That was a development version. I think these will be the final toolbar gradients for a long time: http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/610/dust0917scrollbarsgradikz5.png [Nevermind the selected color -- I'm just trying out alternate colors to see if they work with the theme's new changes ;)]
Let me try to dispute all the gradient discussions once and for all. - Yes, there will be gradients. They won't be flat. - The look that Dust is trying to achieve is (1) modern, (2) clean, (3) sleek/slender, (4) neutral. The old Dust gradients (the round ones) achieve the 1st, but fails a little on 2nd, but is horrible at the 3rd. I think flats will only achieve (2). Even the original mockup will not look very sleek, IMHO, on certain setups (it looks nice with the small toolbar shown, but what about 2 fat toolbars?). The gradients shown in the latest screenshot above, I think, finally achieves all of those points. I think it looks fine even on a fat default nautilus setup (which the old Dust terribly fails at). Regarding colors: It'll be very hard to change them. I am considering toning down the BG color to be a bit darker, but I'm still deliberating on this. - I don't think it should get any darker than #D0D0D0 -- this is as off-white as things can get without being "light gray". - The highlight color should ideally be not-so-saturated to keep the sleek, subdued look. - I'd avoid a yellowish color for a highlight, too. I'd keep the default selected color as something more universally-likeable: that'd be something like blue, steel blue, or tan, or beige. I'm sorry if some of the directions the theme is headed is not to everyone's tastes. I hope you can imagine that having a big audience is quite hard. I'm trying hard to stick with the vision of Dust (not necessarily the mockup), and admittedly there's some bad judgement calls in there but I'm trying hard to keep things in line. An update will be out soon with these changes. For those still interested, keep posted. And thank you everyone for all the feedback and the comments, they really help! (Again it's a little hard to please everyone, but hey that's why some of the colors are adjustable ya'know.) Cheers! Rico Adam Gusztav Nagy wrote: > > hi, > > i checked out the latest release. i saw the toolbars have the gradients > again. Do you insist to them? IMO the flat bars definitly look better > and more professional. > > and talking about the colors i changed the selected bg color to #FFBD61 > and the bg_color to #CCC8C1, maybe you would like to consider them. > the selected color makes it more ubuntuish i think, and the background > color is darker, better for the eyes, and doesnt make a big contrast > with the toolbars wich makes it easier for the eyes. Please consider > them! > > http://m.blog.hu/os/osline/image/dustcolors.png > > Keep in mind if you change the selected color to mine, than you will get > big highlights on the metacity headers since it is a much lighter color. > > On the picture I also changed the padding (2-2) and the roundness (2) of > the selected menu items. > > Adam > > > > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 19:32 -0700, Rico Sta. Cruz wrote: >> Hi guys. First of all, I apologize for asking these here but I'm new to >> the >> community and I'm not sure on what the venue is for these sort of >> questions. >> >> I'm getting an error I can't explain: >> /home/rsc/.themes/Dust/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:43: Invalid symbolic color >> 'fg_color' >> /home/rsc/.themes/Dust/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:43: error: invalid identifier >> `fg_color', expected valid identifier >> >> They show up when my colors in the appearance dialog are set to default. >> However, when I change one a bit (say from #FFFFFF to #FFFFFE) just so >> it's >> not default, everything works fine. This is running Murrine, and the >> theme >> in question is in http://dump.ambiescent.com/i/Dust-20080917.tar.gz if >> anyone wishes to debug. >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/GTK-theme-help-tp19524364p19524364.html >> Sent from the ubuntu-art mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/GTK-theme-help-tp19524364p19531074.html Sent from the ubuntu-art mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
