Those reflections are pretty nice. The more subtle elements are good if people are genuinely moving away from gloss. I think gentle curves for reflections are better, we have enough hard edges on the screen as it is.
tonic On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 00:21 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > On 06/11/2007, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > On 06/11/2007, Kenneth Wimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 06 November 2007 16:12:12 Andrea Cimitan > wrote: > > I can confirm those words another time. ;) > > Diagonal stripes could be fun when you have a lot of > buttons with a > > fixed aspect (see gcalctool for example), but when > you have an app with > > a lot of buttons of various aspects (some thin, some > fat etc etc) the > > result is a _really_ boring theme. Unconsinstent > too. > > > > Don't waste your time now ;) > > > > I agree completely with this. It might look nifty in a > certain mockup but I am > not sure it would be good in a real theme. > > > To late I already tried it out ;-P > > I agree that the look gets confusing with various size > buttons, because you get diagonal reflections in all sorts of > different angles - this makes it confusing for the eye. > > I am going to try a few other alternative gradients - diagonal > alternatives (fx fixed tilt) and some inspired by circle > projections. > > I have some preliminary results put up on: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MikkelKamstrupErlandsen/HardyThemeStorm > > But is just a *very* quick hack only aimed at testing various > reflections. > > > > I will put up some more over the next days. If other people are > intersted in theme-engine-hacking I suggest you take a quick look at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MikkelKamstrupErlandsen/ThemeEngineTricks - > which should get you going pretty quickly. > > Cheers, > Mikkel -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art