[ubuntu-art] Impression Alpha3 Uploaded to Wiki

[Joshua Booth]

This looks a lot like New Wave, only in my opinion it's worse because of the
simple Metacity and the glossy look of the highlight.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:04 PM, John Baer <baerjj at gmail.com> wrote:

> The single most significant change between Alpha2 and Alpha3 is the
> replacement of the clearlooks engine with the latest release of murrine.
> As the scrollbars and scale widgets exert a great influence on the
> appearance of the theme, I decided to stay with the "pixmap" engine to
> render these widgets as well as the handlebox and stratus grip. As far
> as I can tell performance is still very good.
>
> One of the driving factor of this theme is to make it as dark as
> possible without losing black as a colour. I didn't want to use gray as
> it presents "blue-ish" and decided to use a colour which has a slight
> brown tint. The metacity frame is themed to match and the outcome is a
> blended appearance top to bottom. One thing I observed using a 1024x768
> resolution is most applications run full screen. In my opinion this
> theme displays well at this resolution providing the user with a
> pleasant uniform presentation.
>
> Staying true to Ubuntu, the colour orange is used as much as possible.
> Although this theme is configurable via the gnome user preferences, I
> fully admit it contains hard coded elements.
>
> In crafting the gtkrc I attempted to provide as many comments as
> possible to aide other GTK theme developers.
>
> http://www.projwiki.com/index.cgi/CategoryImpressionAlpha3GtkRc
>
> What's left to do?
>
> I believe the widget hierarchy of the gtkrc file is good as every
> program I tested displayed as expected. Possible changes include colour
> adjustments or abandoning the pixmap engine using murrine to render the
> scrollbar and scale widgets.
>
> If you install the svn132 murrine engine existing murrine themes such as
> Human will break. :(
>
> Check it out!
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/Impression
>
> John
>
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