I don't wanna Aurora ...because of myself. It's OK, is slow maybe, on my machine run just fine, I have to reaffirm cos WE CAN USE Visual Proposals and Visual Enhancements from Aurora as good ideas for the new Ubuntu theme.
btw Aurora is not highest rated in gnome-look (at GTK2) because of engine(90% of users don't know about the difference between engine and theme) but because the look. They like what they see. For most users Aurora is a step forward in the right direction (as Apple do for long time -> an intuitive, semantical UI (icons and icon groups) - more than a logical(orthodox) one (with lots of text menus and vertical / horizontal separators)). Aurora is simple, round, clean, arrows on widgets are tringles not "V"'s gradients are unobtrusive - scrollbars finally look good and personal (not like old gtk scrollbars). Maybe a fine tune of Murrina engine (I already have a Murrina configurator ) can solve a lot of problems regarding -> bad contrast / pale difference between UI parts with different functions. So why we should "stamp" a foot in the back to something instead to taken good things from inside. I am always concerned about "positivist logic" on communities [...]. My proposal was to look at it's best parts not to ...adopt Aurora. Also taking count on his popularity - that means they succeed in some aspects and we can benefit from this. Just think about. That's my lobby. Point. On the other side "clearlooks hack" is a pretty nice proposal - no horizontal separators - an other step in the good direction. SorinN Sebastian Billaudelle wrote: > I don't like Aurora, because ist's a very slow engine. At my machine > (Pentium M, 1500 MHz; 768 MB RAM; ...) you can watch the widgets loading;-) > Gtkperf doesn't like Aurora, too;-) > > cheers Sebastian > Am Dienstag, den 29.01.2008, 04:27 +0200 schrieb SorinN: >> Clear Looks or Ubuntulooks would look nice with an usable scrollbar ( >> I mean distinctive ) - as the Aurora theme has ( even that Aurora tent >> to be on top of highest rated of gtk2 engines on gnome-look.org [ >> that's mean something - rest of the world dont care about what we talk >> here ;) - maybe we can keep something good this engine -> if we don't >> like / want Aurora at the end ). >> >> Murrine can be a good engine too on the other side - with the same >> problem - scrollbar face need a lift on it's form ( to be more >> visible, ( using a scrolltrack gradient [ ... ] ). Also default font >> for Murrine on Cimi website screenshots is a bit scary regarding it's >> usability - a little bit fat font could be a better solution on small >> UI widgets. >> >> -- >> Nemes Ioan Sorin >> -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
