On Dec 30, 2007 11:37 PM, Matthew McGowan
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> I find the
> current set in the designs (the plus and minus) a little confusing as to
> what their function exactly is.
+1
>
> Regards
> matt
>
>
> Dylan McCall wrote:
> > I wasn't 100% with this mockup originally, but now I love it! Those
> > colour changes are well chosen. Those fancy panel icons would be quite
> > a pile of work, however. With an effect like that, it's can be either
> > all of them or none of them, and there are /a lot/ of programs that
> > put themselves in the notification area. Having said that, it would be
> > very cool if unimportant (and inactive) notifications faded into the
> > background, while they used the colourful images we see today when
> > active. However, that sounds more like a code matter...
> > Perhaps that effect would be happier being implemented in code, since
> > on that end it can be implemented for everything, including unofficial
> > applications.
> >
> > One thing important to look at is menu bars that are not directly
> > within windows. GTK decided that menu bars should be independent
> > widgets, (which is good thinking in some ways, but definitely limits
> > some of the cool possibilities of menus that know what window they
> > belong to) so those menus could theoretically be anywhere. Granted,
> > they are usually on the top, but extra use cases would be safe.
> >
> > Nick Telford makes a good point about text areas. Have you put much
> > pondering into those?
> >
> > What are those three buttons you have on the bottom of your windows?
> > Looks like an interesting window management feature that could be
> > implemented by an Ubuntu-side GTK hack...
> >
> > Speaking of effects, I think you could do with a tad less alpha on
> > unfocussed windows. People often look at two or three windows at once
> > for some tasks, and them being so transparent could well make that
> > undoable. Perhaps if that Pin button (which I believe you have on the
> > status bars there) was implemented somewhere, we could better expect
> > people to use the feature. Then, if a window was pinned and
> > unfocussed, it would not have the same transparent effect. (Again, I
> > am not up on how themes work, so please forgive my ignorance!).
> >
> > Keep up the amazing work, Ken! Everyone likes SVGs, so I see a very
> > good chance of this mockup making it as a mainified ("mainly"?
> > mained?) theme.
> >
> > Bye,
> > -Dylan McCall
>
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