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/184821797307285504/43674619538217370…https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/184821797307285504/43674609300747059…
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/184821797307285504/43675557601004748…https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/184821797307285504/43675061521389977…
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(a)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
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Hello!
I have updated the image and release date for 15.1 release May 25th.
I made a PR in the GitHub repo.
Here you can check a preview:
http://susepaste.org/53310973
Please feel free to update, improve, fix. Also feel free to merge or not.
've phun!
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Hi listmates!
Where can I find the svg file of Leap 15 wallpaper?
Thanks in advance!
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