Re: Exciting GNOME?

[Seth Nickell <snickell gmail com>]

Using my voice as gnome-themes maintainer, please hold off on this Christian.

-Seth


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:21:09 +0100, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
<uraeus linuxrising org> wrote:
> Nuvola is today in gnome-themes-extras. I am going to move it into
> gnome-themes if the maintainers of that package approve the move and
> make a new final release of g-t-e without Nuvola.
> 
> This means that while it will not be the default theme for GNOME it
> will be part of a default installation.
> 
> http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/theme.php shows how the metatheme
> currently look.
> 
> Christian
> 
> On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 19:23 -0200, Everaldo Canuto wrote:
> > Look at this:
> > http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=5358
> >
> > A nice icon theme. Colors and Life
> >
> > Everaldo.
> >
> > Em Ter, 2005-02-15 às 19:09 -0200, Everaldo Canuto escreveu:
> > > Yes... it is nice and clean... but where is "life" and "color"?
> > > "Clean" is good when your work 8 or more hours on a computer but if you
> > > user 1 hour per day to read your mail "Clean" sounds like a "Ugly".
> > >
> > > I like "etiquette" but now is time to thinking like a "END USER". Or
> > > GNOME and Linux always is for "hackers"... The KDE team is on another
> > > way, the way for "end users"... and GNOME?
> > >
> > > Everaldo.
> > >
> > > Em Ter, 2005-02-15 às 21:57 +0100, Michaël Arnauts escreveu:
> > > > 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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