[ubuntu-art] New Wave graphical guidelines

[Valentin Steinwandter]

What about this?

At the moment: 
http://img55.imageshack.us/my.php?image=11ye5.png

Nicer?
http://img55.imageshack.us/my.php?image=22lz7.png

Valentin


Am Freitag, den 23.05.2008, 15:41 +0200 schrieb Giuseppe Pennisi:
> François Degrave ha scritto:
> > Anton Kerezov a écrit :
> > > В 15:38 +0200 на 22.05.2008 (чт), François Degrave написа:
> > >   
> > >> Because we need to work all together in a single direction, without
> > >> losing efforts for useless things, I took some time today and
> > >> yesterday to write the graphical guidelines for New Wave.
> > >>
> > >> Could you please read them carefully? Here they are:
> > >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/NewWave?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=graphical_guidelines.pdf
> > >>     
> > >
> > > I agree that we need such king of guidelines but they need to me more
> > > definite. Although I generally like the text I do not agree with some
> > > points:
> > >
> > > 	1. Taskbar/Windows consistency - That is not true. The taskbar is
> > > really different from the title bar and the menus of an application
> > > because there you have program shortcuts and status icons that change
> > > over time.
> > >   
> > Ok, but currently the windows and the taskbar do not seem to be part of 
> > a whole. They look too different to have a nice visual effect. And it is 
> > true that the taskbar has more functionalities than a menubar, but the 
> > "menu part" of the taskbar should certainly have the same look as a menubar.
> > 
> I agree with Fracnois. IMHO, in this way (like write Francois) the theme
> looks more uniform and a good impact for user. Use many shades of color
> on the same theme make this pleasant little for user and little
> consistency in its entirety.
> 
> In this regard, about consistency of the theme, I have made some
> proposal of consistency between metacity-frame-menubar and application
> active in taskbar.
> 
> http://img267.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nw1uu0.png
> 
> http://img60.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nw2gc9.png
> 
> 
> Further, I think that the active item of the menu must be a bit more
> clear.
> 
> http://img367.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nw3ef0.png
> 
> Giuseppe P.
> 
> ps: I think if we use a color more white for menu-active-item and
> menu-bg we might get more consistency between they.
> 
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