<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">>On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Brian Fleeger <<a ymailto="mailto:brianfleeger@yahoo.com" href="mailto:brianfleeger@yahoo.com">brianfleeger@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I want to submit another, more plausible theme proposal to the Intrepid<br>> wiki, but I want to know if Murrine will allow for customizable<br>> backwards/forwards buttons in nautilus (as well as system-wide).  My idea is<br>> basically based on the current Human theme, but just tweeks some details to<br>> result in a whole new look.  Everything in this "look" is already available,<br>> except I want to include Alex Faaborg's Firefox3-style back/forward buttons<br>> as a nuance to enhance nautilus.<br><br>>>From: Salane Ashcraft <salane89@gmail.com><br>>>That does look neat - and i have seen themes with customized buttons.<br>>>Just ask around...<br><br>That's great!  I cannot do theme coding myself, but if it is possible then the Canonical people should be able to pull it off pretty easily.<br><br>>>What is the theme you created on the wiki?  I really need for people<br>>>to discuss guidelines and start working on a unified theme, instead of<br>>>their own themes.<br><br>I have submitted two themes so far: Gimmie Human, and Long Term Vision (LTV).  This will be my third.<br><br>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Gimmie-Human<br>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Long_Term_Vision<br><br>Both of the previous themes I submitted were VERY complex, and would be almost impossible to implement in any reasonable time-frame.  I even started a launchpad site for Long Term Vision, but so far have not been able to motivate any themers to help.<br><br>In any event, I am now inclined to think a radical/drastic visual overhaul is neither necessary nor desirable.  The Human theme (minus its window borders) has always been my favorite.  Even though I never cared for the window borders or max/min buttons, the mellowness of Human is just the least jarring out of anything I have ever seen on GNOME-Look (outside of the apple clones).  I think the new theme should strive to be as inoffensive as possible to the greatest number of people, while still introducing reasonable UI improvements and subtle beauty.<br><br>Regards,<br>Brian<br></div></div></div><br> </body></html>