i really like the new soft gradient toolbars! i hope they will work with more than one toolbar as well. Nice work, post the new pack soon!
Adam On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 05:32 -0700, Rico Sta. Cruz wrote: > 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
