plasma, panels, colours

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 07 November 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Friday 07 November 2008, Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
> > A Friday 07 November 2008 16:06:18, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu:
> >
> > This was just my opinon on the subject, what do you want?
>
> something with sufficient contrast to make the tasks buttons more visible;
> something that is "warmer"; ..

for the noticeability issue, what about putting a blue glow on the active task 
that looks like the button hover effect (like buttons in the calculator 
applet)
it would look a bit more colorful, with more contrast and recalling the ctive 
window effect(maybe the inactive tasks a bit lighter too)
hope to get something done asa (humm, maybe tomorrrow...)
and then with 4.3 we can try to do a light theme if necessary, but doing it 
now would require to redo pretty much everything from scratch
(well, we could also try)

> > what color?
>
> i could imagine a few directions .. one is to go with something light that
> plays off the highlight colours in the default wallpaper; another might be
> a rich cream colour that isn't too bright (admitedly somewhat retro;
> another might be a rich, dark, dusky blue (though i'm concerned how that
> might work with icons like the kmenu?); a sophisticated deep brownish black
> ...
>
> it really doesn't have to be too dramatic (e.g. cream) to provide greater
> contrast between the buttons and the panel; the Gtk Dust theme is
> interesting in that it's a charcoal with hints of red/yellow in it.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/DustTheme?action=show&redirect=Art
>work%2FIncoming%2FIntrepid%2FDustTheme

hmm this is really black too, it has just some lighter colors here and there , 
is what we tried to do with pushbuttons, probably we just need to use that 
graphics a bit more, both that and the glows (for now blue, could also try 
with warmer colors eh)

> it's really the starkness of the black in the current panel that gives it
> both an overly cold touch and limits the visual contrast between the
> background and foreground elements.