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[Peterson Silva <peterson.235@xxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

Thanks for the answer! When it comes to the Ubuntu sound theme, I can only
say that I completely agree with you: we ought to have a sound theme that
integrates well. That's a long term initiative, yes.

On the other hand, I have to say that we need to think short term too. Of
course creating a sound theme takes time, but unless you're deaf you're
going to be very unpleased by the current experience. The sounds are awfully
unrelated to the whole experience. Ask anyone. Seriously.

So if Ayatana is (with good reasons to be) not considering something new for
this cycle, I think *not* having the current sound theme on by default (not
having a sound theme at all) would already be of benefit to the feel of...
the whole system.

*Peterson*
*http://petercast.net*



On 15 March 2011 14:51, Paul Sladen <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, M. Adnan Quaium wrote:
> > On 15 March 2011 15:47, Peterson Silva <peterson.235@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > have a new sound theme this time.
> > +1 ... icon set
>
> Hello Peterson and Adnan,
>
> I suspect the answer to these are much along the same lines as
> something I gave on AskUbuntu recently, to a question about the fonts:
>
>  "Will there be a Ubuntu Serif font in the future?"
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/26104/will-there-be-a-ubuntu-serif-font-in-the-future
>
> The answer here is that it depends not only on time and enthusiasm
> but finding very skilled people and getting them involved---with their
> background knowledge and experience.  For doing a full Ubuntu Serif
> companion font expansion, I suggested that perhaps means:
>
>  1 Find a type designer who is interested
>  2 Work with them to make a beautiful, complementary and hinted expansion
>
> It'll take a while too; before you could even start such a process
> (which will take a *long* time) it would be necessary to understand
> the background.  What is it _for_?  Why would it be done/re-done?
>
> Lots of people can draw icons, or create sounds or make fonts; but
> will the results fit together?  Will they be beautiful as a whole? If
> we here working on Ayatana want to push the state of people's
> computering experiences forward then there's not much point making
> fonts, icons, sounds or backgrounds "for the sake of it".  They need
> to definitely improve on what is there already there and we need to be
> able to scientifically prove that that is the case.
>
> Once that research and development is done in Ayatana (which will
> benefit everyone), you can start to think about the Ubuntu case.
> The Ubuntu desktop and brand is a jigsaw of many parts.  Admittedly
> not all of those parts fit perfectly at the moment, but if you change
> one piece only; the piece next to it might not fit as well.
>
> If you want something to happen and care about it, the best approach
> is probably to find the people with the skills and get them interested
> in what Ubuntu is---what it's doing and how they can help make a
> difference to millions of people's computing lives everyday.  The
> sooner one can find the right people, the sooner your and other
> people's dreams can come true!
>
> You've each suggested icons and sounds.  Do you have any world-class
> contacts in those genres?  Contacts capable of /not/ just designing
> sounds or icons, but those who can create guides /for creating/
> icons or sounds and prove why the changes are an improvement over
> what's available!
>
>        -Paul
>
>
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