Hi Susan, this might not be related to your work but a modern / fresh looking set of icons for the workbench would also be nice.
Best regards, Lars 2009/12/3 Susan Franklin McCourt <[email protected]>: > Hi, everyone. > We had a brief discussion on the e4 call about this topic and thought it > would be good to make sure everyone is aware of it. > > We are currently working with a graphic designer to modernize the style of > the Eclipse 4.0 workbench. That is, what is the default stylesheet for the > Eclipse SDK running on e4? > > One of the more interesting constraints, which we've always had in Eclipse, > is balancing the desire for a custom/modern UI with respect for platform > look and feel, and the user's platform theme. In Eclipse 3.x, we've done > this by using native widgets in most places, and looking up system colors as > a reference point when choosing colors. > > For e4, we still walk this line. Sure, we will have the technology to > completely reskin the workbench, and folks are free to do so. But for the > default look, I believe we will still be balancing these concerns. We may > take more leeway in applying gradients, changing tab shapes, using > background images or shading, but all of this should be done while still > blending with the platform theme choices. > > CSS support presents a new wrinkle. It's not good enough to simply make the > right color choices for the workbench. Sure, we can do the math internally > and pick the right colors. But it would be ideal if we could provide > developers with the ability to style their own applications in this platform > respecting way, and include web components that could blend nicely. Since > CSS is RGB-based for color attributes, we're looking at ways to specify a > more HSV-style color for elements, where the hue could optionally be ignored > and instead be derived from platform theme colors. Note we aren't just > talking about background colors for images and gradients. We'd like to be > able to specify widget colors in this way. How should this be specified in a > stylesheet? > > Surely someone has already given some thought to this problem. If you have > ideas, please comment in this bug! [1] > A more general discussion of the visual design work can be found here. [2] > And watching this bug [3] will ensure you see mockups when there is > something to show. > > thanks, > susan > > [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=296175 > [2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/CSS/Visual_Design > [3] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=293481 > > _______________________________________________ > e4-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev > > -- Lars http://www.vogella.de - Tutorials about Java, Eclipse and Web programming http://www.twitter.com/vogella - Lars on Twitter _______________________________________________ e4-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev
