While it doesn't sound like a big deal, it's just another thing to
look at. If I rounded the corner then the button would need to be
1 or 2 pixels lower to accommodate the top-edge, breaking the
users ability to slam.
You can't slam with floating (non maximised) windows. Mac user can
always slam because of the unified tool bar at the top.
--Ken Vermette
On Dec 19, 2007 6:28 AM, George Brooke
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How about making the window close minimise ect. icons rounded off
at the top rather like the main menu.
solar.george
Ken Vermette wrote:
It's kind of like a mold... Like it or not, it kind grows on you.
I hated my windows when I made them, and I have a gallery of
hideous window ideas that I hope will never see the light of day.
Orange is really just a highlight colour in this theme, so it'll
proballbly look odd on the theme until some widgets are added.
When they get added though, hopefully the additional orange in
the theme will make it feel more balanced. I lightened up the
brown and slightly altered the orange - so it should hopefully be
a bit better. I can't really use any other colours (even if I
think they'll look better) because I want to stick to the
official Ubuntu colour pallet.
I'm actively planning a small set of variations in popular
colours; I don't think there will be a way to change the colours
via the colour menu - unless there's a hue-shifting algorithm
involved (similar to the one implemented in Vista or Windowblinds).
Anyway, there's another update up on the wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/
BasicIdeals?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=fulldesk%28svg%
29_v3_2.jpg
the XCF and SVG sources have been updated aswell; the XCF
actually has everything in it now, I uploaded a half-finished XCF
file on the first version, but the new one will be much better
for people who want to use or edit content because it's complete.
For anyone wanting to make a mockup using the files, the Mock-ups
are first edited/rendered in InkScape, then are imported into the
bottom layer of the XCF. You could delete the BG in inkscape and
export a transparent PNG to create a render suitable for porting
into other themes.
Thanks as always,
--Ken V
On Dec 18, 2007 12:42 PM, Corey Woodworth
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At first I didn't like this theme, but it is really growing on
me. Of coarse there are things that still need work. The orange
in the theme feels out of place. It just doesn't fit it because
of how heavy the browns are. I think using white as the selected
item color in the menus would look a lot better. I also think
that the notification area needs to use different colors. It
needs to stand out more. Now it hardly stands out at all since it
is the same color as the background behind it, and of most
windows. Speaking of the windows, I really like the way the
titlebar and menu bar are visuially connected int the active
window. In the unactive window where it looks like just a
gradient from brown to tan looks very ugly to me.
I think this theme is about the prettiest a brown theme could be,
but we would still get a lot of flac from the brown haters if
this were default. I hope that it works well with the color
options in the appearence settings so that keeping the theme but
using a different color is just a couple of clicks worth of work.
Corey
On Dec 17, 2007 9:30 PM, Ken Vermette <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Got the link, and thanks to Racoqster for the quick post on the
blog. I know about every language BUT python, so I can try to
learn python this weekend and assist in coding later if
absolutely necessary; Would it be possible to work without the
configurator?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/BasicIdeals
The Wiki has been updated to include a mockup with all current
elements - and links to the SVG source and XCF source are
directly below the image. I'll be downloading some themes that
resemble mine (in their technical composition) and start to
figure out how we could get this beast into a live environment!
The XCF source is almost useless, but it can make life easy if
anyone wants to make a mockup with icons & text.
The large mockup doesn't include the most recent requests
(several of which will be integrated), but it gives the closest
impression to what a full desktop would look like right now -
barring the lack of widgets.
Thanks all;
-- Ken V
On Dec 17, 2007 7:51 PM, Iacopo Masi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
On 12/17/07, Ken Vermette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's go GTK yet, currently most of the work is going into
mockups. I need
> to get ahold of the Murrine Developer Andrea Cimitan, and see
about getting
> information on the Transparent GTK tweaks before I start making
the mockups
> live graphics.
Cimi will release the code when a Murrine Configurator should be
available so we must work towards the murrine configurator in pygtk.
take a look at
http://www.cimitan.com/blog/2007/12/16/searching-coders-for-the-
murrine-configurator/
--
Iacopo Masi
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