[ubuntu-art] Icon Library again... feedback plz.

[Matthew McGowan]

Hi,

A while back i let people know about the little app i was working on.

Well, I have added a few features people had asked for:

1) Manually select themes to open (Browse to index.theme file)
http://picasaweb.google.com/matthew.joseph.mcgowan/IconLibrary#5257576834586235490

2) An Icon set editor has been added.  To open the editor right click on 
an icon set in the list view and select 'Icon set properties'.  It works 
well in most cases but it definitely needs testing.  Moreover, I would 
welcome some usability suggestions on what would be the most natural way 
to edit icon sets.
http://picasaweb.google.com/matthew.joseph.mcgowan/IconLibrary#5257576838453371282

3) You can jump to the 'target' icon set in the list view when the 
selected icon set is a symlink
http://picasaweb.google.com/matthew.joseph.mcgowan/IconLibrary#5257578937428801058


I plan on adding custom background colors when time allows.  As for now 
i welcome any feedback and further suggestions, and definitely contact 
me when you inevitably find some bugs.

You can download the tar.gz here:
http://code.launchpad.net/icon-library/trunk/alpha1/+download/icon-library-16102008.tar.gz

I look forward to your comments.

Regards,
Matthew


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Re: [ubuntu-art] Icon Library

[Matthew McGowan]

Ken Vermette wrote:
>
>  - an option to specify a maximum resolution to load to (so we could 
> see high-resolution icons as well)
>  - choose from other folders to read (instead of limiting to the 
> installed icons folder, let users open a folder on their desktop for 
> example)
>  - if possible, an option to click on an icon and replace an 
> individual icon (or if it's a link, the linked image)
>
> With those features, your program would probably become the de-facto 
> standard for building icon sets. It would in my book!
>
> -Ken Vermette

Ok, well these are some things i've been thinking about as well, so i 
will look into how i could get these to work.

Regards,
Matthew


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Re: [ubuntu-art] Icon Library

[Matthew McGowan]

Cory K. wrote:
> I suggest using Launchpad an BZR to help manage this.
>   
O.K i setup a BZR branch at launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/icon-library

Hope i set things up correctly!


Matthew


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Re: [ubuntu-art] Icon Library

[Matthew McGowan]

Cory K. wrote:
> Matthew McGowan wrote:
>   
>> I have made a small application to view icon themes.
>> 
>
> This is cool. I suggest using Launchpad an BZR to help manage this. I'm
> sure if that was done, a good couple of technical folk around here could
> help.
>
> -Cory K.
>
>   
Wow quick reply!  I don't really know how these services work but i'll 
definitely look into it.


Regards,
Matthew

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Re: [ubuntu-art] Compiz desktop switcher color

[Matthew McGowan]

Piotr Zaryk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed that the compiz desktop switcher (the one that appears in 
> the middle of the screen while switching desktops) has a lightblue 
> colour both in Gutsy and Hardy. I think it should be filled with 
> #EFEBE7 to suit Ubuntu default theme. It shouldn't be too difficult. 
> What do yo think?
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Zaryk 

Ideally, shouldn't compiz select these colours based on the current 
theme in use?

Regards
Matthew

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Re: [ubuntu-art] Second version of Union mockup

[Matthew McGowan]

I concur, this is really polishing up nice!  Are we at the point where 
people can start putting something together in gtk and metacity?  Also 
what would the mouse over look like for the 
minimise/un-maxi/maximise/close? and would it be better to stick with 
the traditional visual metaphor for min/unmax/max/close?  I find the 
current set in the designs (the plus and minus) a little confusing as to 
what their function exactly is.

Regards
matt

Dylan McCall wrote:
> I wasn't 100% with this mockup originally, but now I love it! Those 
> colour changes are well chosen. Those fancy panel icons would be quite 
> a pile of work, however. With an effect like that, it's can be either 
> all of them or none of them, and there are /a lot/ of programs that 
> put themselves in the notification area. Having said that, it would be 
> very cool if unimportant (and inactive) notifications faded into the 
> background, while they used the colourful images we see today when 
> active. However, that sounds more like a code matter...
> Perhaps that effect would be happier being implemented in code, since 
> on that end it can be implemented for everything, including unofficial 
> applications.
>
> One thing important to look at is menu bars that are not directly 
> within windows. GTK decided that menu bars should be independent 
> widgets, (which is good thinking in some ways, but definitely limits 
> some of the cool possibilities of menus that know what window they 
> belong to) so those menus could theoretically be anywhere. Granted, 
> they are usually on the top, but extra use cases would be safe.
>
> Nick Telford makes a good point about text areas. Have you put much 
> pondering into those?
>
> What are those three buttons you have on the bottom of your windows? 
> Looks like an interesting window management feature that could be 
> implemented by an Ubuntu-side GTK hack...
>
> Speaking of effects, I think you could do with a tad less alpha on 
> unfocussed windows. People often look at two or three windows at once 
> for some tasks, and them being so transparent could well make that 
> undoable. Perhaps if that Pin button (which I believe you have on the 
> status bars there) was implemented somewhere, we could better expect 
> people to use the feature. Then, if a window was pinned and 
> unfocussed, it would not have the same transparent effect. (Again, I 
> am not up on how themes work, so please forgive my ignorance!).
>
> Keep up the amazing work, Ken! Everyone likes SVGs, so I see a very 
> good chance of this mockup making it as a mainified ("mainly"? 
> mained?) theme.
>
> Bye,
> -Dylan McCall

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Re: [ubuntu-art] "Union" Theme

[Matthew McGowan]

Ken Vermette wrote:
> A few days back I said I'd create a theme based from my own work:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/BasicIdeals 
> 
> ...and another theme by forum user Floodcasso2...
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2620273#post2620273
>
> The end result is linked below in a new Wiki, which also states the 
> end goal. Just as a side note, this was the biggest pain to develop - 
> I'm "Light Theme" impaired, so don't expect much. The theme also has 
> several half-finished elements and is missing common features such as 
> "Buttons" and "Widgets" (Who needs those, anyway?); The theme is 
> called "Union", because it's the Union of the two themes.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/Union
>  
> I'll be away on the 25th (today), so apologies if I don't get back to 
> any emails or anything expediently. Tear this theme apart, please.
>
>  -- Ken Vermette 


Been lurking... This is the first theme to win me over on the first 
glimpse! In fact I like it allot... really nice job!  The colours are 
great as well, glad you are getting away from the browns and tans of 
other themes proposed so far.  I've found other colour schemes a bit too 
drab... but this is great!

Hope it is received well by the list and keep up the good work.


Regards
Matt

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