Tue 7 Jun 2005
I was a bit bored and getting sick of the hard edges on all my windows so I decided to take the new Planet Gnome look and mock up a theme with it. I liked the understated gradients and wanted to mock up a theme that showed how we might achive more of a flow between elements. I’m not saying I succeeded because I am no great artist but hopefully it will get some of our great artists thinking what the next generation themes could look like given the advanced rendering features currently being hacked on. And yes I fully admit this is all cracktastic.
The before shot of evince:
The mockup of evince:
Ignore the washed out white and the wasted space as those are just issues with my art skills. It is really just an idea but I would like to see cleaner themes where the window flows much better instead of windows that look like a collection of elements.
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June 7th, 2005 at 10:19 pm
Forget the new theme; I want to pick up some of those rounded tax forms.
June 7th, 2005 at 11:24 pm
I love it, can someone please make it as a theme
June 8th, 2005 at 12:44 am
Hot theme dude… when is it going to be ready?
June 8th, 2005 at 2:46 am
The whole new Evince window looks unfocused to me–as in, this is what the window looks like when it is not the current window. I get the impression that a focused window in the new theme would look substantially different somehow.
Also, I don’t think that it is wise for apps to mess with the document in the way shown here: the rounded tax form suggests that all PDFs will get rounded edges. Particularly for PDFs (Evince is rather like a print preview), I want my documents to show up as they are laid out to be, square corners and all.
Aesthetically, I don’t care for the rounded corners on everything, but in some ways I can appreciate the consistency you appear to be shooting for. I like more functional themes — I’d like to know where the edges of the previous/next buttons are so I know what to aim for when I go to press them. I can’t really make out where I should go to resize the window either. Sometimes windows have a grippy in the lower right corner, sometimes it’s just the edges of the window. I end up with a lot of maximized windows because this lack of information prevents me from effectively using multiple non-maximized windows.
I wish GNOME or Metacity (or whatever program commonly used with GNOME does this task) made it possible to get wider window sizing edges, scroll buttons, and scroll wells, and a taller minimum size scroll bar. If controlling these things is within the purview of a theme, please consider allowing the user to set these things for their account. My aging eyes aren’t getting any more sharp.
June 11th, 2005 at 5:07 am
Ooooh, I want I want I want.
Are you spending much time of fedora-devel list? There’s a lot of discussion about init systems and after your DBUS init talk, it’d be nice to have your input.
June 11th, 2005 at 12:36 pm
I was following it. One of the interns at Red Hat has been assigned to look at init. We are going to meet with him next week to show him what we have done and point him in the direction we were thinking of going. He should then be the person who will be involved in these descussions. Right now I have my head deep in D-Bus and other more desktop oriented stuff.
June 16th, 2005 at 6:16 am
I like those wasted spaces… they relax the eye. Keep’em in the theme