Hi Conn, On Friday 30 May 2008 00:29:07 Conn wrote: > Ken, > > Here's my first attempt at modifying the new theme. Screenshot and > gtkrc attached. > > Some of the changes (I don't remember them all): > 1. Readded toolbar and menubar separators > 2. Darkened menubar to 90% of background > 3. Darkened "active" notebook tabs > 4. Darkened menu background to 90% of background > 5. Changed base colour to something closer to the dark brown background > 6. Changed radio and checkbar colour to display as white, and > highlight to base colour > 7. Removed old hack to "fix" metacity's colour (i.e. the mix > statements I put in the code after finding the Gnome Appearances bug). > I assume the metacity theme will change drastically, so it's best to > remove the hack to avoid future confusion. > 8. Selected items in menus now display white text > 9. Added new murrine engine parameters "colorize_scrollbar" and > "sliderstyle", and enabled both. I removed depreciated > "scrollbar_color", and note that the engine is warning us that > "hilight_ratio" is deprecated, so we may need to remove those lines > later. > 10. Changed selected item text to white > 11. Probably more things I forgot...
I agree with pretty much everything you say :-) I began hacking on the gtk color definitions last night as well. One of the challenges is going to be creating work arounds for dark color themeing bugs in specific apps. > Some observations for the future: > 1. Perhaps we need to change the orange colour, perhaps it would be > better to be darkened. > 2. I set the nautilus-location colour simply to @selected_bg_color. > For Human-Murrine I used a mix statement to lighten the orange a > little so that it blended better with murrine's glaze, but it won't > work well with the new colourscheme. We can change this later, > especially after any changes to the selected background (i.e. orange) > colour. The bright orange seems out of place on a dark background. I think we would be better off going with something less contrasty. > 3. Of course, the metacity theme doesn't look very nice anymore. I > suggest we adopt a similar theme to UbuntuStudio, but use a darker > brown rather than black. Oh, we could arrange it so that the inactive > window is 90% shaded to the background colour, so it will blend with > the darkened menubar - that would be a nice effect. > > That's all I can think of for now! > Conn -- Ken -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
