Hi Kenneth and the rest of the list, A thread with a descriptive title for once. Sorry about that.
I've now been dogfooding NewHuman on my Hardy box for a few days. Here's what I've gathered: Reactions --------- * My GMail in firefox does not look particularly good anymore. This goes for most web pages with native widgets in them. I don't see any easy solution to fix this in a dark theme. For Gmail atleast nudging the base brown color a tad towards the lighter gray makes it more in line with the GMail colors. Sorry to be so GMail centric, the same idea should apply to many other websites. * The top line for the active window in the metacity theme is really cool and a clever idea. Disregarding that it does however get a little on my nerves when I read my window titles. I tried inversing the gradient in the attached screenshot. Now let's see how that fares for a few days :-) * As noted elsewhere the scrollbar handles are too hard to see for my olde eyes * Ditto for tabs in firefox. All the backgrounded tabs appear as a black haze to me * The color of the menu highlight strikes me as especially pleasing each time I open a menu. Love it. * Curved highlights on menu items appear out of place compared to the über cool matte buttons Engine Ideas -------- I have a few ideas that require changes in the engine. If I can get it working without to much hazzle I'll look at the following (having upstream as patch target - NOT a fork!): * Make tab highlights match the window border highlights * Generally highlights everywhere to match window decoration in some way. Menu item, button hover, etc. * Any other ideas (that are likely to not require much work)? Conclusions ---------- * Solid start for venturing into dark-theme-territory. * I am still not convinced that all-out-dark themes are good on the whole. They strain my eyes in the long run, and many web sites look weird with dark controls. These are unfixable problems. * I believe that the New Wave guys are on to something. A hybrid dark, gray, light theme with orange highlights can work very well. This makes it possible to loose the dark controls in web pages. Cheers, Mikkel
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