Re: [Ayatana] Chocolate Color Scheme

2009-06-22 Thread Sohail Mirza
James, I love the smooth GTK colours. Were you inspired by the old Firefox theme, Charamel ? :) Someone should just make Charamel a GTK theme. It would be the perfect theme *drool*. On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:00 PM, James Schriver wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-2

Re: [Ayatana] Chocolate Color Scheme

2009-06-22 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:56:23 +0100 Shane Fagan wrote: > Personally another earthy colour scheme isn't what im looking for. I > like notify-osd I think its slick but at the moment its a little out > of place with the desktop look. So in that way maybe making a darker > theme to match might work we

Re: [Ayatana] Chocolate Color Scheme

2009-06-22 Thread James Schriver
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 15:56 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote: > Personally another earthy colour scheme isn't what im looking for. I > like notify-osd I think its slick but at the moment its a little out of > place with the desktop look. So in that way maybe making a darker theme > to match might work well

Re: [Ayatana] Chocolate Color Scheme

2009-06-21 Thread Shane Fagan
Well Gnome-Shell is glossy but in the short term the panels are quite ugly and the brown makes it worse to look at. My point is that at the moment compared to Mac OSX. In something as basic as the theme we have brown. Mac has its white solid and slick. Windows has black ish grey which also looks qu

Re: [Ayatana] Chocolate Color Scheme

2009-06-21 Thread Steve Dodier
Just a few comments : Orange being associated to low quality is an USA cultural specific issue, as far as i know. In fact, if it's almost not used in Europe, i don't think companies that use it are looked at as low quality at all. And since it's an uncommon color, it's very practical for building

Re: [Ayatana] Chocolate Color Scheme

2009-06-21 Thread Shane Fagan
Personally another earthy colour scheme isn't what im looking for. I like notify-osd I think its slick but at the moment its a little out of place with the desktop look. So in that way maybe making a darker theme to match might work well but not brown please not brown. Like a light grey might be ni

Re: [Ayatana] Chocolate Color Scheme

2009-06-21 Thread Allan Caeg
I forgot to mention. I am also suggesting adjusting the current Human theme to something more "chocolate-ey" if including the themes under discussion would not be possible. I failed to add the links to the project I was referring to. Sorry. Here it is http://code.google.com/p/gnome-colors/ Shik

[Ayatana] Chocolate Color Scheme

2009-06-21 Thread Allan Caeg
Ubuntu always had an earthy color scheme, one with brown and orange. There have been a lot of discussions about this because many users have violent reactions. However, it is difficult to veer away from the color scheme because it defines Ubuntu very much and the rationale behind it is reasonable.