On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 17:37 -0800, Dylan McCall wrote: > "I like to think my panel as a quiet spot for minimalist information, > not the place where icons are just grey." > > (Sorry about the weird quoting. It's amazing that, after all these > years, email tools continue to be so hopeless). > > I agree with you, David. It would be nice if there weren't light and > dark versions of icons (instead the panel automatically brightened / > darkened the colours for those particular icons), but that type of > runtime manipulation is dangerous. Without some hefty changes to how > icons are stored (FreeDesktop would not be happy), it wouldn't be very > maintainable either. > > Desaturating at runtime defeats the purpose.
Desaturating at runtime and allowing the red color for the error and warning icons will work. Rather than re-doing it for all icons. Well now that the specs are still being made... lets see ;) > Personally, what I like > about the Humanity icons isn't that they are grey. It's that they make > awesome use of colour! > When my battery is low, the battery icon turns red! When I have a > crash report, there is a big red exclamation. (And I think WWAN has a > blueish tint, too, right?). Heh , the blue is unintentional. That is actually an app icon which is used in the panel. I'v used the blue for the app icons , you'll notice that the wireless is also blue in the connection editor. :) The wwan is supposed to have signal strengths too . So once thats done , it would have a monochrome set too. ;) Two colors are only used , grey[two shades for the different themes] and red. > > That dose of colour is really important. With these small icons I > think the colours are necessary to convey pertinent information at a > glance. So far, it has worked well in my case :) > > > Dylan > -- Cheers, mac_v -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
