Re: Revamping knob for stretch icons

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

Why don't we just fix nautilus to generate the pixbuf internally from
the gtk+ theme colors? That seems like the best option to me, unless
we want to be able to theme the grab corners with shapes somehow.

-- dobey


On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 21:34 +0100, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 26/10/2005 alle 10.56 +0200, Alexander Larsson ha
> scritto: 
> > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 12:32 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> > > Hei! we are still using the same knob from Eazel days.
> > > 
> > > Why don't use the attached one? Yeah, it's 10x10 instead 8x8, but
> > > 1280x1024 is the usual screen resolution now, I think we can scale it
> > > up.
> > 
> > I agree on the icon size. Its sort of hard to hit them on high
> > resolution, and the larger size doesn't hurt for smaller resolution.
> > 
> > However, I'm not sure on the color change. Does the green really go well
> > with the other colors in use? I'm no graphics artist, but it does seem
> > to well, stick out a bit.
> 
> Dunno. The current one is teal-green, from Crux theme color scheme
> developed by Eazel, I suppose.
> 
> The one I provided is green too, but from GNOME HIG palette. I like this
> (vivid) green: it's well visible on default desktop bg (blue) as well as
> folders bg (white). Honestly I don't know if it works fine on green bgs
> too... But we have to choose a color and recent patch from  Mattias
> could help to provide a different one if the color scheme of a theme is
> based on greens (as well as a11y themes).
> 
> My suggestion is use it now, eventually change if/when someone will
> claim.   
> 
> Just for fun, I made copies using blue and green from Tango palette.
> Check them out.