Bluecurve Window Control Colors

ready ready at rosa.com
Fri Jan 9 14:09:11 UTC 2004


so far the milk 2.0 theme looks best. have a look. it is based
on simplistic design.
greets,
m.



stevelist at silverorange.com wrote:

>Quoting Trae McCombs <occy at occy.net>:
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>>Is this where I am supposed to complain that we need to have
>>"Bluesquared" as an optional theme? (and completed ;)  
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>Trae,
>While what you have here is certainly well executed, I don't think it addresses
>the original reasons for the redesign of the Bluecurve window controls. If I may
>have a go at paraphrasing, I understand the new controls were intented to
>preserve the over-all shape and outline of the window.
>
>Also, your square version of the bluecurve controls still (I think) suffers from
>my criticism at the origin of this thread, that the controls don't look as much
>like UI elements (chrome/metal) as I think they should.
>
>If anything, I'd like to see more "curve" and less "blue" :-)   I'd love to see
>subtle rounded corners on all the currently square controls (buttons, tabs,
>pull-downs, etc. Perhaps I'll try to mock that up to see if it's worthwhile.
>
>Steven Garrity
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