[ubuntu-art] Some Themes Ideas

[George Brooke]

Yes Deviant lines looks good - I may try and make an xfwm theme similar 
if I have the time.

solar.george

Webmaster, Jhnet.co.uk wrote:
> The Deviant lines theme looked really good, a very original design 
> that integrates well and has a nice clean appearance. It's also nice 
> to see a theme that doesn't have very chunky borders which just waste 
> space and make the interface feel a lot more chunky. I would in this 
> theme prefer to see a larger title bar text (for accessibility) in 
> exchange for less wasted space at the bottom - I think something could 
> be done with this theme to make it work well for a possible alternate 
> theme for Ubuntu to ship: something that is unusual and original but 
> not sci-fi and old fashioned.
>
> Jonnathan
>
> On 15/01/2008, *Steph* <orkerone at gmail.com 
> <mailto:orkerone at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all, I just made my usual visit of Gnome-Look.org and I found
>     some interesting ideas we could try to develop for an eventual
>     Ubuntu GTK Theme.
>
>     First, a theme called Deviant lines
>     <http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Deviant+lines?content=73635> :
>     Here's a screenshot of my desktop :
>     http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/4390/deviantlinesdo1.png
>     <http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/4390/deviantlinesdo1.png>
>
>     What I like most is the way top of windows are rectangular and
>     bottom are rounded. Can metacity do that ? Next, the buttons. I
>     often see themes with rounded buttons, but I personnaly think it's
>     over. A nice button, in my opinion, is rectangular with really
>     small rounded corners (Apple.fr <http://Apple.fr> has some). In
>     this theme, buttons are still too rectangular, but nice. And
>     finally I like the way windows seems unified. Well here, there are
>     even too unified because sometimes you get a little confused, but
>     we should work in that way ( DarkIce theme
>     <http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Dark+Ice?content=69886>
>     had a great success thanks to its union in the menubar and
>     metacity border, I think).
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Steph.
>
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