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
On Dec 30, 2007 7:57 AM, Anton Kerezov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nice one Ken! Keep up the good work.
>
> В нд, 2007-12-30 в 09:09 -0500, Ken Vermette написа:
> > The second version of the Union mockup is up, with sources and
> > alternate wallpapers. Widgets will be coming in the next upload,
> > within the next few days.
> >
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/Union
> >
> > Anyway, suggestions, comments, all is fair game. Please explain any
> > suggestions in detail so I know the logic behind it, and how to best
> > implement ideas.
> >
> > Heads-up that mid-January I'm going to be unavailable for about 3
> > months, and afterwards I'll be spotty for another literal year. After
> > the 3-month mark I will be making updates, but they will be nowhere
>
> > near as frequent.
> >
> > Cheers!
> > -Ken Vermette
>
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