New Dapper Art Work Today

[johnc4510]

Just thought I'd see what everyone thought about the new art work in dapper we got today:
Wallpaper the same except Beta msg. removed
Log out icon
Splash screen .png
Did I miss anything?

[glotz]

Yeah, links!

[johnc4510]

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[johnc4510]

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Here ya go!

[j_baer]

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The logout button is too bright. The red draws your eyes away from the rest of the desktop. What ever the icon becomes it should have about the same visual appearance as the ubuntu logo on the left. The symbolism is also confusing. I know it means logout but the symbol says power down.

The new splash screen is attractive but it does not match the rest of the desktop. By that I mean everything else is flat and it is 3D. I thought the previous version was a better fit and looked just as nice.

On the other hand ...

I do like the improvements to the Human icon set. :)

Cheers ...

[johnc4510]

Well, I'm not sure I agree, I thought the last one got sort of lost. But then maybe that's what you mean.
Like you I like the icon improvements

[jozmak]

You can find a better splash here.

http://jozmak.googlepages.com/screensavers

[skippy81]

I actually like all the new improvements.

The newest uspash is excellent, a massive improvement on the old ones.

The gnome splash is again excellent, I kinda like the 3d effect - looks very professional.

Likewise the logout button is a huge improvement, On my screen it actually does seem to match with the logo on the top left. The last button was terrible beyond belief in my opinion, the new one actually looks like its function.

Ive also noticed that window selector tabs on the menu bar now highlight orange when you hover over them, again a big improvement. It would be nice to see more being done to the menu bars though, they still have a bit of a 'windoze classic' look to them.

The human window theme appears to have changed a little as well, the colour is now spot on.. before it was a bit dull and seemed to clash with the desktop colours. I would love to have an optional human theme with rounded bottom corners on the windows though.

All in all I think Dapper is looking really ... dapper. I would like to see a choice of pre-supplied caramel wallpapers though. I do think that people who havn't seen dapper before will be impressed with it though.

I often hear people comment about how SUSE looks more professional, but I tried 10.1 and thought it looked really 'childish' and cheap. I really like the way Dapper has broken away from the whole "blue sky, green grass" cliche and gone for a different look.

[bvc]

The human window theme appears to have changed a little as well, the colour is now spot on.. before it was a bit dull and seemed to clash with the desktop colours. I would love to have an optional human theme with rounded bottom corners on the windows though.
Seems the color is the same according to the gtkrc of Human. Rounded bottom corners? That would be nice! ;)

[the_tiger]

I agree that the logout button is too bright, it distracts from the rest of the desktop. Also the symbol is an international standard for on and off, not log out, hibernate and the multitude of other functions it makes available. Big thumbs down from me [-(

The usplash though I think is excellent. The transparent section at the top looks great for me. If that colour scheme, look and 3d feel could be rolled out across all of ubuntu I think it would look really snazzy.

[Tab]

I think the new logout button would be perfect, with one adjustment: invert it. If the symbol itself and not its surroundings were clad in red candy, it would match the Ubuntu logo perfectly, and look rather nice. E.g:

[IYY]

I like that.

[Mathias-K]

Me too.. That's really nice :)

[the_tiger]

That looks much, much better to me. Still not convinced about the use of that symbol though.

[/dev/clast]

awesome :)

did you post it on ubuntu-art or attach it to some bug report?

this defenitely needs to get to the devs :)

[MetalMusicAddict]

Anyone seen the new "Dawn of Ubuntu" wallpaper? Very nice.

[sudomania4]

I agree. Dawn of ubuntu is an awesome wallpaper. How do i get that logout icon instead?

[mlind]

I think the new logout button would be perfect, with one adjustment: invert it. If the symbol itself and not its surroundings were clad in red candy, it would match the Ubuntu logo perfectly, and look rather nice. E.g:

wow, that looks great! Post it to launchpad on ubuntu-artwork section, I'd like to
see that one on final Dapper instead.

[GoA]

Yes, the background is just beatiful

[dudus]

Thank god they put a new wallpaper. Ubuntu lagoon was painfull... This one is very nice

[Mathias-K]

I've used custom wallpapers for a long time now. The Dawn of Ubuntu with the three and the falling snow of Ubuntu logos is default, right?

If so, it's really nice :)

[MetalMusicAddict]

For those of you who havnt upgraded yet here is a .jpg version. The ,png is waaay too big.

[Mathias-K]

Beautiful. It's amazing what a single wallpaper can do to the freshness and look when you show the Desktop CD to a friend. It's very nice :)

[IYY]

Interesting wallpaper.

[cleentrax]

Ubuntu Dawn is nice. But the falling "snowflakes" are not Ubuntu logos. They are five pointed stars.

[bvc]

I would love to have an optional human theme with rounded bottom corners on the windows though.if you haven't found it yet, it's the Outdoors (not a name I chose) metacity theme in ubuntu-artwork :)

[Mathias-K]

it would be really cool if Ubuntu included lots of themes in a package by default or easily available though APT.

[bvc]

define 'lots'
we included 9

Gray (gtk, metacity)
Human (gtk,metacity, icons)
IndustrialTango (gtk,metacity)
LegacyHuman (gtk,metacity)
Outdoors (gtk,metacity)
Resilience (gtk,metacity)
Silicon (gtk,metacity)
Tango (icons)
Tangerine


Gray and IndustrialTango (was IndustrialInspirite) were to share NuoveXT icons, and Outdoors (was another name) was to use Gion icons, and Silicon had original tango folders (gray) and a wallpaper, so that would have been 3 more icon themes and another wallpaper, but there was not enough space on the cd so something had to go.

Overall, I'd say that's 'lots'. I know of no other distro that has attempted anything similar, so we should be glad. I actually pushed for more and we intended on cleaning out the old default, outdated, gnome themes (except Clearlooks) but that fell apart somewhere along the way at the last minute.

I guess for after install there could be an extras or backports but you'd have to bring that up on the artteam mailing list. Edgy will be handled differently and more efficiently, having 2 or 3 complete, unified, polished desktop themes, or at least that's the plan, as of now. :D

[Mathias-K]

Okay, I can see your point. I was not minding that Dapper got a lot of themes at the end of the development process.

But if you look at the forums, some people run completely different themes. I know Ubuntu can't include an OSX theme by default, but it would be nice to have some more breadth in the themes.