Re: New theme proposal for GNOME 2.4 default look

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

 --- Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org> wrote: 
> Hi people,
> The GNOME 2.x philosophy is that less is more. Based on that I have
> worked hard to create a theme that truly embodies that idea so that it
> can become the default theme for GNOME 2.4.
> 
> After reading Havoc's document on good UI design until my eyes bleed I
> managed to see what we all have been looking for. Due to that I would
> like to name the first release of the GNOME Colony theme "Havoc's
> dream".
> 
> You find a screenshot of Colony 0.1 here:
> http://www.gnome.org/~uraeus/colony-screen.jpg
> 

Well, as things stand, its clearly less usable as it assumes people know in which
order the 3 buttons on the window bar are ordered as there is no visual feedback.
You will volunteer to take lots of screenshots should this get selected, right?

On teh purely visual side - it looks too mechanical and metallic for my taste,but it
could be just me 

> 
> Colony graphics are made  by Mike Bryant
> -- 
> Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>
> P.S. This might be first and last release of Colony :)
> 

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