[ubuntu-art] The Future of Dust

[Rico Sta. Cruz]

Re: Highlight color:
The tan-ish color of the latest one should be the final one. The theme
needed a more brown touch than the mockup (which had a jarring difference
between the warm brown and the cool steelblue), so it was decided to go with
a less-saturated brown.

Re: dropdown menus:
This was a compromise: they needed to be a different color from the toolbars
(to visually distinguish them when clicking on the menubar), but they also
need to be dark (gtk limitation: the menu text color has to be the same as
the popup menu text color).

Re: gradients:
Kido removed the gradients. I think this was a miscommunication between me
and him, since I showed him a mockup (with subtle gradients, that wasn't
really supposed to be what would be in the new version). Here's a version
with a new set of gradients (closer to the mockup but still not quite).

   http://dump.ambiescent.com/i/Dust-20080916.tar.gz

Re: panels:
You can make them look like the mockup's using the
~/.themes/Dust/panel-background.png panel background (right click on panel -
properties - background - background image).

Re: colors:
The colors were adjusted to be more in line with the Ubuntu colors (brown).

Re: icons:
I haven't had time to work on them, sorry. :(


Joshua Booth-2 wrote:
> 
> I have had many issues with the future of this theme. I don't agree with
> the
> updates, and the latest version of Dust has become a new theme entirely.
> What happened to the nice, clean, dark version of Dust? Now we have a
> lighter, browner, and to me, much less crisper version that doesn't look
> like the original mockup at all. I have kept the old versions of Dust
> because I very much dislike the new one. I have made a list of things that
> I
> feel need to be addressed:
> 
>    1. We have had dark red, tan, and many other versions of highlight
>    colors. Can we decide on just one please? The second-ish version of
> Dust was
>    the closest to the mockup but had a reddish select color over the
> original
>    tan. I liked this color much better.
>    2. The dropdown menus do not match the rest of the theme anymore. A
> long
>    time ago they matched great. Now they are darker and almost black and
> do not
>    give a nice clean feeling to me at all.
>    3. The desktop panels do not resemble the mockup. Personally, the
> panels
>    are quite all right the way they are now, but when are we going to make
> the
>    panels look like the mockup?
>    4. The metacity has evolved into something less cleaner and intuitive.
>    Before it was simple, clean, and unobtrusive. Now it looks much
> different.
>    5. Dust has lost its nice, clean, professional colors, which looked
> like
>    the mockup back in its early days.
> 
> Overall, Dust is a new theme that has had many changes that I don't see
> the
> need for. Honestly? I think in our mad rush to get a good theme and update
> things, we lost our original view and stopped caring whether the changes
> we
> were making were really a good idea at all.
> 
> On a totally separate note, where are the Dust icons? When we can we get
> those? The folder icons are nice, but are we going to use the mockup's
> panel
> icons?
> 
> Just something to think about. I would really like to see Dust back into
> its
> older days. Maybe we can start multiple themes going, who knows?
> 
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