>> It is professional, yet modern looking, yet doesn't give the vibe that >> we were copying anyone else. Can this be used with Metacity? If so, we >> have a winner. :) >> >> Smartboy > > To me it is clone of Mac's interface with darker colors. So we are > coping somebody here. One more thing. I think that this is only a mockup > because with current programs (metacity, emerald) it is near impossible > to make a highlight that is in the title and continues in the menubar. > I've wanted to do this in New Wave but with no success. > > That is just personal opinion. If some better software has appeared > meanwhile then I'll be very happy to see this as default in Ubuntu. > > > Anton
But in this case, I think the continuing highlight can be killed without too much of a loss; the theme generally looks the same with or without a title bar already. Even New Wave looks all right without the shadow effect, as it's a convenient way to divide two kinds of windows. A nice fix to the gradient there would be 'just' making it sharper, doing the whole curve with the window title bar and having the menu bar a solid colour. It is a subtle enough gradient that the change may work fine. For now a theme like New Wave is not going to work perfectly in action because of what you mention. There are rumblings about of the Metacity team devising a new, less bizarre way for doing window themes with two proposed possibilities being "leave it to GTK" and "use SVGs" -- the first one is quite exciting. There is the small border around the title and menu. It should probably be scrapped. We cannot assume all menu bars to be at the tops of windows, and without that being the case the lines look bizarre. The little window glow of Kin continues to please me. Of course, impossible without Emerald, and one cannot stress enough how futile Emerald is. Maybe a dark inner border with a shiny outer border in Metacity would give a close enough effect. I am a bit hesitant about people jumping on the Firefox end of that mockup. As is well known, Firefox uses its own theme engine. (Although FF 3 tries valiantly to look like GTK). This mockup should really be of a properly GTK-powered program, such as the About Me program or of Nautilus. Also as ismentioned somewhere, the author says that the Firefox mockup is kind of a different thought from the rest of the Dust theme. In contrast to the other stuff, it is busy and fiddly. Again for the "looks like Mac" argument, please look at these screenshots and find One Thing that actually, truthfully looks like it is yanked from MacOS aside from "has buttons": http://media.arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.media/finder-sidebar.png http://www.apertureprofessional.com/articleimages/auto_upload/7e97c089dfa50b5f1f316b7d91d3ae60/iphoto08.jpeg Bye, -Dylan -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
