[ubuntu-art] hardy artwork

[Nemes Ioan Sorin]

I don't wanna Aurora ...because of myself.

It's OK, is slow maybe, on my machine run just fine, I have to reaffirm 
cos WE CAN USE Visual Proposals and Visual Enhancements from Aurora as 
good ideas for the new Ubuntu theme.

btw Aurora is not highest rated in gnome-look (at GTK2) because of 
engine(90% of users don't know about the difference between engine and 
theme) but because the look. They like what they see.

For most users Aurora is a step forward in the right direction (as Apple 
do for long time -> an intuitive, semantical UI (icons and icon groups) 
- more than a logical(orthodox) one (with lots of text menus and 
vertical / horizontal separators)).

Aurora is simple, round, clean, arrows on widgets are tringles not "V"'s 
gradients are unobtrusive - scrollbars finally look good and personal 
(not like old gtk scrollbars).

Maybe a fine tune of Murrina engine (I already have a Murrina 
configurator ) can solve a lot of problems regarding -> bad contrast / 
pale difference between UI parts with different functions.

So why we should "stamp" a foot in the back to something instead to 
taken good things from inside. I am always concerned about "positivist 
logic" on communities [...].

My proposal was to look at it's best parts not to ...adopt Aurora.

Also taking count on his popularity - that means they succeed in some 
aspects and we can benefit from this. Just think about.

That's my lobby. Point.

On the other side "clearlooks hack" is a pretty nice proposal - no 
horizontal separators - an other step in the good direction.

SorinN

Sebastian Billaudelle wrote:
>   I don't like Aurora, because ist's a very slow engine. At my machine 
> (Pentium M, 1500 MHz; 768 MB RAM; ...) you can watch the widgets loading;-)
> Gtkperf doesn't like Aurora, too;-)
> 
> cheers Sebastian
> Am Dienstag, den 29.01.2008, 04:27 +0200 schrieb SorinN:
>>  Clear Looks or Ubuntulooks would look nice with an usable scrollbar ( 
>>  I mean distinctive ) - as the Aurora theme has ( even that Aurora tent 
>>  to be on top of highest rated of gtk2 engines on gnome-look.org [ 
>>  that's mean something - rest of the world dont care about what we talk 
>>  here ;) - maybe we can keep something good this engine -> if  we don't 
>>  like / want  Aurora at the end ). 
>>
>>  Murrine can be a good engine too on the other side - with the same 
>>  problem - scrollbar face need a lift on it's form ( to be more 
>>  visible, ( using a  scrolltrack gradient [ ... ] ). Also default font 
>>  for Murrine on Cimi website screenshots is a bit scary regarding  it's 
>>  usability - a little bit fat font could be a better solution on small 
>>  UI widgets. 
>>
>>  --  
>>  Nemes Ioan Sorin 
>>