http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/19139/
[431 votes] Solution #1: Make it easier to submit to Ubuntu


[131 votes] Solution #2: point 5. of Solution#1


[75 votes] Solution #3: Export/import


[-30 votes] Solution #4: Export to gnome-look


[89 votes] Solution #5: Constant Artwork Competition


[36 votes] Solution #6: Use Launchpad


]]> en-us Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:35:00 +0000 Tue, 05 May 2009 23:53:17 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19139/
If you feel that the page lacks relevant information, you may also contact the team directly at #ubuntu-artwork and request addition of the same.]]> Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:14:19 +0000 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:38:21 +0000 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:07:22 +0000 Well why should it be that hard? Are you saying it's good that people jump through 5m hoops to help??

Are you saying losing valuable workers because of a difficult process is a good thing?]]> Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:28:02 +0000 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:48:47 +0000
Yes, absolutely. My mom is a programmer, but she's very impatient and wants things to work right away or else she'll lose interest. Every time I think "is this accessible enough?" I ask myself whether my mom would bother with it]]> Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:44:01 +0000 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:46:26 +0000 Oh that's a very good idea! Keeping everything related to Ubuntu at the same place and making it easy to improve..
I'm sure that it would pay off in a few months.

I just want to add that when I say "issue commands" I was talking about telling the participant what is needed.

If we go back to KhaaL's idea then think of it this way; Launchpad has a 'to-do' list of strings that need to be translated for every language and a 'to-do' list of bugs that need to be fixed- I would like to see Launchpad store a list of artwork (icons, wallpapers, logos etc.) that need to be drawn and it is imperative that suggesting ideas be as easy as translating or submitting bug reports to Launchpad!]]> Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:09:33 +0000 The purpose of exporting and importing is to be able to backup ur look and restore it later...or maybe simply sharing it with friends...]]> Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:00:27 +0000 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:06:03 +0000 The problem with exporting to GnomeLook is that Gnome look will eventually contain alot of semi finished uncompleted looks...

That wouldn't be so bad if there were a way for each to be part of a revision tree. Like you take the default Human theme and modify it, and it shows up as a variant of Human, then someone else modifies yours, and it shows up in the tree below that...

There could be voting on which variants are high quality to separate the good from the bad, etc.

Probably not something GnomeLook is capable of, though. Maybe it needs a new website specifically for this.]]> Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:23:19 +0000 That is actually a good idea!
It might be a little difficult to implement but other than that it sounds, then if one theme e.g. has a lot of branches you can tell that it must be a pretty good theme (just like Ubuntu has around 20-30 branches so there must be something people like about it)]]> Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:33:50 +0000 then if one theme e.g. has a lot of branches you can tell that it must be a pretty good theme

Maybe. :) Really, it would just show that lots of people have it. Obviously Human would have tons of branches since it's the default, for instance. My idea was that this would:

1. Reduce the number of themes you have to look through. They'd all be "variants" of a base theme, so there would just be a list of base themes to navigate through, instead of a list of thousands of themes that only vary slightly from each other.
2. Show relationships between themes, instead of just arbitrary rankings. So if everyone likes theme A, but then someone makes an improved version theme B, and everyone who downloads B likes it better than A, then the site should show this somehow. It should hide A and only display B as an updated version of A.

Like on Slashdot, there are huge discussion threads with many branches, and they use an algorithm to only display the best comments and hide the rest. If you're interested in a certain comment that you see in this "wide" view, you can then drill down and view the discussion surrounding it that was previously hidden.

Similarly, if you like a certain theme, you can drill down and view others that are related to it.

I'm just trying to think of a way to separate the good from the bad.

I made a similar proposal for similar proposal for Mozilla Ubiquity.]]> Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:55:38 +0000 Tue, 05 May 2009 23:53:17 +0000