This looks a lot like New Wave, only in my opinion it's worse because of the simple Metacity and the glossy look of the highlight.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:04 PM, John Baer <[email protected]> wrote: > The single most significant change between Alpha2 and Alpha3 is the > replacement of the clearlooks engine with the latest release of murrine. > As the scrollbars and scale widgets exert a great influence on the > appearance of the theme, I decided to stay with the "pixmap" engine to > render these widgets as well as the handlebox and stratus grip. As far > as I can tell performance is still very good. > > One of the driving factor of this theme is to make it as dark as > possible without losing black as a colour. I didn't want to use gray as > it presents "blue-ish" and decided to use a colour which has a slight > brown tint. The metacity frame is themed to match and the outcome is a > blended appearance top to bottom. One thing I observed using a 1024x768 > resolution is most applications run full screen. In my opinion this > theme displays well at this resolution providing the user with a > pleasant uniform presentation. > > Staying true to Ubuntu, the colour orange is used as much as possible. > Although this theme is configurable via the gnome user preferences, I > fully admit it contains hard coded elements. > > In crafting the gtkrc I attempted to provide as many comments as > possible to aide other GTK theme developers. > > http://www.projwiki.com/index.cgi/CategoryImpressionAlpha3GtkRc > > What's left to do? > > I believe the widget hierarchy of the gtkrc file is good as every > program I tested displayed as expected. Possible changes include colour > adjustments or abandoning the pixmap engine using murrine to render the > scrollbar and scale widgets. > > If you install the svn132 murrine engine existing murrine themes such as > Human will break. :( > > Check it out! > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Jaunty/Impression > > John > > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art >
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