[oi-dev] Artwork?

Shawn Thompson superfox436 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 05:19:27 UTC 2011


Could always do a throwback to the CDE era looks-wise, but spruced up with
some modern looks/ideas. And besides, I've barely seen any distribution use
a non-standard panel layout in Gnome nowadays (though, OpenSUSE and Mint use
a single pane layout with a more Windows-like layout and a different menu
widget, and even older JDS distributions used a similar layout)

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at nexenta.com>wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 19:07 -0600, Shawn Thompson wrote:
> > I'm just wondering, are there any plans to begin work on a completely
> > new artwork design for OI? I think we all need to kinda move beyond
> > the usual Nimbus-based art for JDS (which I personally think screams
> > "bootleg OS X" too much, style-wise.)
>
> I would love to see something new here.
>
> Ideally I'd like to see something incorporating more of the new illumos
> look, but I'm not sure how to do so.
>
> I *do* like the overall feel of Ubuntu 10.10 way more than I do the old
> nimbus theme... so there may be some opportunities for inspiration there
> (though I'd choose colors other than brown...)
>
>        - Garrett
>
> >
> >
> > ~Shawn
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