Re: Some GUI enhancement ideas

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  One nice thing to have would be for the standard style thing to have
>  buttons and other controls have a slightly different color so they stand
>  out more and are obviously "usable". Take a look at SGI's standard
>  schemes stuff to get an idea of how this looks. SGI's controls also have
>  a slightly more "rounded" look which is more pleasant on the eye than
>  the standard shadows.

You can change the colors using the Gtk rc configuration mechanism.
And if you use themes, you can change the look of your widgets.

Of course, patches to improve the look of the default themes are welcome.

>  The other thing I noticed was how polished a lot of the icons look on
>  the desktop screenshots, but what would make them look even better is if
>  real 4 or 8-bit alpha channels could be used instead of single bit masks
>  for icons. This would be a first for desktop interfaces and would really
>  help sell the interface.

We will have alpha compositing for icons at some point.  The
GnomePixmap widget to be hacked to do it automatically.

  Federico