Hi art-team, <br><br>I'd like to share with you all some thougth I made about the desktop theme after the installation of Ubuntu 6.10 on my notebook. I tryed to rationalize them in the hope they result somehow useful at least as elements for discusisons. I tryed to use screenshoot as much as I can to make my points as much clear as possible.
<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Style and Coherency</span><font size="-1"> </font><ul><li>panel icons have all a different style. Would be good, at least for the default icons to create a coherent set. I suggest a flat style like the MacOS has adopted for his menubar (pic1)
<br></li><li>The "quit session" icon on the top panel is different on the one you can find on the "quit session" dialog (I don't know is this has been a precise choice)<br></li><li>Some icons in the main menu are ubuntu-shiny-ish while some other are gnome-ish. They should be all the same style at least for "Resources" and "System" menu (pic2)
<br></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Colors</span><br><ul><li>I gave a look to the palette on the wiky (<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/sabdflAesthetic">
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/sabdflAesthetic</a>) is it the approved one? I think we should create a richer palette like the one used by the gnome guys (<a href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/design.html#Palette">
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/design.html#Palette</a>) so that we can create coherent icons<br></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Beryl</span><br></span><ul><li>I installed Beryl. Don't know if the new
<span>Feisty Fawn</span> will have the 3DWM by default, but anyway I think that the default settings are a bit too much confusing for the common user. I have a less hard approch to visual effects. You can found my beryl settings attached (
soft-beryl-settings.Profile)<br></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Window Manager</span><br><ul><li>The actual theme is very good. The only thing I don't like is the border around the three control buttons. What about leaving them without border and put a sort of transparent highlight on mouse hover? I also like the color to be a little bit darker like the color of that Ubuntu Smooth Chocolate background you can find installed by default. Probably also a little bit of antialias/smooth on the rounded corners and a darker line to mark the separation between the caption and the application menu more sharpen.
<br><br>I made a mock-up (pic3)</li></ul><br>That's it, what do you all think about?<br><br>Gianluca<br><br>