Re: [ubuntu-art] Metacity Button Order Changed
Not only are the buttons on the left, but they're not even correct for buttons on the left! What OS X has:close, minimize, maximize : menu What we have: maximize, minimize, close : menu What Windows has: menu : minimize, maximize, close As it is right now, the theme will break muscle memory for everyone coming from Windows, OS X, and even all other Linux distros (including previous versions of Ubuntu)! also a few other notes: * the Plymouth progress bar seems to go from 0% to 100% over and over, instead of actually throbbing; this is misleading and confusing. * the superscript logo makes the name look like ubuntu® (with the logo as the registered-trademark symbol). On 03/05/2010 07:58 AM, Merk wrote: That's still relearning behavior for no obvious benefit hotice wrote: It's because the buttons will be on the left, not right side afterall: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/03/almost-official-ubuntu-1004-lucid-will.html On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 16:21, Saleel Velankarsvela...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah doesn't this force user to relearn behavior, for no obvious benefit? On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Mark Curtismerkin...@hotmail.com wrote: Just curious, what is the thought behind the change? As in, why is it deemed better to change the order? From: kw...@ubuntu.com To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:17:05 + CC: bae...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Metacity Button Order Changed On Friday 05 March 2010 01:43:43 am John Baer wrote: I noticed in today's upgrade (03/04) the order of the metacity's minimize and maximized buttons changed. In the old metacity the order was; minimize, maximize, close In the new metacity the order is: maximize, minimize, close Is this the desired effect or is this a bug? This is the desired effect. -- Ken -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now.http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469230/direct/01/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- Saleel -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] ibex idea
Hmm, I couldn't see the circles in the background until I tipped my laptop LCD downward. That's a bit of an odd effect. In addition, is it just me, or does the curvature on the spiral seem a bit... off? It seems to change sharpness, rather oddly; ideally, it'd be a smooth spiral. Dylan McCall wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 01:12 +0200, Kenneth Wimer wrote: Not sure what it is supposed to represent. The wallpaper would not include the logo in the middle. I just put it together quickly to show the idea. http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/SimpleDarkIbex I have a couple of other versions as well...I'll post something else tomorrow. That's pretty cool, Kenneth! An issue I find with a lot of the ibex wallpapers is that they look like decapitated animals, which Will Not go over well. (Stuffed animal heads pinned on walls. ...Anyone remember that scene in Ace Ventura?). This one cleverly avoids that by showing the distinctive part of an Ibex people actually notice and leaving out the bland bits that people can't figure out what to do with. Also, while there is no Ubuntu logo, the palette and shape hints at Ubuntu's branding pretty well, which is how things should be. As for the background, I am not a fan of the additional circles. Now that my screen brightness is higher, I see that it kind of repeats the same pattern in the background as in the center, which hurts your otherwise very striking effect. Perhaps it would be useful to look at an Ibex's environment for some inspiration as to what can be done with the background. Alas, just rocky probably doesn't help much... Straight lines, small amounts of vegetation and sharp edges may get somewhere. For some reason my rather hopeless imagination is now being invaded by the Ford tough logo. I'd better get out of here before I say something dumb :) Bye, -Dylan -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Intrepid Ibex (Wallpaper Slideshow)
Cory K. wrote: ATM, this feature doesn't work well at all. It's totally CPU driven and on every box I've tried it on the transition is bad. Usually ticky. Like a *real* low frame-rate. Various resolutions, right up to a dual-core box. Also there's some issue where the fade or transition time can't be set below 15seconds or so. To be done by default I think the feature needs work. -Cory \m/ I dug around in the source of the libgnome-desktop-2 package, and found this: From gnome-bg.c, line 1065-1066: /* Maybe the number of steps should be configurable? */ timeout = slide-duration / 255.0; For a 2 hour transition, that works out to about 28 seconds. For a 5-hour transition, as in the Fedora Infinity wallpaper, it is roughly 71 seconds. I would love this feature, but it definitely does need improvement. The feature also needs to become 'discoverable' before being included by default. It'd be even better if we could make it respond to local conditions, as in this idea: http://www.tranism.com/weblog/archives/2006/11/os_x_atmosphere.html -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
