aesthetics

[jmak]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Vincent <mailinglists at vinnl.nl> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 2:57 AM, jmak <jozmak at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Vincent <mailinglists at vinnl.nl> wrote:
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>> > On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 6:52 PM, jmak <jozmak at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> But we still haven't decided on the new icon theme.
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>> > Pick one that fits the rest and is complete, then report it, I'd say :)
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>> Icon theme: xubuntu studio
>> Window decorator: Tyrex --a flat decorator
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> I don't know what Tyrex looks like, but I trust your judgement :). Have you
> filed it at Launchpad?

Vincent,

Tyrex is just a flat window theme. Unity originaly comes with a
matching metacity theme for gnome, which is of course not available in
xfce. I just picked this window decorator because unity meant to be
flat. If you know other one that fits better let me know. I haven't
added anything to Launchpad before so I have to investigate how to do
it. Do you know any tutorial on this?

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>> I am thinking about increasing the default icon size from 32 to 48
>> pixels. Looks good on larger monitors. 20 inches. I wonder how this
>> size would look on smaller screens.
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> How can I set that for my panel?

Regarding the icon: I meant increasing the size on the desktop not on
the panel. Because, I have a 22 inches monitor and the 32 pixels size
look so tiny that hardly visible. And thinking that those who are
using larger monitors are the majority already (17 inches and up).
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>> If we pick Unity as our default theme the panel color should be:
>> bg[NORMAL] = "#d6d6d6"
>> -Add this line to the panel code just above the 'xthickness = 0' line.
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> As Jari said, that should be a modification of Unity of course :) (Wasn't it
> possible to specify application-specific background colours? I believe there
> even was an option to theme panels. If so, this might even be an idea to
> suggest upstream :)

Yes, that would be the ideal. But unity already packgaged and in the
repository. I personally don't know how to modify the theme to include
the panel color. I might ask the author, maybe he can give some clues.
But if from whatever reason, the modification wouldn't be possible;
would it be acceptable adding a workaround suggestion to the
documentation that explain how to comment out the line from the
gtkrc-2.0 if need be, or changing the color to something else. I can
write this part of it if necessary.

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> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Jesus Meneses <jesusm0812 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm sorry for interrupt this discussion, but if we meant to mae xubuntu
>> more appealing to the view we should take this theme as an example of good
>> taste, functionality and damn straight HOT!
>> http://www.xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Elegant+Brit?content=74553
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>> This theme has been evolving from a simple GTK theme and already has GDM,
>> Splash screen, guifications, and some icons on the way.
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> Nice, though as Jari said, it's probably not very well suited to be default.
> I'm going to try it though :)
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>> Once again, sorry for interrupt
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> I for one appreciate all input :)
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