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[ATN-4] More greeter candidates; vote today please
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Jan 22 10:41:59 2009
Cc: "Athena 10" <athena10@mit.edu>, Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>,
Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:41:00 -0500
I have created 3 more alternatives:
(For some reason, when viewed in eye-of-gnome, all these PNGs look
slightly blurred, but there is in fact no "blurriness" or feathering
on any of the borders. They look fine when gdm displays them.)
-screenshot-no-feather.png which removes the feathering around the
gradient.
-screenshot-solid-border.png which replaces the gradient border with a
slightly darker shade of red.
-screenshot-no-border.png which removes the gradient entirely
The files are attachments to ATN-4 in Jira, and also appear in /mit/
jdreed/Public/gdmtheme/
They are listed above in my order of preference from most preferred to
least preferred.
Other people should rank them in order of preference (or tell me that
you don't care). Preferably today, so that we can close this issue
and I will package up the complete theme before tomorrow at noon.
The background is still solid. Again, someone who knows and uses
Inkscape or Illustrator or something which can export SVGs should feel
free to create one, but I don't think that's a blocking issue.
-Jon
On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:09 PM, William Cattey wrote:
> 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
>>>
>
