2008/9/13 Kido Mariano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> * 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.
Ok. I see that you do indeed have bottom borders in the borderless version... However me missing also illustartes that other people are likely to do so too. I think the dark bottom border like I did has more a visual clue that you can use that area to resize the window. And it actually looks good ;-P >> >> * 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. Ok, fair enough. It just looks a little odd to me. Nothing earth shattering though... Maybe I am just bike shedding :-) Just installed the theme. I had to comment out the 'style = MURRINE' parts because it doesn't work with the latest murrine... I'll give the new scrollbars a whirl and see if I can work with them. -- Cheers, Mikkel -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
