How about making the window close minimise ect. icons rounded off at the
top rather like the main menu.
solar.george
Ken Vermette wrote:
It's kind of like a mold... Like it or not, it kind grows on you. I
hated my windows when I made them, and I have a gallery of hideous
window ideas that I hope will never see the light of day.
Orange is really just a highlight colour in this theme, so it'll
proballbly look odd on the theme until some widgets are added. When
they get added though, hopefully the additional orange in the theme
will make it feel more balanced. I lightened up the brown and slightly
altered the orange - so it should hopefully be a bit better. I can't
really use any other colours (even if I think they'll look better)
because I want to stick to the official Ubuntu colour pallet.
I'm actively planning a small set of variations in popular colours; I
don't think there will be a way to change the colours via the colour
menu - unless there's a hue-shifting algorithm involved (similar to
the one implemented in Vista or Windowblinds).
Anyway, there's another update up on the wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/BasicIdeals?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=fulldesk%28svg%29_v3_2.jpg
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/BasicIdeals?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=fulldesk%28svg%29_v3_2.jpg>
the XCF and SVG sources have been updated aswell; the XCF actually has
everything in it now, I uploaded a half-finished XCF file on the first
version, but the new one will be much better for people who want to
use or edit content because it's complete. For anyone wanting to make
a mockup using the files, the Mock-ups are first edited/rendered in
InkScape, then are imported into the bottom layer of the XCF. You
could delete the BG in inkscape and export a transparent PNG to create
a render suitable for porting into other themes.
Thanks as always,
--Ken V
On Dec 18, 2007 12:42 PM, Corey Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
At first I didn't like this theme, but it is really growing on me.
Of coarse there are things that still need work. The orange in the
theme feels out of place. It just doesn't fit it because of how
heavy the browns are. I think using white as the selected item
color in the menus would look a lot better. I also think that the
notification area needs to use different colors. It needs to stand
out more. Now it hardly stands out at all since it is the same
color as the background behind it, and of most windows. Speaking
of the windows, I really like the way the titlebar and menu bar
are visuially connected int the active window. In the unactive
window where it looks like just a gradient from brown to tan looks
very ugly to me.
I think this theme is about the prettiest a brown theme could be,
but we would still get a lot of flac from the brown haters if this
were default. I hope that it works well with the color options in
the appearence settings so that keeping the theme but using a
different color is just a couple of clicks worth of work.
Corey
On Dec 17, 2007 9:30 PM, Ken Vermette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Got the link, and thanks to Racoqster for the quick post on
the blog. I know about every language BUT python, so I can try
to learn python this weekend and assist in coding later if
absolutely necessary; Would it be possible to work without the
configurator?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/BasicIdeals
The Wiki has been updated to include a mockup with all current
elements - and links to the SVG source and XCF source are
directly below the image. I'll be downloading some themes that
resemble mine (in their technical composition) and start to
figure out how we could get this beast into a live
environment! The XCF source is almost useless, but it can make
life easy if anyone wants to make a mockup with icons & text.
The large mockup doesn't include the most recent requests
(several of which will be integrated), but it gives the
closest impression to what a full desktop would look like
right now - barring the lack of widgets.
Thanks all;
-- Ken V
On Dec 17, 2007 7:51 PM, Iacopo Masi
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
On 12/17/07, Ken Vermette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> There's go GTK yet, currently most of the work is going
into mockups. I need
> to get ahold of the Murrine Developer Andrea Cimitan,
and see about getting
> information on the Transparent GTK tweaks before I start
making the mockups
> live graphics.
Cimi will release the code when a Murrine Configurator
should be
available so we must work towards the murrine configurator
in pygtk.
take a look at
http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2007/12/16/searching-coders-for-the-murrine-configurator/
<http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2007/12/16/searching-coders-for-the-murrine-configurator/>
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