On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:56:23 +0100 Shane Fagan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Personally another earthy colour scheme isn't what im looking for. I > like notify-osd I think its slick but at the moment its a little out > of place with the desktop look. So in that way maybe making a darker > theme to match might work well but not brown please not brown. Like a > light grey might be nice IMO. > The gnome-colors thing sounds very interesting I think it should be > looked into. It would solve the issues of themes and colour. It seems > a little limited though it only has 6 different colours but it is a > step in the right direction. The one thing we have to keep in mind > that space on the cd is limited so anything we add will have to be > fairly small. > > Regards > Shane_Fagan > > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21:24 +0800, Allan Caeg wrote: > > I forgot to mention. I am also suggesting adjusting the current > > Human theme to something more "chocolate-ey" if including the > > themes under discussion would not be possible. > > > > I failed to add the links to the project I was referring to. Sorry. > > > > Here it is http://code.google.com/p/gnome-colors/ > > > > Shiki-Colors gtk > > http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Shiki-Colors?content=86717 > > > > GNOME-Colors icon theme > > http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GNOME-colors?content=82562 > > > > > > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21:17 +0800, Allan Caeg wrote: > > > Ubuntu always had an earthy color scheme, one with brown and > > > orange. There have been a lot of discussions about this because > > > many users have violent reactions. However, it is difficult to > > > veer away from the color scheme because it defines Ubuntu very > > > much and the rationale behind it is reasonable. > > > > > > Perfectska04 has a famous GNOME theme suite. Probably, a lot of > > > you are familiar to it and are using it. He has a set of icon > > > themes, GDM themes, and gtk themes that have different color > > > schemes. His latest color scheme is the "Dust" variant. This > > > scheme's look and feel is based on the color of chocolate. Prior > > > to that, he always had a "Human" variant, which is orange. The > > > Dust variant feels more earthy and looks much more elegant. For > > > some reason, I am much more comfortable with the chocolate feel. > > > Maybe because orange really feels cheaper. It has always been > > > associated with low end products and services while a dark shade > > > of brown, in my opinion, reminds the user of chocolate and > > > leather. > > > > > > Shiki-Dust and GNOME-Dust fit the Ubuntu desktop very well > > > because of the look and feel that they create. It is earthy like > > > the Human theme, just more elegant, in my opinion. There may be > > > some usability issues because of the dark elements of the theme > > > but the only known bug due to its dark nature is a small color > > > issue in Firefox which is fixed by adding a user style mentioned > > > in > > > http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Shiki-Colors?content=86717 . > > > > > > Jaunty included Dust and New Wave as alternative themes. I > > > believe that Shiki is much more bug-free and elegant than most > > > themes and it is in very active development. In fact, OpenSuSE > > > 11.2's default theme (Sonar) is based on the green variant, > > > GNOME-Wise, of the theme suite. I suggest at least including the > > > Dust variant of GNOME-Colors to the future versions of Ubuntu as > > > an alternative theme to Human, if not as a default. I understand > > > that it has a little different set of principles from the Human > > > icon theme as it includes application icons. This can easily be > > > fixed by not including those icons, though. > > > > > > I am sending this to the Ubuntu Artwork Theme and Ayatana > > > discussion because its an artwork issue that can be included in > > > the 100 papercuts. > > > > > > Here is a link to the screenshot of my desktop with the GNOME-Dust > > > theme. http://g.imagehost.org/view/0082/Screenshot > > > > > > Best Regards While we are discussing these darker themes, could we *please* keep accessibility in mind. Having visual impairments does not always mean blind. Some of us can not read certain combinations. For example, with my eyes and impairments, I can not read white text on black background without a lot of work. It just blurs, and takes several minutes to distinguish the letters. Others can read white on black. There are other colors just as bad. I can log in on the new GDM screen, because I am very familiar with it and know that is what the big white box wants. I type my name, hit enter, type my password, hit enter, and wait. If it doesn't log in, I must have made a mistake. It would be nice to know that because it said so, but I can not read white on black. I can not read a blog or website that uses black background most of the time. This is very much an accessibility item, I think. If not, it most definitely is a usability, since I can not use that color combination. This may be why I dislike the OSD notifications, also. I really can not read them. -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
