[ubuntu-art] Metacity Idea
Okay, so my last idea turned out to be a SystemG clone (oops!), but I did find a new Metacity idea for the new look of Dapper on Gnome-Look today; http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=31877 It's kinda like my idea, but does some twists to the glassy brown idea. Also, the author made a Blue version too! Maybe for Dapper, we could make people happy by leaving a Human Blue preset in the Themes configuration for our Brown hating users! It kinda looks like the new SUSE theme in a way as well! So, who likes it? viper550 -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Metacity Idea
Ville Soak wrote: The buttons look like vista :S I don't like that. But I'm not a member of the art team (yet) too :) Yes, they do look like Vista, but don't forget that we've been imitating Windows for ages! Motif Window Manager and CDE kinda looks like the Windows 3.1 interface, KDE 1.0 and 3.5 kinda looks like Windows 9x and XP, and any theme that has a Minimize button, a Restore button, and an Close button in that order are imitating Windows 9x and above! That these days is the industry standard and we know it! Besides, Vista buttons are all touching, on the theme it's the first 2, then a space, then the exit button. Viper550 -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Metacity Idea
quote who=Viper550 Ville Soak wrote: The buttons look like vista :S I don't like that. But I'm not a member of the art team (yet) too :) Yes, they do look like Vista, but don't forget that we've been imitating Windows for ages! This really is not true, and not the optimal course for Free Software. The GNOME project is specifically avoiding imitation, emulation or cloning of the Windows user interface *where it matters*, because it does not encourage innovation, and users react negatively to an interfaces that looks like what they're familiar with, but does not *work* like what they're familiar with. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2006: Dunedin, New Zealand http://linux.conf.au/ Slashdot seems to run a lot of obituaries. Perhaps there should be a topic for it. There already is. It's called the BSD section. - Anonymous Coward -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Metacity Idea
On Thursday 08 December 2005 00:20, Viper550 wrote: Okay, so my last idea turned out to be a SystemG clone (oops!), but I did find a new Metacity idea for the new look of Dapper on Gnome-Look today; http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=31877 It's kinda like my idea, but does some twists to the glassy brown idea. Also, the author made a Blue version too! Maybe for Dapper, we could make people happy by leaving a Human Blue preset in the Themes configuration for our Brown hating users! It kinda looks like the new SUSE theme in a way as well! So, who likes it? viper550 Like my comment on the GNOME-look page, it looks lovely, but sadly for this, I think we ought not to imitate anything which Vista, or for that manner, and other commercial operating system. I'd suggest the metacity window decorations that this theme uses: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=19894 For something along the lines of default Dapper. :) -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
