The Deviant lines theme looked really good, a very original design that integrates well and has a nice clean appearance. It's also nice to see a theme that doesn't have very chunky borders which just waste space and make the interface feel a lot more chunky. I would in this theme prefer to see a larger title bar text (for accessibility) in exchange for less wasted space at the bottom - I think something could be done with this theme to make it work well for a possible alternate theme for Ubuntu to ship: something that is unusual and original but not sci-fi and old fashioned.
<br><br>Jonnathan<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 15/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steph</b> <<a href="mailto:orkerone@gmail.com">orkerone@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all, I just made my usual visit of Gnome-Look.org and I found some interesting ideas we could try to develop for an eventual Ubuntu GTK Theme.<br><br>First, a theme called <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Deviant+lines?content=73635" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Deviant lines</a> :<br>Here's a screenshot of my desktop : <a href="http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/4390/deviantlinesdo1.png" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/4390/deviantlinesdo1.png
</a><br><br>What I like most is the way
<span style="font-weight: bold;">top of windows are rectangular</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">bottom are rounded</span>. Can metacity do that ? Next, the buttons. I often see themes with rounded buttons, but I personnaly think it's over. A nice button, in my opinion, is
<span style="font-weight: bold;">rectangular with really small rounded corners</span> (<a href="http://Apple.fr" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Apple.fr</a> has some). In this theme, buttons are still too rectangular, but nice. And finally I like the way
<span style="font-weight: bold;">windows seems unified</span>. Well here, there are even too unified because sometimes you get a little confused, but we should work in that way (<a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Dark+Ice?content=69886" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
DarkIce theme</a> had a great success thanks to its union in the menubar and metacity border, I think). <br><br>Cheers, <br><span class="sg"><br>Steph.<br>
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