> Hi Conn, > > On Friday 30 May 2008 00:29:07 Conn wrote: >> Ken, >> >> Here's my first attempt at modifying the new theme. Screenshot and >> gtkrc attached. >> >> Some of the changes (I don't remember them all): >> 1. Readded toolbar and menubar separators >> 2. Darkened menubar to 90% of background >> 3. Darkened "active" notebook tabs >> 4. Darkened menu background to 90% of background >> 5. Changed base colour to something closer to the dark brown background >> 6. Changed radio and checkbar colour to display as white, and >> highlight to base colour >> 7. Removed old hack to "fix" metacity's colour (i.e. the mix >> statements I put in the code after finding the Gnome Appearances bug). >> I assume the metacity theme will change drastically, so it's best to >> remove the hack to avoid future confusion. >> 8. Selected items in menus now display white text >> 9. Added new murrine engine parameters "colorize_scrollbar" and >> "sliderstyle", and enabled both. I removed depreciated >> "scrollbar_color", and note that the engine is warning us that >> "hilight_ratio" is deprecated, so we may need to remove those lines >> later. >> 10. Changed selected item text to white >> 11. Probably more things I forgot... > > I agree with pretty much everything you say :-) I began hacking on the gtk > color definitions last night as well. One of the challenges is going to be > creating work arounds for dark color themeing bugs in specific apps. > >> Some observations for the future: >> 1. Perhaps we need to change the orange colour, perhaps it would be >> better to be darkened. >> 2. I set the nautilus-location colour simply to @selected_bg_color. >> For Human-Murrine I used a mix statement to lighten the orange a >> little so that it blended better with murrine's glaze, but it won't >> work well with the new colourscheme. We can change this later, >> especially after any changes to the selected background (i.e. orange) >> colour. > > The bright orange seems out of place on a dark background. I think we > would be > better off going with something less contrasty. > >> 3. Of course, the metacity theme doesn't look very nice anymore. I >> suggest we adopt a similar theme to UbuntuStudio, but use a darker >> brown rather than black. Oh, we could arrange it so that the inactive >> window is 90% shaded to the background colour, so it will blend with >> the darkened menubar - that would be a nice effect. >> >> That's all I can think of for now! >> Conn > > -- > Ken > > -- I believe that the contrasts must not break too much. Víctor.
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