i like how fogger does it. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/tag/fogger
> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:06:23 +0100 > From: alanb...@ubuntu.com > To: unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: [Unity-design] How do the brand style guidelines relate to the > desktop? > > In my previous mail I stated that we don't have a style guide, this is > plainly incorrect as we do have http://design.ubuntu.com featuring lots > of information on style for communication pieces and web based stuff. > Looking through it though I can't see that it is a style I would want to > apply to a web application, and if I did, it wouldn't really look like a > seamless part of the desktop. > On the desktop we have the chameleon coloured launcher, with the buttons > with particular shading, we have the top panel with a particular grey > colour, we have windows with round corners at the top and square corners > at the botom, with a shadow, the top bar is the same dark grey as the > top panel. The HUD and dash have white text on the cameleon background > and a fat grey border with a shadow (none of our shadows match by the > way) None of this appears to be in the design guide, and if I do put > together a website that matches the design guides perfectly it still > doesn't really look like it natively belongs on the desktop. > > I am not quite sure how to deal with this, perhaps we should be trying > to use dots on the desktop somewhere (perhaps window status bars should > have tight enterprise dots on them or something) and pick out more of > the colour palette in the launcher and panel. Having the chameleon > colour and window title/panel colour exposed into the browser through > webapp integration would be helpful. > > Alan. > > -- > I work at http://libertus.co.uk > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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