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

[sylvain marc]

I think it was a good idea.
It was interesting if it is include in the 8.04

2008/2/4, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com>:
>
> 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
>
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