On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 00:13 +0100, Daniel Borgmann wrote: > 2006/1/7, Jakub Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The buttons may actually be one of the things where some gloss could be > > good, be it a little more subtle. Having the whole slider along with > > titlebar glossy is too much I'd say. > > My personal view was (is) that we should strive for a more realistic > look of interface elements. Since window controls don't resemble > anything, all we can do is to make the surface look realistic. And > since wood or grass is somewhat out of the question, metal is an > obvious choice, especially since we can fake it by simulating a slight > reflection (I understand that the fake doesn't work for everyone, but > generally it seems to be well-received). From this point of view, I do > not think that it is unreasonable to make just the titlebar look like > it's made out of some kind of metal.
So, I guess my response to that would be why do you feel the titlebar and/or titlebar buttons need to look any more 'realistic' than any of the other buttons on the desktop, which don't have a notably metallic/glossy appearance? Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ gnome-themes-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-themes-list
