[ubuntu-art] A Light Theme

[Odysseus Flappington]

2009/1/15 Smartboy <smartboyathome at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Giuseppe Pennisi <giupenni78 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I started to make a light theme for ubuntu.
>> I would make a simple and nice theme not dark.
>> For metacity I have modified DarkRoom-Metacity a bit but I would also
>> change the metacity button.
>> This is only the first step, in the next days I will make a wiki page
>> and send the gtkrc file to test it.
>>
>> The screenshoot:
>> http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firstideadh1.png
>> http://img397.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firstidea2dt6.png
>>
>> Opinions about my work?
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> gp
>>
>> ps: at the moment I used Murrine-SVN of the Intrepid Repository...for
>> Jaunty I must used this or in the next release will we use the latest
>> Murrine Engine? I think clarify this point is very important.
>> In my opinion is better if we can use in Jaunty the latest svn version
>> of murrine.
>>
>>
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>
> I don't like it. It seems too bright to me. Part of that may be the
> wallpaper chosen (it contrasts a lot), but it is also the fact that there
> isn't a lot of contrast in the theme itself. That is where Dust and NewWave
> shine, they balance the light and dark.
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I like it, we need some more good light themes. There are too many
good dark ones flying around imo.

The default Human icons completely dominate it though at the moment. I
reckon a new icon set would work really well  with it.

My 2 cents.

Jackflap