Community Themes for Karmic

[Andrew SB]

Hi all,

Those of you familiar with the release schedule [0] or the
documentation that was put together for the community-themes package
at the beginning of this cycle [1] know that Feature Freeze [2] will
be upon us Thursday, August 27th. This coincides with scheduled first
drop of the official art work. [3] In previous discussions about the
community-themes package, it seems that it was decided to follow the
official artwork schedule for our package as well.

In other words we need to start making some decisions about which
themes to include in the community-themes Karmic package. (In fact,
looking at our schedule now it seems very back loaded in retrospect.
We probably should have started the decision making process earlier.)
Those interested should take a look at Incoming/Karmic [4] and perhaps
officially propose something for inclusion? As our earlier discussions
of creating a Community Art Council that could make final decisions
seem to have fizzled, I suppose we will have to come to a general
level of consensus. So let's start discussing!

Currently the package includes only Kin and Impression, with Dust and
New Wave having been promoted to main in the gnome-themes-ubuntu
package. To get the ball rolling, my personal proposal for Karmic
would be to update to the new version of Impression, drop Kin, and
include two new themes. That would give us a total of three in the
package. I think having much more than that would make the package a
bit over-whelming. We want the best that the community has to offer,
not a huge mess of themes. Also, if we have too many, it will make
adding new themes in future releases harder as it always seems harder
to cut old stuff out as people become attached.

I know several themes have been posted to this list that don't seem to
be on the wiki yet. I strongly encourage their authors to create wiki
pages for them soon. It will make it much easier to refer to your
theme in discussion rather than having to find a link to a post in the
mailing-list archive.

Any themes stand out to you?

Should we retain Impression and Kin?

Any other things we should be considering?

Thanks!

- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio

P.S.  Ken, if you're reading this, any chance you could add me to the
ubuntu-art-pkg team in Launchpad? It owns the official
community-themes branch, and as I imagine that I'm going to be the one
packaging/uploading this (anyone else?) it would make my life easier
to be able to commit directly. I applied months back with out any
response.

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseSchedule
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/CommunityThemes
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze
[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkFirstDrop
[4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic

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[Thorsten Wilms]

On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 22:52 -0400, Andrew SB wrote:

> Currently the package includes only Kin and Impression, with Dust and
> New Wave having been promoted to main in the gnome-themes-ubuntu
> package. To get the ball rolling, my personal proposal for Karmic
> would be to update to the new version of Impression, drop Kin, and
> include two new themes.

I think 3 is minimum, up to 5 fine.

>From what I currently see on the wiki, I can only mention:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/NightImpression
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Turrican


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[Lucazade]

Hi,

if there is something i could improve in the Turrican theme let me know.
I would thank Thorwil and Andrew SB for the inclusion.

regards,
Luca

[Oliver Scholtz 1]

Am Mittwoch, den 26.08.2009, 04:23 -0700 schrieb Lucazade:

> Hi,
>
> if there is something i could improve in the Turrican theme let me know.
> I would thank Thorwil and Andrew SB for the inclusion.
>
> regards,
> Luca
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>
>

I like it. :)
Only I have blue against the yellow in your screenshots. The panel is
boring. But if's not pixmap, so there's nothing to do. The Gnome-panel
is a horrible stuff. :( ;)
The metacity-buttons don't haves changes if you're over it. But the
buttons are very very nice. ;)

my opinion
Oliver


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[Lucazade]

Oliver Scholtz 1 wrote:

> Only I have blue against the yellow in your screenshots.
> The panel is boring. But if's not pixmap, so there's nothing to do. The Gnome-panel
> is a horrible stuff. :( ;)
> The metacity-buttons don't haves changes if you're over it. But the
> buttons are very very nice. ;)

I've used a pixmap for the panel but only in the screenshots, it's not included in the theme..
if needed i could upload it. (Gnome-panel should be reworked, maybe like this one http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk2panel/ )

Metacity buttons lack some over effect, i agree.. i'll see if I can do something.

Luca

[Andrew SB]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Thorsten Wilms<t_w_@...> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 22:52 -0400, Andrew SB wrote:
>
>> Currently the package includes only Kin and Impression, with Dust and
>> New Wave having been promoted to main in the gnome-themes-ubuntu
>> package. To get the ball rolling, my personal proposal for Karmic
>> would be to update to the new version of Impression, drop Kin, and
>> include two new themes.
>
> I think 3 is minimum, up to 5 fine.
>
> >From what I currently see on the wiki, I can only mention:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/NightImpression
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Turrican

Hmm... Night Impression's tar.gz (Build 90823-2) download seems to be
empty... =(



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[Andrew SB]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Andrew SB<a.starr.b@...> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Those of you familiar with the release schedule [0] or the
> documentation that was put together for the community-themes package
> at the beginning of this cycle [1] know that Feature Freeze [2] will
> be upon us Thursday, August 27th. This coincides with scheduled first
> drop of the official art work. [3] In previous discussions about the
> community-themes package, it seems that it was decided to follow the
> official artwork schedule for our package as well.
>
> In other words we need to start making some decisions about which
> themes to include in the community-themes Karmic package. (In fact,
> looking at our schedule now it seems very back loaded in retrospect.
> We probably should have started the decision making process earlier.)
> Those interested should take a look at Incoming/Karmic [4] and perhaps
> officially propose something for inclusion? As our earlier discussions
> of creating a Community Art Council that could make final decisions
> seem to have fizzled, I suppose we will have to come to a general
> level of consensus. So let's start discussing!
>
> Currently the package includes only Kin and Impression, with Dust and
> New Wave having been promoted to main in the gnome-themes-ubuntu
> package. To get the ball rolling, my personal proposal for Karmic
> would be to update to the new version of Impression, drop Kin, and
> include two new themes. That would give us a total of three in the
> package. I think having much more than that would make the package a
> bit over-whelming. We want the best that the community has to offer,
> not a huge mess of themes. Also, if we have too many, it will make
> adding new themes in future releases harder as it always seems harder
> to cut old stuff out as people become attached.
>
> I know several themes have been posted to this list that don't seem to
> be on the wiki yet. I strongly encourage their authors to create wiki
> pages for them soon. It will make it much easier to refer to your
> theme in discussion rather than having to find a link to a post in the
> mailing-list archive.
>
> Any themes stand out to you?
>
> Should we retain Impression and Kin?
>
> Any other things we should be considering?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
>
> P.S.  Ken, if you're reading this, any chance you could add me to the
> ubuntu-art-pkg team in Launchpad? It owns the official
> community-themes branch, and as I imagine that I'm going to be the one
> packaging/uploading this (anyone else?) it would make my life easier
> to be able to commit directly. I applied months back with out any
> response.
>
> [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseSchedule
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/CommunityThemes
> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze
> [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkFirstDrop
> [4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic
>

Hello all,

Even though we haven't seen that much discussion yet, I'd really like
to get an upload done to coincide with the First Artwork Drop and
Feature Freeze. Nothing would be set in stone, but it would allow for
wider testing of the new themes. Also after FF bug fixes are allowed,
but we'd need to go through the exemption process to add new stuff.

I've prepared an upload that adds Hanso and Turrican. It also updates
Impression to its latest and has numerous packaging fixes. If you're
interested in looking at all the changes, my packaging branch is here:

https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~andrewsomething/community-themes/community-themes

If you'd like to test before I make the upload, you can grab a deb here:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~andrewsomething/community-themes_0.15~andrewsomething1_all.deb

Let me know what you think. Remember, we can always reconsider, but
I'd like to get something pushed out before the Freeze for testing.

- Andrew

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[James Schriver-2]

Hi,

I've just released Hanso v0.4.  This theme should be fairly stable at
this point where many bugs were resolved as the result of the First
Artwork Drop.  I am releasing this prior to the Second Artwork Drop
deadline of 9/10/2009.  

I'd like to get a final wave of testing prior to the Final Artwork
Deadline.  I've received tremendous feedback on the theme and again
could not have done it without the help and feedback of the community.

This will most likely be my last theme for quite some time as I have an
exorbitant amount of issues going on in my personal life at this time
including the selling of my current home and construction of my new
home.  I will continue to maintain Hanso in the interim.

Thanks again to mac_v for the awesome icon contributions to the
metacity.  This really sets off the theme.

Download:
 http://launchpad.net/hanso/0.4/0.4/+download/Hanso.tar.gz

Announcment:

https://launchpad.net/hanso/+announcement/3709

Best Regards,

dashua


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