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"; ..

ok, my take on how to put a clear contrast, some color without redoing the 
theme from scratch:
http://www.notmart.org/misc/tasks.png
the svg
http://www.notmart.org/misc/tasks.svgz

it's still work in progress, the margins are slightly wrong, and will make 
normal and iconified ones maybe a bit more different but i think it's already 
a bit more happy :)

Cheers,
Marco MArtin

> > 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
>
> 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.