I wasn't 100% with this mockup originally, but now I love it! Those colour changes are well chosen. Those fancy panel icons would be quite a pile of work, however. With an effect like that, it's can be either all of them or none of them, and there are
<i>a lot</i> of programs that put themselves in the notification area. Having said that, it would be very cool if unimportant (and inactive) notifications faded into the background, while they used the colourful images we see today when active. However, that sounds more like a code matter...
<br>Perhaps that effect would be happier being implemented in code, since on that end it can be implemented for everything, including unofficial applications.<br><br>One thing important to look at is menu bars that are not directly within windows. GTK decided that menu bars should be independent widgets, (which is good thinking in some ways, but definitely limits some of the cool possibilities of menus that know what window they belong to) so those menus could theoretically be anywhere. Granted, they are usually on the top, but extra use cases would be safe.
<br><br>Nick Telford makes a good point about text areas. Have you put much pondering into those?<br><br>What are those three buttons you have on the bottom of your windows? Looks like an interesting window management feature that could be implemented by an Ubuntu-side GTK hack...
<br><br>Speaking of effects, I think you could do with a tad less alpha on
unfocussed windows. People often look at two or three windows at once
for some tasks, and them being so transparent could well make that
undoable. Perhaps if that Pin button (which I believe you have on the status bars there) was implemented somewhere, we could better expect people to use the feature. Then, if a window was pinned and unfocussed, it would not have the same transparent effect. (Again, I am not up on how themes work, so please forgive my ignorance!).
<br><br>Keep up the amazing work, Ken! Everyone likes SVGs, so I see a very good chance of this mockup making it as a mainified ("mainly"? mained?) theme.<br><br>Bye,<br>-Dylan McCall<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Dec 30, 2007 7:57 AM, Anton Kerezov <<a href="mailto:ankere@gmail.com">ankere@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Nice one Ken! Keep up the good work.<br><br>В нд, 2007-12-30 в 09:09 -0500, Ken Vermette написа:<br><div><div></div><div>> The second version of the Union mockup is up, with sources and<br>> alternate wallpapers. Widgets will be coming in the next upload,
<br>> within the next few days.<br>><br>> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/Union" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/Union</a><br>><br>> Anyway, suggestions, comments, all is fair game. Please explain any
<br>> suggestions in detail so I know the logic behind it, and how to best<br>> implement ideas.<br>><br>> Heads-up that mid-January I'm going to be unavailable for about 3<br>> months, and afterwards I'll be spotty for another literal year. After
<br>> the 3-month mark I will be making updates, but they will be nowhere </div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>> near as frequent.<br>><br>> Cheers!<br>> -Ken Vermette<br><br><br></div></div><font color="#888888">--<br>ubuntu-art mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com">
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