Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > On 07/11/2007, *Troy James Sobotka* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > <SNIP> > 2) The heavy Crayola outlining of all buttons / tabs / etc. is > completely counter any notion of elegance or grace. It is perhaps > the weakest element of Tango, and it simply makes work look > bold and clunky. Assuming a general audience, we can assume that > they can find a button with a fine line. Please let the caustic > outlines of Clearlooks / Tango / et al die. It is just weak. > > > > I somewhat agree with you. I think Tango is great, but I don't think > that it is "Ubuntuish" in any way. Hi Mikkel! I'm not sure what kind of elegance you are looking for, but a good point for giving a tango-styled icon theme a shot is that is what GNOME upstream is using and a whole bunch of 3rd party developers. [1]. I haven't seen another style for GNOME with the same coverage yet. I think it would be really cool if we could start focusing on the final focus on the remaining bits instead of the 12-14 base icons over and over again. Mike Beltzner recently pointed out that the interface unpredictability was the reasoning behind giving Firefox 3 the Vista look on Linux. We're working that issue out with them though. I find the Pages/Numbers interface [2] and the work of Jasper [3] quite nice and find it quite elegant. I guess what I find most attractive about Apple's interfaces is the fact that it's clean. No icons in neither menus or pushbuttons and smart designed interfaces.
I like the work Kenneth and others have done on Oxygen, but I'm afraid it's something that is KDE4 specific and I think the aim is for it to be included in Kubuntu in Hardy+1. 1. http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Showroom 2. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Pages3.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/Numbers.png 3. http://www.jasperhauser.nl/icon/ - Andreas > > > 3) The radius of Patel's buttons is a lovely compliment of both > subtlety and other features is wonderful. The subtlety of the > linework is something to aim for. Even the buttons could use > some lightening on the lines. Metacity 2.0 can even do the windows > to a similar radii, but the antialiasing makes it rather clunky > looking. We would need to resolve this to go with that lovely > radius on the windows. > > > There is some elegance in the Oxygen screenshot Günther posted here > (mostly the top one) > http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/2007/11/decisionsdecisionsdecisions-so-many.html > > I do not feel ashamed of being inspired by other artists. Both oxygen > and openmoko contains some good stuff I think we should let us inspire > by. We can still move in an original direction if the original > inspiration was found in other work. > > > 4) The uniform Metacity to GTK Patel window is top shelf, even if > a bit > OSX. Another +1 from me. > > > What image are you refering to here? > > 5) I dare say that I disagree with the esteemed MacSlow on the > point of > differing radii on the various controls. Contrast is a wonderful > thing. And god knows we have lived long enough in the > monochromatic > Ubuntu world. > > > +1 Visual contrast of forms is a way to make the widgets more > distinct. Doing it too much results in visual clutter -- needles to say. > > 6) Glossy is done like dinner. It is completely mooky to keep > following > that path, as it was way back in Edgy. > > > Sorry, but I don't understand that sentence. Are you for or againt > gloss? :-) > > Back to work, cheers > Mikkel > -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
