[ubuntu-art] Parametrisable colors for window borders, system icons and controls

[xl cheese]

I think it's a good idea.  
 
I opened a similar bug a while back and it was also rejected.  
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497116



> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 23:30:48 +0100> From: mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com> To: ubuntu-art at lists.ubuntu.com> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Parametrisable colors for window borders, system icons and controls> > On 04/02/2008, Kenneth Wimer <kwwii at ubuntu.com> wrote:> > On Friday 01 February 2008 16:04:53 François Degrave wrote:> > > Hi everyone,> > >> > > I think a new theme which would provide Ubuntu a fresher look would be> > > really useful. However, orange - and brown - are not always the colors> > > people prefer, and even if it was the case, most people like to change> > > the look of the system after a while.> > >> > > I would suggest the whole theme should be parametrisable. The user> > > should be able to choose (within 3 clicks...) not only the color of the> > > window borders, but also the color of the system icons and controls.> >> > I think that this is a very interesting idea but it would be quite a feat to> > pull off, not to mention it being so late in the cycle. I would suggest> > adding this as a blueprint for hardy+1. We'd need more than artwork to> > accomplish this so having things well planned and defined will make it much> > more likely to happen.> >> > > For the moment, the problem is that in order to change the look of the> > > system, the user has to choose another theme than Human (which is the> > > most clean one, but not parametrisable), and then search the internet> > > for icon themes that would match his desires, when parametrisable colors> > > for windows, system icons and controls would make that task easy as can be.> > >> > Regarding changing the colors of the window borders, I actually did a> patch to gnome-appearance-applet to allow color parametrization of the> window frames, see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498854.> It is simple an non-intrusive.> > It adds an extra "Window frame" button to the Colors tab in the theme> customization dialog, and allows themes to control> @window_{fg,bg}_color in their gtkrc files.> > The problem is that the colors need also be respected in the metacity> themes, so it is not guaranteed to work on all themes. Most will work> though.> > The patch was rejected because it was "bloat". I fail to see how it is> more bloated than allowing to change the colors of the tooltips. Go> figure.> > Maybe if people from ubuntu-art start commenting on that bug... Some> good old lobbying :-)> > Cheers,> Mikkel> > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list> ubuntu-art at lists.ubuntu.com> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
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