Michiel; Are you hacking now? the stuff you said about the desktop button suggested you may be playing with code...?
Looking at the latest samples I feel that it is heading in a 'bubbly' direction - I prefered it when it was flatter and slicker - for example, the scrollbars and handles on sliders now look very rounded and 'high' - in my ideal theme the gradients would be toned down a bit and the edges squared a little - I think this 'slickens' things somethat... When I get back to my PC I may get a mockup going - you said you are using photoshop - how are you doing it? is it easy? Could I use the gimp? - It seems to me to be a task more natrually done with vector graphics... Hope that helps, Who On 8/13/06, Michiel Sikma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 13, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Étienne Bersac wrote: > > > Hello, > > > >> I don't think I can use the same rounding for the progress bars. > > > > Ok, you're right. I distinct two kind of rounding : > > > > * One for scrollbars and sliders > > * One for buttons, combo and progressbar > > > > Obviously, progressbar has a very small radius. That would be nice to > > have a radius similar to buttons. That would distinct it from OS X. > > I personally distinct it differently; but now that I've done some > testing, it seems that I might need to remove some of the rounding > from the buttons anyway. Some small buttons don't really benefit from > such rounded buttons, as the theme system unfortunately doesn't > discern between big and small buttons, e.g. the small "desktop" > button to the bottom-left. > > Personally, I actually think that the rounding is okay on all the > other elements. I'll try to make the buttons' rounding radius one > pixel smaller. I want to try and keep everything as similar as > possible for consistency reasons. > > >> I wanted to keep the window frame a little brownish in order to have > >> more contrast for the title. Orange didn't have as good a contrast. > >> But yeah, I'll try this out more thoroughly. > > > > Did you test the contrast of progress bar ? Can use the same gradient > > for metacity title and progress bar ? Same gradient may give an > > overall > > consistency even with slightly different colours. > > Yeah, the progress bar is just too bright. I've done some testing, > though: > > http://www.gamingw.net/pubaccess/28695/metacitytest.png > > (Note: only a part of the top of the window frame is different, and > the rest is all unchanged.) > > What do you think about this? I kind of like it, but on the other > hand I disagree with making the whole design even _more_ saturated. > It just keeps getting more and more color-heavy. Might have to tone > that down later on in the process. > > > Also, have you tryed using only brown ? a brown like the current > > metacity title (caramel) or like the brown you use for your metacity > > title ? > > > > Thanks. > > I will try that as well. It might work out. Both brown and orange are > okay colors from my perspective, as they're very distinctive and nice > colors. > > Michiel Sikma > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
