Nodoka theme engine
Matthias Clasen
mclasen at redhat.com
Fri Jul 13 05:25:18 UTC 2007
I have used your Nodoka rpms for a day now, and have to say that the
theme looks pretty reasonable and is nice to use. Of course, there
are some smaller and bigger nits to pick, otherwise I wouldn't write
this mail...
- I strongly believe the blue prelight color for scrollbars is wrong
and needs to go. It is just too distracting for a default theme. A
lot of people were happy when we dropped it from Clearlooks.
- I also think that the blue background on selected radio and check
buttons should be reconsidered, for the same reasons. Since they
are much smaller than scrollbars and don't change their color from
grey to blue on mouseover, the problem is less prominent here,
admittedly.
- Button prelighting feels a _bit_ too subtle to me, compared to
the strong prelighting in toolbars. This can be seen clearly
in an application like gcalctool.
- The diffent grays in the background of menus vs the rest of the
application looks wrong.
- Even though using a dedicated theme engine may give you the
most freedom to tweak things, but I'd consider carefully if
you really want to maintain a forked codebase long-term, if
it is just for recolorable scrollbars and some changed defaults.
Alternatively, you could try to get whatever you feel is missing
folded back into the murrine engine.
Matthias
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