[ubuntu-art] Progress update on the community process

Michiel Sikma michiel at thingmajig.org
Sat Aug 12 23:16:09 BST 2006


To hopefully put some more life into the polishing of the Human GTK  
theme, which I believe to be the most fun activity of all of Ubuntu  
Artwork, I've composed a little desktop environment mock-up screen  
with the latest version of my WIP.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/PolishHumanGTKTheme/Incoming? 
action=AttachFile&do=get&target=michieldesktop2.png

This is how I envision the future of Ubuntu's desktop. (Except for  
the Tangerine icons; you can ignore them, that's just a personal  
preference of mine. The background also is far from finished.) Clean,  
concise, and very, very shiny.

The updated GTK mock-up can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ 
Artwork/Specs/PolishHumanGTKTheme/Incoming#head- 
f092ea306a546788b86b8227a87ef7faa5ba78de

Michiel

On Aug 10, 2006, at 9:30 PM, Michiel Sikma wrote:

>
> On Aug 10, 2006, at 8:28 PM, Étienne Bersac wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I agree with Who. The overall look'n'feel is quite better than the
>> current Human. However, less rounded widgets should do a better
>> "distinctive" design. That would make GtkSpinButton nicer.
>>
>> I really like the progressbar, there are far more readable. Droping
>> tiny
>> vertical lines is a very good idea :D.
>>
>> Also, i find that the darken bottom of window title bar is too
>> dark, as
>> well as the close button background.
>
> Yeah, I need to tune those a little bit. I haven't spent much time on
> them. I'll see if I can lighten it up a little.
>
> I personally kind of like the rounding, though! But the window frame
> itself is too rounded, I would say.
>
>> About scrollbar. Using color for both scroll and buttons might look
>> good. But remember that orange is quite sharp. Mark said that "long
>> term
>> widget" should not be in sharp color, nor glassy.
>
> Well, I'll see if I can make it a little more dim. You're right that
> this is a little bothersome. I don't think that we should attempt to
> make it look like it can last for years, though. I can't fathom the
> skin not needing minor tweaks with every next release.
>
>> Also, a big big big point. Can you use less gray and more white or a
>> sligthly oranged white ? I'm sure that a lot of people are fed up  
>> with
>> gray. Using a widget background color other than gray would definetly
>> make ubuntu looks distinctive.
>
> Yeah, I'll see if I can do something there too. Maybe make it a
> little brighter. Although grey is, of course, a very good color for
> beveling things and distinguishing from white. There are very, very
> few colors (in my opinion) that can be properly used as GTK
> background color.
>
>> Keep up the good work !! :D
>
> Thanks! :)
>
>>
>> Étienne.
>> -- 
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>>
>>
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