Re: New theme proposal for GNOME 2.4 default look

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 00:09, Sander Vesik wrote:
>  --- Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org> wrote: 
> > Hi people,
> > The GNOME 2.x philosophy is that less is more. Based on that I have
> > worked hard to create a theme that truly embodies that idea so that it
> > can become the default theme for GNOME 2.4.
> > 
> > After reading Havoc's document on good UI design until my eyes bleed I
> > managed to see what we all have been looking for. Due to that I would
> > like to name the first release of the GNOME Colony theme "Havoc's
> > dream".
> > 
> > You find a screenshot of Colony 0.1 here:
> > http://www.gnome.org/~uraeus/colony-screen.jpg
> > 
> 
> Well, as things stand, its clearly less usable as it assumes people know in which
> order the 3 buttons on the window bar are ordered as there is no visual feedback.
> You will volunteer to take lots of screenshots should this get selected, right?
Actually you do get feedback on mouseover :) 

je je se je and the boogety beat!

> On teh purely visual side - it looks too mechanical and metallic for my taste,but it
> could be just me 
> 
> > 
> > Colony graphics are made  by Mike Bryant
> > -- 
> > Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>
> > P.S. This might be first and last release of Colony :)
> > 
> 
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Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>