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Re: ATN-4: Prettier greeter: jdreed did a mock-up.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nelson Elhage)
Wed Jan 21 22:11:45 2009

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:10:47 -0500
From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, wdc@mit.edu,
   Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:00:04PM -0500, Greg Price wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 05:31:43PM -0500, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I guess you removed one layer of fuzz around the login box, but it
> still looks fuzzy because the outside of the gradient is fuzzed.
> I didn't notice anything had changed there until I looked again.
> 
> It looks like both Tim and I have expressed a preference to punt the
> gradient, but nobody else has commented.  Don't know if someone else will.

Yeah, I don't like the gradient, either. I agree with Greg that it
still looks fuzzy to me. I might be OK with the gradient if there were
a sharper boundary of some sort, but I think I do prefer to punt it
entirely.

- Nelson

> 
> The bar at the bottom is clever for making more space.  Switching from
> flat buttons to native GTK was definitely a good move.
> 
> Greg

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