Hi, As you may or may not know, few months back I went on mostly solo adventure to create new theme for openSUSE with aim to have it released alongside Leap 15.0. Since then I changed my mind and decided that instead of making fork of existing theme I will try to pitch you a new and probably better idea and ask for some help ;) I took a look at openSUSE's history with theming, looked at every previous iteration of looks openSUSE was given along the way, and decided that I in fact love Sonar. You see, Sonar was a GTK2 theme all about color green and gradients, one of those things aged well, another, not really. So I opened up my trusted inkscape and started coming up with ways to make this theme interesting and modern. When I was finished I sent two mockups (which differed in style quite a lot) to Breeze GTK creator without telling any context what-so-ever, and he instantly recognized them as that "theme that openSUSE used back in the days". So I got the most important parts covered. We also were complimenting elements of older styles and bashing Ambiance for being unimaginative and boring as dust. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/184821797307285504/436746195382173706... https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/184821797307285504/436746093007470592... Some elements of Sonar are really neat, others need to go. Gradients everywhere are just not fasionable nowadays, taking this screenshot as example: https://cn.pling.com/img/hive/content-pre3/128672-3.png We are much more keen on: - Pill shaped elements - Consistent rounded corners - Brighter colors - Circles - Lighter borders Things that we are still keen on: - Barber shop loading bars - List even element highlighting - Understandable and well known methaphors for existing elements (We are not Stanleys Kubricks to break well known conventions in favor of something ridiculous, it's still user usable UI) Another idea came from necessity, I really dislike Material Design's elements, some of them seem forced, but it's nice to have a style to base off of, that is when it hit me. I worked on "Fedora Live SIG" branding for Axel, because I wasn't the biggest fan of his previous results with elements of it. Then another person pointed out to me that style in which I designed "BRB" panel resembled old TV, colors, layout, everything. That way I found out about Strenuous 3D font which turned out to be inspiration to how I decided to design buttons. Material Design uses paper equivalents, however on press of button, button seemingly lifts up for some reason, I didn't like that, so I made up my own way of doing buttons with flat shadows in 50s-70s style. That way button is visibly convex, which causes it to be way more accessible to people from UX point of view. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/184821797307285504/436755576010047488... https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/184821797307285504/436750615213899776... Aim is to deliver GTK2/3 themes with support for other DEs as well, although Gnome is the one Desktop that I expect this theme's to debut. So what now, well, plan is to finish this before Leap 15.1 in a year or so, work on this will most likely start saturday on #opensuse-artwork@matrix.org channel, because we need image previews and irc is not perfect for this kind of stuff ;) See you then, 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