Try this: in System → Preferences → Appearance → Theme → Customise:
1. set your Controls to Glossy (or alternatively, Clearlooks)
2. set your Window Border to Glossy (alternatively, Clearlooks; for the
extra-conservative, Human)
3. change all the text colours to black
4. change selected items' b
i don't understand why there is this pixel-eating, thick translucent
border around the windows. on laptops (which increasingly average at
1024x768 pixels) this would be especially impractical.
why not just do away with the strange exaggerated border? it's like the
theme attempts minimalism but ge
I didn't found a good theme. But it doesn't belong to creamlooks.
See the last post from xl_cheese! I'm using that now (Thank you,
xl_cheese!)...
I'll update the wiki...
cheers stein
Am Freitag, den 21.03.2008, 15:03 +0100 schrieb Julian Oliver:
> i don't understand why there is this pixel-eati
I fully agree. I like the OS X border-less style, but of course that
necessitates a compositing engine + drop shadows.
I think a very minimal window border would go a long way to
professionalizing and de-cartooning the GNOME desktop. As I see it right
now, the wide borders reflect the very anno
Your absolutely right!
Unfortunately I can't upload a screenshot of the new look, because I'm
connected via modem;-(
Am Freitag, den 21.03.2008, 09:14 -0700 schrieb Sumit Agarwal:
> I fully agree. I like the OS X border-less style, but of course that
> necessitates a compositing engine + drop sh
Sumit Agarwal wrote:
> I fully agree. I like the OS X border-less style, but of course that
> necessitates a compositing engine + drop shadows.
>
> I think a very minimal window border would go a long way to
> professionalizing and de-cartooning the GNOME desktop. As I see it right
> now, the wi
Yes, this is somewhat true, but wouldn't at least the titlebar edges
remain grab-able? It also begs a question I personally have been
wondering for some time: is it possible to force GNOME to draw a
resizer in the corner on all windows, including those lacking a status-
bar?
-Sumit
On Mar
There was a bug opened a while back about it being hard to resize the window as
it currently is design. There was a suggestion to make a transparent border
that was thicker so it would be easier. I think that bug was closed and
labeled not a bug.
With the new metacity supporting transparancy
For basic interface issues I strongly believe we should not rely on
graphic/processing-intense features (which is part of why I think the
drop shadows should also not be relied upon). Ubuntu needs to maintain
identical usability on powerful or legacy systems, with the addition
that on a pow
Sumit Agarwal wrote:
> As I see it right
> now, the wide borders reflect the very annoying hard-outlined GNOME
> style icons. This is a trend that seems to be self-perpetuating for no
> good reason (look at the icon sheets for Firefox 3. See the Linux set?
> Why are we making new icons that loo
I think that John Hicks' design is a perfect target goal for Ubuntu
art. One of the strongest strengths of his design is that it does not
attempt to be 'Windowsish', 'Macish', or 'Vistaish'. Its an
independent highly-effective attractive and usable style.
One of the main goals in Firefox 3 i
..on or around Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:46:03PM -0400, Cory K. said:
> Sumit Agarwal wrote:
> > I fully agree. I like the OS X border-less style, but of course that
> > necessitates a compositing engine + drop shadows.
> >
> > I think a very minimal window border would go a long way to
> > profess
..on or around Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:00:22PM -0500, xl cheese said:
>
> There was a bug opened a while back about it being hard to resize the window
> as it currently is design. There was a suggestion to make a transparent
> border that was thicker so it would be easier. I think that bug was
..on or around Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:35:26PM +0100, Julian Oliver said:
>
> personally, i prefer to use DWM as my primary work WM. in my setup i
> have 1 pixel thin border for all windows. when near the corner of any
> window i can simply hit ALT-LMB and the cursor changes to the resize
> cursor
Good choice of colors !
2008/3/21, Greg K Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Try this: in System → Preferences → Appearance → Theme → Customise:
>
> 1. set your Controls to Glossy (or alternatively, Clearlooks)
> 2. set your Window Border to Glossy (alternatively, Clearlooks; for the
> extra-cons
It doesn't fall under K.I.S.S. because 90+% of users would never dream
that a keyboard button would function as a toggle upon the cursor.
If you can't get around just fine without a keyboard plugged in, you
haven't succeeded in your interface design. You wouldn't believe how
many Windows use
..on or around Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 04:35:34PM -0700, Sumit Agarwal said:
> It doesn't fall under K.I.S.S. because 90+% of users would never dream
> that a keyboard button would function as a toggle upon the cursor.
then how does it somehow occur to them that ALT-LMB will grab a window?
that ALT
Hrm, I'm not sure I'm following your first point. Precisely what I was
arguing was that most users are *not* aware that ALT-TAB cycles
through windows, and that such behavior is not intuitive (though
useful). ALT-LMB grabbing a window is news even to me ;)
But your TabletPC suggestion is in
Is is not possible to have a wider window border appear when your mouse
hovers near the edge of the window or would this not be possible with
current GTK/Meatacity themes?
solar.george
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:36:44 -0700
Sumit Agarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, this is somewhat true, but w
George Brooke wrote:
> Is is not possible to have a wider window border appear when your mouse
> hovers near the edge of the window or would this not be possible with
> current GTK/Meatacity themes?
Not possible.
The ubuntu-art crowd has grown to include a few coders however. Perhaps
one of them
While they're at it, we could use some other hacks too that are in a
somewhat similar vein.
Most of all the hack I would love (and think is fairly crucial) is the
ability to specify different scrollbars/titlebar widgets with active
and inactive windows. How many times have you tried to scrol
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