[ubuntu-art] Intrepid Ibex Theme

[Joshua Booth]

Someone made a flesh-and-bone GDM theme based off of the mock-up, and it has
a rounded corner, too:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Intrepid+Ibex+GDM?content=86712

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Dylan McCall <dylanmccall at gmail.com> wrote:

> The GDM mockup that guy made has a striking resemblance to New Wave,
> so this may not be as far off as we assume. One issue with the mockup
> is that it is hoping for rounded corners at the bottom of windows, but
> there is no border to acomodate this. That can be overcome by having a
> thicker bottom border, which is a good idea anyway for easily resizing
> the window.
>
> Forcing a round corner without adding a Metacity window border to
> accommodate it (if it was possible within today's infrastructure,
> which I do not believe is so) would need to cut off actual content. We
> don't want that. MPlayer users, for example, would kill us.
>
> Ideally, I think window decoration themes should be superceded by GTK
> container widgets, which may afford us some interesting control along
> these lines. Until then - if that is even possible or remotely
> desirable, which is iffy - ... it wouldn't be looking like the mockup.
>
> I think the colour scheme is pretty decent, though, and I appreciate
> that this mockup keeps the actual software intact. There are some nice
> ideas in here :)
> Oh, cool background, too. And that wifi icon is actually useful; it
> takes the extra step of actually using an antenna to describe what the
> signal strength bars represent, which is Really Important yet
> strangely never done. (Even in those operating systems that spend
> millions on usability testing).
>
> Bye,
> -Dylan
>
> PS: *Sniff* *Sniff* I smell HTML!
>
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