Ken Vermette wrote: > I like the way you've used the brown and made it feel very light. > Also, the way elements will use two tones of brown is very appealing. > > The first impression when I look at the theme though, is that it's > looking at what else looks good - and patches all these looks > together. In the end, individually all the pieces look good on their > own, but the theme itself looks a like patchwork. Yeah, I tend to do something that looks good but doesn't work. Needs a step back to realise that it needs to get the chop. Candycain is gone now as is button gloss, textured title bar (I liked it but it didn't fit really). > > What the theme really needs (in my personal opinion) is some basic or > structure to go by, more consistency. > > For example, something like the outlines. Here's the different styles > I've counted in the lines alone: > > - 2px, dark brown (Active Window) > - 1px, dark brown (Inactive Window) > - 1px black (Panels) > - 1px light brown (Dropdown, inner content-box) > - 1px gray (panel inactive window) > > You have gray, black, several shades of brown... The outlines could > technically work - but there's no real pattern to it. There's two drop > downs and while everything else is identical about them, they have 2 > styles of outline... It's just what looks best for each individual > element. Try making some sort of pattern or structure for it like you > had before, for example, heres some possible rules: You do have a point in some of the cases - I've redone it with an eye to balancing out the colours. I kinda discarded the palette and went with what looked good as finding browns that would work are a nightmare. I actually liked the 2px border on the active window, but too many people hated it for it to keep :(
The subwindow dropdown has to have a lighter colour than the main system menu or it overpowers everything. The inactive panel window is just the main window at 80% opacity and without the darkening on the controls - it should be identical apart from that. I've done an update - at the usual place. Sorry to hear about your laptop too :( -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
