Yeah, that's a good one. Notification area should be monochrome (or no more than 3 colours). When you have more than 4 icons, the notification area becomes too similar to the icons just at the right of "System" menu. I think that just the apps icons and maybe the gtk app buttons (save, open, etc..) should be colored.
Cheers. Álvaro. 2007/11/7, Andreas Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > > On 07/11/2007, *Andreas Nilsson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > > > On 07/11/2007, *Troy James Sobotka* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > I somewhat agree with you. I think Tango is great, but I don't think > > > that it is "Ubuntuish" in any way. > > Hi Mikkel! > > > > > > Hi Andreas! :-) > > > > I guess the elegance I am looking for is something like (this goes for > > both icons+gtk+metacity): > > > > * Touch of realism (not naturalism) > > * Simplicity > > * Minimal number of distinct features, both on a per-icon level and > > the desktop as a whole > > * Something that you will instantly recognize as Ubuntu > > > > Where I feel Tango takes another direction is specifically in points 1 > > and 4. > Give me some time and I'll do some experiments and see what I can come > up with. > Ideally it would be great to have something that looked very > distinctive, but didn't stick out like a sore thumb from the rest of the > desktop. > > I just want to throw in a frequently found thing in mockups around the > > web. Monochrome notification icons. Like the ones I attached. I think > > it is a great way to reduce the visual clutter. Perhaps we could use > > it even more extensively than that - maybe replace a some of the "less > > important icons" throughout the desktop with monochrome versions. That > > could be alternative solution instead to disabling all icons in menus. > I think this is a cool idea and it was something that Lasse, Kenneth and > myself discussed last week as well. > We need a good solution on how to handle Pidgin status in monochrome > though. mpt was going to show me how Adium solved it, but we ran out of > time. :/ > We also need a good technical solution on how to solve this. Should the > notification area pick up it's own set of icons? Or if we just replace > them in our theme, how do we solve it for banshee/rhythmbox that tends > to just stick their app icon in the notification area (and yes, that is > kind of a ugly behavior)? > > - Andreas > > > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
