[ubuntu-art] Dust theme implementation

[Isaiah Heyer]

On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 16:01 +0800, Kido Mariano wrote:
> > > I *tried* to implement the Dust theme using one of my other themes
> > as
> > > base. Try it out:
> > >
> > > http://www.geocities.com/kid_orig/themer/Dust-0.tar.gz
> > > (requires Aurora engine installed)
> > >
> > > It's still a bit far from the mockup, and some apps have problems (most
> > > notably Firefox, due to quirks in the Aurora engine). Anyone care to
> > > help?
> > 
> 
> I've updated the theme, taking most of your comments into consideration.
> The download link is still the same.
> Here's a screenshot:
> http://www.geocities.com/kid_orig/themer/Screenshot.png 
> 
> On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 16:09 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote:
> > It looks good, I think, even without the gradients so far. I like the
> > dark brown highlight that you've thrown in for the window list,
> > although I think the text is pretty difficult to read above it right
> > now.
> > 
> > I like the way that window buttons correspond very evenly to the
> > rounded titlebar corners.
> > 
> > Hopefully gradients won't be too much of a problem. The title bar
> > looks fine without, but the toolbars and status bars are both really
> > begging for it. (Particularly the status bars).
> 
> I've added the toolbar gradient, but I can't do the same for the status
> bars (I have no idea how).
> 
> > 
> > I found it fairly difficult to tell the difference between foreground
> > and background windows when just the title bars were visible. Fading
> > out the close button more (to the same extent as the text, more of
> > course if it already is), and adding that little glint of light off
> > the top (as in the mockup) may remedy that.
> 
> I won't do this (yet) since I'm planning to redo the buttons to match
> the mockup.
> 
> > 
> > I'm not sure about the black menus, since these are foreground
> > content, and as a rule of thumb the Dust mockup has the foreground
> > content as dark on light. I am sure the kind fellow who did the mockup
> > has a thought to contribute there.
> 
> The dark context menus make dark menubars work in OO.org and Firefox. :\
> 
> > 
> > Nice work so far, Kido! Good luck with the rest; I love this theme :)
> > 
> Thanks :)
> 
> > 
> > Bye,
> > -Dylan
> > 
> > PS: Dust has almost replaced the PlanoLM + Clearlooks combo as the
> > theme on my laptop.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
That looks great.Don't worry about trying to actually do the weird
firefox tab thing.That would be really inconsistent with everything
else.