[ubuntu-art] Hardy GTK Theme

[tonic]

Those reflections are pretty nice. The more subtle elements are good if
people are genuinely moving away from gloss. I think gentle curves for
reflections are better, we have enough hard edges on the screen as it
is.

tonic

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 00:21 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> On 06/11/2007, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         On 06/11/2007, Kenneth Wimer <kwwii at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>                 On Tuesday 06 November 2007 16:12:12 Andrea Cimitan
>                 wrote:
>                 > I can confirm those words another time. ;)
>                 > Diagonal stripes could be fun when you have a lot of
>                 buttons with a
>                 > fixed aspect (see gcalctool for example), but when
>                 you have an app with 
>                 > a lot of buttons of various aspects (some thin, some
>                 fat etc etc) the
>                 > result is a _really_ boring theme. Unconsinstent
>                 too.
>                 >
>                 > Don't waste your time now ;)
>                 >
>                 
>                 I agree completely with this. It might look nifty in a
>                 certain mockup but I am 
>                 not sure it would be good in a real theme.
>                 
>         
>         To late I already tried it out ;-P
>         
>         I agree that the look gets confusing with various size
>         buttons, because you get diagonal reflections in all sorts of
>         different angles - this makes it confusing for the eye. 
>         
>         I am going to try a few other alternative gradients - diagonal
>         alternatives (fx fixed tilt) and some inspired by circle
>         projections.
> 
> I have some preliminary results put up on:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MikkelKamstrupErlandsen/HardyThemeStorm
> 
> But is just a *very* quick hack only aimed at testing various
> reflections. 
> 
> 
> 
> I will put up some more over the next days. If other people are
> intersted in theme-engine-hacking I suggest you take a quick look at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MikkelKamstrupErlandsen/ThemeEngineTricks -
> which should get you going pretty quickly.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mikkel