2008/7/24 Duncan Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/7/23 Salane Ashcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Read this article everyone. It is interesting. >> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9419 >> We do indeed need to step it up! But at least we have made more >> progress here latley! >> >> > I absolutely agree with the article, and Mark. A few weeks ago I posed a > question but got no reply, but I'll repeat it again in case it's relevant: > > Hi All, > > I have some thoughts, for what they're worth, about the direction and > concepts that Intrepid could take. > > Firstly, if we're going to go orange then I think we should be careful > about going too orange. A theme should stay in the background and enhance > the focal point, ie the content. An overwhelming, or high contrast theme is > a distraction - no matter how pretty it is. Orange is not a background > colour! I think it should be the foreground colour - ie title text, titlebar > buttons - close, minimize etc. This would also make the orange more > striking, instead if drowning the user in it. > > Ever listened to a beautiful Chopin? Where it ends with a note, a pause, > then solfly, the final note - perfection. This last note is what a theme > should feel like. This is what Apple consistantly get right. > > Secondly, we seem to be thinking along the lines of "What does an Ibex look > like?" as a cue for the themes. Perhaps we should be thinking about "What is > it like to be an Ibex?". > > I think Intrepid provides a great opportunity to break the mold and take > that last note from Apple! What does an Ibex see when it opens its eyes up > there in the mountains? What does it feel like to breathe that crisp, clean > mountain air? Or munch on that green grass or drink that clear, icy water? > > Feel like perfection? I think so. > > I've uploaded a screenshot of my current theme which is along these lines > at http://readitsideways.com/screenshot.jpg > > This is based on the googol theme at gnome-look.org so the titlebar > buttons are googlish, but perhaps we could take a cue from the Ubuntu logo > and also use circles, but in the logo colours and make the circle thickness > the same as the logo's circle thickness? > > If anyone else thinks that this is a direction worth persuing I'll do a > mock up, and then a theme. > > > Regards > > Duncan >
also see: http://readitsideways.com/Screenshot.png<http://readitsideways.com/screenshot.jpg> http://readitsideways.com/Screenshot-1.png<http://readitsideways.com/screenshot.jpg> http://readitsideways.com/Screenshot-2.png<http://readitsideways.com/screenshot.jpg> for some variations.. Duncan
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