[ubuntu-art] Dust menubar evolution

Adam Gusztav Nagy gusztee at gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 12:32:23 BST 2008


i am sorry my bad, where i wrote menubar i meant toolbar. i was talking
about the big gradient toolbars. i was glad you changed them back to
flats yesterday. so i am sorry again please read my messages again with
switching manubar to toolbars.. :D

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 04:26 -0700, Rico Sta. Cruz wrote:
> 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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