On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 18:45 -0800, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote: >>> Though Clearlooks is a very pleasant theme overall, I find that >>> _inset_ menu bar definitely weird, and contrasts with just about any >>> other theme out there. It gives me a strange and uncomfortable feeling >>> looking at that menu bar :| > >>it is a gtkrc option, so we could turn it off for the default theme. > >Honestly, that's one of the _best_ features of ClearLooks and it should >*not* be removed. If you remove this, you just end up with "yet another good >looking theme". It's little usability details like this that makes the >ClearLooks different and draw me into it in the first place. > >The inset menu bar, having a different color and border, makes it stand out >from the main body of a window or the toolbar. On BeOS DR series the menu >had bold fonts. Mac OS X has the menu on a different level than the rest of >the app too. The menu has to stand out because otherwise feels like a bunch >of characters in a row (like a status bar), rather than something clickable >and usable. The fact that no other used that in the Unix world so far >should not be a limiting factor. > >Removing the insetting makes the theme look so flat and old and boring that >it ain't even funny: >http://www.osnews.com/img/9810/cl.png >Please, don't remove the insettiness/color of the menu. Leave it as is.
I did not mean to take the inset, I meant to turn it into an outset. Inset is different and may look fun to you, but 85% of themes out there have an _outset_ menu bar, so that's what users are used to. How would you feel if all of the sudden gtk buttons became inset? Weird, right? I get the same feeling here... But I agree that probably making menu bar items bold would probably look good... colour is nice too.. Regards. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
