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Re: ATN-4: Prettier greeter: jdreed did a mock-up.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Wed Jan 21 23:10:09 2009
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:09:20 -0500
To: "Athena 10" <athena10@mit.edu>
If I had the clue, I'd sit down in inkscape and create two png's:
1. A texture map to replace the solid background.
2. A version of the box around the login dialog that has a harder
edge around it.
-Bill
On Jan 21, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> 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
>>
