[ubuntu-art] Mark has Thrown Down the Gauntlet!

[Kim Kahns]

Am 24.07.2008 15:48:28 schrieb(en) Salane Ashcraft:
> Ok well I posted them a while back, about a month ago. I am working 
> on
> creating a small team, and hopefully I can get some things done. i
> almost think that we need to wait a bit for Icons - as what I have
> been working on looks great with the current icons. Mark wants in 2
> years for us to have moved to the point of surpassing OS X - So I
> think we can create this theme, change the fonts, the work on icons
> for the next release, while making improvements to theme in
> preparation for the next LTS.
> 


Here is my opionion on the various topics:
1.
Ubuntu will never look as polished as OSX, at least not with GTK 2.0 
and brown/orange colors.
Brown is seen by many people as old and unaesthetic, and orange is a 
signal color.
2.
The person who writes a guideline should have real knowledge about 
gtk-theming, because you can't create a usefull guideline and mockups 
if you don't know the limitations (just look at all the mockups, they 
don't show new styles - they show completly new guis...).
3.
An Ibex is not good for a desktop-style. It's just a "code name", stop 
focussing on the animals.
4.
Packaging would be a good thing, but it's not necessary for creating a 
theme, only for shipping it.


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Update of the Human 2 theme

- fixed gnome-volume-manager notebook bg-color (see screenshot)
- dark panel style
- rounded range sliders

Screenshot: http://kims-area.com/human2.png
The updated theme is attached.


~Kim Kahns (Kimmik)

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