[ubuntu-art] Where's the official proposed theme idea?
George Brooke
solar.george at googlemail.com
Wed Dec 19 14:28:32 GMT 2007
How about making the window close minimise ect. icons rounded off at the
top rather like the main menu.
solar.george
Ken Vermette wrote:
> It's kind of like a mold... Like it or not, it kind grows on you. I
> hated my windows when I made them, and I have a gallery of hideous
> window ideas that I hope will never see the light of day.
>
> Orange is really just a highlight colour in this theme, so it'll
> proballbly look odd on the theme until some widgets are added. When
> they get added though, hopefully the additional orange in the theme
> will make it feel more balanced. I lightened up the brown and slightly
> altered the orange - so it should hopefully be a bit better. I can't
> really use any other colours (even if I think they'll look better)
> because I want to stick to the official Ubuntu colour pallet.
>
> I'm actively planning a small set of variations in popular colours; I
> don't think there will be a way to change the colours via the colour
> menu - unless there's a hue-shifting algorithm involved (similar to
> the one implemented in Vista or Windowblinds).
>
> Anyway, there's another update up on the wiki:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/BasicIdeals?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=fulldesk%28svg%29_v3_2.jpg
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/BasicIdeals?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=fulldesk%28svg%29_v3_2.jpg>
>
> the XCF and SVG sources have been updated aswell; the XCF actually has
> everything in it now, I uploaded a half-finished XCF file on the first
> version, but the new one will be much better for people who want to
> use or edit content because it's complete. For anyone wanting to make
> a mockup using the files, the Mock-ups are first edited/rendered in
> InkScape, then are imported into the bottom layer of the XCF. You
> could delete the BG in inkscape and export a transparent PNG to create
> a render suitable for porting into other themes.
>
> Thanks as always,
> --Ken V
>
> On Dec 18, 2007 12:42 PM, Corey Woodworth <coreywoodworth at gmail.com
> <mailto:coreywoodworth at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> At first I didn't like this theme, but it is really growing on me.
> Of coarse there are things that still need work. The orange in the
> theme feels out of place. It just doesn't fit it because of how
> heavy the browns are. I think using white as the selected item
> color in the menus would look a lot better. I also think that the
> notification area needs to use different colors. It needs to stand
> out more. Now it hardly stands out at all since it is the same
> color as the background behind it, and of most windows. Speaking
> of the windows, I really like the way the titlebar and menu bar
> are visuially connected int the active window. In the unactive
> window where it looks like just a gradient from brown to tan looks
> very ugly to me.
>
> I think this theme is about the prettiest a brown theme could be,
> but we would still get a lot of flac from the brown haters if this
> were default. I hope that it works well with the color options in
> the appearence settings so that keeping the theme but using a
> different color is just a couple of clicks worth of work.
>
> Corey
>
>
> On Dec 17, 2007 9:30 PM, Ken Vermette <vermette at gmail.com
> <mailto:vermette at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Got the link, and thanks to Racoqster for the quick post on
> the blog. I know about every language BUT python, so I can try
> to learn python this weekend and assist in coding later if
> absolutely necessary; Would it be possible to work without the
> configurator?
>
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/BasicIdeals
>
> The Wiki has been updated to include a mockup with all current
> elements - and links to the SVG source and XCF source are
> directly below the image. I'll be downloading some themes that
> resemble mine (in their technical composition) and start to
> figure out how we could get this beast into a live
> environment! The XCF source is almost useless, but it can make
> life easy if anyone wants to make a mockup with icons & text.
>
> The large mockup doesn't include the most recent requests
> (several of which will be integrated), but it gives the
> closest impression to what a full desktop would look like
> right now - barring the lack of widgets.
>
> Thanks all;
> -- Ken V
>
>
> On Dec 17, 2007 7:51 PM, Iacopo Masi
> <iacopo.masi.list at gmail.com
> <mailto:iacopo.masi.list at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 12/17/07, Ken Vermette <vermette at gmail.com
> <mailto:vermette at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > There's go GTK yet, currently most of the work is going
> into mockups. I need
> > to get ahold of the Murrine Developer Andrea Cimitan,
> and see about getting
> > information on the Transparent GTK tweaks before I start
> making the mockups
> > live graphics.
>
> Cimi will release the code when a Murrine Configurator
> should be
> available so we must work towards the murrine configurator
> in pygtk.
>
> take a look at
>
> http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2007/12/16/searching-coders-for-the-murrine-configurator/
> <http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2007/12/16/searching-coders-for-the-murrine-configurator/>
> --
> Iacopo Masi
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