[Fwd: Re: New Fedora GTK Theme (Screenshot)]

Andrea Cimitan cimi86 at alice.it
Wed Nov 15 20:17:53 UTC 2006


Il giorno Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:44:15 -0500
"Steve Barnhart" <stb52988 at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> hmm I like murrine for the coloring of the toolbar/menu bar but
> everything else seems to "soft" or please excuse me, but idk
> "feminine", coming from a guy's perspective. Not that it doesn't look
> nice, but I find it looks messy when task entries are excessively
> rounded and the button gradient/color doesn't really appeal to me. I
> guess I just widely prefer a more "glass" look and definitely Apple's
> look.
> 
It's just a color scheme... contrast, roundness and glaze can be
modified simply editing gtkrc of the theme.

> Is there a chance the buttons/selection can be given more of a glass
> look without looking over-done? I also like the way Windows XP does
> its buttons or the KDE polyester theme[1] (even though I have my
> problems with that). Its good though that grey is making its way out,
> it has been WAY overused and makes Linux look old and outdated. Keep
> up the good work though!
> 
> 1. http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=27968
> 
This theme is absolutely *ugly*...
Sorry i don't like it.

> 
> On 11/15/06, Máirín Duffy <duffy at redhat.com> wrote:
> > including the art team in the discussion
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Andrea Cimitan <cimi86 at alice.it>
> > To: fedora-desktop-list at redhat.com
> > Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:30:27 +0100
> > Subject: Re: New Fedora GTK Theme (Screenshot)
> > Il giorno Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:48:11 -0500
> > Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> ha scritto:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 17:17 +0100, Andrea Cimitan wrote:
> > > > I think fedora could _at least_ add murrine to a repository, and
> > > > then I can provide a fantastic color scheme for the fedora
> > > > desktop.
> > > It sounds interesting.  Can you put together a theme that uses
> > > your engine that has fedora-ish colors?
> > >
> > > David, what do think?  You might want to bring this up on the
> > > fedora-art list, too, so you can get some input from the fedora
> > > artists.
> > >
> > > --Ray
> >
> > Click to see my first screenshot of murrine with a simple fedora
> > colorscheme...
> >
> > http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/7726/previewml7.jpg
> >
> > Impressions???
> >
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