Re: Default Theme Progress

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 17:14 -0500, Diana Fong wrote:
>We collected a few more theme possibilities and had some brief
>discussions on http://live.gnome.org/NewDefaultTheme . 
>
>After looking them over, we felt Clearlooks
>( http://live.gnome.org/ClearLooks ) was the strongest. After looking at
>a lot of themes, they all started to look similar (gradient here,
>rounded there, etc). Clearlooks is not particularly exceptional in this
>regard, but it does look good. Overall its an excellent rework of
>Bluecurve, already a strong theme. The main elements of Bluecurve that
>made it, like, oh my gosh, sooo 1995 (the square-ish ness and the
>computer-grey) are gone. We're fortunate that Clearlooks is under active
>development, and judging by its past releases, it's still improving.

  Well, I'm not a theme expert, not even close, but...

  Though Clearlooks is a very pleasant theme overall, I find that
_inset_ menu bar definitely weird, and contrasts with just about any
other theme out there.  It gives me a strange and uncomfortable feeling
looking at that menu bar :|

  Regards.

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Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
<gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net>
The universe is always one step beyond logic