I do like the more compactness though. Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> writes:
> Maybe it's just me but this feels like a serious downgrade. I really > admired the way the blender 2.5/6x UI looked in that it had a kind of > sheen and niceness that you don't see in many applications. A friend of > mine described it like "you can tell the Blender developers spent a lot > of time thinking about making the 2.5X series pretty, it's almost like a > throwback to a demoscene application in that way." I agree... it did > feel that way. But a lot of this sheen now seems gone in these > revisions, largely because of the removal of embossing and the muting of > the icons... it feels a bit sad to me, honestly! > > Brecht Van Lommel <brechtvanlom...@pandora.be> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> Panel headers a bit darker now and increased button embossing: >> >> Before: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=19452 >> Latest: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=19501 >> >> I also like the icons to be a bit more muted, again to avoid them >> grabbing attention too much with highlights. For me this is what >> really finishes it off, to make the interface nice calm, but maybe >> this is considered too dull. >> >> http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=19500 >> >> Brecht. >> >> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Brecht Van Lommel >> <brechtvanlom...@pandora.be> wrote: >>> Updated with some changes: >>> >>> Before: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=19452 >>> Previous: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=19453 >>> Now: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=19477 >>> >>> * Area embossing back, more subtle & fix it being drawn wrong with 1 >>> pixel offset >>> * More space in panel headers >>> * Darker arrows on menu button >>> * Screen splitting widget with grippers >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Brecht Van Lommel >>> <brechtvanlom...@pandora.be> wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Here's a patch with a subset of the UI changes in the cycles branch >>>> that I'd like to merge into trunk. Are there any objections to this? >>>> >>>> Before: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=19452 >>>> After: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=19453 >>>> Patch: http://www.pasteall.org/25777/diff >>>> >>>> I don't think they would need any documentation updates, it's just >>>> small things that wouldn't confuse anyone in screenshot: >>>> * Remove emboss on areas and regions >>>> * Remove button emboss >>>> * More subtle colors and gradients on buttons >>>> * Black arrows on menu button >>>> * Panel header changed look & smaller >>>> * Screen splitting widgets look >>>> * Toolbar/properties expand button look >>>> >>>> Not included: >>>> * Droid sans font, was not received very well for the few days it was in >>>> trunk >>>> * Contrast reduction on icons >>>> * Auto hide scrollers (later, is unfinished) >>>> >>>> I'd still like to change the font in trunk, but it seems hard to get >>>> an agreement on this. Some tests: >>>> >>>> Lucida Grade (mac ui font, non-free): >>>> http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=19454 >>>> Ubuntu font: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=19457 >>>> Droid Sans font: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=19458 >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Brecht. >>>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers