On 07/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andreas Nilsson</b> <<a href="mailto:nisses.mail@home.se">nisses.mail@home.se</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:<br>> On 07/11/2007, *Andreas Nilsson* <<a href="mailto:nisses.mail@home.se">nisses.mail@home.se</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:nisses.mail@home.se">nisses.mail@home.se</a>>> wrote:
<br>><br>> Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:<br>> > On 07/11/2007, *Troy James Sobotka* <<a href="mailto:troy.sobotka@gmail.com">troy.sobotka@gmail.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:troy.sobotka@gmail.com">
troy.sobotka@gmail.com</a>><br>><br>> ><br>> > I somewhat agree with you. I think Tango is great, but I don't think<br>> > that it is "Ubuntuish" in any way.<br>> Hi Mikkel!
<br>><br>><br>> Hi Andreas! :-)<br>><br>> I guess the elegance I am looking for is something like (this goes for<br>> both icons+gtk+metacity):<br>><br>> * Touch of realism (not naturalism)<br>> * Simplicity
<br>> * Minimal number of distinct features, both on a per-icon level and<br>> the desktop as a whole<br>> * Something that you will instantly recognize as Ubuntu<br>><br>> Where I feel Tango takes another direction is specifically in points 1
<br>> and 4.<br>Give me some time and I'll do some experiments and see what I can come<br>up with.<br>Ideally it would be great to have something that looked very<br>distinctive, but didn't stick out like a sore thumb from the rest of the
<br>desktop.</blockquote><div><br>+1. Looking forward to see what you conjure :-)<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> I just want to throw in a frequently found thing in mockups around the<br>> web. Monochrome notification icons. Like the ones I attached. I think<br>> it is a great way to reduce the visual clutter. Perhaps we could use
<br>> it even more extensively than that - maybe replace a some of the "less<br>> important icons" throughout the desktop with monochrome versions. That<br>> could be alternative solution instead to disabling all icons in menus.
<br>I think this is a cool idea and it was something that Lasse, Kenneth and<br>myself discussed last week as well.<br>We need a good solution on how to handle Pidgin status in monochrome<br>though. mpt was going to show me how Adium solved it, but we ran out of
<br>time. :/<br>We also need a good technical solution on how to solve this. Should the<br>notification area pick up it's own set of icons? Or if we just replace<br>them in our theme, how do we solve it for banshee/rhythmbox that tends
<br>to just stick their app icon in the notification area (and yes, that is<br>kind of a ugly behavior)?</blockquote><div><br>Yes, the technical aspects concern me (let me think about them) . I think it is a good policy to try and enforce a monochrome systray at least.
<br><br>Then we could simply compile a cynical list of "important" vs "less important" icons and use monochrome (or low contrast) icons for them throughout the rest of the desktop.<br></div><br>Cheers,
<br>Mikkel<br></div>