> I haven't really done that; but > instead, I've been translating my 'few > optimisations' into a 'few mockups' and added > them here > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Paroli-themes
Thanks for thinking and investigating time about paroli look! I have read your proposal, however I dont really get the "sizzle" part (maybe because of my weak english skills). If this sizzle thing would mean, that the actual selected element should be highlighted (green). That I think it is not really doable because of the hardware. This touchscreen is "point and click". So there is nothing like "hovering an element" what is common on a desktop with a mouse. If the proposal is the selected (clicked) item should be green instead of white? That is a fair point. And I think it should be a good first step to a more eyecandy paroli theme. (we could create some themes, where we only changes some basic colors, like: greenish, bluish, pinkish themes). And it is really easy to do this, as there is only some color value editing is needed. Mostly like this: color: 0 0 0 255 // red green blue alpha to: color: 100 123 0 200 //red green blue alpha So creating some basic different color styles is really easy, and the programming skills required is nearly nonexistent. > > .. but it was a bit confusing to do that. I assume > someone (Mirko?) is still leading on development > of paroli. That is true, Mirko is still around, and leading paroli development. > And I assume something like this - simply > optimizing the default ui - has been in someones > agenda already. Im messing with the gui here and there. > Ofcourse, I could just start making my own edje > files. But if another, also improved, paroli > is coming along, why would I. And I don't like > edje very much from the looks of it. Yeah, Im almost done, with the most basic and urgent improvements (back button everywhere). Install the newest om2009 unstable, or see the "introduction video to Paroli" what I posted in an other thread for the current status. > > Unless, ofcourse, someone finds this very > interesting. In which case I might have a > few spare evenings to do some more. Every contribution is interesting. Even if I see your them not pleasent, its worth the effort to create it anyway. Because somebody likes it more then me. I see it this way: Im improving the default theme here and there, I fix mostly usability adjust some font size and placing. But nothing really radical. Mirko does the same. If somebody creates an alternate theme (and even he only changes some of the colors), we will it incorporate into paroli and make it selectable (through settings for example). Whether the new theme should be default or not, can be a good candidate of community voting. This is only my view of things. But I have seen Mirko is very open in every UI ideas. He already implemented slidings on the gui, easy scrolling, so pretty much everything is possible. > Otherwise, I might still make a text > version of the 'few optimisations' I > could think of, anyway. I would really like to see you creating a theme where you only change some colors, and such. It is relatively easy and its only one file/application needs to be overwritten. If the theme is done, Im sure we can incorporate as a selectable theme into paroli. (no more overwrite required). When the basic infrastructure is figured out, you can continue of the theme development. Placing images here and there, make some item transparent, animations, etc. There is already a guy (Victor) who created some alternate icons. There is you who have some improvements idea and made some mockups. Keep you guys coming these nice things! Laszlo _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
