Thnx to all for your comments on aDarwin V.4 and Unified I just want
to say some things about those:
1.- The blue thing between personal info and the list an illusion
and it is just like list headers in Mac OS X I wish I could make it
work for real that way I should be able to sort contacts just by
clicking it (alphabetically, reverse, online, offline, mixed).
2.- The name is "unified" to fit the unified look of Aqua windows in
Mac OS X (I hate brushed metal windows) just like the BG is blue to
fit the side bar of unified windows and the buttons are the same
style... I have months working on a Unified-GTK theme with the same
style I'm just going to change window borders for the metacity theme.
you can see how Mahjongg looks here -- http://www.secchio.com.mx/
daniel/unifiedamsn.jpg -- that will give you an idea of what I was
really trying with Unified skin for aMSN but I couldn't place an
image behind the personal info part of the CL and that's why it
doesn't blends that well with the window border... You can read the
whole story of that here: http://gnomesupport.org/forums/
viewtopic.php?t=10041
and here:
http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10041
BTW. I've fixed the button thing there.
Also I have made some changes to the Ubuntu GKT theme to make it look
the same in every application. One thing I hate about GTK is that
almost every icon theme is incomplete and doing toolbar buttons the
way I'm proposing will make the look more consistent since it wont
matter if the icon theme is complete or not... there should be a
"nicer" way to do that but that's the easiest ... but that's another
story... lets move on with aMSN.
3.- The blue bar at the top of the chatwindows is the same color as
"spotlight" bars in Mac... I had other Ideas but in the actual
skinning system I'm able only to overlay a pixmap over the BG color
of that bar... I think the overlay should be optional that way every
state cold have a pixmap of it's own or use it as it is now.
4.- the icons used for the unified list are alike the icons used in
every other messenger in Mac since iChat... I really don't like those
too much... As I've said before, that skin is an attempt to make it
look more like a "native" application...
Why aDarwin and Unified are made that way... well it is because I
hate to have different a look for every application I like my
applications looking the same (which is not related in any way with
icon themes) and I think both themes fits someway in the Mac way of
presenting applications just like Ubuntu(human) theme fits somehow
with Ubutu's GTK theme .. at the end it will be user choice to use
one or the other.
5.- I like the hover color or highlight idea for the contact list,
in fact that was the idea when I did aDarwin for the first time but
it seems to be impossible (at least for me as a no-code guy) with the
actual skinning system... I don't like "underlines" to highlight
things nor Bold/plain.
6.- I'm all for the modular skins system, that way you could use what
you like for the CL and mix it with what you like for chat windows
and smilies, text in CL and chatwindows can have a default color
depending on the skin but the user should be able to change that
color and the highlight color too.
Both skins –aDarwin specially, now is in V.4 after almost 3 years–
had gone through many changes since I first did them and I'm
regularly changing things to make them look better you can be sure
that those skins will change as we have more control on what can be
displayed through skins that's why I asked before to add skins to the
update system.
I'm also deeper on skinning linux and have some ideas for aMSN but
many of those can't be done ... yet... lets wait for the new GUI =)
BTW, you can see where the idea for the aDarwin name/icons/colors/why
came from: http://www.hexley.com/
Thnx for reading.
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