Re: Exciting GNOME?

[Everaldo Canuto <everaldo_canuto yahoo com br>]

ClearLooks is really nice but now we need a more atractive icon set.

Everaldo.

Em Ter, 2005-02-15 �17:53 -0200, Everaldo Canuto escreveu:
> This CleanLooks is nice but I dont like menus... I think that menu need
> to be same aspect at tool bar like original BlueCurve.
> 
> Everaldo.
> 
> Em Ter, 2005-02-15 �19:52 +0100, Daniel Borgmann escreveu:
> > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 12:13 -0500, Pat Suwalski wrote:
> > >Gabriel Bauman wrote:
> > >> Most folks I know install GNOME, shudder, then install Bluecurve and
> > >> never look back.
> > >> 
> > >> Is it a Red Hat licensing issue perhaps?
> > >
> > >I would say it's a little more than that. Bluecurve is what identifies 
> > >RedHat. I don't think that it would be appropriate to use it, legally 
> > >possible or not. The same applies to Ximian/Novell and Industrial.
> > 
> > Well, did you take a look at Clearlooks[1]? Someone mentioned it at the
> > Wiki[2], I tried it and it totally blew me away! It's based on
> > Bluecurve, but got more modern and fresh looks. It hardly looks like
> > Bluecurve anymore, besides some pixmaps and the menus. The author is
> > also very actively working on it and preparing a website including a
> > voting booth. The next version will have properly rounded scrollbars[3]
> > and some other improvements, for example he's looking into improving the
> > comboboxes, which traditionally look a bit like a mess[4] in Gtk.
> > It might sound overzealous, but my honest opinion is that this engine
> > simply smokes the competition (including Plastik, which is very popular
> > for good reason), the author is independent of any commercial vendor and
> > it's still rather new, so not many people know about it yet. What could
> > be better suited?
> > 
> > 
> > [1] http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=19527
> > [2] http://live.gnome.org/NewDefaultTheme
> > [3] http://www.stellingwerff.com/headers.png (notice that Clearlooks has
> > many color schemes already, that's just one of them)
> > [4] I made this mockup to demonstrate the problem:
> > http://213.133.111.182/Temp/ComboBoxEntry.png
> > 
> 
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