Re: [ubuntu-art] Chocolate Color Scheme
On Sunday 21 June 2009 15:17:46 Allan Caeg wrote: Ubuntu always had an earthy color scheme, one with brown and orange. There have been a lot of discussions about this because many users have violent reactions. However, it is difficult to veer away from the color scheme because it defines Ubuntu very much and the rationale behind it is reasonable. Perfectska04 has a famous GNOME theme suite. Probably, a lot of you are familiar to it and are using it. He has a set of icon themes, GDM themes, and gtk themes that have different color schemes. His latest color scheme is the Dust variant. This scheme's look and feel is based on the color of chocolate. Prior to that, he always had a Human variant, which is orange. The Dust variant feels more earthy and looks much more elegant. For some reason, I am much more comfortable with the chocolate feel. Maybe because orange really feels cheaper. It has always been associated with low end products and services while a dark shade of brown, in my opinion, reminds the user of chocolate and leather. Shiki-Dust and GNOME-Dust fit the Ubuntu desktop very well because of the look and feel that they create. It is earthy like the Human theme, just more elegant, in my opinion. There may be some usability issues because of the dark elements of the theme but the only known bug due to its dark nature is a small color issue in Firefox which is fixed by adding a user style mentioned in http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Shiki-Colors?content=86717 . Jaunty included Dust and New Wave as alternative themes. I believe that Shiki is much more bug-free and elegant than most themes and it is in very active development. In fact, OpenSuSE 11.2's default theme (Sonar) is based on the green variant, GNOME-Wise, of the theme suite. I suggest at least including the Dust variant of GNOME-Colors to the future versions of Ubuntu as an alternative theme to Human, if not as a default. I understand that it has a little different set of principles from the Human icon theme as it includes application icons. This can easily be fixed by not including those icons, though. I am sending this to the Ubuntu Artwork Theme and Ayatana discussion because its an artwork issue that can be included in the 100 papercuts. Here is a link to the screenshot of my desktop with the GNOME-Dust theme. http://g.imagehost.org/view/0082/Screenshot I like that everything fits together so well color and design-wise but I miss something which catches my eye, something which stands out -but only a little bit- and tells me how sexy it is :) -- Ken -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Chocolate Color Scheme
On Sunday 21 June 2009 15:17:46 Allan Caeg wrote: Perfectska04 has a famous GNOME theme suite. Probably, a lot of you are familiar to it and are using it. He has a set of icon themes, GDM themes, and gtk themes that have different color schemes. His latest color scheme is the Dust variant. This scheme's look and feel is based on the color of chocolate. Prior to that, he always had a Human variant, which is orange. The Dust variant feels more earthy and looks much more elegant. For some reason, I am much more comfortable with the chocolate feel. Maybe because orange really feels cheaper. It has always been associated with low end products and services while a dark shade of brown, in my opinion, reminds the user of chocolate and leather. FYI, GNOME-Colors, Shiki-Colors, and Arc-Colors are all sitting in Debian NEW right now and will be in Karmic. They were packaged by me and Benjamin Drung. You can find a PPA and Bzr branches with the packaging here: https://edge.launchpad.net/~gnome-colors-packagers - Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Re: [ubuntu-art] Chocolate Color Scheme
I forgot to mention. I am also suggesting adjusting the current Human theme to something more chocolate-ey if including the themes under discussion would not be possible. I failed to add the links to the project I was referring to. Sorry. Here it is http://code.google.com/p/gnome-colors/ Shiki-Colors gtk http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Shiki-Colors?content=86717 GNOME-Colors icon theme http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GNOME-colors?content=82562 On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21:17 +0800, Allan Caeg wrote: Ubuntu always had an earthy color scheme, one with brown and orange. There have been a lot of discussions about this because many users have violent reactions. However, it is difficult to veer away from the color scheme because it defines Ubuntu very much and the rationale behind it is reasonable. Perfectska04 has a famous GNOME theme suite. Probably, a lot of you are familiar to it and are using it. He has a set of icon themes, GDM themes, and gtk themes that have different color schemes. His latest color scheme is the Dust variant. This scheme's look and feel is based on the color of chocolate. Prior to that, he always had a Human variant, which is orange. The Dust variant feels more earthy and looks much more elegant. For some reason, I am much more comfortable with the chocolate feel. Maybe because orange really feels cheaper. It has always been associated with low end products and services while a dark shade of brown, in my opinion, reminds the user of chocolate and leather. Shiki-Dust and GNOME-Dust fit the Ubuntu desktop very well because of the look and feel that they create. It is earthy like the Human theme, just more elegant, in my opinion. There may be some usability issues because of the dark elements of the theme but the only known bug due to its dark nature is a small color issue in Firefox which is fixed by adding a user style mentioned in http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Shiki-Colors?content=86717 . Jaunty included Dust and New Wave as alternative themes. I believe that Shiki is much more bug-free and elegant than most themes and it is in very active development. In fact, OpenSuSE 11.2's default theme (Sonar) is based on the green variant, GNOME-Wise, of the theme suite. I suggest at least including the Dust variant of GNOME-Colors to the future versions of Ubuntu as an alternative theme to Human, if not as a default. I understand that it has a little different set of principles from the Human icon theme as it includes application icons. This can easily be fixed by not including those icons, though. I am sending this to the Ubuntu Artwork Theme and Ayatana discussion because its an artwork issue that can be included in the 100 papercuts. Here is a link to the screenshot of my desktop with the GNOME-Dust theme. http://g.imagehost.org/view/0082/Screenshot Best Regards -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
