[ubuntu-art] Where's the official proposed theme idea?

Wed Dec 19 20:45:30 GMT 2007

One thing I need to say about Vista is they did good with the window
buttons. I'll give em credit where credit is due.

A few weeks before I started this theme I read as many reviews and interface
guidelines as I could, and one was a review on GUI aspects of Vista and OSX.
While they come a dime a dozen, this one was (surprisingly) neutral.

Anyway, when it was on topic about window buttons, one thing it mentioned
constantly was "slamming", where users will slam the mouse onto one edge of
the screen. So, as long as an element touches an edge or a corner (which is
why I'm tempted to make the X cover the complete corner of the window) the
user doesn't need to bother with carefully positioning the mouse over the
button.

While it doesn't sound like a big deal, it's just another thing to look at.
If I rounded the corner then the button would need to be 1 or 2 pixels lower
to accommodate the top-edge, breaking the users ability to slam.

--Ken Vermette

On Dec 19, 2007 6:28 AM, George Brooke <solar.george at googlemail.com> wrote:

>  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
>
>
> 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>
> 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 > 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 >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 12/17/07, Ken Vermette <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/
> > > >
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