Hi, > This looks like a mix of Windows 8 and 8.1: > > * the color theme is like the default in 8 > * the background image is the default from 8 > * the start button is only present in 8.1 > Some screencasts of 8.0 seemd to have it. Perhaps is it an option? > IMHO this mixing is ok. > Agreed.
> I've attached a screenshot of a Windows 8.1 desktop I managed to get > my hand on to #6342. I changed the pinned applications to > Thanks! > Some comments and suggestions about the panel: > > * The current icon for Iceweasel is the IE6/7 icon from XP, but it > looks different in Windows 8. See my screenshot. > OK. > * The icons for pidgin and claws should be changed to those of the > People (or Skype) and Mail apps, respectively, like in my > screenshot. Or they should be removed, which perhaps is the simplest. > I think we better keep them. > * The icons for KeyPassX and GNOME terminal should be removed. There > are no immediate *common* applications corresponding to these. > Too bad. I find them useful. Other opinions? > * Possibly we can add a launcher for the home directory, as the > left-most one, which seems to be the default in Windows 8/8.1. > Why not. Other opinions? > * Can we remove the "separators" (or whatever those lightblue, "dotty" > things are calleD) on the left and right of the tasks? > Not as far as I know (of we should strongly tweak the GTK theme, which I don't volunteer to do). > * The shutdown applet is actually quite stealthy as it is (size and > color), but it'd be better if it could be moved to between the > system tray and the clock applet. On windows the clock seems to > always be touching the right edge of the screen. > That's easy. I can do it but I'm afaraid it would be less accessible to quickly click on it. Other opinions? > * The clock applet's text should be white. > I don't know an easy way to do that. Do you think it is a blocker? > * The Vidalia icon in the system tray has a weird grey rectangle > beneath it. Can we remove it? > I don't know. Do you think it is a blocker? > * Can we make the icons in the system tray smaller? The size of > Vidalia's and the shutdown applet icon are pretty good. > I don't know but can have a quick look. > Also, about the desktop: it seems the only thing there by default is > the Recycle Bin, so we should remove everything else, IMHO. > Hopefully that's not very difficult. > > Details > > ======= > > > > Ticket with remaining tasks: > > https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6342 Tails branch: > > feature/6342-update-camouflage-for-gnome3 Theme repository: > > http://git.tails.boum.org/gnome-theme-windows8/ > > > > Questions and comments > > ====================== > > > > - The taskbar doesn't really look like windows 8's. Do we want to > > include (and package) > > https://github.com/lanoxx/window-picker-applet/ > > I definitely think we want this (and migrate the launchers to it as > "pinned" applications, or whatever it's called). The way running > applications are shown in the task bar currently is an obvious > give-away and wouldn't pass the "quick look over the shoulder" test. > Would someone more knowledgeable than me about packaging C give a try please? > > - I implemented add the theme in gnome-theme-windows8, which > > includes several upstream tarballs and modifications. This looks > > quite messy. Do you think I should split this in specific packages > > with debian patches for our modifications before 1.1? Later? Or is > > this good enough for you? > > Personally I don't really care. > Other thoughts? > > - I didn't port torbrowser camouflage. It looks like we have no > > chance to actually look like IE10 and its metro interface, > > Windows 8 has a desktop mode which is separate from the crazy metro > stuff, and in it everything (applications included) looks much like > Windows 7 (i.e. traditional windows desktops). This desktop mode is > what you currently are trying to emulate, AFAICT, so it should be > possible to make Iceweasel look like an approximation of IE10. This > is how IE10 looks in desktop mode: > http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Internet-Explorer-10-Is-the-Best-Browser-for-Windows-8-Microsoft-2.png > Gook news! > The Firefox theme FoxE9 almost gets it right (it just has a more > Windows 7-ish look) but it's not available for Linux for some reason. > > With some DIY we may get a long way by: > > * Disabling the menu-bar. Then we get the Iceweasel menu button to the > left of the address bar, which isn't good, but I see no immediate > way to improve this. > > * Moving the tabs to right of the address bar and removing most other > controls, including the search bar. > > * Using a Light Weight Theme similar to the one we use for the Unsafe > Web Browser but that instead of setting everything to red sets > everything to the same blue as in the title bar. > > > so just looking like firefox doesn't seem me that bad. > > If so, we should stop pretending it is IE completely. After all, > Firefox is pretty common in Windows too. But Iceweasel isn't. So this > would introduce of to the legal dilemmas of Firefox' non-free art > work; we cannot legally distribute e.g. the Firefox icon and use it > for our patched browser. > > Another issue with this is that many public computers probably seem to > use IE, so Firefox would be a strange sight if running Tails in such a > setting => a bad thing for the "quick look over the shoulder" test. > I don't get if you have a proposal. Cheers _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
