This looks great!

Some of my suggestions:
 - Light sources - from a design perspective, what direction is the
light source?   The styling of most widgets (including textbox, menu
bar, stack panel, and buttons) implies that the light source is coming
from the top part of the screen.    However, the text-shadow in the
CellTable headers, and the shadow in the pop up DialogBox implies that
the light source is coming from the upper-left corner of the
screen.    It is a very subtle thing, but this should be made
consistent (I prefer top light sources myself).
 - I'm not a fan of the text-shadow in the header of CellTable.   With
such a small font size, I think the effect comes across more as
blurriness than a shadow.  I think it should just be removed
 - DatePicker - the day of week labels (S/M/T/W/T/F/S) should be a bit
stronger, and the days which are not part of the currently selected
month should have a stronger 'greyed out' look, e.g.: by using a
darker background.  Generally, i think YUI 2's date picker looks
really good - http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/calendar/quickstart.html
 - SuggestBox - can we use non-rounded corners in the suggest pop-
up?   Or, at the very least, changing it so that only the bottom two
corners are rounded.
 - SplitLayoutPanel - I think it would look better if the splitter has
a defined border.   I like the look of the splitter used in android's
documentation - e.g.: on http://developer.android.com/reference/packages.html
and I think copying that would be an improvement
 - TabLayoutPanel - the dark blue background for the tabs looks very
out of place, since it is so strong and isn't widely used in other
widgets.  Perhaps a simple grey would be better?

All that being said, we will be adopting the new theme regardless of
whether or not you accept these suggestions, it is already a huge
improvement.
We appreciate the GWT team's hard work and their willingness to hear
feedback!

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Chi Hoang



On Feb 16, 11:12 am, John LaBanca <[email protected]> wrote:
> The GWT team is happy to (pre)announce that we will introduce a new, more
> modern CSS style theme in GWT 2.3 called "Clean".  The new theme makes
> existing widgets look cleaner (more business-like) than the "standard"
> theme, and replaces the thick light blue borders with thin gray borders.  We
> worked under the constraint that we would not modify the DOM structure of
> the existing widgets because we didn't want to break existing apps, so this
> new theme is purely a CSS overhaul.
>
> You can preview the new Clean style theme at the link 
> below:http://gwt-showcase-clean.appspot.com/
>
> Please let us know what you like and dislike about the new theme, and if you
> are interested in switching your app to it.  Once we release the theme, it
> becomes very difficult to change it without affecting existing apps, so
> early feedback is helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> John LaBanca
> [email protected]

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