[ubuntu-art] creamlooks-gtk

Sebastian Billaudelle sebbil at gmx.de
Fri Mar 21 16:20:26 GMT 2008


Your absolutely right!
Unfortunately I can't upload a screenshot of the new look, because I'm
connected via modem;-(

Am Freitag, den 21.03.2008, 09:14 -0700 schrieb Sumit Agarwal:

> I fully agree. I like the OS X border-less style, but of course that 
> necessitates a compositing engine + drop shadows.
> 
> I think a very minimal window border would go a long way to 
> professionalizing and de-cartooning the GNOME desktop. As I see it right 
> now, the wide borders reflect the very annoying hard-outlined GNOME 
> style icons. This is a trend that seems to be self-perpetuating for no 
> good reason (look at the icon sheets for Firefox 3. See the Linux set? 
> Why are we making new icons that look like they're stuck in 1998?).
> 
> -Sumit
> 
> Julian Oliver wrote:
> > i don't understand why there is this pixel-eating, thick translucent
> > border around the windows. on laptops (which increasingly average at
> > 1024x768 pixels) this would be especially impractical.
> >
> > why not just do away with the strange exaggerated border?  it's like the
> > theme attempts minimalism but gets self-conscious about it along the
> > way. 
> >
> > my 2 bytes.
> >
> >   
> 
> 
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