Someone made a flesh-and-bone GDM theme based off of the mock-up, and it has a rounded corner, too: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Intrepid+Ibex+GDM?content=86712
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Dylan McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The GDM mockup that guy made has a striking resemblance to New Wave, > so this may not be as far off as we assume. One issue with the mockup > is that it is hoping for rounded corners at the bottom of windows, but > there is no border to acomodate this. That can be overcome by having a > thicker bottom border, which is a good idea anyway for easily resizing > the window. > > Forcing a round corner without adding a Metacity window border to > accommodate it (if it was possible within today's infrastructure, > which I do not believe is so) would need to cut off actual content. We > don't want that. MPlayer users, for example, would kill us. > > Ideally, I think window decoration themes should be superceded by GTK > container widgets, which may afford us some interesting control along > these lines. Until then - if that is even possible or remotely > desirable, which is iffy - ... it wouldn't be looking like the mockup. > > I think the colour scheme is pretty decent, though, and I appreciate > that this mockup keeps the actual software intact. There are some nice > ideas in here :) > Oh, cool background, too. And that wifi icon is actually useful; it > takes the extra step of actually using an antenna to describe what the > signal strength bars represent, which is Really Important yet > strangely never done. (Even in those operating systems that spend > millions on usability testing). > > Bye, > -Dylan > > PS: *Sniff* *Sniff* I smell HTML! > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art >
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