WIP - Fedora 8 theme

Mark markg85 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 9 20:11:31 UTC 2007


Oke here is a new mockup.
http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/3536/kdebattlewip5sz7.png

for the first time i LIKE the active window.. but now i don`t like the
inactive window.. o well.. that`s done in a fast way anyway.. inactive isn`t
importand at this moment. i`m gonna try and make the taskbak working in KDE.
stay tuned for more progres.

2007/6/9, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com>:
>
> Hm... nice, to me only the panel now slightly resembles Vista, but let's
> > not talk about Vista... you are making Fedora theme... so... Could you
> > consider using as the basis the colour palette used by Echo icons[1]?
>
>
> it`s probably best if i did used that palette but i just want to design
> freely without any limitations. so for now i don`t use the palette. it`s
> fine if it just fits the palette theme but other than that i will just make
> it how i like it.
>
> For the color jump and the normal gradient.. i`ve tried a normal gradient
> but that somehow doesn`t look so good.. the taskbar you see in previous
> mockup is likely to be the final one. i might change the tasks itself a bit
> but not much.
>
> The window itself is still troubling me but looking better with every
> mockup.
>
>
> > An old screenshot:
> > http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=386692418&size=o
>
>
> looking good but not wise for fedora to use as a default theme.. that will
> most likely result in a few lawsuits from well know company (starting with a
> M ending with a t) ;)
>
>
>
> 2007/6/9, Martin Sourada <martin.sourada at seznam.cz>:
> >
> > On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 13:46 +0200, Mark wrote:
> > >         I don't know why but your mockups looks for me like Wista ;)
> > >
> > >         +1 It really is better and to me it resembles Vista too.
> > >
> > > i did  wanted to add this in my previous message: "i`m not trying to
> > > mimic vista"
> > >
> > I know, it's just a resemblance, nothing more :) Maybe it's because the
> > glassy kind of shine? You could maybe try gradient instead of the
> > "colour jump" in the middle (that's maybe what resembles Vista most).
> >
> > > i thought it wasn`t needed.. but the taskbar is indeed inspired by XP
> > > and Vista but not a copy of xp or vista!!
> > > and i didn`t even add in the glow stuff in the tasks.. if that was in
> > > it would have reminded you about vista alot more ;)
> > >
> > > and here is a updated view..
> > > changed:
> > > - slightly different taskbar
> > > - other blue colors in the panel
> > > - border arround the window is decreased by 50% (that thick border how
> > > it was would probably also remind you of vista)
> > >
> > > and here it is again:
> > > http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/8580/kdebattlewip4gt4.png
> > >
> >
> > Hm... nice, to me only the panel now slightly resembles Vista, but let's
> > not talk about Vista... you are making Fedora theme... so... Could you
> > consider using as the basis the colour palette used by Echo icons[1]?
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > References:
> > [1]
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/EchoIconGuidelines#head-92bac070218d68b55549cfdb50eede11583b8021
> >
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