Re: Default Theme Progress

["Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eloli hotmail com>]

> Yup. We'll try to add it to CVS as soon as we fork from 2.10.

Great news! ClearLooks is indeed a great theme. I helped out a bit the two 
main developers of the theme  with usability (Richard, Daniel thank you for 
putting up with me :), but I always had on my todo list to send an email to 
this list when the theme would be accepted and ask for the following (which 
must be done on a gnome-basis rather than the theme-basis):

1. Please make the default window manager's font, bold. Otherwise, the theme 
just doesn't standout as well as it should and doesn't make the best 
impression that it should. The current "Simple" default Gnome theme loses a 
lot of its presense as well by not having its window manager font being 
bold. Who is responsible for such a  change btw?

2. And another change, that needs to be done on the GTK+ side: Please change 
the toolbar font to be 1 size smaller than the default Application Font 
size. For example, if the default app font size is 11, make the toolbar font 
10. However, have a check in place, and don't let it go below 8. This little 
trick will create toolbars with better spacing between items (it won't look 
like the icons are too far away from each other). That's how OSX does it as 
well btw: http://image.versiontracker.com/scrnsht/41382/160755/686db41dl.jpg 
(the toolbar icon font  is one notch smaller than the default text size).

I felt that now that the default theme of Gnome is changing, these two 
little details (which make out a lot of the overall impression) should be 
fixed at this time too, so the ClearLooks theme & Gnome 2.12 in general, 
makes the best impression there is.

thx,
Eugenia

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