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Re: ATN-4: Prettier greeter: jdreed did a mock-up.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Wed Jan 21 22:37:23 2009
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:36:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: wdc@mit.edu, Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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Hm, maybe I'm biased here, but I don't really see the advantage over the
present theme. It keeps the same garish giant red background (which will
only be more imposing on widescreen cluster machines), although I do like
punting the other UI elements from the center. I'm also not a huge fan of
the gradient and the fuzziness around it.
I'd be interested to see some texture or full-screen abstract design in
the background.
The bar at the bottom with buttons and icons at the bottom and a date in
the bottom right has a too-strong resemblance to gnome-panel or somesuch.
I do agree with comments elsewhere in the thread concurring with the move
to Gtk-native or at least non-flat buttons; my design explicitly aped
Athena 9's login screen and the website's color and font scheme, and
didn't try to be visually appealing in its own right.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, 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
>
