[ubuntu-art] New Wave and other things

[Oliver Morgan]

Hi,

I'm completely new to all of this - so please give me some leeway if I  
say anything dumb!

I like new wave - it certainly is beginning to look like a complete  
system. I just wondered that is looked very OSXy with Vista-type  
transparencies. I just mean to say it isn't very groundbreaking. Maybe  
this isn't the right place to ask this but with the proliferation of  
the glassy look and transparencies I just wondered if we should think  
about it all from the ground up a bit.

I mean I get that inactive windows gain some translucence but why?  
Wouldn't it be better if we made alerts appear with a translucent  
background - they are not working windows but notices - so making them  
translucent makes them not interfere so much....

Also I wondered about title bars. There is more real-estate left-to- 
right than top-and-bottom. What if windows stacked that way and title  
bars were at the left (maybe the top panel and bottom panels left and  
right too).  This would also make stacked menus expand in one  
direction (if you see what I mean).

Are these sorts of changes possible - can I mock things like this up  
or is it a waste of time?

Thanks!

Oliver