[ubuntu-art] Graphite vs Heat theme

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 20:14 -0400, Javier Aravena C. wrote:
> Hi all, I've made a theme for the Ubuntulooks engine based on the
> graphite colours and I'll eventually make all major clearlooks color
> schemes that look right with the theme (such as quicksilver, default,
> gperfection and olive) if no ones does it before. as they weight so
> little we could make a UbuntuLooks-colour (or color) pack shipping all
> that styles, let alone a meta package (although if you guys want to have
> just meta packages I can make one)
> http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=36370

It looks like you are trying to accomplish much the same as the Heat
theme from Frédéric van der Essen... Ie. -  a toned down grayish theme -
which I totally acknowledge btw - I think it will have a huge user base.
Much like the silver-version of XPs theme.

Heat: http://www.mentalwarp.com/~fred/divers/ubuntu/Screenshot.png
UL-graphite: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/pre1/36370-1.jpg

I pasted Frédérics original Heat-mail at the bottom of this mail.

So my suggestion: Javier and Frédéric - team up. Ping pong a bit, and
put a page on the wiki. I really think a theme along those lines has a
place in Dapper.

It seems like there's plenty work for several people - I don't know
about the gray Tango theme from Heat - but I bet it can use a lot of
work :-) (I think it's great btw).

And if you care for my 2 cents on this, I think it is a good idea to
keep a slightly brownish feel to it, like Heat has. That way it will
feel more Ubuntish. Just very subtle - don't over do it :D

Cheers,
Mikkel

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 03:04 +0100, Frédéric van der Essen wrote: 
> I just made a new theme. It's a simple color variation from the current 
> human theme.
> It goes with a background i made and the gray-tango icon theme.
> It's brown but not too much. The suggested background is red, but the 
> gtk theme goes well with any other color.
> 
> It doesn't follow the ubuntu color palette.
> 
> screenshot :
> http://www.mentalwarp.com/~fred/divers/ubuntu/Screenshot.png
> 
> Gtk theme :
> http://www.mentalwarp.com/~fred/divers/ubuntu/Heat.tar.gz
> 
> Background :
> http://www.mentalwarp.com/~fred/divers/ubuntu/Heat.png
> 
> Is it possible to suggest a background in a gnome theme ?
>