On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 22:30 +0200, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > 2008/9/12 Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, I just installed dust from kwwii's community themes package and > > have to say it is great. I still have a problem with invisible fonts > > on the menu bar, but even with that minor glitch this is my favorite > > theme from this development cycle so far. > > > > http://code.bearfruit.org/~matt/tmp/menu-bar.png That's Thunderbird, right? That doesn't work well with the theme, unufortunately.
> > I'll join the choir :-) I've been dog fooding it for a week now and I > still love it. Clean, professional, and original. > > There are a few items (nothing we can't fix though) which I would change... > > * A subtle border around menus. Menus have a bit much of "flat black > square"-feel to it. Some subtle borders would alleviate this Not sure how we do this. > > * The highlight on the menu items. Make it extend over the entire > menu entry. Right now now there is a small border around the selected > item Will do this. > > * Maybe (_maybe_) a more visible gradient on the selected menu items > (this might break the subtle simplicity of the theme though, so it > should be checked...) > > * Window titles needs to be centered to look properly in RTL languages Will do this. > > * I like the Borderless metacity theme the most, it looks lighter and > more elegant in my eyes. It is darn hard to resize the windows with > the borderless variant though. Perhaps adding a bottom border for > easier resizing? I think someone played with adding a subtle gradient > on the bottom border... Maybe it was New Wave, Anton? The bottom border is already large in the borderless theme; however, you still get diagonal resizing only at 1x3(?) corner pixels, which is still quite a pain in windows without handles. > > * The scrollbars colors... They somehow confuse my 33% of the times I > use them. My mind tells me that the slider is in the most light part > of the scroll bar. This is especially in windows where the slider > length is bigger than the free space in the scroll bar A lot of people have complained about this. Maybe we can add drag handles instead? > > * The scrollbar look... I feel that the scrollbars without the > endcaps and flat slider does not live up to the professionalism I feel > the rest of the theme. It is hard to put precise words on this. > Sorry... > > -- > Cheers, > Mikkel > The theme at the wiki will always be newer than the one at the repo; please get the theme from there when I update it. Kido -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
