Hi,
a bug with the aDarwin skin.. and I guess many others :
open the CL, drag/drop your mouse in order to select text, like if it was
a chatwindow... and yes, it does select... I think the default skin has
the same problem, only the background and the select color is too close to
be noticed normally...
we might need to add somehting like -highlitecolor $contactlistbg
can someone check this ?
KaKaRoTo
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:52:03 -0500, Daniel Buenfil
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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