> >> * 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. > > I tried adding a more visible bottom border - 5 px with some > highlights. I think this works ok... > > Updated metacity theme attached. I added two new draw_ops, > "draw_bottom_frame_inactive" and "draw_bottom_frame_normal" and > applied them to the window bottom of frame_style_normal_focused and > frame_style_normal_unfocused. That is all. > > Screen shot: http://grillbar.org/tmp/dust-metacity-tweak-1.png > > The extra highlight on the focused window also makes it easier to > distinguish... At least to my olde eyes :-)
We've dropped the dark statusbars (it causes too many apps to look weird), so I just made it look more borderless, something like: http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/5070/screenshotfj3.png Bottom border has height of 4. I'll check what you've done anyway. > > >> * 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? > > Yeah, try a few things out. Drag handles might be enough visual clue... > > And more issues while we are at it :-) > > * Progress bars are glossy and candy striped. This seems out of sync > with the rest of the theme. > > * Ditto for list view headers > But I want my progress bars shiny! :( On a more serious note, we'll see if we change it. The glossy stuff were carry-overs from the Aurora version of the theme. The theme at the wiki has been updated; try it. :D -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
