2006/1/10, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 00:13 +0100, Daniel Borgmann wrote: > > My personal view was (is) that we should strive for a more realistic > > look of interface elements. Since window controls don't resemble > > anything, all we can do is to make the surface look realistic. And > > since wood or grass is somewhat out of the question, metal is an > > obvious choice, especially since we can fake it by simulating a slight > > reflection (I understand that the fake doesn't work for everyone, but > > generally it seems to be well-received). From this point of view, I do > > not think that it is unreasonable to make just the titlebar look like > > it's made out of some kind of metal. > > So, I guess my response to that would be why do you feel the titlebar > and/or titlebar buttons need to look any more 'realistic' than any of > the other buttons on the desktop, which don't have a notably > metallic/glossy appearance?
It doesn't need to, I just think it looks great and works well. Besides, the titlebar is a grabbable area similar to a scrollbar handle, which has a similar look in clearlooks-cairo. In fact, my initial motivation for trying this new style was that some Ubuntu user complained about the metacity theme now looking old and dull compared to the Gtk theme (which I had to agree with). Daniel _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list
