[ubuntu-art] Consideration on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Theme

[Gianluca Sartori]

Hi art-team,

I'd like to share with you all some thougth I made about the desktop theme
after the installation of Ubuntu 6.10 on my notebook. I tryed to rationalize
them in the hope they result somehow useful at least as elements for
discusisons. I tryed to use screenshoot as much as I can to make my points
as much clear as possible.

Style and Coherency

   - panel icons have all a different style. Would be good, at least for
   the default icons to create a coherent set. I suggest a flat style like the
   MacOS has adopted for his menubar  (pic1)
   - The "quit session" icon on the top panel is different on the one you
   can find on the "quit session" dialog (I don't know is this has been a
   precise choice)
   - Some icons in the main menu are ubuntu-shiny-ish while some other
   are gnome-ish. They should be all the same style at least for "Resources"
   and "System" menu (pic2)

Colors

   - I gave a look to the palette on the wiky (
   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/sabdflAesthetic) is it the
   approved one? I think we should create a richer palette like the one used by
   the gnome guys (
   http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/design.html#Palette)
   so that we can create coherent icons

Beryl

   - I installed Beryl. Don't know if the new Feisty Fawn will have the
   3DWM by default, but anyway I think that the default settings are a bit too
   much confusing for the common user. I have a less hard approch to visual
   effects. You can found my beryl settings attached (
   soft-beryl-settings.Profile)

Window Manager

   - The actual theme is very good. The only thing I don't like is the
   border around the three control buttons. What about leaving them without
   border and put a sort of transparent highlight on mouse hover? I also like
   the color to be a little bit darker like the color of that Ubuntu Smooth
   Chocolate background you can find installed by default. Probably also a
   little bit of antialias/smooth on the rounded corners and a darker line to
   mark the separation between the caption and the application menu more
   sharpen.

   I made a mock-up (pic3)


That's it, what do you all think about?

Gianluca
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