2007/11/23, Günther Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm going with James. The use of brown colours hat always been a little > shy in Ubuntu, but you can do so much more. Think about the combination > of brown nuances and white - very smooth and eyepleasing. Brown and > black - very strong. Brown with green and blue - fresh, modern. Brown > with red and orange - eyeblasting.
Agree. Just look any of lyrae's themes. http://www.gnome-look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=lyrae&action=contents He/she uses browns and makes the greatests themes I've ever seen in Linux. Some thoughts on icons. Most people are bored by the glossy look of the > Human Theme. But like someone pointed out, it would be a problem, if a > new icontheme would not work with Tango anymore - Suse, Fedora, ... > > Maybe it would be way better, to rework a huge part of the actual > icontheme, making them a little more realistic, making them somehow > cleaner than they actually are. Hylkes Discovery icons are a good start > or maybe could fuse with the new ones. What about this one: > > http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Simple+Human > +folders?content=41750 What do you think about starting at this point? http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Dropline+NOU%21?content=53292 I think that combines Ubuntu look with more realistic & less glossy icons. I've got the feeling, that souch a small change is exactly the right > thing for a new Ubuntu Desktop. A simple gradient instead of the glossy > feel. > > > > > Am Donnerstag, den 22.11.2007, 16:59 -0800 schrieb Troy James Sobotka: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Jan Niklas Hasse wrote: > > > IMHO brown is one of the ugliest colours. I'm sorry but it reminds me > of > > > several bad things. Please don't decide to make a brown theme, orange > is > > > ways better. > > > > > > I'm sorry to bother the list responding to this, but I feel > > that I must. > > > > This is the absolute most rubbish opinion ever offered up. > > > > It is a poorly researched, poorly understood, and knee jerk > > reaction. Your understanding is not only misguided, it is > > riddled with flaws that anyone with any ounce of design sense > > would understand. > > > > > > Ubuntu's brown is pitiful _only_ because of poor execution. Arguably, > > brown is having a bit of a second life in many other areas of design. > > > > Notably, as has been said a 100000 times before: > > > > 1) Ubuntu's use of brown is monochromatic and extremely underwhelming. > > A compliment or split compliment would fix this along with the > > permission to use contrast from lights to darks. Brown could easily > > remain the base if fleshed out with some supporting cast members. > > > > 2) Brown has been used many times by many different designers > > extremely effectively. Of notable worth you may wish to research > > some contemporary designs utilizing crests, grunge, etc. Common > > pairings are brown with the compliment blue. Starbucks recently > > launched a new campaign using brown as a base with white and a > > petal blue. And yes, many design awards have been won with brown > > as a base. > > > > 3) "Orange is always better". Superlatives are an immediate sign > > that the statement is probably riddled with flaws. Make no mistake, > > monochromatic orange is no better than monochromatic brown. For further > > reflection on this, compare the weak Fedora 8 work to the extremely > > strong Fedora 7 work. The horribly monotonous work in SUSE is also > > a byproduct of monotony. > > > > There is a line between consistency and monotony, and no matter what > > colour or psycho-semantic-tripey rubbish that someone is trying to > > peddle about color psychology, in the end, it is the monochromatic > > lack of contrast that is killing Ubuntu's use of brown. > > > > Sincerely, > > TJS > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iD8DBQFHRiX9ar0EasPEHjQRArGaAKDGxK1DOvkM9QkcrM04gKe+13bOhACgmu0Z > > WYgOUoU2ikHTX3ot6Ledc/0= > > =Rebz > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > -- Álvaro.
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