[ubuntu-art] Intrepid Ibex Theme

[Conor Schaefer]

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Julian Oliver wrote:
> ..on or around Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 02:38:30PM -0400 Joshua Booth wrote:
>> This is the kind of thing Ubuntu needs to start making. The new Ibex theme
>> is hideous and almost unusable for non-native applications, and and I
>> disliked the last theme too.
>>
>>
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs31/i/2008/215/e/1/Interpid_Ibex_Mockup_Part_1_by_willwill100.png
>
> IMO the panel in the above mockup looks quite washed-out. who agrees
> translucent panels look a little milky somehow? what material is the
> panel and the window title supposed to be made of, polyethylene? why are
> they transparent, what use does it serve other than proving it's
> possible?
>
> that said i think the yellow tabs and notifiers are better in the above
> mockup than seen elsewhere, offset nicely by the grey-brown.
>
> overall, where that Ibex mockup lacks in vibrance it makes up in class,
> save the dock at the bottom, which is simply unimaginative.
>
> my 2 bytes,
I agree that it's washed out, yes. But personally I have my top panel
100% transparent. I do this because I like to have striking background
images and I don't want a top panel to disrupt that. Perhaps that's
probably more of a KDE-appropriate mentality, but hey, I have a thing
for GNOME!

I will throw in my vote that I find this mockup gorgeous. The rounded
corners might have technical limitations but that's going to be a hard
sell with newbies. This groundbreaking OS Linux doesn't have a window
manager that can round corners on windows? Right-angle corners will
look pretty Redmond, era 98.

Conor
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