[ubuntu-art] Lubuntu Spec

[Thorsten Wilms]

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De: Julien Lavergne <gilir at ubuntu.com>
À: John Baer <baerjj at gmail.com>
Cc: mariobehling at googlemail.com, 神癒礁湖 · Rafael Laguna
<rafaellaguna at gmail.com>
Sujet: Re: Lubuntu Spec
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:05:00 +0100

Hi John,

Le mercredi 08 décembre 2010 à 13:24 -0500, John Baer a écrit :
> How does the Lubuntu spec look?  Please note the spec advises artist
> to consider other colors than those from your pallet. Is that agreed? 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/0008_Lubuntu_Natty_Wallpaper

First, please note that I'm not a designer or an artistic people :)

About the pallet, do you check with Canonical if others colors are
acceptable for a derivated of Ubuntu ? Last time we check, the pallet
was limited, and we had to stay with this one (which IMO, is nice).

You need also to consider that, if people propose a very different color
for the wallpaper, we will not accept it, unless they propose an entire
theme which match this submission. So, no need to spend time in
submissions we will reject for sure.

About the spec :
- Introduction
We have specific targets for our users, see our wiki page : 
"Lubuntu is targeted at "normal" PC and laptop users running on low-spec
hardware. Such users may not know how to use command line tools, and in
most cases they just don't have enough resources for all the bells and
whistles of the "full-featured" mainstream distributions."

- Inspiration:
Well, our strategy for artwork is more "practical" :
 * We want a nice artwork ...
 * ... with no big requirement
 * ... which render good and fast

- Schedule :
Our final schedule for the artwork : 
March 17th : End of proposal for artwork
March 22nd : Decision for Artwork

Please note that is for all the artwork. There will be no step before
this (not a first step for the wallpaper, and another for the remaining
parts).

I hope the answer is complete enough, sorry if it's quite late in the
process, I was busy recently.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne