Re: GNOME colors

[Jeff Waugh <jdub aphid net>]

<quote who="Ryan Muldoon">

> Where in the GNOME desktop do you find sleek and futurey looking
> design/colors?  I don't see much metallic sheen in my desktop.


All these words are heavily subjective - but there is a strong difference
between "subtle" and "murky". The old Gnome site was murky, the new one is
bold; it seems that there's interest in a middle-ground.

But of desktops? Gnome is flexible enough to allow many styles - mine
happens to be what I would call "sleek". Which is why...


> The website should reflect how the desktop is.


... I think this is a fallacy - at least if by "reflect" you mean "look
like". Gnome desktops are so diverse that choosing a website look'n'feel to
integrate with a desktop feel so strongly is almost impossible.

I'm not a fan of using desktop icons on the website, except for obvious
highlights and cooperative illustration. Using them for navigation, etc., is
not a great idea. How many websites reflect the look of their associated
GUI? One: Apple's, and because they're so tied to it, because it's so
visually strong itself, they can.


> Do we want the KDE-style "perky" icons (that some might call overly
> bright and childish)?  I don't know what you mean here.


I think the tigert-style Gnome icons are perky. The tiger shell, the
mushroom - that's perk! :D They have a light, fun feeling.

KDE's icons are just cardboard cutouts.


> > "What happens if Linus is run over by a bus?"  ==>  s/Linus/tigert/
> 
> Lots of people can and have made artwork in the tigert style.


There was a joke there. :)


> Nautilus' Eazel theme definitely clashes with the rest of GNOME, and I
> think that is a mistake.

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> we'll see......the bubble-buttons seem gratuitus to me, I was hoping
> that they wouldn't be there in the final version of Red Carpet. 


Changing, progressing.


> Well, to remake tradition, we would have to redo all of the existing
> artwork.


Heh. No, we'll just always have it as an influence on continuing change. The
main point here is that the website shouldn't have an incredibly strong
binding to the desktop. Different media, different styles, different
presentations, etc.

It has to work within the context of being a website - if that means being
different to the multitudes of looks that our desktops may take, that's
fine.

- Jeff


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