Re: Exciting GNOME?

[Michaël Arnauts <michael arnauts gmail com>]

I think the new etiquette icon theme is quite attractive... It's still
clean like the default Gnome one, but it has a refreshing new look...
Especially the mime-types... I love it...

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=19853


On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:06:17 -0200, Everaldo Canuto
<everaldo_canuto yahoo com br> wrote:
> ClearLooks is really nice but now we need a more atractive icon set.
> 
> Everaldo.
> 
> Em Ter, 2005-02-15 às 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 às 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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