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ATN-4: Prettier greeter: jdreed did a mock-up.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Wed Jan 14 17:09:25 2009
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:07:36 -0500
To: athena10@mit.edu
jdreed, before going on vacation, crafted a prototype greeter that I
like.
The theme and a screenshot are located in /mit/jdreed/Public/
gdmtheme/ The theme is called "athena10".
It is known to be ugly at resolutions of 640x480 and lower. We have
decided that we don't care.
I would be interested in hearing what others think of the
aesthetics. Am I sane suggesting we switch to this one?
jdreed says that if we want a textured background, an SVG could be
made in Illustrator or Inkscape. Noting also that MIT Red is #993333,
however, he used #882222 for the background, to provide contrast
against the gradient in the login box.
QUESTION: Can we go with this, or do others see further changes
necessary? (Or are we just collectively letting that crazy Bill
Cattey character drive the asethetics?)
-Bill
