[ubuntu-studio-devel] Shimmer and Numix (was: unmet dependencies)

[Set Hallstrom]

Hi all,

Bellow i paste this email i sent Thu, 28 Jul 2016  to ask you for your
opinion. It got nested in another thread, so i break it lose to make
sure everyone sees it.

(
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-devel/2016-July/007973.html
)

Since feature freeze is around the corner, if no one objects before
Sunday 7th august, i will proceed and do the changes from greybird to
numix as default theme with ubuntu studio blue as highligt color, and
switch from murrine to shimmer as xubuntu have done.

Yours,
Set


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Subject: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Shimmer and numix (was: unmet dependencies)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 13:48:33 +0200
From: Set Hallstrom <set at ubuntustudio.org>
Reply-To: Ubuntu Studio Development <ubuntu-studio-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
Organization: Ubuntu Studio
To: ubuntu-studio-devel at lists.ubuntu.com

[snip]

I've been looking into the theme thing with krytarik. As is now, we ship
ubuntu studio with greybird as default theme. Last time we discussed the
theme/look of the desktop, i want to remember many of us agreed on
finding a darker theme.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/murrine-themes
http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/shimmer-themes

Both Murrine and Shimmer have greybird (our default theme atm). But
shimmer is shipped with Numix. And Numix is a pretty excellent theme.

The cons as i see them for Numix are these:

- The way focused windows differentiate themselves from other (same as
greybird)
- The very thin window border makes it hard to catch the corners to
resize (same as gryebird)

The pros:

- It hear it is well maintained, like gerybird.
- While it is dark, unlike most dark-themes you never get problems with
webpage searchboxes displaying white text on white background.

The default highlight color of numix is red, but krytarik found a fix
from xubuntu unicorn to address this and let us have ubuntustudio blue
instead.

So, if i sound like i am pushing for a shift from murrine to shimmer and
for shipping 16.10 with numix as default theme and window header, you
got me alright. :D But of course, we need to agree on it first.

What are your thoughts, team?

Yours,

-- 
Set Hallstrom aka sakrecoer




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