Re: [trinity-devel] R14 Artwork.

Here I leave two suggestions on further improving defaults. First, the "Knifty" window decorations + plastik, though a default would require adding the maximize button, which I just don't use - I just double click the title bar: http://postimg.com/image/58000/photo-57622.jpg Admittedly, this kind of light colored scheme may require some darkening to fit most monitor calibrations, since they tipically are too warm and the greys tend to blend together. Either way, just wanted to show Knifty to all, since it is a much cleaner and IMHO better looking decoration that's free from the glitter present in Keramik, Plastik and Crystal. If you like what you see I can further send screenshots of how inactive windows behave, though it's mostly through a softening of the grey color in the title bar, as also changing the font from black to grey as in the inactive apps are shown in the taskbar. Below, the background and settings I use for the taskbar, though a default would probably be better with a single row given the limited vertical pixel real estate of laptops of late. http://postimg.com/image/58000/photo-57623.jpg Here, while hovering the taskbar, which only has a slight bug in plastik that hinders the choice of background color for the taskbar if the "For Transparency" setting isn't used: http://postimg.com/image/58000/photo-57624.jpg The bug is merely a white pixel on the corners where the background color should be present: http://postimg.com/image/58000/photo-57625.jpg The Plastik style can definitely be improved upon and while I personally dislike Polyester, I found Lipstik rather nice, if similar to Plastik. I have also been experimenting with great success to use a vertical panel on 16:9 and 16:10 screens for easier access to commonly used apps and to host the KMenu button, though this is definitely a power user scenario that needs tweaking and further programming to work really well: http://postimg.com/image/58000/photo-57626.jpg My usage of this mode predates Ubuntu's Unity bar and has been liked and adopted by some of my friends from time to time, since otherwise it's screen real estate that's being wasted given that most web pages (for instance) are expected to only need 1024 horizontal pixels to show the full page. One other (slightly off-topic) suggestion I have is to completely disable sounds on TDE. The fact that the default desktop settings have a bunch of (IMHO) do nothing irritating sounds doesn't seem correct. Even the rest of the desktop (things like IM notifications) would be better if had no sounds associated but a good way of giving visual feedback since most times the desktop computer doesn't have speakers (at work) or are turned off in a laptop in a public environment. I think that a blinking taskbar button is mostly sufficient, which is mostly a present behavior in TDE when you disable popup notification windows. On the same vein, foregoing ARTS completely in a Linux environment where ALSA currently handles multiple sound sources well for a few years now may be of interest, though I don't know the implications of that. I have mostly been building my desktop without ARTS support and haven't really missed anything, in more than 2 years, since the media players have better ALSA backends already. Hoping to keep this discussion flowing. Best regards, Tiago On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: