[opensuse-artwork] Re: [opensuse-project] openSUSE Desktop Thememing
On Wednesday 2018-01-24 21:46, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Wednesday 2018-01-24 20:50, Stasiek wrote:
I was instructed by Ludwig a few weeks back to post about Themes here [..] I committed a theme, so openSUSE may not be just great working, but also great looking. It is also a part of the greater Leap 15.0 branding preparations [..] [..] is it something that may interest you and do you want to have that in your system from the start, to make it look and feel nice?
At present, the Geeko theme has several issues (intentional or not) that get in the way, without even talking about specific colors or what "nice" even means.
* http://inai.de/geeko1.png - what Geeko looks on 42.3 XFCE * http://inai.de/ra.png - what I have used, to my surprise, for 6 years straight
In metatheme-geeko-common-1.0-3.1.noarch gtk3-metatheme-geeko-1.0-3.1.noarch gtk2-metatheme-geeko-1.0-3.1.noarch, 1. One can hardly tell which window is the one having focus. The active and inactive window only differ in the color of the window title text, and only minimally so. 2. The window title bar buttons for Minimize, Maximize and Close all look the same when not hovered over. With window managers offering free reordering of these buttons, it is impossible to tell which is which. There appears to be a minimal change in Green value, but is so slight that at first I put it off as a TFT monitor viewing angle artifact, but GIMP confirmed my theory. 3. Rollup and Stick look totally different from Minimize/Maximize/Close. 4. The borders around widgets like text entry fields and buttons is barely noticable. 5. No borders at all around notebook tabs. 6. The general window background is white-ish, but the taskbar is darkgray. That is a rather unusual choice, and might be an error. 7. Geeko-Darker is actually brighter than Geeko-Dark; the browser tab bar and text entry fields have lightgray/white background. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org
1. One can hardly tell which window is the one having focus. The active and inactive window only differ in the color of the window title text, and only minimally so.
Main difference between focused and unfocused windows are supposed to be colours of titlebar buttons/text and size of shadows around windows.
2. The window title bar buttons for Minimize, Maximize and Close all look the same when not hovered over. With window managers offering free reordering of these buttons, it is impossible to tell which is which. There appears to be a minimal change in Green value, but is so slight that at first I put it off as a TFT monitor viewing angle artifact, but GIMP confirmed my theory.
I'm definetly in advantage by using IPS monitors exclusively. Even if I'm person that does most of his work with his eyes, I don't think I have ever looked at "x", "+" or "-" while trying to do any of asociated actions. And honestly, that is the first time I have heard that critisizm, in fact first one ever was "make top buttons more like green macOS" (which was something taken out of Geekos previous iterations). I see where you are coming from, but those buttons serve function of use and not function of being readable representation of themselves. I would say, if that is something you would like to see, I can make that happen, but I can see you being alone in thinking that it's a good idea ;) I would though consider colour change to something like https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/184821797307285504/406155377143447553... if you think that it's nice ;)
3. Rollup and Stick look totally different from Minimize/Maximize/Close.
3 main buttons and two support buttons. I guess though stick should be pin or circle icon to differenciate from new maximize button which will be plus. Also 3 is a lucky number ;)
4. The borders around widgets like text entry fields and buttons is barely noticable.
Most important part of signification between background and text entry/buttons is different background colour.
5. No borders at all around notebook tabs.
Only the highlighted tab should have border, like with Bootstrap. https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/components/navs/#tabs
6. The general window background is white-ish, but the taskbar is darkgray. That is a rather unusual choice, and might be an error.
It is supposed to be that way.
7. Geeko-Darker is actually brighter than Geeko-Dark; the browser tab bar and text entry fields have lightgray/white background.
Browser like Firefox? You need to restart FF every time you change themes because it preserves parts of themes during change. It's easier for me to manage those things on github with issues, so next time try to do it that way ;) LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org
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