Hi Phil
> I'm not really happy with the colors at the point. Someone had > mentioned > he wanted something he could look at all day and after looking at this > for a few hours a few days in a row I agree :) I'd probably keep the > subtle gradients and the curvy lines personally, but I'd make the > colors > way less saturated and more monochromatic. maybe we should compare different screens, but i like the curvy lines so far. > Anyway, twiddling with the colors is a pain now since it involves > poking > the source and restarting, so I want to work on some preferences stuff > now. for testing i could setup a screen in inkscape so you could easily change and try different colors there. therefore i'd need the actual color and opacity values you use bang, object, cables, background, xlets, font also the different state they can have normal, active, rollover, error, highlight maybe once it's set we could note all that in a "nova"-styleguide. what do you think? > Again the branch is at > http://unununium.org/~indigo/nova/pretty-gui-connections/ the link points to an empty directory. some input... bang: http://klingt.org/~tim/snapping2.png when looking at this screen it bothers me a bit that the bang has a different background-color than the object's bg-color. comment and background-color: http://klingt.org/~tim/xlets.png http://klingt.org/~tim/connection_drawing_problem.png i like the box around the comment. on the 2 screens there are different colors used. not sure which is the actual version. but i would prefer a lighter border-color on a darker background. in pd we used the cnv object a lot for layout of the GUI's see also http://www.netpd.org/Screenshots (they are not very up to date) it would be nice to have either a customizable comment or cnv object in nova. transparency: http://klingt.org/~tim/connection_drawing_problem.png the object transparency is a very sexy and improves the readability a lot. btw: do you always reply to all or only to [email protected] ? _______________________________________________ nova-dev mailing list [email protected] http://klingt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nova-dev http://tim.klingt.org/nova
