My update to Ubuntu Light themes 26 August, 2010
Here I wrote about the latest changes to the Ubuntu Light themes. Please send your feedback to the design blog (not here!)
Posted in English, GTK, Murrine, Themes, Ubuntu |
Here I wrote about the latest changes to the Ubuntu Light themes. Please send your feedback to the design blog (not here!)
Posted in English, GTK, Murrine, Themes, Ubuntu |
26 August, 2010 alle 18:55
[...] Cimi [...]
26 August, 2010 alle 21:40
I’d be happy to comment about the new theme, I can’t seem be able to write anything, with Chrome I get:
“This webpage is not available.
The webpage at http://design.canonical.com/wp-comments-post.php might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.”
With other browsers I get slightly different errors, but I’m never able to write anything.
26 August, 2010 alle 21:44
The comments system is busted on the other blog.
27 August, 2010 alle 1:06
I have noticed it too… don’t know why. Tomorrow I’ll ping Iain Farrel on this
28 August, 2010 alle 2:31
The comment system is still broken for me on Canonical Design for some reason.
I’ll post my comment here, even if you asked us to do otherwise:
My feedback:
I really like this theme, so I’ll just list what doesn’t convince me completely:
1. The disabled entries in menus are still hard to read
2. The tick in small checkboxes (e.g. the ones in Startup Applications > Startup Programs) seems to be different from the one in larger checkboxes, the first one is dove gray, the latter (I prefer this one) is nutmeg. It looks inconsistent.
http://i.imgur.com/hBwvT.png
3. Text on progressbar should be white for consistency with other stuff like selected file in Nautilus.
http://i.imgur.com/QqdAQ.png
4. Objects selected in an inactive window are hard to discern from unselected ones; e.g. select few files in a nautilus window in list view mode, then select another windows. Can you easily tell which ones are selected?
http://i.imgur.com/20EOv.png
5. The trough behind the window buttons is so subtle it makes me wonder if it wouldn’t be better to remove it entirely; it would be also more consistent because right now, when there is only the close button, no trough is shown.
Again, wonderful work overall.
28 August, 2010 alle 3:30
Thanks for the feedback molok
10 September, 2010 alle 20:21
Hey Cimi, I had a question about RGBA shadows that is buried in the comments of the original post. You wrote…
“”Unfortunately, with the current technologies, shadows are drawn separately by the compositing manager, which draws a squared shadow around menus. The application (in our case the Gtk+ engine) has no way to tell the compositing manager to draw a particular shape. Furthermore, when the compositing manager detects a RGBA window, it does not draw any shadow at all.”
I’ve been using RGBA transparency on Gnome and Xfce and have been able to get Compiz shadows working well in both, so I was wondering what you meant. Here’s what it looks like in Gnome (I used a wall that showed both transparency and shadows well)…
http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/6754/screenshotxro.png
2 October, 2010 alle 14:28
Great job, all these improvements have made Ambiance and Radiance the best gtk themes ever!
What I just don’t like is the red of preselected buttons. The orange glove used in highlighted buttons is better.
And I don’t know why some buttons are grey (sad) and others white (happy), even if often they have the same function.
It would be great to see in Maverik updates applications like Totem following dark themes.
Absolutely waiting for the RGBA transparency in the Natty Narwal.
Keep going Cimi!