plasma, panels, colours

[Nuno Pinheiro]

A Friday 07 November 2008 08:57:42, Riccardo Iaconelli escreveu:
> On Friday 07 November 2008 03:39:40 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > i also understand, and accept, that there will be people who love an
> > all-black approach. i hope that others can understand that our current
> > default is not working out at the moment, if only because our downstreams
> > are rejecting it outright (and replacing it with horrific results).
>
> Hmm... I think that the only problem with the current style is that it
> doesn't look too great with maximised windows. I've seen many people hinted
> by the simple logic of "how cool it looks" to keep the windows not not
> maximised unless really forced to, and I personally begun to do that myself
> with KDE 4.
>
> The root of this problem, IMHO, is that this situation unfortunately never
> seen in nuno's mocks, and in his testing, because he always uses rather
> large monitors.
> So it does indeed look gorgeous in his mocks and in his eyes with small
> windows, but you tend to notice this problem with maximised ones only after
> working for some time in a KDE 4 environment. There's too much contrast and
> this clashing gets to annoys you after some time.

humm I agrea......


>
> I started myself an almost white (where the amount of white is similar the
> design of my site, just to give you an idea) plasma theme some months ago
> to solve this problem, but then I didn't have much time and it remained as
> an abandoned stub on my pc... if people want I can try to give it a go and
> resurrect it.

again that  means a total revamp to the style.
>
> However, I really don't want to take over Nuno's direction on this field,
> which I think has been great until now, or, even worse, to step on his
> feet, it's just a suggestion for improvements. =)

think base.png could work ok....


> Bye,
> -Riccardo

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