Feisty Theme mockups - let's start early..

[mangar]

Hi all!

How about starting to lay down the possible look of feisty fawn,
by suggesting artwork, mockups, and ideas, right here, when feisty is still
alpha, so your ideas will have the longest possible time to mature?

relevant elements on the wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityFei...t=%28feisty%29
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Artw...t=%28feisty%29
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Artw...t=%28feisty%29
www.gnome-look.org
art.gnome.org

[tom56]

I think the theme for Feisty is going to be professionally designed by the same guy who did Dapper. That said it would be great if some really nice polished community artwork could be included by default, or maybe could be started now with default use in feisty+1 in mind. The edgy community artwork wasn't considered to be up to scratch (by sabdfl) - perhaps more time is the solution.

[Albi]

Update: Made a metacity theme: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.p...d&tan=18235613

I posted mine on the wiki. Anyways, just a little work I did on what I think the buttons should look like (was done from scratch). I'll also use this thread to include the rest of my ideas since I got some good real estate here .

Initial:

jem7v's suggestions:
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/9...nstyle2rs4.png

plb's suggestions:
Original: http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/3...oncept3uo5.png
Fixed+Rounded: http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/2...oncept4lq1.png
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/9...oncept3ya1.png
Rounded again: http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/5...oncept5cs7.png

Fixed rounding+Matching titlebar



Can only show 8 images, so from now on, I'll just show original+latest

[jem7v]

I like the way the buttons look, Albi - nice and plasticy in a color that isn't BLUE like all the glowy plastic buttons seem to be - but I don't know how I feel about them hugging the top of the window. That's one of the big visual identifiers for the Vista look right now and with Vista out so soon, it might be nice to have a default look that isn't so similar to Microsoft's latest adventure. It's a petty argument, I know, but oh well. I really like the buttons themselves - I'm just not fond of buttons that look like they're recessed in the top of the window. That said, plenty of people Like the buttons to float at the top, so it's mostly just an aesthetic preference.

Know what would be swell, though? If the rest of the border were a bit shinier to go with the buttons. Not necessarily over-the-top shiny, but shiniER.

[plb]

A couple of suggestions...

Custom mouse cursor. Why are we still using a 6 year old mouse theme. Oh I know, because it is the default cursor in debian and never changed. Cmon guys, why not a spinning ubuntu logo or something

Custom fonts. Likely never to happen but it would be nice.

Wallpaper. I never really liked the past couple of default wallpapers. I wish we could get a little more creative in this aspect. The wallpapers are just so plain. That ubuntu poster is nice...maybe something like this in the Feisty release.

[Albi]

I like the way the buttons look, Albi - nice and plasticy in a color that isn't BLUE like all the glowy plastic buttons seem to be - but I don't know how I feel about them hugging the top of the window. That's one of the big visual identifiers for the Vista look right now and with Vista out so soon, it might be nice to have a default look that isn't so similar to Microsoft's latest adventure. It's a petty argument, I know, but oh well. I really like the buttons themselves - I'm just not fond of buttons that look like they're recessed in the top of the window. That said, plenty of people Like the buttons to float at the top, so it's mostly just an aesthetic preference.

Know what would be swell, though? If the rest of the border were a bit shinier to go with the buttons. Not necessarily over-the-top shiny, but shiniER.

You mean something like this?

[plb]

You mean something like this?

Keep the colors but make it more like this...

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=36874

I think it would look better.

[Albi]

Keep the colors but make it more like this...

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=36874

I think it would look better.

I'll be very open to suggestions since it's just a concept


Looks kinda vista-y when I make them wide like that though, I have to reduce the shine maybe.

[plb]

I'll be very open to suggestions since it's just a concept


Looks kinda vista-y when I make them wide like that though, I have to reduce the shine maybe.

Everything looks to wide whereas in candido it's all narrow.

[Albi]

True...
I changed it up a bit then, made it less shinier and the buttons narrower/smaller.
I'm also including a rounded version