15 Jan
2012
15 Jan
'12
7:02 p.m.
2012/1/15 Darrell Anderson <humanreadable(a)yahoo.com>om>:
I'd opt on using Polyester rather than
Plastik. It's pretty
much
plastik updated.
5). Color styles: atm we don't provide good looking dark
theme. And by
good looking i mean kinda like ubuntu one.
Besides like I said the default one i a little too bright
IMHO.
I am old fashioned about my desktop. I never liked the plastik or keramik styles, I
don't like the new oxygen designs, I don't like metal sheens. I use the KDE
Classic Style and KDE2 window decorations. I still enjoy Crystal SVG icons. I don't
use wallpaper. My point?
I ask that you focus on ADDING new artwork and not taking away.
When designing new artwork, please remember that us old farts like what we have. :) That
is, new is good but old is good too. There is plenty of room in this world for both. :)
Otherwise I want to encourage all artists to have fun with this!
Darrell
We don't plan on removing anything. Plan is: add new artwork and
default artwork settings that would appeal as modern and eye-candy to
new users.
For a while I have been pondering the cosmetic and
artwork related changes
we should try and work on for R14. Unlike most
projects, we are rather
nostalgic, so going flat out new won't work
for us. A
new default theme or
such is not advisable. Users won't like it. I
think we
should instead focus
on creating an improved R14 style. A theme
consists
of: Backgrounds, Color
Schemes, Fonts, Icons, Window Decorations, Widget
Styles, and Screensavers.
These don't need drastic revision, instead
they need
careful changes to help
reflect our goals. Speed simplicity and
customization
are my top priorities.
What do we need to improve? My vote is this
What I'd do: darken a little our current default theme. The
colors are
a little too much bright IMHO.
Anyway I think we should look what the tendencies in other
DE/OSes
are, what users like and go that way.
What we should avoid is making trinity look old. And by old
I mean
things like win9x, cde, and things like that.
We should rework too our default layouts. Form what I've
see the
current tendency is to minimalize GUI elements, remove
extra toolbars
and icons on them and maximize actual workspace. I did it
on my
trinity installation and it works well. The rule I used is:
if I can
access a particular function through r-click, I don't need
a button on
toolbar. If I don't use it frequently I don't need it on
toolbar.
Those 2 rules left my with pretty much addres bar and
back/forward
buttons.
1) New backgrounds - Our defaults are out of date
and
I don't really like
them, Every new release should see some fresh
artwork.
Users can keep the
old one if the prefer it. These need to be
pleasant to
view and also look
modern. (not to glossy though).
As I worte some time ago I could provide some photos as
backgrounds.
You can see them at my page (http://l0ner.github.com/photoblog/).
Actually I prepared some of those in widescreen wallpaper
format. I
need only to upload those somewhere.
2) Improved Window Decorations - I am not a fan
of
plastic. I am a fan of
the KDE2 window decoration. Either way we should
set
about making sure the
default on is in tip top shape and has max
configuration. Should we keep
plastic as our default deco?
Plastic is fine. We should totally avoid using Keramik,
since it's way
too big and... strange(?). Window deco IMHO should be slim
and almost
unnoticable. Kermaik isn't.
As it goes for KDE2 deco, it looks a little too much
outdated and
old-school (reminds me kinda of the win 9x style). Make the
buttons
flat, give it rounded corners and it should look more
modern.
3) Icons - I think we are OK with these. Some
icons
may need to be looked
over in our crystal svg set. I want to maximize
visual
efficiency of our
icons. Some may be unclear or hard to see at
different
sizes. This should be
lo
4) Styles - I would like to see Plastik expanded by
including more options,
especially to remove stippled drawing on the
tabs. any
thoughts?
I think we should start thinking about this now,
since
this release will be
mostly bug fixes, changes like this could also be
slipped in.
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