On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Dylan McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 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 >
Even if it does mildly resemble Mac OSX... the secret to originality is knowing where to hide your sources. :P Of course, we're kind of running out of time to start building something from a mockup... again. Not that it's a bad mockup, I like it, it would just have to be built quickly. -- David Mikucki -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
