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Re: [ATN-4] More greeter candidates; vote today please
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nelson Elhage)
Thu Jan 22 12:53:15 2009
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:52:27 -0500
From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
Cc: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, Athena 10 <athena10@mit.edu>,
Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>, Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
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I think I prefer solid-border, followed by no-border, and then
no-feather.
- Nelson
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:41:00AM -0500, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>
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