[ubuntu-art] hardy gtk theme

[Corey Woodworth]

Can we do a gentle noise or noise+blur texture in cairo, like in your
background? I thing gloss is on the way out too, but it is better than plain
jane flat colors. A subtle texture though would be very cool! Just so long
as it doesn't come off as a rip off of that old Mac brushed metal theme, it
would have to be more subtle than that.

Corey

On Nov 7, 2007 2:16 PM, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 07/11/2007, Andreas Nilsson <nisses.mail at home.se> wrote:
>
> > Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> > > On 07/11/2007, *Andreas Nilsson* <nisses.mail at home.se
> > > <mailto:nisses.mail at home.se>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> > >     > On 07/11/2007, *Troy James Sobotka* <troy.sobotka at gmail.com
> > >     <mailto: troy.sobotka at gmail.com>
> > >
> > >     >
> > >     > I somewhat agree with you. I think Tango is great, but I don't
> > think
> > >     > that it is "Ubuntuish" in any way.
> > >     Hi Mikkel!
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Andreas! :-)
> > >
> > > I guess the elegance I am looking for is something like (this goes for
> > > both icons+gtk+metacity):
> > >
> > >  * Touch of realism (not naturalism)
> > >  * Simplicity
> > >  * Minimal number of distinct features, both on a per-icon level and
> > > the desktop as a whole
> > >  * Something that you will instantly recognize as Ubuntu
> > >
> > > Where I feel Tango takes another direction is specifically in points 1
> >
> > > and 4.
> > Give me some time and I'll do some experiments and see what I can come
> > up with.
> > Ideally it would be great to have something that looked very
> > distinctive, but didn't stick out like a sore thumb from the rest of the
> >
> > desktop.
>
>
> +1. Looking forward to see what you conjure  :-)
>
> > I just want to throw in a frequently found thing in mockups around the
> > > web. Monochrome notification icons. Like the ones I attached. I think
> > > it is a great way to reduce the visual clutter. Perhaps we could use
> > > it even more extensively than that - maybe replace a some of the "less
> > > important icons" throughout the desktop with monochrome versions. That
> > > could be alternative solution instead to disabling all icons in menus.
> >
> > I think this is a cool idea and it was something that Lasse, Kenneth and
> > myself discussed last week as well.
> > We need a good solution on how to handle Pidgin status in monochrome
> > though. mpt was going to show me how Adium solved it, but we ran out of
> > time. :/
> > We also need a good technical solution on how to solve this. Should the
> > notification area pick up it's own set of icons? Or if we just replace
> > them in our theme, how do we solve it for banshee/rhythmbox that tends
> > to just stick their app icon in the notification area (and yes, that is
> > kind of a ugly behavior)?
>
>
> Yes, the technical aspects concern me (let me think about them) . I think
> it is a good policy to try and enforce a monochrome systray at least.
>
> Then we could simply compile a cynical list of "important" vs "less
> important" icons and use monochrome (or low contrast) icons for them
> throughout the rest of the desktop.
>
> Cheers,
> Mikkel
>
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