Re: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-16 Thread Seth Nickell
Both Novell (as Nat and Jimmac have stated before) and Red Hat (at this point, people weren't in the beginning, but its now Fedora, not RH) are happy with the use of Industrial or Bluecurve, respectively (though bluecurve *might* have to be called something different as bluecurve is TMed AFAIK).

Re: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-16 Thread Seth Nickell
I was working under the impression having less major colours is a good thing. From memory, the icons are done using the HIG palette with some intermediate colours for gradients and such. Designers I have met will tell you when doing a design, pick a small number of colours and stick with

Re: Gnome Panel improvements

2005-02-16 Thread Frederic Crozat
Le mercredi 16 fvrier 2005 10:43 +0800, Davyd Madeley a crit : On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 21:53 +0100, Przemysaw Sowa wrote: After playing with Gnome 2.9.91 I've found new panel transparency really exciting. But some things need a little bit love. For example icons in the notification area

Re: Gnome Panel improvements

2005-02-16 Thread Benoit Caccinolo
On mer, 2005-02-16 at 10:36 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote: Le mercredi 16 fvrier 2005 10:43 +0800, Davyd Madeley a crit : On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 21:53 +0100, Przemysaw Sowa wrote: After playing with Gnome 2.9.91 I've found new panel transparency really exciting. But some things need a little

Re: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-16 Thread Miroslav Silovic
The combination of the little-known themes I'm using currently: Gtk2 - Perseid, from http://jp.bizet.free.fr/themes/gtk2.html (for some reason, this theme isn't on gnome-look nor at art.gnome.org, as far as I could tell). Metacity: RMilk (available from gnome-look). My point: I think that some

Re: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-16 Thread Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
Nuvola is today in gnome-themes-extras. I am going to move it into gnome-themes if the maintainers of that package approve the move and make a new final release of g-t-e without Nuvola. This means that while it will not be the default theme for GNOME it will be part of a default installation.

Re: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-16 Thread Daniel Borgmann
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 11:48 -0400, Steven Garrity wrote: Site note: where's the best place to post feedback/suggestions for ClearLooks? I didn't want to start a theme-nitpick sub-thread here. Probably either here: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=19527 or by mailing the author

Re: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-16 Thread Mystilleef
Indeed, some of the better pixmap themes are designed by Jip. gonxical, for example, is a high quality professional theme. Arguably the best gnome theme I've come across. On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:54:51 +0100, Miroslav Silovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The combination of the little-known themes I'm

Re: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-16 Thread Samuel Abels
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 00:32 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Seth Nickell In the bluecurve department, ClearLook (http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=19527), which I just found through this thread, looks like a hands-down improvement. Then I guess I am pretty alone when I

Brainstorm for new default theme was: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-16 Thread Aidan Delaney
Hey all, What do you want in a new default theme? I'm looking for everything from big-picture to details. I don't want information like the $insert_widget should look like $insert_existing_theme I want information like the $insert_widget should look like $insert_description which can be

Re: Brainstorm for new default theme was: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Aidan Delaney What do you want in a new default theme? I'm looking for everything from big-picture to details. I don't want information like the $insert_widget should look like $insert_existing_theme I want information like the $insert_widget should look like

Re: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-16 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 19:52 +0100, Samuel Abels wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 12:32 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: I'm not fond of the colors in the screenshot you're referring to, but I do like the engine a lot. I'm currently using the ClearlooksBluey theme, which ships with Clearlooks. I have

Re: Brainstorm for new default theme was: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-16 Thread Gabriel Bauman
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 19:29 +, Aidan Delaney wrote: Hey all, What do you want in a new default theme? I'm looking for everything from big-picture to details. I don't want information like the $insert_widget should look like $insert_existing_theme I want information like the

Re: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-16 Thread Seth Nickell
Using my voice as gnome-themes maintainer, please hold off on this Christian. -Seth On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:21:09 +0100, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nuvola is today in gnome-themes-extras. I am going to move it into gnome-themes if the maintainers of that

Re: Brainstorm for new default theme was: Exciting GNOME?

2005-02-16 Thread Ryan McDougall
On Thu, 2005-17-02 at 06:36 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Aidan Delaney What do you want in a new default theme? I'm looking for everything from big-picture to details. I don't want information like the $insert_widget should look like $insert_existing_theme I want information

Re: I am Lord of the Theme (aka the buck stops here)

2005-02-16 Thread Ryan McDougall
On Wed, 2005-16-02 at 22:29 -0500, Seth Nickell wrote: I hereby dub myself (well, publicly reaffirm that I am) Seth Nickell, Lord High Maintainer of the Theme as per the dictates of god. [snip] Seth, awesome f0rking post. I totally agree so I snipped your post (go read the original!). I think

Re: I am Lord of the Theme (aka the buck stops here)

2005-02-16 Thread Seth Nickell
The Wiki page is now updated http://live.gnome.org/NewDefaultTheme . As much as possible please try to direct discussions on themes into the bins found there rather than feeding another mega-thread. Thanks, -Seth ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Revitalizing the Urban Center of GNOME

2005-02-16 Thread Seth Nickell
You have every right to ask for an off-topic discussion to go off list, but you have no right to recommend people not reply to him, and you have no right to say the way he wants to make a proposal is useless. Its his time to use as he pleases. If he puts forth something that looks like dogs

Re: Revitalizing the Urban Center of GNOME

2005-02-16 Thread Seth Nickell
To give a very graphic illustration of this based on a search of the archives, Havoc's last post to desktop-devel was over a year ago. Now it is true that he's been a bit snowed for time what with managing us punks, but Havoc has always been a mailing list warrior, posting fiercely posting

Re: Revitalizing the Urban Center of GNOME

2005-02-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Seth Nickell To give a very graphic illustration of this based on a search of the archives, Havoc's last post to desktop-devel was over a year ago. Two days ago. :-) - Jeff -- gnome.conf.au 2005: April 19th http://live.gnome.au/Canberra2005 It is said that