On Thursday 04 October 2007 15:06:37 Kenneth Wimer wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2007 01:13:42 Spencer, Bob wrote: > > Ken, > > I've got a working start for your UI. It comes up as the home screen > > and I can launch apps. Attached is your drawing > > (KenWimer_HomeScreen3.jpg) and some screenshots from the working one > > (kwwii_*png). (Ignore my marquee for now) I just snagged your button > > background from the picture. My background normal, hover, and selected > > also attached. > > > > A few comments/questions. The UI is currently written in HTML, but for > > the homescreen it actually works OK and doesn't seem too web-ish. Since > > "hover" isn't something that is common I made your highlighted image the > > one when the user touched the icon and I added a hover icon for mouse > > people. My button sizes are 134x134 and I'm using 48x48 icons. Your > > picture showed a variety of icon sizes depending on whether there was 1 > > line of text or 2 lines. Some Q's: > > - How flexible do you think I need to make the icon and button > > sizes? Currently they are configurable, but getting the icon and text > > aligned for any random icon or button size is tricky. > > - Do we need icon-only mode? > > - Do we need scrollbars? :) > > - Spacing is easily configurable and will layout correctly centered > > - Doesn't have anything across the bottom like "favorites" > > - Doesn't support categories of any sort. > > - I made the 3 button images configurable so they should be > > themable. These would have to be added to the theme I guess > > - The button images I made with my super gimp skills are not > > transparent or clever so they look stinky when not on a black > > background. One thing I like is the WimerGrass.png (attached) button > > backgrounds which might work on any screen background. Can you send me > > 3 background images to use? > > After looking into it, the latest stuff that we have is 100% based on using > a black background. Even if I remove the black background the other parts > are still bright orange which would not work on almost any other color. I > can easily export those but we will simply need to switch to using a black > background and the new template stuff which is black and orange.
Actually the bg is not black but #191919 -- Ken -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
