On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:55:26 +0100, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I guess this is as good a time as any to introduce myself as well. Like
Joel, I work on Inkscape, have some C++ experience, have used Cinelerra
for
a handful of productions, and have a keen interest in getting Lumiera
(and
Cin-CV while we need it) working really well for my future productions.
To
get acclimated to the current codebase, I've been experimenting with
creating a new theme for Cinelerra based on the Tango desktop
specification, with the correct colors and appropriate icons, so that it
better integrates visually with a majority of the modern Linux graphic
design applications. So far, I've only gotten a handful of dialogs
converted over, but I hope to work on finishing the rest soon, if there's
interest in having that look with the current application.
Now is the time for a plea...
I notice that Tango has the light gray colour scheme that has been
customary in desktop GUIs since the early 1990s. This is fine and dandy
for applications which emulate "paperwork" like drawing, writing, photo
retouching and the like. In the 1990s, the most common apps were replacing
paper-based office or art work.
When the typical canvas is a WYSIWYG representation of an A4 or Letter
sheet of bleached paper, the canvas is of course 100% white. And the
surrounding widgets have to be in shades of light gray, or they would
be illegible to the users because of the big, blinding white square in
the middle.
Now consider the blank film or TV screen. Which shade is that?
It's black. An empty video canvas is black, and the overall image tone
is often quite dark. Can we work out a colour scheme that takes this
into account, yet is reasonably familiar and pleasant?
--
Herman Robak
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