[ubuntu-art] SUSPECT: Re: Response to Some People...

[Andrea "Cimi" Cimitan]

2008/5/26 Mario Viviani <mariux01 at gmail.com>:

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> Il giorno lun, 26/05/2008 alle 15.47 -0500, Salane Ashcraft ha scritto:
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> Ubuntu artists-
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>  My mockup has been accused of a lot of things.
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>  First off, the panels are not windows like. I am in Vista right now, and
> they look nothing alike.
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>  The menu is nothing but the Gnome main menu with a search feature,
> something that various Linux distributions have had for years.
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>  The icons? I do believe that these min max close icons are nothing but
> simple shapes. Vista has them all in a bar, and are set in color changing
> boxes. Mine would simply highlight and change color.
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>  It isnt even brown anymore! I am using Safari right now, and it isnt a
> copy. Many OS's have had unified icon buttons...
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>  Try being more constructive and educated with comparing this with OS X or
> Vista.
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>  Also, this is possible without Compiz. many people have done certain
> elements of this, and I will try my best to put them together.
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>  Salane Ashcraft
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> I'm sorry if some of my comparisons offended you, i absolutely didn't
> intended to. I think you're doing a great job indeed! And of course i'm sure
> you are not copying other OS... in fact that was me that suggested in the
> comments of your Project Wiki page the min-max-close icons, and i think your
> theme earned coolnes from them. So, peace! ;-)
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> Mario V.
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Oh wonderful... if people will start complaining when they receive a thumbs
down...

Dudes, please be more serious and accept criticism, critics are used to
improve your work, highlighting what could be improved. It's not blaming, it
is "feedback".

If someone says your work is not good, maybe you should start reading what
he is saying, and not answering back saying he was simply wrong without
accepting his critics.

You asked for receiving an opinion, not to receive compliments. If you want
to receive compliments increasing your ego just move in other places and not
in a artist mailing list.

Getting back on the topic, this is the impression I got, so you must accept
it and work on fixing your theme.
Also, two transparent widgets mixed up each other are not enough to make a
good theme. Transparency also involves a lot of issues and rants about
usability.
So please, try to start another work without transparency, trying to respect
current GTK+ application design (a ripoff of the Apple Finder is totally
useless for a themer, it gives no idea of a new skin), trying to work on
each widget, one by one.
Do you know the widget factory? it is a small application that shows more
frequent widgets.
Take this image, and go having a mockup over it, try to redesign each
widget:
http://www.stellingwerff.com/TheWidgetFactory/The%20Widget%20Factory%200.2.png

This is the right way to follow, otherwise is just a waste of time.

Cheers
-- 
Andrea "Cimi" Cimitan - <andrea.cimitan at gmail.com>
Website: http://www.cimitan.com
Murrine: http://murrine.cimitan.com
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