On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:23:18 -0400 jmak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/19/06, Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do you mean exactly here? > > > > Oh, here I was thinking about the gtk themes. For instance, it is > essential that the visible structures (buttons, dialogs and so forth) > have clear and easily identifiable states. Otherwise users can get > confused. For instance, the various button states have to be clear > and easily recognizable; the same with the selected menu items; the > text and the backgrounds are often similar in tones making > readability difficult. Did you know that about 10% of the male > population is color blind? Mostly for the warm colors. These people > have a hard time differentiate between warm yellowish tones and blue. > Maybe these things sound marginal but research shows that in fact, > they are very important elements that designers have to take into > account all the time. > > J. Mak >
I'd say that is a fairly compelling argument for keeping the artwork fairly similar across the different flavours: good design is hard, do we really need to duplicate the effort? Robert ---------------- Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ormiret.com 31.69 nHz = once a year. -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
