On Thu, January 5, 2006 1:59 pm, Luca Ferretti wrote: > Il giorno gio, 05/01/2006 alle 00.59 +0100, Daniel Borgmann ha scritto: >> Hello, >> >> as you might have noticed, the clearlooks metacity theme got a >> complete revamp[1]. I would like to commit this to CVS, but I'm asking >> here first since it is practically a new theme and would affect the >> default look of GNOME 2.14. It goes well with clearlooks-cairo and I >> think that both together should make for a nice visual update. Any >> objections? > > No, I'm happy to see a theme growing up. Just a couple of suggestions: > * IMHO gradient in buttons should be vertically flipped when > pressed (see attached screenshot). Moreover, but I'm not sure, I > suspect that the gradient in the bottom half of the button > should go from a lighter (top) to a darker (bottom) color (see > this[1] MS screenshot) > * It could be interesting (and maybe useful for someone) provide a > "Clearlook 1" via art.gnome.org (gtk color scheme + metacity > theme) > * take a look here[2] for Clearlooks 3 :-)
You raise an important point about usability with the buttons. I have never liked Clearlooks metacity buttons because they are difficult to distinguish from the rest of the title bar (they use the same colour). I like the Tango mockup because the buttons are clearly visible and distinguishable. Is it possible we could do anything like this Clearlooks metacity? > >> In the latest version I switched to small pixmaps for the button >> icons, since drawing the outlined X with metacity drawing ops turned >> out extremely impractical to say the least. The difference shouldn't >> be noticeable at most sizes and it's actually a bit faster. I would >> like to make them scalable again once metacity supports vector drawing >> ops. > > But, metacity should supports SVG... > > > [1] http://winsupersite.com/images/reviews/msn_wds_15.jpg > [2] http://tango-project.org/Mockups _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list
