_fan wrote on the 4 Oct 08 at 23:21
It means that it is solely up to the discretion of Mark Shuttleworth.

belovedmonster wrote on the 5 Oct 08 at 17:59
Canonical promised a new redesign of the Ubuntu theme, like two releases ago, and it just never happened. I think they kinda hope that if they don't mention it people will stop asking for it.

When the hell are they going to actually come up with a new theme?

I think the Dust theme is as good as anything I've seen on Linux. Why don't they use that?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/DustTheme?action=show&redirect=Artwork %2FIncoming%2FIntrepid%2FDustTheme

If its not orange enough then come up with something more orange, but at least come up with something. Stop defaulting to the same theme again and again.


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