On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:46 PM, James Schriver <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm in the process of developing a highly usable dark/hybrid theme for > Karmic. I've been using the theme for over a week and it's very usable > in it's current state. > > The focus of this theme is to make something a bit different from the > normal hybrid theme and demonstrate that brown can be beautiful while > still saying "Hey, is that Ubuntu?". A majority of all dark gtk themes > is that a majority are black/grey. This theme is a dark rich brown with > pronounced gradients on the toolbars. This may appear a bit obtrusive > to some but the effects will grow. A majority of sites (Google Docs, > Sprint, etc) use this type of gradient on their toolbars and it does > give a modern dimensional appeal to it. > > Another common issue I had was with darker themes, is that they looked > highly detailed with contrast during the day, but as the day grew on and > the lighting environment darkened, the dark themes became a bit bland > and washed out. I seem to have managed to mitigate that issue, at least > for my eyes. > > The metacity theme is a modification of DiMetacity, by Ken Vermette, one > the most talented artists to work with the Ubuntu community, > > I will make a Wiki page when I have some time, but overall it's mostly > complete. All trouble applications seems to work as well. > > Thanks to SiDi for the suggestion of darkening the menu_items and > lessening the gradients on the menubar. This proved to be a usability > issue over time as the window border was not as pronounced. The menubar > is now striped utilising murrine. > > Please report any bugs / suggestions. > > The code can be found at: > > https://code.launchpad.net/~dashua/+junk/Karmic-Themes > > > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > >
It reminds me of dark chocolate, and now I am craving it. :( Good work, though! It is a very good job! One thing from your screenshot, are there two different menubar backgrounds? smartboy -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
