4.3 Theming

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nancy reagan · #21 Post by **nancy reagan** » Thu 10 Sep 2009, 17:04

Given things can be given back (e.g. if you do not linbe them at all).

However if Barry stays stubborn about the gggr ey in the last 4 issue (would have been more businesslike to stay in line with at least the blue of its predessors in the 4 series. After that, in the 5 series, he can switch to gggr ....ey - and stick to it - and not change color and/or desktop every update - .

The green green grass of home ...

Well grey is very depressing to me (they are going to paint this flatbuilding grey as in Eastern Germany) therefore I suggest to pay extra notice to the BRIGHTNESS COLORS OF THE ICONS

That said I suggest for the 5 series to distinguish between the updates by colour of the iconsm, or just a bar or a unique symbol ?

Newcomers might go astray with all those distroes.

It is something like packing a diamond (=Puppy) into a tupperware plastic box

dejan555 · #22 Post by **dejan555** » Fri 11 Sep 2009, 16:05

Just a thought...

I'd make it look something like this, not exactly this wallpaper, but something similar, clean vector one with pleasant colors, yet that looks professional too. I think I saw screenshot in other thread with one that would match perfectly. I just made that jwm theme imitating similar "chocolate theme" for fluxbox.

Click for full size^^

Sylvander · #23 Post by **Sylvander** » Fri 11 Sep 2009, 16:27

Nice, but somewhat extreme [in color depth].

A little more subtlety required.

dejan555 · #24 Post by **dejan555** » Fri 11 Sep 2009, 17:30

Yes, like I said, some simple vector wall, I made that one just to show concept, what I had in mind.

nancy reagan · #25 Post by **nancy reagan** » Fri 11 Sep 2009, 18:13

I like your warm background color Dejan.

Though all the different colors of the icons make it a bit chaotic.

I miss the puppy eyes.

01micko · #26 Post by **01micko** » Fri 11 Sep 2009, 22:14

Hmmm,

So people want colour?

What about these variants on the original brushed metal puppy wallpaper?

Bronze, steel, gold and copper.

Cheers

craftybear · #27 Post by **craftybear** » Fri 11 Sep 2009, 22:52

01micko wrote:What about these variants on the original brushed metal puppy wallpaper?

Bronze, steel, gold and copper.

Put 'em ALL IN!

How much can it add anyway? I've seen similar sets of papers (without the logo of course) for OpenSUSE and Ubuntu as well, although the latter only changes the shade of brown.

01micko · #28 Post by **01micko** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 00:41

Well I've been playing with the gold image....

So, what we have here is brushed-gold.jpg as the wall, japan-pup-icons.pet from puppy-look.tk, gradient brown GTK theme already in puppy, and Light Looks Gold JWM theme from puppy-look.tk, oh and changed text colour under icons to the background window colour ( a very light grey-brown) with black thick shadow.

I think it looks sophisticated yet simple... colourful without being garish. The icons seem to suit it somehow.

Thoughts?

James C · #29 Post by **James C** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 05:06

Nice combo.......

DaveS · #30 Post by **DaveS** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 05:35

James C · #31 Post by **James C** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 05:44

That is the exact wallpaper and icons I'm running on 4.24, you have great taste.

01micko · #32 Post by **01micko** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 13:09

ttuuxxx you were right! Barry will change the wall on a whim! That's ok... I have a cool alternative to the default in 4.3beta3... well not me but our friend jebaJQ8... the "ocean" wallpaper.. posted a few days ago on the wallpaper thread.

Cheers!.

#33 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 14:06

Hi mick

That wallpaper is nice, but if the image and logo is over water, then ummmmmmmmmmm shouldn't it also have a mirror image on the water kind of faded out, maybe even rippled effect?
ttuuxxx

#34 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 14:22

I was thinking like this

ttuuxxx

01micko · #35 Post by **01micko** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 14:37

Ok then...

dejan555 · #36 Post by **dejan555** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 15:20

That's cool

dogone · #37 Post by **dogone** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 19:19

ttuuxxx wrote:I was thinking like this
ttuuxxx

Hey ttuuxxx, that reflection looks a bit on the devilish side. We don't want to scare the kids. Can you soften the ripples a bit and fix the physics?

dejan555 · #38 Post by **dejan555** » Sat 12 Sep 2009, 21:02

Well, I see we're back to good ol' blue again, this is the best I can come up with:

Wallpaper | 1024x768 | JPG | 39 KB | Link
Iconset: Lagadesk-Bluenight
JWM Theme attached, made with jwm theme maker

DaveS · #39 Post by **DaveS** » Sun 13 Sep 2009, 05:12

Yep Dejan, that is about as blue as it gets

sinc · #40 Post by **sinc** » Tue 15 Sep 2009, 02:43

@dejan: I posted this on the beta3 thread but maybe this is the better place for it.

i love your blue theme suggestion but with that icon set the mounted icon doesn't change with the rest of the icons. you can even see it in your picture - sdb2 is a different icon. and if you mount one of the other drives it gives no indication it is mounted.

but thats the theme i would vote for.

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4.3 Theming

Grey isn't even a true color is it ?

Logo over water