Ad 4):
Why not use clear- and ubuntulooks? I am using the hacked clearlooks
with ubuntulooks-menus and menubar-items.
It looks nice (my opinion...). The colors are OK, I think...

cheers
Am Montag, den 28.01.2008, 13:01 +0100 schrieb Kenneth Wimer:

> Hi all,
> 
> This mail attempts to clear up some issues in the art direction for Hardy 
> Ubuntu. As already stated we will not be changing things radically. Here are 
> some of the things I would like to see changed and some possible ideas for 
> them.
> 
> 1) Wallpaper: Ideally dark and mysterious yet modern, clear and clean
>     a) It should use the palette (in a previous post, email me if you missed 
> it)
>     b) If nothing else, we will continue to use the elephant background for 
> Hardy.
> 
> 2) GDM: Lighter, friendlier than the wallpaper but inline as far as artwork 
> goes.
>     a) Until now we have used a different background image for GDM (ie not 
> the 
> wallpaper). I would like to see Ubuntu use a common look for the entire 
> experience (usplash throuh GDM, Desktop) but this is not a definite *must 
> have* for Hardy. If possible we can work towards this.
> 
> 3) 2D Panel Icons: simplified panel icons - those on the right side, some 
> (me) 
> might call them system tray icons :-) I've looked into using an etched look 
> for these as well as a very simple 2D look. I'll be posting these images 
> later today so we can look into the possiblities and discuss them.
> 
> 4) Murrine or Clear Looks as a GTK/WinDeco theme. The overall look should not 
> change radically, and in any case the colors should be very similar, perhaps 
> moving slightly to a bit more orange version (but only slightly).
>     a) I would like to use a theme in which one can change the colors (not 
> possible using the older style gtkrc). Ideas have been posted based on the 
> clear looks engine but they have the problem that the selected menu items 
> look too pale/light compared to what we have now and each toolbar/menubar/etc 
> has a line between them. Murrine seems to be the most flexible theme, perhaps 
> it would be the way to go.
> 
> In addition to all of this we have lots of bugs with icons: menu icons, and 
> especially the package related icons in the System menu. I'd like to see some
> 
> Look forward to more of this in the future :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken
> 

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