[859] in athena10
Re: ATN-4: Prettier greeter: jdreed did a mock-up.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Sat Jan 17 17:32:39 2009
Cc: wdc@mit.edu, Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20090117193052.GC3199@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:31:43 -0500
The white rounded rectangle around the login box has already been de-
fuzzed. I like the gradient, but if enough people object, I'll punt
it.
-Jon
On Jan 17, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Greg Price wrote:
> I like removing the fuzz around the Debathena logo. Can you remove
> the fuzz and gradient around the login box too?
>
> I don't think losing the background is an improvement. If Jon or
> someone else finds themselves with time to make a fancier background,
> that'd be cool, but plain MIT maroon is good already. The bar along
> the bottom should be plenty to make it look fresh and new as Bill
> wants.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 05:27:20PM -0500, Jonathan D Reed wrote:
>>
>>> athena-10-fuzzbox.png which gets rid of the maroon background, which
>>> gets rid of the blurring around the Debathena owl, but not the login
>>> window.
>>
>> /mit/jdreed/Public/gdmtheme/athena10-alt-theme.tgz keeps the
>> backgronud
>> and gets rid of the feathering. screenshot-alt.jpg in the same
>> directory
>> is the screenshot, and I've uploaded a PNG version to Jira.
>>
>>> athena-10-whiteroom.png which gets rid of both the background and
>>> the
>>> box around the login window.
>>>
>>> The whiteroom alternative looks rather clean. Is it too sterile?
>>
>> I think it's way too sterile, to the point that it looks
>> monochrome, but
>> that's just me.
>>
>> Again, I'm happy to replace the background with an SVG if you want
>> more
>> texture, but I don't have the time to learn Inkscape right now.
>>
>> -Jon
