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[Mads Rosendahl <madsrh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dylan.
I've got a lot of questions for you. Please post answers to as many as
you can - thanks.


> I see you changed the help icon to something more consistent with the
> others. This (new) one is considerably easier to implement. Yay!

I don't understand why, but I guess I don't need to.

>
> Are the arrows your own work, or pulled from somewhere in particular?

Yes, the green arrow is the "go-next" icon from the Tango Icon Library

> The reason I'm asking is because I need to be better with keeping track
> of licenses, so may as well do it 100% by giving credit _wherever_
> possible :)

Yes, I read that and I'll try to find all the license info.

>
> Where did that nifty icon for Help come from?

It is the "help-contents" from the Mash-up icon set. I've already
contacted the author of Mash-up and asked him for the source.

>
> I have something really preliminary up here:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~ubiquity-slideshow/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/madsrh-layout

I'm not into coding at all, so I'm not used to working with Bazzar,
branches, trunk, push/pull or what ever you might throw at me.

> I have implemented your background picture, bullet points and (sort of)
> a bottom right aligned icon. However, it needs some fiddling to get
> proper text wrapping with that icon.

It seems to me, that you do most the coding on this project. I would
suggest that you ask for help, since this project needs to be ready
for feature-freeze. Ask the ubuntu-website team, I'm sure there is a
lot of geniuses that want to help out. If you want I could post a
short announcement?

>
> The icons themselves still need to be re-done to match your style.

What icons? Do you want to use the "original" ones or the ones I used
in my mockups? I will create mockup for the remaning images as soon as
I get have to time.

> How are you doing the nice reflections on those icons?

GIMP does that.

> I set up a script
> to compile the svgs into pngs (which I swore never to use because I keep
> changing them!), so maybe that could do something nifty to generate them
> automatically.

I think getting the reflections and shadow to work in SVG would take a
lot of work. I suggest using a solid .jpg image like I illustrated in
the HTML test in my previous post. I know there a problem with the
image being on top of the text, but I'm sure there's a work-around.
Alternatively, we could use transparent .PNG files (that would be
easier to move around), but I believe the file-size will increase
tremendous.

> Should probably hold back a bit on making /all/ the icons if they will
> need to be done manually, since it could make sense to shrink these or
> move them around a bit.
>
>
> Many, many thanks. Again!
>
> Dylan McCall



//Mads Rosendahl