Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-05 Thread Who
A well designed GTK theme using Clearlooks or some of the other modern engines can already do this :) On Jan 5, 2008 3:58 AM, shadowh511 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really like the union theme, how about a dialog to change the color? it would be like what Vista has and osx needs --

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-05 Thread xl cheese
+ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme. A well designed GTK theme using Clearlooks or some of the other modern engines can already do this :) On Jan 5, 2008 3:58 AM, shadowh511

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-05 Thread shadowh511
I meant the window borders to be color-customizable. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-05 Thread shadowh511
. Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 11:09:21 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme. A well designed GTK theme using Clearlooks or some of the other modern engines can already do

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-05 Thread Troy James Sobotka
xl cheese wrote: In gutsy: System - Preferences - Appearance We need more people like you around this group, xl. People who actually produce the hard nuts and bolts work are a rare breed. Kudos to you. Sincerely, TJS signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-05 Thread xl cheese
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme. I meant the window borders to be color-customizable. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-04 Thread shadowh511
Thanks for the GTK theme, Ken. I think that it could use one thing to make it perfect. The color, it needs to be brown.e When I think of Ubuntu, I think of a clean, simple OS. the color brown represents cleanliness and simplicity, while blue represents sadness and fear. If we want to have

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-04 Thread Jan Niklas Hasse
the color brown represents cleanliness i don't think so -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-04 Thread shadowh511
Jan Niklas Hasse wrote: the color brown represents cleanliness i don't think so its my opinion -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-04 Thread Ken Vermette
the nitty gritty stuff possibly hacking some engines. Attached a slightly updated gtk. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:07:42 +0100 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-04 Thread Troy James Sobotka
Nemes Ioan Sorin wrote: Blue OR blue + green, well combined will give you a Peace of Mind feeling [don't think a second that $MS designers are stupid]. Once again, colour psychology has been debunked 100 times in 10 different environments. Don't even think about going there. Look no

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-04 Thread Who
If you want to make a Blue/Green theme for Ubuntu using aurora then a Theme Team is a good way... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/ThemeTeams You could get the guy that develops aurora to do it if he wanted? On Jan 5, 2008 12:55 AM, Nemes Ioan Sorin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-04 Thread Ken Vermette
On Jan 4, 2008 8:17 PM, Troy James Sobotka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nemes Ioan Sorin wrote: Blue OR blue + green, well combined will give you a Peace of Mind feeling [don't think a second that $MS designers are stupid]. Once again, colour psychology has been debunked 100 times in

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-04 Thread shadowh511
You know what, lets not create an official theme and have the user choose a theme from a list when the account is created or have a dialog to ask which OS they used in the past and have it open themes to make it look like that os Hey, its an idea -- ubuntu-art mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-04 Thread shadowh511
I really like the union theme, how about a dialog to change the color? it would be like what Vista has and osx needs -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-04 Thread Ken Vermette
Probably not a good idea, in my opinion. It would require an additional dialog/prompt during interrupting our well-streamlined installation process, and possibly confuse some users. It could additionally kill the ability to easily troubleshoot without needing to ask how the user has their

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-04 Thread shadowh511
Ken Vermette wrote: I think if something like that would be implemented as a general feature, it would be perfect. Probably something running a selective hue rotation system would give users the most control, and doing it would instantly give all themes colour selection to a limited degree.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-03 Thread xl cheese
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:07:42 +0100 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme. Hi folks! I think one of the problems creating a theme like Kens mockup could be, that (AFAIK) there is no gtk-engine supporting things like rounded corners

[ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-02 Thread xl cheese
I'm going to try to mimick Ken's mockups as close as I can with a true gtk theme. If anyone here would like to help out with it email and we can take it offline. I'll start using the pixmap engine for things I can't get any current themes to make then attempt to alter some other engines to

Re: [ubuntu-art] Stop kickin' the dead horse - Create a full Union GTK theme.

2008-01-02 Thread Ken Vermette
I've tackled Emerald, I'll be honest and say I suck when it comes to the live conversion, so it could probably be done better. I'll post what I have done tomorrow the moment I get at my regular development machine (traveling). I'll also make a variation with an opaque content arera in case Cimis'