On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 13:12 +0200, Jakub Steiner wrote:
For a couple of releases we haven't changed the widget and window decoration theme, at least on the GNOME side. I like being conservative about something that needs to be mainly readable and you'll be staring at for a long time, but it really is time to refresh that.
The current GNOME theme was from Spring 2006, so I'd agree ;-)
I've given an initial stab at a metatheme and brought together the dark grey and green elements we've had in the boot and splash screens. There are some contrast issues when using a dark widget theme, however, so the dark grey is reserved only for the panel and application menus. We probably want to provide an alternative color scheme as well as having a greenish widget theme, greenish WM decorations and a green wallpaper may be too much SUSE for some people to handle :) Will work with Garrett LeSage on this.
You can grab and test the theme out[2]. You will need to checkout and install the Murrine theme engine from svn trunk (gnome svn).
Sounds good to me, I'll give the theme a look soon ;-)
Something that relates to widgets quite closely are fonts. Garrett LeSage proposed to use the Apache licensed Droid font family as a default in place of Dejavu for 11.2. Aaron Bockover already packaged it for openSUSE[3] so you can try it out. The sans-serif variant is a great screen font, with a more compact metrics than Dejavu. I agree we should push for the switch.
Also Jakub, what would you like to do with the Pixel Pool? We had some good ideas for 11.1, do you still want to use it to solicit designs for the wallpaper, bootsplash, etc. or would you like to do something else for those? -- Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy openSUSE Member www.twitter.com/KevinDupuy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org