[ubuntu-art] Dust menubar evolution

Rico Sta. Cruz dropbox at ambiescent.com
Tue Sep 16 12:26:24 BST 2008


What about the toolbar?
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/7640/dusttoolbarwipra1.png


Adam Gusztav Nagy wrote:
> 
> As i saw everybody welcomed the drop of the gradient menubars they didnt
> look so professional IMO.. but if you stick to them, of course you can
> use it.
> 
> the code for metacity is:
> 
> <gradient type="vertical" x="0" y="0" width="width+9" height="height+1">
>         <!--<color value="#80594D"/>-->
>         <color value="shade/gtk:bg[SELECTED]/0.5"/>
>         <color value="shade/gtk:bg[NORMAL]/0.34"/>
> 	<color value="shade/gtk:bg[NORMAL]/0.32"/>
>         <color value="shade/gtk:bg[NORMAL]/0.30"/>
>         <color value="shade/gtk:bg[NORMAL]/0.28" />
>         <color value="shade/gtk:bg[NORMAL]/0.26" />
>         <color value="shade/gtk:bg[NORMAL]/0.25" />
> </gradient>
> 
> you may wanna change the "<color value="shade/gtk:bg[SELECTED]/0.5"/>"
> line and increase the shade since this is for my different selected
> color which is: #FFBD61.
> 
> and i still suggest to drop the gradient menubar. :)
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 04:02 -0700, Rico Sta. Cruz wrote:
>> I like it. Thin. Any objections if I do this WITH toolbar gradients on
>> the
>> next version?
>> 
>> 
>> Adam Gusztav Nagy wrote:
>> > 
>> > i dont like the gradient menubars eighter, but thats true that without
>> > them it gets boring, however I think with increasing the gradient of
>> the
>> > titlebar would help this problem, it would make the whole top look
>> > better, but the menubars could be still flat. i ll attach a screenshot
>> > it will explain itself i hope.
>> > 
>> > http://m.blog.hu/os/osline/image/dustgradient.png
>> > 
>> > 
>> > i can send the metacity code where i already implemented it.
>> > 
>> > and i also changed the selected color to a lighter orange, the dark
>> > purple was to depressing for me but that is another story.
>> > 
>> > Adam
>> > 
>> >>
>> >>I think the theme was better with gradients in menubar. Now it seems on
>> >>one hand more uniform, but looks... poor and too simple. Maybe dropping
>> >>Aurora and pixmap is not the right choice, I think the theme needs
>> >>gradients to match the original mockup.
>> >>
>> >>-Mario
>> > 
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