From kde-active Thu Jun 30 21:21:51 2011 From: svelanka () gmail ! com (Saleel Velankar) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:21:51 +0000 To: kde-active Subject: The Plasma theme. Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-active&m=131631777822185 I think what y'all are doing is pretty kickass. I thought maybe since active is a pretty big step in the shell sense, it should perhaps have some plasma theme tweaks. 1. Translucency should be used intelligently. I assume that all apps are going to run fullscreen, and not in a windowed environment. If this is correct then the user has to be able to focus completely on the application. The top panel when it is just showing the systray shouldn't be transparent at all. Infact it shouldn't have shadows or glossy icons. It is there I would assume to alert the user to other things not in their focus. It shouldn't be the focus, until the user starts dragging it down to reveal the window switcher, at which point it should be more transparent (telling the user that the application is still present underneath.) For widgets that are not in focus, these should use the transparent-backround. when the user flicks them into focus/ starts interacting with them they should use the regular old background.svgz 2. Dark colors+ gloss+ light buttons I love dark colors. My favorite color is #333333ff. But I don't think it works here. for one, the oxygen theme has a lot of gloss which makes it look rather 'heavy' to my eyes. It's silly because the interface (going by the sebas' videos) is silky smooth. Add solid looking light buttons and the whole thing look... I dunno how else to put it...'heavy'. Air-netbook might be better building base? Lowering the degree of the gradients might also work a lot better. just some thoughts that popped in my head when watching :D if there is anything I can help do theming wise, I have done a couple of themes (also am working on one now) : http://islingt0ner.deviantart.com/gallery/28008289 -- Saleel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/active/attachments/20110630/642887d8/attachment.htm