On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, This is the first time I post here and I'm not used to this type of > forum interface, so forgive me if this post doesn't come out correctly > or conform to the standards of this mailing list.
Welcome. Remember to create art that you love and don't take criticism too hard. > I read the previous threads and comments about my theme "Shiki-Colors", > and I'm glad that the people here liked it, and may even consider it for > Ubuntu. The people who reply to messages on this list don't get to control what theme gets enabled by default. That said, if there were a vote I'd vote for yours as having a the most promise. > You can find a screenshot of the modified theme here > http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/4993/screenshotrn3.png > > The most noticeable changes are: > -Menus/Menubars are light. While this takes a bit away from the original > appeal of the theme, it is much more compatible and way less buggy with > non-gtk apps (firefox 3). > -Warmer bg colors. > -Metacity has been hacked a bit. It now has 2px borders (can be changed > to 3 or 4 if needed). The outline is still just 1px, but this makes it a > lot more comfortable to resize. I will try out your changes later tonight, I wanted to post this though maybe you've fixed it with the lighter menus: http://code.bearfruit.org/~matt/firefox-shiki.png This is a picture of firefox. You'll see that I've dragged my "bookmarks toolbar" up to the right of the "Help" menu. Therefore the dark text is barely readable. Also, you can see the location drop down in that image is very very hard to read because of the dark background. I will have some users test the narrow window borders. Visually I think they look very good. There has been discussion about the narrow borders making it difficult to resize windows - I think that's possible but it may not actually hamper people in real life. Testing will tell for sure. Keep up the good work. I'd suggest creating an Ubuntu .deb package for your theme and icons for intrepid (or hardy) so that people can install it easily even if it doesn't go to main. It's one of the nicest contributed themes and is one of the most usable dark themes I've found. There are only a few people here who have created .deb files successfully so doing so would not only brand you as an extraordinary artist but also land you among the ubuntu art-team elite. Recent instructions can be found here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2008-July/007043.html posted by José Luis (thanks José!). They look simple enough. -- Matthew Nuzum newz2000 on freenode -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
