On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 16:01 +0800, Kido Mariano wrote: > > > I *tried* to implement the Dust theme using one of my other themes > > as > > > base. Try it out: > > > > > > http://www.geocities.com/kid_orig/themer/Dust-0.tar.gz > > > (requires Aurora engine installed) > > > > > > It's still a bit far from the mockup, and some apps have problems (most > > > notably Firefox, due to quirks in the Aurora engine). Anyone care to > > > help? > > > > I've updated the theme, taking most of your comments into consideration. > The download link is still the same. > Here's a screenshot: > http://www.geocities.com/kid_orig/themer/Screenshot.png > > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 16:09 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote: > > It looks good, I think, even without the gradients so far. I like the > > dark brown highlight that you've thrown in for the window list, > > although I think the text is pretty difficult to read above it right > > now. > > > > I like the way that window buttons correspond very evenly to the > > rounded titlebar corners. > > > > Hopefully gradients won't be too much of a problem. The title bar > > looks fine without, but the toolbars and status bars are both really > > begging for it. (Particularly the status bars). > > I've added the toolbar gradient, but I can't do the same for the status > bars (I have no idea how). > > > > > I found it fairly difficult to tell the difference between foreground > > and background windows when just the title bars were visible. Fading > > out the close button more (to the same extent as the text, more of > > course if it already is), and adding that little glint of light off > > the top (as in the mockup) may remedy that. > > I won't do this (yet) since I'm planning to redo the buttons to match > the mockup. > > > > > I'm not sure about the black menus, since these are foreground > > content, and as a rule of thumb the Dust mockup has the foreground > > content as dark on light. I am sure the kind fellow who did the mockup > > has a thought to contribute there. > > The dark context menus make dark menubars work in OO.org and Firefox. :\ > > > > > Nice work so far, Kido! Good luck with the rest; I love this theme :) > > > Thanks :) > > > > > Bye, > > -Dylan > > > > PS: Dust has almost replaced the PlanoLM + Clearlooks combo as the > > theme on my laptop. > > > > > > That looks great.Don't worry about trying to actually do the weird firefox tab thing.That would be really inconsistent with everything else.
-- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
