plasma, panels, colours

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
> > FIVE PROPOSALS please have a look
> > http://www.nuno-icons.com/images/test/
>
> http://www.nuno-icons.com/images/test/image9718.png
>
> 	safe, simple, not depressing. but also perhaps a bit boring
>
> http://www.nuno-icons.com/images/test/image7382.png
>
> 	9718 but with gloss? probably would get us "like vista!" coparisons, but
> also nice
>
> http://www.nuno-icons.com/images/test/image6011.png
>
> 	more daring use of colour, but looks nice; only concern of my would be how
> readable text, e.g. on the digital clock, would be.. but using the same
> shadow/halo'd text as on the taskbar or in folderview would solve that
>
> http://www.nuno-icons.com/images/test/image5467.png
>
> 	goes nicely with the default paper, but perhaps tooo bright and saturated
> and likely wouldn't look all to great with other papers?
>
> http://www.nuno-icons.com/images/test/image8765.png
>
> 	dunno; low contrast, too many lines and bevels?
>
> personally, i think 7382 might be the most realistic while nice looking of
> the bunch, though either 6011 or 9718 could be contenders.
>
> if we can get away with it, i think 6011 might be particularly nice. the
> dark and "flat" foreground elements with the coloured and glossy background
> .. rather nice.
6011 seems the one that met more acceptance around, so yeah...
a thing we could try to do is the fading out of the glass at the edges like 
7382, that would make a bit easier to do the panel wide less than 100%

Cheers,
Marco Martin